Kastanienallee (Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kastanienallee
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Kastanienallee
Looking north
Basic data
place Berlin
District Prenzlauer Berg
Created 1826
Connecting roads
Weinbergsweg (south) ,
Pappelallee (north)
Cross streets (Selection)
Oderberger Strasse ,
Schwedter Strasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 950 meters

The Kastanienallee is a 950 meter long avenue , in the Berlin district of Berg Prenzlauer at the Eberswalder Straße / Ecke Schönhauser Allee begins and until Fehrbelliner Straße in the district center leads. It connects the Weinbergsweg in the south with the poplar avenue in the north.

The crossed Schwedter Straße divides the Kastanienallee into a longer (northern) part, which belongs to the Prenzlauer Berg district, and a smaller section, which belongs to the Mitte district.

In addition to the street dealt with here, six other Berlin streets bear the name Kastanienallee .

history

Kastanienallee, 1957
Schwedter Strasse and Kastanienallee, 1958

The Kastanienallee was laid out in 1826 by the landowner Wilhelm Griebenow as an extension of the Weinbergsweg and was named after its first planting, the horse chestnuts , which were then planted here as avenue trees.

Occupied house, 1990

After the political change , most of the houses were renovated and modernized and gaps in the war were closed. At the end of the 1990s, new chestnuts were planted over the entire length. Kastanienallee and its surroundings have become a popular entertainment district with many pubs and galleries , which has a reputation as a “ scene mile”, for example in numerous Berlin travel guides. Due to the gentrification of the area and increasing business activity, rents became more expensive, so that many of the former residents moved away.

In Berlin vernacular , Kastanienallee is sometimes jokingly called " Casting Allee" because of its partly exclusive designer boutiques and the corresponding audience . The cabaret artist Rainald Grebe composed a song of the same name.

expansion

The Senate Department for Urban Development planned to reduce the number of parking spaces in 2011/2012, for which around 1.5 million euros were planned. The conversion was controversial among the residents. A citizens' initiative initially stopped planning with a referendum.

Since there was no agreement between the citizens' initiative and the district office, only the sidewalk was restored and partially rebuilt in summer 2011. At the tram stops, capes were installed to make it easier to get on and off. All the trees were preserved.

The cycle paths were marked in green over a length of around 1200 meters on the section between Schönhauser Allee and Schwedter Strasse on behalf of the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection and by the state-owned company Infravelo as the builder and project manager between March and April 2019.

Special features and building examples

View of Kastanienallee at Eberswalder Strasse underground station

Memorial mosaic

At the northern end of Kastanienallee on the pedestrian path on Schönhauser Allee , a mosaic by the Berlin artist Manfred Butzmann recalls the Skladanowsky brothers . The pioneers of cinematography had their studio in the attic in the corner building on Kastanienallee and Max Skladanowsky filmed the intersection from the roof of the house as early as 1896. Four years earlier, on August 20, 1892, Skladanowsky had photographed his brother Emil doing gymnastic exercises in the studio of the photographer Fenz there; they are the first German film recordings.

House number 77

Since 1998, located in the front building Kastanienallee 77, the small cinema Lichtblick cinema that several times cinema prize was awarded. The building at Kastanienallee 77, or K77 for short , was built in 1852/1853 by the steam sawmill owner Arnhem as the client and converted into a tenement house in 1893/1894. According to information from K77 , the front building was built in 1848. It can be assumed that there was an early industrial steam sawmill with a larger boiler behind the front building in the middle of the 19th century. Such steam boilers and machines were built in Tierra del Fuego , the industrial nucleus of Berlin, in Chausseestrasse by Franz Anton Egells , August Borsig and others since the 1840s . In 1992 the empty, dilapidated house was occupied - and saved - by the United Varben Wawavox group with the art campaign Art-Occupy-1st Aid ! From 1995 to 1998 the house was completely renovated. There is self-managed communal living there.

Houses number 7–9 and Hirschhof

Diagonally opposite is the Berlin Prater , a traditional beer garden . Nearby there is an entrance to the Hirschhof , one of the centers of alternative GDR culture, which is located in the street block between Kastanienallee, Oderberger Straße and Eberswalder Straße .

House number 86 and Zionskirche

In the southeast the Kastanienallee opens up to the Zionskirchplatz with the Zionskirche . Until 1989, one of the centers of the church's civil rights movement was located here . In house number 86 is the Tuntenhaus , a house inhabited by gay men and formerly occupied .

House number 97

Here the Puhlmannshof was built in a vacant lot , a small ensemble of buildings that interrupts the building line like a meander , that is, the Kastanienallee opens up here. The five-storey houses accommodate apartments from the second to the fifth floor, and shops have moved into the ground floor. The complex was built according to plans by the architects Grüntuch Ernst , who are applying for the competition for the Prize of the Association of German Architects 2018.

Web links

Commons : Kastanienallee (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Henning Sußebach : Bionade-Biedermeier , part 2. In: zeit.de
  2. ^ Lyrics by Rainald Grebe ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The renovation of Kastanienallee will last until 2012. In: Berliner Morgenpost , 23 November 2010
  4. Construction work begins in Kastanienallee. In: Welt Online . April 11, 2011, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; Retrieved April 11, 2011 .
  5. Initiative collects signatures against the renovation of Kastanienallee. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 30, 2011, accessed April 11, 2011 .
  6. ↑ The barrier-free expansion of the sidewalks has been completed. In: Berlin Week . January 15, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015 .
  7. Green coating - Kastanienallee. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  8. Homepage of the Lichtblick Kino ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. a b c d e f g Night Out @ Berlin - City Culture in Film - Jakob Kirchheim Retrospective in miniature in the Lichtblick cinema. In: nightoutatberlin.jaxblog.de. March 1, 2010, accessed May 26, 2016 .
  10. Kastanienallee 77 - art and culture project. In: k77.org. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  11. ^ Foundation Trias: Housing projects portal: Kastanienallee 77. In : wohnprojekte-portal.de. March 16, 2015, accessed May 26, 2016 .
  12. ^ Nikolaus Bernau: Brave new world of work . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 20, 2018, p. 10 (print edition).

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 18.8 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 35"  E