Leipziger Platz
 Leipziger Platz
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 View over the square towards the east, 2018 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | 1734 |
| Confluent streets |
Leipziger Strasse (east) , Potsdamer Platz (west) |
| Buildings |
Mosse-Palais , Canadian Embassy , shopping center |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport |
| Space design | Philipp Gerlach |
The Leipziger Platz is a scale in the urban expansion in 1734 space at the beginning of the Leipziger Strasse in Berlin district of Mitte . In World War II destroyed, it was 1961-1989 in the border area of the divided city and was later rebuilt. On the western edge of the octagonal square was the Potsdamer Tor by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . It forms a double complex with the adjacent Potsdamer Platz .
history
Emergence
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The square with the shape of an octagon , also officially called Octagon at the beginning , was built together with the square Pariser Platz (also: Quareé ) and the circular Belle-Alliance-Platz (also: Rondell , since 1947 Mehringplatz ) according to plans by Philipp Gerlach Created in 1734 and increasingly framed by representative residential, administrative and commercial buildings. All three squares in the urban building ensemble were given names in memory of the Wars of Liberation in 1814/1815 . In 1814 the octagon got its name in memory of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig ; coordinated with Leipziger Strasse, which had existed for a long time.
Original development
During the imperial era , the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture was located on the south side (No. 6-10), the Prussian Ministry of Commerce on the southeast corner and the Reichsmarineamt ( Navy Ministry ) at number 13 on the northeast corner .
The Mosse-Palais stretched from Leipziger Platz 15 on the north side to Vossstraße . The Leipziger Platz 16 was originally built on with the Palais Bleichröder . On May 27, 1902 transferred James of Bleichröder the then Imperial Automobile Club (KAC today: Automobile Club of Germany , AvD) the building . In November 2011 it became known that the AvD had sold the property to a real estate investor.
On its west side, Leipziger Platz merges into the more famous Potsdamer Platz . The excise wall ( Berlin customs wall ) separated the two squares until it was demolished in 1867, but the Potsdamer Tor remained standing. After 1867 the importance of the area shifted in favor of Potsdamer Platz, which grew into an important traffic junction . Leipziger Platz developed into an important business address in Berlin due to the construction of the Wertheim department store at the end of the 19th century.
Destruction in World War II
Allied air raids during World War II largely destroyed the buildings around Leipziger Platz. The ruins were removed after the end of the war. At the time of the division of Berlin, the Wall ran across Potsdamer Platz from north to south . The north-western half of Leipziger Platz was in the " death strip ", and there was no rebuilding on the square.
Rebuilding after reunification
Only the German reunification with the fall of the Berlin Wall led to new development plans; the first building was the infobox , which was removed in 2001 after the completion of the development on Potsdamer Platz.
Since 1990, the Berlin Senate , which is now responsible, has been promoting the reinvestment of the octagon. The Mosse-Palais was the first new building to be completed in 1998 . The Canadian Embassy, inaugurated in April 2005, followed . So five of the eight corners were built on. In the early 2010s, two of the three undeveloped plots - the AvD and the Wertheim property - were built on.
The KarstadtQuelle Group returned the Wertheim department store area to the Wertheim heirs, and the Techno- Club Tresor located here was then torn down. In mid-December 2006, the heirs sold the 22,000 m² site for 75 million euros to the real estate company Orco Group . Construction work began on the property in spring 2012, and the topping-out ceremony took place on September 20, 2012. The complex includes the LP12 Mall of Berlin shopping center with around 270 shops and a central catering area, which opened on September 25, 2014. The branch mix of the quarter provides for a clear focus on brand-related clothing fashion. The middle of the eight-storey development forms a covered passage, the property is framed by apartments and a hotel from the Motel One chain . In the inner courtyard there is an oval tartan track for fitness purposes .
After 1990, the premises at Leipziger Platz 18/19 were owned by the Infinorsa Group . The Spanish real estate company had erected scaffolding in the form of a building with printed tarpaulins for many years. The northwest wing of the square was a Potemkin village between 2006 and summer 2017 . In 2007 there was the first architectural competition , which the firm Rave & Partner won in 2008. In accordance with the building specifications of the Senate, the design provided for a grid facade and apartments on the upper floors. This winning design was never realized. Instead, a new owner was found in 2011, the Luxembourg-based F100 Investment AG . This succeeded in the building senator Andreas Geisel canceling the obligation to build 20 percent of the usable area as apartments, because it was "a very small property that was particularly noisy on both sides". This free hand decision met with harsh criticism from all political parties, but was not overturned.
At the beginning of November 2017, the groundbreaking ceremony for the last building on Leipziger Platz took place. It will be called Trion and the construction costs are given at 40 million euros. The ten-storey building is being built according to plans by the Berlin architecture firm léonwohlhage , which won a new competition in 2016; it should be ready for occupancy in early 2020.
The German Spy Museum Berlin opened in 2015 in the Leipziger Platz 9 building on the southeast side .
Transport links
Leipziger Straße (part of Bundesstraße 1 ), where many public buildings are located, begins on its eastern side .
The trains of the underground line U2 stop under Leipziger Platz . The underground station , which was relocated in 1907, bears the name Potsdamer Platz , but is mainly located under Leipziger Platz. Buses M48 and 200 as well as night lines N2 and N5 stop in the middle of Leipziger Platz , with the S + U stop being called Potsdamer Platz . The S1, S2 and S25 S-Bahn trains run on the edge of Leipziger Platz directly under Potsdamer Platz . The underground regional train station Potsdamer Platz , which is already in the Tiergarten district, is right next to the S-Bahn station .
The Berlin Senate Department for Transport is planning to build a tram route from Alexanderplatz via Leipziger Platz to the Kulturforum . For this purpose, tracks were laid through Leipziger Strasse at the end of the 1990s. A date has not yet been set (as of January 2016). In contrast, the planned U3 subway line under Leipziger Strasse has been put on hold for budgetary reasons for an indefinite period of time, although the shell under Potsdamer Platz has already been built.
Web links
- Leipziger Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Photo from Leipziger Platz. In: oktogon-berlin.de. 1921, archived from the original on January 1, 2014 ; Retrieved December 12, 2015 .
- Northern Schinkelsches Torhaus (Potsdamer Tor) on Leipziger Platz
- Interactive 360 ° panorama image from Leipziger Platz 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://berlin.kauperts.de/Strassen/Leipziger-Platz-10117-Berlin
- ↑ eight-Eck . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative tables , 1799, part, p. 8.
- ^ The new office building of the Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in Berlin. (Part I and intermediate structure) . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 69 (1919), Sp. 181–194, plate 11. Digitized in the holdings of the Central and State Library in Berlin .
- ↑ The King of Leipziger Platz. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 30, 2011
- ^ Potsdamer and Leipziger Platz. (No longer available online.) State of Berlin, archived from the original on July 9, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Views of the planned AvD-Palais (No. 16), between the Canadian Embassy and Mossepalais
- ↑ Planned shopping arcade to Vossstraße, Leipziger Platz No. 12/13
- ↑ This is what 2 billion euros look like from above . In: BZ , September 20, 2012.
- ^ Topping- out ceremony at the Leipziger Platz quarter . In: Berliner Zeitung
- ^ Shopping center on Leipziger Platz. In: Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on August 15, 2014
- ↑ Project description Leipziger Platz 18/19 ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Leipziger Platz 18/19 on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de, accessed on November 17, 2013
- ↑ a b Groundbreaking ceremony without political celebrities . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 10, 2017, p. 12.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 35 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 43" E