Kantstrasse

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Kantstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Kantstrasse
The most famous building on Kantstrasse: the Theater des Westens,
built in 1895/1896
Basic data
place Berlin
District Charlottenburg
Created 1887
Connecting roads
Budapester Strasse (east)
Neue Kantstrasse (west)
Cross streets Joachimsthaler Straße ,
Fasanenstraße ,
Uhlandstraße ,
Bleibtreustraße ,
Schlueterstraße ,
Wielandstraße ,
Leibnizstraße ,
Weimarer Straße ,
Krumme Straße ,
Wilmersdorfer Straße ,
Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße ,
Windscheidstraße ,
Suarezstraße
Places Amtsgerichtsplatz ,
Breitscheidplatz ,
Savigny Platz ,
Buildings Memorial Church ,
Theater of the West ,
Delphi Filmpalast ,
Charlottenburg District Court
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 2630 meters

The Kantstrasse is a - between the Breitscheidplatz running and Suarezstraße - approximately 2,630 meter long main road in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . It was named after the philosopher Immanuel Kant and has had its name since February 23, 1887. As an arterial road running almost north parallel to Kurfürstendamm through the western city , it connects the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with the exhibition grounds at the radio tower and Neue Kantstrasse is densely lined with residential and commercial buildings.

Eastern beginning at Breitscheidplatz

description

Confluence of Kantstrasse with Hardenbergstrasse : Upper West and Zoofenster

Kantstrasse begins at Breitscheidplatz , between Hardenbergstrasse and Kurfürstendamm , a few meters from the Memorial Church. Until early summer 2009, the eastern end of Kantstrasse at Breitscheidplatz was formed by the Schimmelpfeng-Haus, which previously spanned Kantstrasse and was demolished in the northern part . The new eastern beginning of Kantstrasse is the Zoofenster high-rise, completed in 2012, with its part facing Kantstrasse together with Upper West, which was built between 2013 and 2017 .

Square triangle

The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum, which was closed in 2014, was located at the corner of Kant and Joachimsthaler Straße in the building of the former Leineweber clothing department store . About 100 meters to the west behind the bridge of the Stadtbahn is the Theater des Westens , completed in 1896 , built during the phase of rapid expansion of Berlin to the west at the end of the 19th century. Right next to it, on the corner of Fasanenstraße, is the Delphi Filmpalast with the Vaganten stage and the Quasimodo jazz club . On the opposite eastern corner plot, the Kant triangle was erected in 1994, one of the few high-rise buildings in City-West with a distinctive weather vane on the roof in the form of a rotating aluminum sail.

Paris bar

Behind the Theater des Westens, the Ludwig-Erhard-Haus was completed in 1997 between Kant-, Fasanen- and Hardenbergstraße . Popularly known as the “armadillo”, the building, with its zoomorphic structure, which is “tamed” compared to the competition entry, is one of the architectural sights. The Paris Bar is located at Kantstrasse 152 .

Victoria area

The area of ​​the New Kranzler Eck is located between Kantstrasse, Kurfürstendamm and Joachimsthaler Strasse . Its development complements the existing listed building complex from the 1950s. This includes the low-rise building of the old Café Kranzler as well as the former Bilka department store (today: Karstadt Sport ) by Hanns Dustmann , which is roofed over with a dome ; In addition, a former insurance building converted into a hotel was integrated. In between rises a new, eye-catching office and commercial building with a facade made of steel and glass.

Uhlandstraße to Savignyplatz

Savignyplatz south side

On the corner of Uhlandstrasse at Kantstrasse 17-20 is the Stilwerk, which was built in 1998/1999 and has a total of 55 upscale furniture and designer stores.

The Savignyplatz , a green block square named after the lawyer Friedrich Carl von Savigny from 1861, is symmetrically divided by Kantstraße . The Savignyplatz S-Bahn station was opened in 1896.

Savignyplatz to Neue Kantstrasse

Kant cinema

Kantstrasse 126 to 127 is the address of the Kant garages , which were built in 1929/1930 and were in operation until summer 2017. The reinforced concrete structure in the New Objectivity style testifies to the rapidly increasing individual traffic at the time ; it has two ramps running in opposite directions for entry and exit and offered parking spaces for 300 passenger cars.

The Kant-Kino, opened in 1912 in house number 54, was a venue for numerous concerts by internationally known bands and musicians from the mid-1970s to the 1980s. It has been part of the Yorck cinema group since 2011 .

Then Kantstrasse crosses the pedestrian area of Wilmersdorfer Strasse and 300 meters west, north of Stuttgarter Platz , Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse.

The building at Kantstrasse 79, built in 1896/1897 according to plans by Adolf Bürckner and Eduard Fürstenau in the neo-renaissance style as a criminal court, was a branch of the Charlottenburg District Court until 2010 . The Charlottenburg women's prison, which was closed in 1985 and was called the operetta prison in Berlin because of the legally negligible cases, was housed in its courtyard . During the Nazi era, however, other people were also housed in the women's prison: after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , over 30 women who resisted the Nazi regime were imprisoned here. The house has been sold by the Berlin property fund to a private investor who rents the space for film and art projects.

At the district court, where the Charlottenburg district court is located, Kantstrasse becomes Neue Kantstrasse .

traffic

Kantstrasse is a three-lane (including the respective parking lane), heavily traveled traffic axis with a median in each direction . Due to the regular commercial delivery traffic and illegal parking in the “second row”, there is often only one lane available in each direction.

