Landsberger Allee

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Landsberger Allee
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Landsberger Allee
Landsberger Allee at the corner of Storkower Straße, looking towards the city center
Basic data
place Berlin
District Friedrichshain ,
Prenzlauer Berg ,
Fennpfuhl ,
Lichtenberg ,
Alt-Hohenschönhausen ,
Marzahn ,
Hellersdorf
Created in the 16th century
Newly designed multiple
Hist. Names Landsberger Chaussee,
Berliner Chaussee,
Chaussee to Altlandsberg,
Leninallee
Connecting roads
United Nations Square (west) ,
Landsberger Chaussee (east)
Cross streets (Selection)
Danziger Strasse - Petersburger Strasse ,
Storkower Strasse ,
Weißenseer Weg ,
Rhinstrasse ,
Märkische Allee ,
Raoul-Wallenberg-Strasse - Allee der Kosmonauten ,
Blumberger Damm
Places United Nations Square
Buildings Friedrichshain hospital , sports and recreation center , Landsberger Forum , Andels Hotel , Castello shopping center, Hohenschönhauser Tor shopping center , hotel complex on the corner of Weißenseer Weg, Lichtenberg intermediate pumping station , IKEA , pyramid
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 11 kilometers

The Landsberger Allee is a street in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , Pankow , Lichtenberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf . At eleven kilometers, it is one of the longest streets in Berlin. It is also one of the main arteries of the eastern districts. The namesake is not - as is sometimes assumed - the former Brandenburg Landsberg an der Warthe , but the much closer town Altlandsberg .

The name goes back to Landsberger Straße , which used to run from Alexanderplatz to Landsberger Tor , and which it forms as an extension. Landsberger Allee originally ran between Landsberger Tor and Roederstraße. It was renamed Leninallee in 1950 . Between 1973 and 1978, during the development of the new development areas along the street, the streets of Landsberger Chaussee , Berliner Chaussee and Chaussee to Altlandsberg to the east were included in Leninallee. Since 1992 the entire street has been called Landsberger Allee.

Course and location in the urban space

Landsberger Allee, near Genslerstrasse

The road begins at United Nations Square and runs northeast from there. The first major intersection is the one with Danziger and Petersburger Strasse . In the further, almost straight course, the road crosses, among other things, the Weißenseer Weg , the Rhinstrasse and the Märkische Allee , the latter in the form of a level crossing. The village of Marzahn is an elongated S-curve is tangent before the road to its original course of the road to Alt-Landsberg reached again. After the intersection with Avenue of cosmonauts / Raoul Wallenberg Street and Blum Bergerdamm Landsberger Allee ends past about the Wuhle leading Nikolai E. Berzarin Bridge on the border with Hellersdorf . From here it leads as Landsberger Chaussee into the Brandenburg area.

Landsberger Allee is one of the seven radial inward and outward streets leading north and east that originally started from the historic center of the city around Alexanderplatz. These are clockwise

History and environment

Naming

Landsberger Allee has changed its name and course several times in history. The road was an important long-distance route to the eastern parts of Brandenburg as early as the Middle Ages . The street originally began as Landsberger Strasse on Alexanderplatz and continued over Landsberger Tor as Landsberger Allee in a north-easterly direction to Lichtenberg (since 1854), where it changed name to Landsberger Chaussee at the confluence of Thaerstrasse and Roederstrasse . This then continued in Marzahn as Berliner Chaussee and Chaussee to Altlandsberg .

In 1950 the street section running through the districts of Mitte, Friedrichshain and Prenzlauer Berg was renamed Leninallee , in 1973 the section of Landsberger Chaussee in Lichtenberg to the east was also named Leninallee. In Marzahn the street ran straight through the old village green until the 1970s, then it was re-routed northwards as a bypass and in 1978 also renamed Leninallee up to the city limits.

During the renovation of Alexanderplatz and the clearing of the adjoining north-eastern city quarter (formerly: Georgenvorstadt ) around the Georgenkirche , the course of the Leninallee between Alexanderplatz and Büschingplatz was abolished in 1967 and built with row buildings. From the old buildings there only remained under monument protection standing home health at the Karl-Marx-Allee receive. Leninallee ended from now on at Leninplatz (previously: Landsberger Tor , since 1992: United Nations Square ). At Leninplatz, the course of the road swung west into the then newly created Mollstrasse, the extended Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse (since 1992: Torstrasse ) (north bypass).

