Karl-Marx-Strasse (Berlin)

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Karl-Marx-Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Karl-Marx-Strasse
Karl-Marx-Straße with the district court (left) and Neukölln town hall
Basic data
place Berlin
District Neukölln
Created in the 17th century
Newly designed from 1947 and at the beginning of the 21st century
Hist. Names Bergstraße (south-eastern section) ,
Berliner Straße (western section from Hermannplatz to Ganghoferstraße)
Connecting roads
Hasenheide (northwest) , Buschkrugallee (south)
Cross streets (Selection)
Hermannstrasse, Flughafenstrasse, Erkstrasse, Werbellinstrasse, Saalestrasse, Silbersteinstrasse, Grenzallee
Places Karl-Marx-Platz
Buildings District court Neukölln , town hall Neukölln , various institutions
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 2970 meters

The Karl Marx Street is a main street in the Berlin district of Neukölln , and was until May 2008, part of the Federal Straße 179 . It is the main shopping street in the district of the same name and the most important sub-center in the south-east of Berlin. In terms of sales area , it is the third largest shopping street in Berlin after Tauentzienstrasse and Schloßstrasse . The U7 subway line follows the street throughout its entire course.

Currently (as of 2019) a variety of measures are being carried out to develop the Neukölln business, administrative and cultural center on Karl-Marx-Straße, including the structural redesign of the entire street and a strengthening of the cultural location.

Naming

The street was named on July 31, 1947 after the philosopher and economic theorist Karl Marx . Previously, individual sections were called Berliner Straße (before 1874–1947) and Bergstraße (before 1877–1947). Those who are unfamiliar with the area sometimes confuse Karl-Marx-Strasse with Karl-Marx-Allee in the eastern part of Berlin in the Friedrichshain district , which is also an important traffic axis, especially known for its post-war architecture in the style of socialist classicism .

course

Karl-Marx-Straße begins at Hermannplatz as an extension of Hasenheide . In the further course the following main roads join or cross them:

Here it turns into Buschkrugallee and leads the traffic to the Buschkrugallee junction of federal motorway 100 .

retail trade

In the central section of the street there are branches of the department stores Hennes & Mauritz and Woolworth . The former largest department store in Neukölln, a Hertie department store , had to be closed in 2005 as one of the last department stores still operating under this name. The former department store was extensively rebuilt in 2009 and reopened as a shopping center.

At the two endpoints of the central section of the street there are two shopping centers, the Neukölln Arcaden (formerly: Forum Neukölln with 27,000 m² of retail space) on the corner of Flughafenstrasse and the Sinn-Leffers -Haus on Alfred-Scholz-Platz. The latter is the smaller and older of the two and has been struggling with vacancies since the Neukölln Arcaden opened. In 2011, the Karstadt bargain center was set up in this building , in which the remaining stock from all Karstadt branches is sold. The local branch of the SinnLeffers department store was closed again and the Media Markt electronics store moved from there to the Neukölln Arcaden . This shopping center is operated by Essener Management für Immobilien (mfI), which also maintains several other centers in Berlin.

At the northern end of the street, already in the Kreuzberg area, is Karstadt on Hermannplatz (34,000 m² sales area), one of the largest department stores in Germany. However, Hermannplatz and the central section of Karl-Marx-Straße around the town hall are to be regarded as two separate retail locations; the northern part of the street that connects them has only a small number of shops and low pedestrian frequency.

At the southern end - already south of the Ringbahn  - there is a hypermarket from real, - the Metro Group (before the Wal-Mart Germany department stores were sold to the Metro Group in 2006, the only Wal-Mart in Berlin was located there Space ). After completion of renovation work in 2010 - in which a second floor was drafted into the building - came in the now Neuköllner gate called shopping center on 16,000 square meters more retail chains in the upper floor of the building, such as Aldi , KiK , Rossmann and several retail stores. real, - is now in the basement on an area of ​​around 8,000 m² - where there is also a bar, a pharmacy and a newspaper and tobacco shop with DHL service. The building is located directly at the Neukölln S and U-Bahn station and has a large parking deck on its roof. It is easily accessible with the U7 line and the S-Bahn lines .

