Alfred Lion footbridge

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Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 51 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 6 ″  E

Alfred Lion footbridge
Alfred Lion footbridge
View of the footbridge from the Schöneberg Loop to Tempelhof, 2015
use Pedestrians , cyclists
Convicted East-west green corridor, Hertha-Block-Promenade
Crossing of Dresdener and Anhalter Bahn
place Berlin-Schöneberg
construction 2-field tubular steel framework
overall length 93.30 m
width 6.00 m
Longest span 50 m and 34.21 m
Construction height 4.65 m
building-costs 2.5 million euros
start of building April 2010
completion Summer 2011
opening November 8, 2012
location
Alfred-Lion-Steg (Berlin)
Alfred Lion footbridge

The Alfred-Lion-Steg is a foot and bike path bridge in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg .

The 93.30 meter long, two-field construction made of tubular steel framework was created as part of the urban redevelopment west (funding area Schöneberg-Südkreuz) and was opened in November 2012. It leads the Hertha-Block-Promenade of the newly created east-west green corridor north of the Südkreuz train station over the routes of the Dresden and Anhalter Bahn and connects the Schöneberg district of the Rote Insel with the Tempelhof district on the General-Pape-Straße history trail . Named after the bridge's Alfred Lion , co-founder of the Jazz - record label Blue Note .

The bridge

The entire bridge belongs to the Schöneberg district, as the border between Schöneberg and Tempelhof runs parallel to General-Pape-Straße on the eastern embankment of the wide trench.

Construction, costs and opening

Planning for the footbridge began in October 2008 and construction began in April 2010. The first construction phase included the two bridge superstructures, which were lifted in at the end of March 2011, and the eastern staircase and ramp system on the Tempelhof side. The construction phase was completed in September 2011. The second construction phase was a double ramp on the west side of Schöneberg with connections to the east-west green corridor and the Schöneberg loop ( see below ). The client was the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Office , and the client was the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment (Dept. X: Engineering Structures Design), which was also responsible for project control. The construction of the bridge was carried out by Kolb Ripke Architekten Planungsgesellschaft mbH . The architectural office stated the construction volume for the footbridge at 2.6 million euros, the total construction costs including all ramps amounted to 3.4 million euros according to the Senate Administration. The funding programs for urban redevelopment west (projects in the Schöneberg-Südkreuz funding area) were used to finance the bridge and the entire green corridor , 50 percent of which were funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and 33 percent by the federal government.

The then Senator for Urban Development Michael Müller , District Mayor Angelika Schöttler , District Councilor Sibyll-Anka Klotz and District Councilor Daniel Krüger opened the footbridge along with the Hertha-Block-Promenade on November 8, 2012 to listen to jazz pieces from the Lion's record label . In the speeches, it was particularly emphasized that the bridge would promote the further merging of the two districts of Tempelhof and Schöneberg. A small project for Berlin, but a big one for Tempelhof-Schöneberg  - according to the responsible city councilor Klotz from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

construction

View from Tempelhof to the Red Island
Name tag on the opened jetty
Info sign

The bridge rests on an abutment each on the eastern and western embankments and on a supporting pillar that was erected between the tracks. The spans are 50.00 and 34.21 meters. The total length of the barrier-free walkway made of two-span tubular steel framework is 90.30 meters. The bridge width is six meters, the usable width is four meters. The architectural office Kolp Ripke, which won the competition for the Dresden Waldschlößchenbrücke in 1997 together with other offices , describes the construction as follows:

“The construction consists of tubular steel frameworks running over two fields, which incline inwards and result in a trapezoidal cross-section. The handrail profile of the railing is attached to the diagonals of the framework and contains integrated lights. The bridge deck is supported on transverse girders that span between the lower chords of the truss. The central support and the two abutments are made of concrete and designed with a subtle exposed concrete structure. The framework, in light aluminum gray , swings parabolically up on both sides up to the middle and creates a dramatic bridge space. The visitor enters the bridge through a gate made of the trapezoidal framework and experiences the dramaturgy of the structure while crossing. "

- Kolp Ripke Architects: Bridge at Südkreuz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Draft.

On the west side of Schöneberg, the connection is via a two-course ramp system. One of the ramps leads as an extension of the bridge axis to the new Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße and on to Leuthener Platz . The other ramp leads to the north-south green corridor (Schöneberg Loop) below the bridge. On the east side of Tempelhof, a combined ramp and staircase connects the footbridge to General-Pape-Straße.

Controversial naming: Alfred Lion or Hertha Block

The eponymous Alfred Lion was born in 1908 on the Red Island of the then still independent town of Schöneberg as Alfred Löw or Loew. For a long time Gotenstrasse 7 was considered the house where he was born. As a Jew , Löw was forced to turn his back on Nazi Germany . About Chile emigrated he 1936-1938 in the United States , where he was a co-founder of the jazz record label Blue Note made a name. Lion coined the phrase "It must swing!" He died in 1987 in San Diego .