The inner city plan by Hans Stimmann from the turn of the 21st century envisages the restoration of the historic street axis from Alexanderplatz as a footpath.

Landsberger Arkaden at the tram stop Landsberger Allee S-Bahn station
Forum Landsberger Allee

By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the entire Leninallee was renamed Landsberger Allee in 1992 and Leninplatz was given the new name Platz der United Nations , after the Lenin memorial had previously been removed despite numerous public protests.

Selected buildings according to districts

Friedrichshain

On the north side of the avenue, bordering the Volkspark Friedrichshain to the east, the Friedrichshain Hospital was built at the end of the 19th century . Opposite this, i.e. on the south side, there was a closed residential development, gaps between buildings were created by fighting and bombing until the end of the Second World War . After 1990, an investor built a hotel complex here, further east (Landsberger Allee 32), the Matthias Gardens for the elderly will be built in 2016 instead of the destroyed Viktoriahaus , for which the topping-out ceremony was held on February 8, 2016 . The Leipziger Fuchshuber Architekten won the design competition for the complex, which will consist of seven individual buildings, 153 residential units and an underground car park , on behalf of the real estate company Kondor Wessels Wohnen Berlin GmbH . Completion was originally planned for 2014.

At the intersection with Danziger Strasse , the SEZ sports and recreation center was opened in 1981 on the north side of the avenue .

Prenzlauer Berg

Directly in front of the Landsberger Allee S-Bahn station, Landsberger Allee borders the Alter Schlachthof development area , whose cattle sheds were designed by the architects Hermann Blankenstein and August Lindemann . The residential buildings erected on the site since the late 1990s fit into the existing industrial architecture ; new roads open up the area.

At the intersection of Landsberger Allee and Storkower Strasse , construction began in 1996 on the Landsberger Arkaden according to a design by Aldo Rossi : a twelve-storey, small-scale shopping center was to be built. The shell changed hands several times for financial reasons, but nothing was built for ten years. After the acquisition by an Austrian hotel chain, the planning was changed and construction work resumed. The andel's Hotel Berlin opened here in March 2009 . On the opposite side of the street, at the Landsberger Allee S-Bahn station, a similar office and retail complex has since been completed, which is called Forum Landsberger Allee .

Fennpfuhl

Between Oderbruchstraße / Karl-Lade-Straße and Weißenseer Weg or Vulkanstraße, a large new building area was built on both sides of the street in the 1970s, the current district of Fennpfuhl . A remarkable building is the Castello , built according to plans by Hinrich Baller , which was built between 1998 and 2000 to replace a demolished GDR bakery business.

Lichtenberg

In the Lichtenberg Ost section, there are or were numerous smaller shopping centers such as the Allee-Center (north side), Landsberger Allee 358 (Landsberger Kaufspassagen) (south side; was demolished in 2017), Globus -Baumarkt, IKEA Lichtenberg, car dealerships at the intersection of Rhinstrasse. The area of ​​the former Landsberger 358 , which belonged to the Hamburg real estate entrepreneur Helmut Greve, lost its status as a “multifunctional center with specialist markets, retail, leisure facilities, gastronomy, office and service facilities” and was sold. After further changes of ownership, part of the property came to Krieger Grundstück GmbH in 2014 , where a new furniture store with 45,000 m² of retail space has now been built after the former Möbel Max has been demolished , which opened as Möbel Höffner in 2017.

Marzahn

Landsberger Allee 563 monument

In Marzahn, the road ran straight through the old village green until the 1970s, when it was re-routed northwards as a bypass. Only a few houses from the end of the 19th century have been preserved here; including the listed building number 563, the gable of which adorns the picture of the April 21, 1945 memorial designed by Otto Schack . The inscription contained therein "On the way to the liberation of Berlin from Hitler's fascism , Soviet soldiers hoisted the red flag of victory in Berlin Marzahn " commemorates the entry of the Soviet armed forces along this street. The 5th Shock Army under Colonel General Bersarin , who later became the city ​​commandant , was the first Soviet unit to reach the Berlin city area. In 2016, the Marzahn-Hellersdorf District Assembly decided that the memorial should be preserved even after the house was possibly sold; originally it was even planned as a contractual safeguard.

