Koloniestrasse (Berlin)

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Koloniestrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Koloniestrasse
View from Osloer Strasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District Healthy well
Created around 1800
Connecting roads Extended Koloniestrasse (north)
Cross streets Osloer Strasse, Soldiner Strasse, Zechliner Strasse, Fischhauser Weg, Kühnemannstrasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 1340 meters

The Colony Street is a street in Berlin in the district of Gesundbrunnen the Mitte district . Most of the buildings date from the prewar period and include several listed buildings.

location

Koloniestrasse runs from the junction of Badstrasse, Exerzierstrasse and Schwedenstrasse in the south to the confluence with Kühnemannstrasse in the north, which marks the border between the districts of Mitte and Reinickendorf . The Oslo road and Soldinerstrasse cross the colony road.

Name and story

Koloniestraße (marked in green) in Berlin at the time of the German Empire

The name of the street refers to the colonization that began in the area around the then city of Berlin in the 18th century. Settlements were planned on the outskirts of the city. The New Voigtland colony was established in 1752 and the first settlement of a colonist in the "colony behind the Luisenbad" can be identified between 1782 and 1784 .

The area around Koloniestraße was incorporated into Berlin in 1861 and formed the northernmost district of Berlin until Greater Berlin was formed in 1920.

Before 1933, a particularly large number of KPD members and sympathizers lived in the street, including the resistance fighter Paul Junius . An important communist meeting point was the “Zur Krücke” bar, which still existed in the 1980s.

The Koloniestraße and the neighboring streets are collectively referred to as Soldiner Kiez and the Kiez developed into a social hotspot in the post-war period . The writer Frank Baer ( Die Skimmilchbande ) describes the everyday life of the young people living there in the early 1980s in his novel “No reason to panic”. The district management of Soldiner Strasse / Wollankstrasse was founded to improve social conditions .

Buildings and facilities

The Kolonistenhaus, which has been renovated and expanded several times since 1782, in 2015. It is the only remaining house of the three rural colonies founded by Friedrich II (Prussia) to supply Berlin.

At Koloniestraße 57 there is a colonist house, which is the oldest preserved building in the Gesundbrunnen district and the only one in the “Colony behind the Louisenbade” that is a listed building. A residential project in the tenement house syndicate took care of the maintenance and renovation of the buildings on the property. The residential building at Koloniestraße 116, built in 1873, with a classical facade is also one of the oldest houses in the district and is a listed building. The houses at Koloniestraße 44, 44A, 45 and 46 are part of the listed residential complex Fordoner Straße , which exemplifies the progressive apartment building architecture in Berlin in the 1920s. At the northern end of Koloniestraße is the Gustav-Boess sports facility , named after the former mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess , who played a key role in promoting the construction of new sports facilities in Berlin in the 1920s.

The Imam-Sadık Mosque of the Islamic Council of the Ahl-ul-Bayt Communities (IRAB) is located at Koloniestraße 106 and the Hacı-Bayram Mosque of the Islamic Federation Berlin (IFB) is located at Koloniestraße 127 .

The Mertens & Jaenicke confectionery factory ( Mundi ) was located on property 133–136 .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Rainer Sandvoss, Resistance in a workers' district. Series of publications by the German Resistance Memorial Center , West Berlin 1983, issue 1, p. 61
  2. ↑ Frank Baer: No need to panic. Novel of a youth in Wedding . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-8135-0645-2 . From the blurb: “The abyss that separates the wild and aggressive boys and girls from Wedding from a regular life seems unbridgeable. They skip school for as long as they want, get in conflict with the police and lead, banded together or as loners, their daring existence, which the modern welfare state with its educators and helpers cannot cope with. ... (They can, however) be constructive, active and ambitious if you know how to interest them in things that attract them ”.
  3. ↑ Koloniestrasse 57
  4. ↑ project PinkePanke
  5. ↑ Koloniestrasse 116
  6. ↑ Housing complex Fordoner Strasse, Koloniestrasse 44, 44A, 45, 46
  7. ↑ Contemporary witnesses of the neighborhood history made of stone

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 38.4 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 50.2"  E