Karl-Marx-Strasse (Bad Freienwalde)

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Karl-Marx-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Bad Freienwalde
Karl-Marx-Strasse
House number 14
Basic data
place Bad Freienwalde
Hist. Names Wasserstrasse, Marktstrasse
Connecting roads Koenigstrasse , Uchtenhagenstrasse , Bahnhofstrasse
Cross streets Fischerstrasse, Kanalstrasse, Wasserstrasse
Buildings Town hall, post office
use
Road design Tröpfelbrunnen, historical high water mark

The Karl-Marx-Straße is a street in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) . Five houses in the street are listed. A detailed list of the listed houses can be found in the list of architectural monuments in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) .

Location and history

Karl-Marx-Straße begins at the corner of Königstraße / Uchtenhagenstraße and leads in a north-easterly direction to Wasserstraße / Kanalstraße. Here it turns into Bahnhofstrasse , which is also Bundesstrasse 167 here . At the corner of Königstraße, the street has been expanded to a square and forms the center of the city. The town hall , St. Nikolaikirche and the Oderland Museum are adjacent here .

The following streets start from Karl-Marx-Straße: Königstraße, Uchtenhagenstraße, Fischerstraße, Kanalstraße, Wasserstraße and Bahnhofstraße. The road has a length of about 250 meters. The house numbering goes from the beginning of the street at the corner of Königstraße to the left to Bahnhofstraße and then back to Königstraße. The town hall bears the number 1.

In a city map from 1724 the street is called Wasserstraße, later Grosse Marktstrasse or Breite Marktstrasse. From 1841 it was called Marktstrasse. In 1953 it was named Karl-Marx-Straße.

Architectural monuments

The town hall
The house at Karl-Marx-Strasse 13
The high water mark

Five houses and two monuments are listed on Karl-Marx-Straße. In detail these are:

  • The market fountain: The fountain is also called the drip fountain. It was created by the artist Horst Engelhardt from Eichwerder, a master student of Werner Stötzer . The fountain was erected in 1988. The fountain consists of a bowl with a bronze column on which a bather sits.
  • High water mark: At the left end of the post office, Karl-Marx-Straße 18, there is a boulder reminding of the flood of the Oder on March 22, 1947.
  • Karl-Marx-Straße 1: The town hall is located here. It is almost across from Königstrasse. A previous building was demolished in 1708. According to a construction plan by Andreas Schlueter , construction began in 1709. The construction was not completed until ten years later due to lack of money. The building is demolished in 1821. The current building was completed in 1855. It is a two-story house with a gable roof . The risalit was raised by one floor in 1926. In 1926 four dormers were also installed.
  • Karl-Marx-Straße 8: The house was built in the middle of the 18th century. It is a two-storey, gable-free, narrow half-timbered house. The house is uninhabited and is falling apart (as of September 2011).
  • Karl-Marx-Straße 13: The house was built at the end of the 18th century. It is a two-story eaves house.
  • Karl-Marx-Straße 14: The house was built in 1796. It is a two-storey eaves house with a mansard roof . The three dormers were built later.
  • Karl-Marx-Straße 18: The post office is located in this house. The previous building was destroyed in a fire on April 19, 1945. The current building was inaugurated on February 23, 1955.

literature

  • Ilona Rohowski, Ingetraud Senst: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Brandenburg. Volume 9.1: District of Märkisch-Oderland. Part 1: towns of Bad Freienwalde and Wriezen, villages in Niederoderbruch. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2006, ISBN 3-88462-230-7 , pp. 124–129.

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '16 "  N , 14 ° 1' 49"  E