Institutions

View from the roof of the Karstadt department store on Hermannplatz into Karl-Marx-Strasse towards Neukölln town hall
Neukölln town hall and Karl-Marx-Straße during late light shopping, November 2012

The road is also location of public institutions, which is based in the townscape Wilhelminian have. These include above all the Neukölln Town Hall , the landmark of the district, with its large forecourt and a 68 meter high tower, the Neukölln District Court and the former Imperial Post Office .

In the "Passage", the Rixdorf Society House built in 1908 , there is a cinema ( Passage cinema with an original cinema from 1909) and the Neukölln Opera ; another cinema ( Karli , after the namesake of the street) in the arcades . A few meters south of the social building, the Neukölln hall building is another cultural facility, which not only houses the gallery in the hall building but also the Heimathafen Neukölln cultural facility .

In the southern part of Karl-Marx-Straße (No. 201), there is the neo-Gothic Magdalenenkirche of the Protestant parish of Rixdorf . The church was 1879 consecrated the altar was in 16/17. Century carved by a Rixdorf artist.

traffic

Transportation

The main load of local public transport is carried by the U7 subway line , which serves the street with four stations:

View of the Rathaus Neukölln underground station

The Neukölln ring station was opened on July 17, 1871. The subway stations Hermannplatz, Rathaus Neukölln and Karl-Marx-Straße were put into operation on April 11, 1926, the Neukölln subway station on the Ringbahn followed on December 21, 1930. The station of the U8 line at Hermannplatz has been in operation since the 17th Served July 1927.

Several tram lines ran through Karl-Marx-Straße until the 1960s . Line 47, which ran the entire length of the street, was discontinued in 1963. The last tram on a section at Neukölln station ran in 1966.

Bicycle traffic

In 2018, renovation work on an eastern section of the road was completed and a protective strip for bicycle traffic was set up. However, the renovation was criticized as ineffective, as it was always parked illegally. An extension of the cycle lane in the section between Weichselstrasse and Hermannplatz, a re-marking to a cycle lane with a solid line, and the conversion of the street to a one-way street were discussed as possible future changes. The construction of a protected cycle lane has been announced for the first half of 2019.

The district office later announced that from April 2019, as part of a third construction phase in Karl-Marx-Straße, on the south side of the street between Herrmannplatz and Reuterstraße, a 300-meter-long bike path protected with bollards is to be built. Bicycle-friendly Neukölln ”was initiated. On the north side, an unprotected bicycle lane is to be set up between Weichselstrasse and Herrmannplatz, whereas the Berlin Mobility Act stipulates that bicycle traffic facilities on main roads must be designed in such a way that vehicles are not allowed to drive on and stop. The fact that there was no structural separation from motorized traffic was justified with numerous entrances that require regular interruptions and thus suggest a false sense of security. In contrast to other bike paths in Berlin, the green paint on Karl-Marx-Straße is not initially planned because "the financial outlay would be too great in view of the renovation of the underground tunnel from 2022". In addition to the protected cycle path, a restricted area for the fire brigade and the second escape route is to be created so that the prescribed maximum distance of nine meters between the fire brigade and the house walls can be maintained. Between Herrmannplatz and Weichselstraße, one of the previously two lanes for motorized traffic will be omitted in both directions. Overall, the following division is planned in the cross-section of the road from north to south:

side walk Protected

Bike path

bollard Restricted area roadway Green strip roadway Cycle lanes Dividing strip Parking lane side walk
5.00 m 2.60 m 1.00 m 1.90 m 3.50 m 3.00 m 3.40 m 2.40 m 0.75 m 2.50 m 5.00 m

In the course of the renovation work, ten delivery areas are also to be set up, bicycle parking spaces are to be set up and new pedestrian crossings created. The new pedestrian crossings are to be built at Herrmannplatz, east and west of Hobrechtstrasse, east and west of Reuterstrasse and west of Weichselstrasse.

Web links

Commons : Karl-Marx-Straße (Berlin-Neukölln)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage Neukölln home port ; Retrieved January 26, 2013
  2. ↑ Photo of Karl-Marx-Strasse at Neukölln station around 1966 with tram, see Tram Forum , 1st picture from above
  3. ↑ Philippe Debionne: Karl-Marx-Straße: Nobody can ride these new cycle paths . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on May 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Peter Neumann: New Senate List: The next bollard cycle paths are to be built here. February 27, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Safe cycling on Karl-Marx-Straße - information on the pilot project. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 33.7 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 22.1"  E