Karl-August-Platz
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 View of the Trinitatis Church on Karl-August-Patz during a weekly market |
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| place | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf |
| District | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| Created | 1894 |
| Newly designed | 1950 |
| Confluent streets | Krumme Strasse, Goethestrasse, Weimarer Strasse, Pestalozzistrasse |
| Buildings | Trinity Church |
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| User groups | Pedestrians, cyclists, public transport |
| Space design | Trinity Church , playgrounds |
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| Square area | 10,500 m² |
The Karl-August-Platz is a square in Berlin district of Charlottenburg , near the Leibnizstraße and Wilmersdorferstraße who, after Karl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was named. Karl-August-Platz is used as a weekly market on Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
history
The block square was laid out on November 1, 1894 as a church, market and jewelry square with pieces of lawn and trees. Even then, shortly after the construction of the square, a weekly market is said to have taken place on the west side of the square east of Krumme Strasse to supply the population. In 1897 it was named after the Grand Duke of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, who was a friend of Goethe . The square is in context with the adjacent Weimarer Strasse and Goethestrasse and Sesenheimer Strasse. From 1896 to 1898 Johannes Vollmer and Heinrich Jassoy built the Evangelical Trinity Church on the square . In August and November 1943 as well as in February 1944 the market was interrupted for a few years because the square and the church were destroyed by air raids . However, market operations on Karl-August Platz were resumed in 1949. When the square was redesigned in 1950, two children's playgrounds were created. In 2007, the majority of the district councilors of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf asked the district office to rename Karl-August-Platz as Benno-Ohnesorg- Platz, as he died not far from the square on June 2, 1967 during the anti-Shah protests. On September 21, 2019, the square's 125th anniversary including the weekly market was celebrated, at which the Deputy District Mayor Arne Herz also gave a speech.
description
Karl-August-Platz is designed as a square block square with eight road junctions. The Trinitatis Church rises in the middle from Karl-August-Platz. From the main entrance of the church two paths extend, together in the shape of a V, to the north-west and the south-west corner of the square. Between these paths there is an extremely wide sidewalk on the west side, where the weekly markets take place. There is a single-row parking lot between the sidewalk and Krumme Straße. In the north and south, two playgrounds are integrated into the design of the square. On the south-western edge of the square, a small toilet house is hidden by the local greenery in the form of trees.
See also
literature
- Knud Kohr: Heroes like you . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943167-20-7 , pp. 215 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Carolin Brühl: Weekly market in Charlottenburg: Kiezmarkt on Karl-August-Platz celebrates its 125th anniversary. September 21, 2019, accessed May 14, 2020 .
- ^ Karl-August-Platz. In: Berlin.de. State of Berlin and BerlinOnline Stadtportal GmbH & Co. KG, May 25, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerd Nowakowski: Berlin needs a place for Benno Ohnesorg. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Der Tagesspiegel, May 7, 2017, accessed on May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ 125th anniversary of the weekly market on Karl-August-Platz. In: berlin.de. September 19, 2019, accessed May 14, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 38.1 ″ E