Seestrasse kiosk
The kiosk on Seestrasse in the Berlin district of Wedding is a listed kiosk. Originally created in 1955 as an above-ground "accentuation" above a public toilet, since summer 2013 it has housed the Rebel Room burger restaurant .
history
The kiosk near the Müllerstrasse / Seestrasse intersection is the successor to a similar building directly on the intersection. At this traffic junction in Wedding, a typical Berlin Café Achteck was built around 1910 - a cast-iron public lavatory. This survived both the street fighting in Wedding during the Weimar Republic and the Second World War , but fell victim to West Berlin's traffic planning in the post-war years . The building was in the way of both the extension of today's U6 subway line and the planned city motorway through northern Berlin.
In 1955, as the successor to Café Achteck, an underground lavatory was built a few hundred meters away next to the entrance to the Seestrasse urn cemetery . The kiosk, planned and built by the town planning office, is a listed building because of the toilet railings, the curved facade and the protruding roof - all typical features of 1950s architecture. After the operation of the public lavatories had been transferred to Wall AG after the political change, the latter closed the underground part and erected one of their standardized models at the Seestrasse subway station as a replacement . The above-ground kiosk has since been rented to restaurateurs. The current user has leased the building because its architecture is reminiscent of the early buildings of the American burger chains. It is named after the Rebel Room in Memphis , a former concert venue.
literature
- Eberhard Elfert: From the public lavatory to the fast food restaurant, corner of Müllerstrasse N4. June 2014, p. 9
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '3.4 " N , 13 ° 21" 7.7 " E