Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (Berlin-Schöneberg)
 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz
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 The memorial plaque "Places of horror that we must never forget" on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Schöneberg |
| Created | 1893 |
| Newly designed | 2006-2007 |
| Confluent streets |
Hauptstrasse , Kolonnenstrasse , Crellestrasse |
| Buildings | fountain |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport |
The triangular Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz in the Schöneberg district of Berlin in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg administrative district is one of the district's business centers.
Naming
The square was named after Kaiser Wilhelm I , as there was a monument to him on the square. The properties at Hauptstrasse 88 (from 1893: number 136), Bahnstrasse 50/51 (from 1893: number 48; the street would be renamed Crellestrasse in 1958 ) and Kolonnenstrasse 67 were named Am Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz on June 13, 1893 .
The tenement houses built around the square in the Wilhelminian style initially had the addresses of the adjacent streets, but after 1892 were given the addition "Am Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz" and a corresponding numbering as a postal address. The houses at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1–5 were hardly damaged in the Second World War . The name of the square has been retained since it was named, although efforts have been made several times for a new name.
In the 1990s, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gallery was built south of the square on the site of the historic town hall that was destroyed in the Second World War .
The border between Old and New Schöneberg used to be at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz. There were repeated discussions about renaming Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz after the Second World War. Among other things, it was to be named in 1962 after the mayor of Schöneberg, Konrad Dickhardt , who died in 1961 , and in 1973 after the Chilean President Salvador Allende . However, the historical name remained.
location
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz is one of the centers of the Schöneberg district. It was the center of the immigrant village of Neu-Schöneberg . From here it is around 400 meters in a south-westerly direction along the main street, past the Schöneberg post office , to the anger-shaped historic village meadow Alt-Schöneberg . There is a multitude of shopping opportunities around the square - from retail stores to department stores and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Passage . A branch of the Bilka department store chain was located in the former Hertie department store until the 1980s . The department store was closed in August 2009 as part of the Hertie Group's insolvency . From November 2009 to July 2013 there was a branch of the Reno shoe retailer on the ground floor of the building .
At Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, Kolonnenstrasse branches off in an easterly direction to the “ Rote Insel ” and the Julius-Leber-Brücke S-Bahn station , which then continues as Dudenstrasse to the former Tempelhof Airport . To the north-northeast, Crellestrasse branches off at the square (until 1958: Bahnstrasse ), which leads to the Yorckstrasse S-Bahn station (Großgörschenstrasse) .
Development
overview
The old Schöneberg town hall has been located on the eastern side of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz since 1874 . After the completion of the new Schöneberg Town Hall on what was then Rudoph-Wilde-Platz (later John-F.-Kennedy-Platz ) in 1914, the building was used for other purposes and destroyed in the Second World War.
The square was rebuilt from 2006 to 2007 with the aim of connecting the large triangular central island to the eastern sidewalk and thus improving the mobility for pedestrians and the quality of stay in this local center. On July 5, 2007, the converted square was reopened. In the place of the former Kaiser Wilhelm monument, a light fountain system was installed, new pavement paved, bicycle bars and benches with stainless steel feet, nostalgic bollards and a protective grille were set up.
Since the reconstruction, the right-turners coming from the south to Kolonnenstrasse are initially led further on the main street (which runs here as Bundesstrasse 1 ) before they can turn right into Kolonnenstrasse at the end of the square behind Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz. In the square there is a memorial plaque for the victims of the concentration camps with the title “Places of horror that we must never forget” and the names of the concentration camps.
Individual buildings (selection)
- The buildings Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 4 on the corner of Kolonnenstraße (architect Theodor Göttgen ) and number 5 on the corner of Hauptstraße 146 and Crellestraße 48 (Charlottenburg architect Georg Roensch ) are listed monuments.
- The house at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 5 is a five-story tenement ensemble, which also has the addresses Hauptstrasse 146 (west) and Crellestrasse 48 (east). It was also built by Georg Roensch in 1890–1891 on behalf of the businessman Bötcher - owner of the property at Bahnstrasse 49. It was decorated with late classicist facade elements, the ground floor and first floor are heavily rusticated. The house fronts on all three sides of the street are together around 90 meters long (37/10/43 m).
- From 1893 the house belonged to the reindeer H. Prausnitz, former owner of the cigar factory and raw tobacco shop Prausnitz & Metze, and his wife Helene from Berlin ( Bülowstrasse 6), who had appointed an administrator (porter). The three-winged building had the addresses Hauptstrasse 88 (number 136 since 1893, changed to number 146 in 1920) and Bahnstrasse 50/51 (number 48 since 1893; Bahnstrasse was not renamed Crellestrasse until March 28, 1958). Later the owners changed; After the Second World War, the building went to the Berlin housing company Haus und Grund GmbH .
- From the beginning there is an inn on the ground floor, serving Vietnamese cuisine since the 1990s . In addition, there was or is a pawnshop, a cigar shop, a bookstore, a shoe shop, a jewelry shop, and a bicycle office.
On the first floor there are also business rooms, which (in chronological order) one after the other (selection) a doctor (from 1900), a corset factory (from 1904), a tailor (from 1910), a dentist (from 1910), the house and Landowners Association (from 1920), a photographer's studio (1933).
- West of the square in Hauptstraße 18 is the women's home , built in 1902 in the neo-renaissance style, which was inhabited exclusively by single wealthy women and " senior daughters " during the imperial era . These ladies were among the women who were allowed to enter the professional world (at that time mostly dominated by men) for the first time, for example teachers and doctors. The living comfort was extremely progressive for the time: central heating in the partially furnished rooms, dining and reading room as well as house staff.
Web links
- Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The well is still growing. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 6, 2007.
- ↑ Reconstruction of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, accessed in 2012.
- ↑ Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 4, tenement house, owned by Theodor Göttgen from 1889–1892
- ↑ Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 5, tenement house, built by Georg Roensch 1890–1891
- ^ Berlin address book 1890
- ↑ Comment : Haus und Grund has around 42,000 own apartments, 700 commercial properties and around 9,000 rental units managed for third parties in Neukölln, Treptow-Köpenick, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Marzahn-Hellersdorf as well as in Neuenhagen and Fredersdorf present. It is one of the six largest urban real estate providers in Berlin; Own presentation in 2015.
- ^ Berlin address book from 1894
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 12 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 26 ″ E