The naming of the footbridge after Alfred Lion was controversial in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district council . The librarian Hertha Block , who was active in the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers and who was arrested by the SA on July 26, 1933, together with the writers Werner Ilberg and Walter Stolle , was also up for debate . On the grounds that she had "still been in contact with Communist writers in June 1933", Block was incarcerated for eight weeks in the nearby SA prison in Papestrasse . Her efforts to get back into the public service subsequently failed. In 1936 she was arrested again and sentenced to 15 months in prison for high treason. After she was released, she ceased contact with the resistance . After the Second World War , she was involved in the reconstruction of the Wilmersdorfer city ​​library and the reprocessing of the books hidden from the Nazis. This included the 8,000-volume collection of works in the humanities by Ludwig Geiger , which the Jewish Goethe researcher bequeathed to the Wilmersdorf district office. From 1952, Hertha Block was in charge of building the library branch in Schmargendorf Town Hall . Until her retirement in 1972 she pursued her job.

While the district politicians of the CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen campaigned for the name to be named after Alfred Lion, the SPD advocated Hertha Block as the namesake. In a blog post, the SPD insinuated that “on the one hand,” as one critic summarized, “they wanted to avoid naming women, and on the other hand, the author smugly points out that 'Blue Note' is a one-off Record label and subsidiary of EMI . In addition, the text suggests that only Hertha Block could contribute to 'transporting the commemorative culture into people's everyday life and public space. ”A solemn, symbolic name of the footbridge after Hertha Block on April 30, 2011, at the members of the working group of social democratic women Tempelhof Schöneberg (ASF) were involved, remained ineffective; the bridge was named Alfred-Lion-Steg . With the name Hertha-Block-Promenade for the path of the east-west green corridor, the SPD initiative had a partial success.

East-west green corridor

The east-west green corridor leads from Tempelhofer Gontermannstrasse to Schöneberger Leuthener Platz on the Red Island . The total length is around 600 meters, the costs for its construction amounted to 4.8 million euros - each including the bridge, the core of the green corridor.

Hertha Block Promenade

The footbridge with a former service building of the Landwehr Inspection , today part of the Robert Koch Institute

The asphalted, four-meter-wide Hertha-Block-Promenade, partly lined with lanterns, is bordered on both sides by a strip of lawn and partly by rows of alleys with columnar maple . Between Gontermannstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse , the path leads along the  northern edge of the former Prussian military area with its historic clinker buildings , in line of sight to the striking Gasometer Schöneberg landmark . The listed barracks of the 1st Prussian Railway Regiment and the service buildings of the Landwehr Inspection were built between 1870 and 1898 on the western edge of Tempelhofer Feld , which had been used as a military training area and parade ground for the Berlin garrison since 1722 . The clinker wall, which is also listed, forms the property boundary. To the north of the promenade is the allotment garden colony Papestrasse, whose tapering paths were connected to the Hertha-Block-Promenade. At the height of the numbers 62-66, the route reaches General-Pape-Strasse with the Papestrasse history trail , which includes the military buildings, the heavy pollution body and the Papestrasse SA prison . In buildings 62–66 (see picture opposite) from the years 1895/1898, parts of the Landwehr inspection were housed. The architectural design in the neo-renaissance style came largely from the garrison building inspector Hermann Böhmer. Today (as of 2013) the two buildings are used by the Robert Koch Institute (Papestrasse area).

Opposite this building complex, the Alfred-Lion-Steg leads the promenade over the railway ditch to the Schöneberger Rote Insel. The ramp as an extension of the bridge axis runs through the Naumannstrasse industrial park to Wilhelm-Kabus-Strasse, which was laid out in 2010 to relieve the parallel Naumannstrasse and named after the engineer and Schöneberg mayor Wilhelm Kabus . After crossing the street, the Hertha-Block-Promenade ends at Leuthener Platz.

Extension of Leuthener Platz

The Leuthener place was built around 1905/1906 as a play and Schmuckplatz in extending the Leuthener road. Originally probably not officially named, it was named Leuthenplatz after the First World War and in 1930 the name Leuthener Platz . The name was chosen after the Battle of Leuthen , which took place near Leuthen in Silesia in 1757 during the Seven Years' War . The rectangular square lies between Gustav-Müller-Strasse and Naumannstrasse . In the square there is a listed ' Café Achteck ' (public lavatory; in the picture ).

