Karlplatz (Berlin-Mitte)

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The Rudolf Virchow monument on Karlplatz

The Karlsplatz is an urban space in Berlin district of Mitte between Charitéstraße , Luis Street and Reinhardtstraße . It was named after Prince Carl von Prussia , a brother of Kaiser Wilhelm I , general of the infantry and first master of the Order of St. John, restored in 1852, with residence in his palace on Wilhelmplatz in Berlin and in Glienicke Palace , which he had commissioned Karl Friedrich Schinkel to expand.

history

The square was laid out in the form that has been in effect since then during the layout and development of the Outer Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt in the first half of the 19th century. It was first mentioned by post (with residents) in 1897, and in 1906 it was also entered on the Berlin city map. Directly on the square is a listed monument for Rudolf Virchow , which was created by the sculptor Fritz Klimsch from 1906 to 1910. A building constructed as a hotel in 1893 (house number 7) is also on the list of monuments. A residential building from 1830 to the north of the square (Luisenstrasse 14/15 at the corner of Schumannstrasse 3) served as the embassy of the People's Republic of Poland in the GDR between 1949 and 1964 , before it moved into a new building on Unter den Linden.

The square gained notoriety beyond Berlin through Bertolt Brecht's poem Die Pappel vom Karl (s) Platz from 1950: "A poplar stands on Karlsplatz in the middle of the rubble city of Berlin, and when people walk across Karlsplatz they see its friendly green ..." . Brecht's verses helped prevent the tree from being cut down in the winter of 1946. A stainless steel memorial plaque is dedicated to this process and is embedded in the ground behind the Virchow monument.

Web links

Commons : Karlplatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ↑ Location of Karlplatz on the Berlin city map from 1906 ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Monument to Rudolf Virchow on Karlplatz
  4. ↑ Architectural monument Hotel Karlplatz
  5. ↑ Brecht's poem on the memorial plaque on Karlplatz on Gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '22 .4 "  N , 13 ° 22' 45.9"  E