Chapel Shore

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Chapel Shore
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Chapel Shore
Wall marking on the chapel bank
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created around 1871
Newly designed May 31, 1951, 2005-2006
Hist. Names Friedrich-Karl-Ufer
Connecting roads
Rahel-Hirsch-Strasse (west) ,
Schiffbauerdamm (east)
Cross streets Alexanderufer ,
Unterbaumstrasse ,
Reinhardtstrasse
Buildings see buildings
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 250 meters

The chapel-shore is a street at the northern Spree -Ufer in Berlin district of Mitte . It is named after the resistance fighter Heinz Kapelle (1913–1941).

history

From May 13, 1871 to 1951, the street was named Friedrich-Karl-Ufer after the Prussian Prince and Field Marshal Friedrich Karl Nikolaus (1828-1885). After the end of the Second World War , the road was right on the border from the Soviet to the British sector of Berlin. The renaming of the eastern part of the 1941 executed communist resistance fighters took place on May 31, 1951. The reclassification was in the context of a concerted renaming action by the SED -dominated East Berlin magistrate at the World Festival of Youth that took place in August 1951 in Berlin . 168 remaining place and street names in the Soviet sector of the city with military or monarchical reference have been changed.

Part of the street is shaped by the course of the Berlin Wall . In February 1968, the couple Elke and Dieter Weckeiser were shot while trying to escape .

During the construction of the bond of the covenant , the designed landscape architecture office Group F to the promenade. Around 4000 m² of granite stone were built in and 30 historical benches were set up, which allow a view of the Chancellery , the Moltke Bridge and Berlin Central Station . It was inaugurated on May 11, 2006.

Todays use

The street Kapelle-Ufer, which was released on May 9, 2005, was part of a development measure “Capital Berlin - Parliament and Government District”. In connection with Rahel-Hirsch-Straße and Hugo-Preuß-Brücke , the street serves the northern bypass of the government district . At the same time here is done on the development of Berlin's central station and the Schiffbauerdamm .

Buildings

Web links

Commons : Kapelle-Ufer (Berlin-Mitte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich-Karl-Ufer . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. Johanna Sänger: Hero cult and love of home: street and honorary names in the official memory of the GDR . Ch. Links Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-398-6 , p. 103 f . ( google.de [accessed on August 5, 2019]).
  3. Dieter and Elke Weckeiser's failed attempt to escape (Kapelle-Ufer). From: 50jahremauerbau.de , accessed on February 2, 2012.
  4. Kapelle-Ufer Berlin.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: doerriesgalabau.de , accessed on February 1, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.doerriesgalabau.de  
  5. Chapel embankment open to traffic and designation Hugo-Preuß-Brücke. From: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , accessed on February 1, 2012.
  6. Photos of the AEG administration building on Friedrich-Karl-Ufer  in the German Digital Library , accessed on November 26, 2014.
  7. New Berlin office At: Federal Ministry of Education and Research , accessed on November 26, 2014.
  8. Spreebogen-Kapelleufer: Urban planning report 2009. From : as-if.info , accessed on February 2, 2012.
  9. Official offices instead of federal press beach In: Berliner Zeitung , March 17, 2010, accessed on November 26, 2014.
  10. In the spring of 2015, the tenants move to Humboldt-Hafen-Eins ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Woche , September 22, 2014, accessed on November 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-woche.de
  11. Corner of Kapelle-Ufer / Reinhardtstrasse

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '23.3 "  N , 13 ° 22' 29.2"  E