Copenhagen Street

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Copenhagen Street
"Kopi"
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Copenhagen Street
Glance into Copenhagen Street
Basic data
place Berlin
District Prenzlauer Berg
Created 1899
Cross streets Ystader Strasse , Sonnenburger Strasse , Rhinower Strasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 870 meters

The Copenhagen street in Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg runs from the Schönhauser Allee in the east to the Schwedter Straße . On April 30, 1899, what was then street no. 18, Section XI of the development plan, was given its current name.

description

The street is around 800 meters long and has 61 apartment buildings and four children's playgrounds. With the exception of four new buildings, all residential buildings were built between 1900 and 1910, in the Art Nouveau period , which is reflected in the construction and ornamentation - as far as the largely disassembled facades still show this. From east to west, Rhinower Strasse first joins Copenhagener Strasse, then Sonnenburger Strasse , Ystader Strasse , and finally Kopenhagener Strasse ends at Schwedter Strasse at Mauerpark .

Up until 1945 there was a road bridge crossing the Ringbahngraben north of the Sonnenburger Strasse intersection, the only bridge structure completely built by Alfred Grenander in Berlin, otherwise known as the BVG architect for many underground stations and railway structures . It fell victim to the fighting in the final days of World War II and was later replaced by a makeshift pedestrian bridge slightly eastward. A pipe bridge from Berliner Wasserbetriebe runs parallel to this pedestrian bridge a little further west .

The most noticeable building on the street is the Humboldt substation in Copenhagener Strasse 61 (on the corner of Sonnenburger Strasse). It was built between 1924 and 1926, based on designs by the important industrial architect Hans Heinrich Müller . Since it was closed in 1993, it has been used for various purposes, including: a. From 2000 to 2004, the phase shift hall housed a branch of the Vitra Design Museum , after which the entire building was used by an online mail order company until 2014.

The transformer station is also listed as the building addresses 71 to 78 under conservation . The Prenzlauer Berg Moritzhof children's farm is located at the western end of Copenhagen Street .

After German reunification , most of the houses were renovated, but the cobblestone street kept its quiet location. That is why Copenhagener Strasse was chosen as the location for several GDR nostalgia films, including the films Life is a Construction Site , The Red Cockatoo , Summer in Front of the Balcony , Men's Hearts and the TV series Weissensee . In 1979, Solo Sunny, one of the most famous DEFA films, was shot on Copenhagener Strasse 13 .

About half of the residents lived in the street or elsewhere in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall . In addition to the formative visual artists, numerous actors, writers and architects live or work in the street. West Germans and European foreigners in particular are drawn in. A study by geographers from the Humboldt University counts 45 cultural workers in the street.

The Wednesday club and a Korean tea house (house number 14) are located on Kopenhagener Strasse , as well as other restaurants, pubs and other small businesses.

Plaque

The German resistance fighter Hermann Tops (1897–1944) from the group around Robert Uhrig was commemorated with a memorial plaque at his house at Kopenhagener Straße 46. The plaque posted on January 16, 1976 has disappeared.

Web links

Commons : Kopenhagener Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thorsten Dame: Humboldt substation . In: Thorsten Dame (ed.): Elektropolis Berlin. Architecture and monument guide . Michael Imhof / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Petersberg 2014, p. 259 .
  2. ↑ BNP Paribas press release. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann , Monika Kahl, Regina Scheer: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism - A Documentation , Volume II, Federal Center for Political Education, Bonn 1999

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 56 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 32 ″  E