Many other works of art adorn the areas and buildings on Landsberger Allee.

Public transport

Bus and tram transport

Landsberger Allee is used by trams for longer sections . These routes were created by several companies in the late 19th century and in the 1980s. The oldest section between Landsberger Tor and Petersburger Strasse was opened on June 8, 1882 by the Neue Berliner Pferdebahn-Gesellschaft and was part of a line from Alexanderplatz to the Zentralviehhof . From October 21, 1899, the Berlin – Hohenschönhausen tram operated by the Continental Society for Electrical Enterprises continued via the Ringbahn to the Lichtenberg border ; at the same time it was the first electric tram along the avenue.

The more recent sections were created as part of the Tatra program , an expansion and modernization program for the Berlin tram, and served to connect the Marzahn district created in 1979 . The first section, opened on March 17, 1980, begins on Konrad-Wolf-Strasse in Hohenschönhausen and runs between Altenhofer Strasse and the Marzahner Bridge over the Wriezener Bahn along Landsberger Allee. The continuation in the direction of Wuhletalstrasse went into operation on October 6, 1982. The railway body lies between the avenue and the Marzahner Promenade . On April 1, 1985, the next section between the junction followed Raoul Wallenberg Street / Avenue of cosmonaut and the border with Hellersdorf, where a depot was built for the tram. From June 1, 1991, the train continued over the Nikolai-E.-Bersarin-Brücke to Zossener Straße .

The western section to Oderbruchstrasse / Karl-Lade-Strasse is served by the tram lines M5, M6 and M8. On the middle section between Altenhofer Straße and Marzahner Promenade the lines M6 and 16 run, on the eastern section from Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße the lines M6 and 18.

The first bus routes across Landsberger Allee ran from the 1920s between the former Bürknersfelde plant on the Hohenschönhausen-Marzahn border and Hohenschönhausen. After the Second World War, the line continued into the city, ending at the Petersburger Strasse intersection. In 1956 the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe switched it to trolleybus operation and extended it in 1960 via Marzahn in the direction of Biesdorf . From 1973 buses drove again. After the tram to Marzahn went into operation, there was temporarily parallel traffic between the two modes of transport. Bus traffic was then limited to the tram-free section between Oderbruchstrasse / Karl-Lade-Strasse and Weißenseer Weg before the BVG ceased this connection in 1994. Between the Marzahner Promenade and Zossener Straße, the avenue is served by several bus routes.

The current street names were used for better understanding.

S-Bahn connection

View of the Landsberger Allee S-Bahn station

Landsberger Allee crosses the S-Bahn three times in its course . The Landsberger Allee train station is located on the Berlin Ringbahn . Further east the street crosses the Berlin outer ring . A Bürknersfelde station was planned here for the S75 line, named after an old Vorwerk . Since the area around the planned station is still largely uninhabited, it has not yet been built, only prepared. Another intersection with the S-Bahn is only about 350 m east of the Wriezener Bahn . The Marzahn S-Bahn station on the S7 line is close to the street .

See also

Web links

Commons : Landsberger Allee  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old Berlin city map from 1906 ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Leninallee . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  3. ^ Information in the Berliner Zeitung , February 10, 2016, p. 16: Under the heading Districts / News .
  4. ^ Project Matthias Gardens on the Fuchshuber Architects website ( Memento from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on February 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Maria Neuendorff: New business for the company anniversary. Moz.de, September 13, 2017, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Architectural monument residential building LA 563
  7. ↑ Art in Marzahn ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7 kB)
  8. ↑ ND reports on our application for the House of Liberation . Left party in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  9. ^ Hans-Joachim Pohl: The new Berlin horse-drawn railway company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg (part 1) . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 1, 1986, pp. 2-11 .
  10. ↑ Michael Günther: With interest guarantee for the manor castle. How the tram got to "Hohen = Schönhausen" . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 5, 1999, pp. 118-131 .
  11. ↑ Sigurd Hilkenbach, Wolfgang Kramer: The trams in Berlin (BVG East / BVB) 1949-1991 . transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71063-3 , pp. 17-18 .
  12. ^ Heinz Jung, Carl-Wilhelm Schmiedecke: The trolleybus in East Berlin . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 1, 1973, pp. 1-8 .
  13. ↑ Line directory 1994/1995 as of September 25, 1994. In: Die Berliner Linienchronik. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  E