Klausenerplatz

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Klausenerplatz
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Klausenerplatz
Green area with playground
Basic data
place Berlin
District Charlottenburg
Created 1887
Newly designed 1993
Hist. Names Friedrich-Karl-Platz
Confluent streets
Spandauer Damm ,
Neufertstrasse,
Gardes-du-Corps-Strasse,
Danckelmannstrasse
use
User groups Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Square area 150 m × 130 m
Lauchhammer pump on Klausenerplatz around 1900 ( Berlin postage stamp from 1983 )

The Klausenerplatz is a Berliner Platz near the Charlottenburg Palace . It is flanked by Spandauer Damm as well as Gardes-du-Corps- , Danckelmann- and Neufertstraße . The location of the same name in the district of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ) is named after the square , which is sometimes also referred to as Danckelmannkiez and which extends south of the square.

Location and planning space

Around 15,000 people live here. The location is limited by the following roads:

With the planning instrument for living-world-oriented spaces (LOR), the Berlin urban space was structured at the district level. Klausenerplatz in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district (04) is designed as planning area 16. The structure of level 3 is the forecast room CW3 with the key 03 and in level 2 the district region "Schloss Charlottenburg" was created with the key 04. The Klausenerplatz planning area is characterized by “04030416”. This means that it is possible for this area to use data on residents and similar data as a basis for planning. The social data is publicly available as a neighborhood atlas on the Internet. The area size is listed as 478,698 m², of which 85,223 m² are road land, in particular 34,406 m² traffic areas. 234,575 m² are intended for residential use, i.e. 49% of the planning space. Other use categories are mixed use (71,602 m²), public and special uses (19,032 m²) and areas for commercial, industrial use and large-scale retail (16,151 m²) and there is also 17,709 m² for parks and green spaces. Categories such as green / arable land, cemetery, allotment gardens, fallow land or bodies of water are not shown in this list of land uses.

History of Klausenerplatz

From 1844 to 1889, the square was initially a riding arena for the Garde du Corps from the barracks opposite the Charlottenburg Palace . According to James Hobrecht's development plan from 1862, it was to become a decorative place surrounded by urban development. After the riding arena was given up, it was given the name of Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia in 1887 , who had distinguished himself in the war against France in 1870/1871, and was designed as a jewelery area. The design carried out in 1893 should have originated from the city garden inspector Ludwig Neßler . Linden trees were planted all around , two diagonal paths made it clear and traffic-friendly. A market square remained vacant on the west side, on which a lavatory was also built. A shelter - surrounded by benches - was built on the east side. Show plantings on the lawn served the need for representation.

Between 1921 and 1922 Erwin Barth redesigned Friedrich-Karl-Platz. He canceled the diagonal paths in order to create "a sufficiently large playing area in the middle, separated from traffic," as he wrote. However, the short stretches of path that lead from the corners of the square to the raised seats from which one can overlook the square are still reminiscent of the earlier diagonal paths. These places are accentuated by poplars , which, as Barth said, "enliven the space with character." As with most of his town squares, Barth separated quiet areas from children's play areas. The planting plan for the four meter wide flower borders was published in 1927 in the book Our open-air perennials by Count Ernst Silva Tarouca and Camillo Schneider .

In 1931 and 1932 the church of St. Kamillus was built on the south side .

In 1940/1941 an air raid shelter was built in the southern half of the square . The playground was rebuilt on the roof of the bunker, where it was until 1986. A design from the office of the Berlin gardening director Josef Pertl from 1941 envisaged a thoroughly convincing redesign of the entire square including the bunker, but was not implemented. Rather, the northern half of the square remained in the shape given by Barth.

Between 1948 and 1950, the gardening authority manager Walter Hilzheimer renewed the site in the state it was in 1941. In 1950 the square was named after the leader of the Catholic Action in Berlin, Erich Klausener , who was murdered by the National Socialists . In 1954 the Horticultural Office carried out some renovations, which did not fundamentally change the shape. A plan to redesign from 1969 was not carried out. The clearing of the bunker began in 1986, followed by the restoration of the area according to Barth's design until 1988.

In 1987 the first birthplace in Germany opened at Klausenerplatz 19 , which was relocated from Klausenerplatz to the nearby area of ​​the DRK Westend in 2007 . The independent theater Freie Theateranstalten has been located in the same building since 1977 . The artist studios of the visual artists of the K19 factory were sued for eviction in 2009 and had to leave the building, while the independent theater companies initially succeeded in preventing an eviction by a court of law.

Klausenerplatz-Kiez

Compared to many other areas of Charlottenburg, the area around Klausenerplatz survived the Second World War with its buildings from around 1900 relatively unscathed. In 1963 the area was designated as a redevelopment area. The results of a 1972-1974 implementation of reorganization competition foresaw the block interiors with typical Berlin with substantial retention of the front buildings backyards to remove seeds and vacant lots in the historical development context to close.

The first Berlin tenants' initiative was founded in 1973 with the aim of giving greater consideration to the needs and demands of the residents under the motto “renovation without displacement”. This resulted in the model project “Gentle Urban Renewal” in Block 118 by the architect and town planner Hardt-Waltherr Hämer .

The draftsman and photographer Heinrich Zille lived in Sophie-Charlotten-Straße 88 .

literature

  • Gottfried Schenk: Charlottenburg's red island. From the Zille-Milieu to the Klausenerplatz-Kiez. be.bra verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8148-0227-5 .
  • Harald Marpe: The Klausenerplatz. From the royal parade ground to the public park, (Kiez-Histories, Issue 9 ), with a foreword by Renée Zucker and an article by Bernd Maier. Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz e. V., Berlin 2015, DNB 1073220737 .
  • Harald Marpe: Political city map of Alt-Charlottenburg. The "Kleine Wedding" and the old town of Charlottenburg during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era. Ed .: Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz e. V., self-published, Berlin 2013, DNB 1029988900 .
  • Klaus Betz, Bernd Maier, Harald Marpe: History stations Klausenerplatz. Historical development of a Charlottenburg neighborhood. Ed .: Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz e. V., self-published, 2nd edition, Berlin 2014.
  • Klaus Betz, Bernd Maier, Harald Marpe: The Kiez at Klausenerplatz in historical maps, plans and illustrations. Ed .: Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz e. V., self-published, 2nd edition, Berlin 2012.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population structure in the "Lebensweltlichorientierte planning area" (LOR 7010101) in the district region

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '  N , 13 ° 17'  E