Until the switch to bus operation on January 24, 1966, Kantstrasse was continuously used by tram lines 75 and 76. Kantstraße is used by several BVG bus routes that serve a total of eight stops.

There are connections to the Berlin rapid transit network at the east end to the Zoologischer Garten S- Bahn and U-Bahn station and to the Savignyplatz S-Bahn station and roughly in the middle to the Wilmersdorfer Straße U-Bahn station and the Charlottenburg S-Bahn station . At the western end, Kantstrasse can be reached from the Messe Nord / ICC S-Bahn station via Neue Kantstrasse.

Kantstrasse is part of a pilot project by the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection for a gradual speed limit of 30 km / h on Berlin's main roads, which is to be implemented there in autumn 2018.

At the end of April 2020, one lane with yellow markings and bicycle pictograms was rededicated on both sides of the street over a length of 3.5 kilometers to become the longest pop-up cycle path in Berlin to date . It was a measure in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Berlin .

"Chinatown"

Due to the numerous Asian shops and specialty restaurants to be found on this street , the traffic route and the surrounding area are popularly known as “ Chinatown ”. The first Chinese came to Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century to study at the nearby Technical University of Charlottenburg or at the University of Politics . At the time, the Chinese embassy was located at Kurfürstendamm 218. As early as 1902, Chinese students founded the Association of Chinese Students , which had an office in Kantstrasse 118 in the 1920s. The political upheavals after the abolition of the Chinese monarchy also had an impact on the students living here, so that in August 1925 there was a fight between supporters of the Kuomintang movement and the communist movement founded by Mao Zedong in 1921 , which had since taken over the association. One of the defenders of the office was probably the later commander-in-chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Zhu De , who was then in Berlin.

In 1923, the former chef of the Chinese legation opened the first Chinese restaurant in Berlin, the Tientsin at Kantstrasse 130b, named after the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin , which is also called Tientsin. Soon a second followed in the immediate vicinity.

After the Second World War , this tradition was continued. The Chinese Hak-Ming, who came to Germany in the 1930s, opened  the Canton restaurant at Stuttgarter Platz 5 in 1947 and the Hong Kong bar at 210 Kurfürstendamm in 1957 , which established itself as a meeting place for West Berlin celebrities, not least because of the avant-garde furnishings . The facility at both locations came from Chen Kuen Lee , a student and employee of Hans Scharoun . Until the 1980s, the Chinese community consisted predominantly of Taiwanese and Hong Kong Chinese, only afterwards did immigrants from the People's Republic of China come . This influx increased after the Tiananmen massacre . According to unofficial estimates, around 8,000 Chinese live in Berlin at the beginning of the 21st century.

The section between Savignyplatz and Wilmersdorfer Straße is also referred to as Canton Road in allusion to the Chinese province of Guangdong .

  • Selection of Asian shops on Kantstrasse

  • Jianfei Da Asia trade

  • Good Friends & Brasserie Pho

  • Japan bonsai

  • Papaya & Do Da Li

  • Asia supermarket

  • Minh-Trang

  • Ben Thanh

History

Berlin memorial plaque for Rudolf Diesel on the house at Kantstrasse 153

Memorial plaques

Various memorial plaques in Kantstrasse commemorate deserving personalities; this includes:

Kantstrasse 158 - Reich Association of Jews in Germany

Hand stamp “Reply only via the Reich Association of Jews in Germany Berlin-Charlottenburg 2, Kantstr. 158 "; Postcard dated May 14, 1943 from mother Ester from Theresienstadt concentration camp to her son Horst Berkowitz at Erwinstrasse 3 in Hanover

During the National Socialist era, Kantstrasse 158 was the seat of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany .

Kantstrasse 159 - Lewin Funcke School

In 1901, the sculptor Arthur Lewin-Funcke founded the private study studios for painting and sculpture, also known as the Lewin-Funcke School or Berlin Académie Julian , in a garden house at Kantstrasse 159 , which were active until 1935. Lewin-Funcke, as head of the school, taught modeling and anatomy on the living model. Most of the other teachers belonged to the Berlin Secession , including the painters Lovis Corinth , Hans Baluschek , Ludwig Meidner and, for a short time, the sculptor Max Kruse . The numerous students included Paul Citroen , David Friedmann , Charles Hug , Käthe and Peter Kollwitz, and Felix Nussbaum . After the Second World War , the single-storey department store at the zoo was built on the site in 1949 . Six years later it was torn down again and a Bilka department store was built there instead .

literature

Web links

Commons : Album of Pictures  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kantkino . Bezirkslexikon on berlin.de, accessed on June 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ Berliner RockWiki , accessed on June 20, 2010.
  3. ^ Exhibition ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ berlin-straba.de
  5. ↑ dpa: From Monday Tempo 30 on Potsdamer Strasse . June 1, 2018 ( archive.org [accessed July 6, 2020]).
  6. ↑ New pop-up cycle path in Charlottenburg | Video | ARD media library. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Kurfürstendamm 218 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, part 4, p. 549.
  8. ↑ Kantstrasse 130b . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, part 4, p. 1258. "Tien, T., Gastw.".
  9. ↑ Björn Rosen: Chinese Charlottenburg Berlin's Chinatown. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 17, 2013, accessed October 10, 2013 .
  10. ↑ How Kantstrasse became "Kantonstrasse". In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 9, 2010.
  11. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons
  12. ↑ 129. Walk in the neighborhood on September 8, 2012: Kantstrasse 159 - Study studios for painting and sculpture , on berlin.de, accessed on May 14, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 22.6 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 47"  E