The historical part of Leuthener Platz with the continuation of the Hertha-Block-Promenade to Naumannstraße

As part of the east-west green corridor, Leuthener Platz was expanded parallel to the Hertha-Block-Promenade to the east (i.e. back in the course description selected here) in the direction of the Graben of the Dresdener and Anhalter Bahn, also as part of the urban redevelopment west. The public green space consists of three different sub-areas:

  • a pine grove with Scots pines on flat terrace areas equipped with benches, which follow the topography rising from Naumannstraße and are barrier-free connected to the Hertha-Block-Promenade,
  • a clearing - a multifunctional area enclosed by steps within the grove ; the difference in level between the Naumannstraße and the clearing is provided with shallow steps of yellowish gray granite structured and
  • a small asphalt ball court with two basketball hoops and a ball catch fence with an adjacent table tennis table.

The costs for this partial measure were estimated at 900,000 euros. Work began in August 2010 with the disposal of underground tank farms on the brownfield sites of the industrial park east of Naumannstrasse. The gardening and landscaping work began at the end of 2010 after the remediation of the contaminated sites and will be completed in 2013.

Development concept and integration into the Berlin road network

The east-west green corridor is part of the projects in the Schöneberg-Südkreuz development area of ​​urban redevelopment west, which was started in 2005 with the aim of integrating the new Südkreuz long-distance train station (formerly: Papestraße station ) into the urban environment, upgrading the surrounding urban space and with To network green spaces and paths on a large scale. The barriers between the Schöneberg and Tempelhof districts are to be dismantled and the quality of life in the districts to be improved. A raised image and the developed public infrastructure should also create incentives for private investments in trade, commerce and housing. The overall project should be completed by the end of 2015.

Green network and Schöneberg loop

In detail, the east-west green corridor is / will be connected as part of the green network as follows:

Allotments on the Hertha-Block-Promenade (under construction in 2011) on the corner of Gontermannstrasse

The key project Schöneberger Runde will link the east-west green corridor both at Leuthener Platz and via the already completed second ramp at the west end of the Alfred-Lion-Steg to the north and south. The loop is designed as a walking, cycling and skating circular path and leads from the bottleneck , which is already under construction - a southern extension of the park at Gleisdreieck  , which was partially opened in 2011 - in the trench under the connected Alfred-Lion-Steg to the Südkreuz train station and from there in a loop via the GASAG site, the Cherusker Park and the Wannseebahn back to the Yorckbrücken at the bottleneck. The Schöneberg Loop also connects the east-west green corridor with the Berlin-Leipzig long - distance cycle route and thus with the supra-regional cycle path system and networks it across a large area

The Schöneberg Loop connects the east-west green corridor with the 40-kilometer north-south path, which, as hiking trail 5 of Berlin's 20 main green paths, leads from north along the Panke to south to the Teltow Park regional park.

History trail Naumannstrasse, Leber memorial

Also as part of the overall project, the Naumannstrasse history trail is planned in the commercial area enclosed by the loop as a counterpart to the Papestrasse history trail. As a first step towards this course, the art competition "Denkzeichen Kohlenhandlung Annedore and Julius Leber " was announced on Torgauer Straße. Disguised as an employee of the coal merchant "Bruno Meyer Nachf.", The SPD - politicians , members of the Reichstag , resistance fighters and later murdered by the National Socialists, together with like-minded friends - established contacts to social democratic and middle-class resistance groups like the Kreisau Circle between 1937 and 1944 ; the traditional “red” - that is, politically more left-wing - orientation of its population and the island location between different train tracks gave the quarter the name Rote Insel . The jury recommended the realization of the design porch of artist Katharina Karrenberg. According to the draft, the base and the entrance stairs of the former coal shop in Torgauer Straße 24/26 - if the house is demolished - are to be re-cast from concrete. The floor plan of the building is to be reduced to the element of a vestibule as a pedestal , the word vestibule is to be depicted with a cast Sütterlin inscription (in memory of Annedore Leber's literary activity) on a concrete slab in the floor. However, it is unclear whether the house will actually be demolished and the design implemented. In 2012 the district parliament decided to preserve the building fabric and to develop a new concept for a memorial site; for this there is no funding yet, as the funds made available so far for the competition / the work of art were earmarked.

literature

  • Urban redevelopment west. Schöneberg-Südkreuz. Right in the middle of urban redevelopment 2012. Ed .: District Office Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin. Berlin 2012. Brochure (PDF; 2.5 MB)

Web links

Commons : Alfred-Lion-Steg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Opening of Alfred-Lion-Steg. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
  2. ^ Building a bridge in Schöneberg north of the Südkreuz train station Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Urban redevelopment east and west. Alfred-Lion-Steg from Neu-Tempelhof to Schöneberger Insel. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
  4. ↑ a b c Kolp Ripke Architects: Brücke am Südkreuz, Berlin-Schöneberg ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Urban redevelopment west. Schöneberg-Südkreuz. [...], p. 6.
  6. ^ Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment: Urban Redevelopment East and West. News ( Memento from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Horst-Dieter Keitel: Hertha Block and Alfred Lion. New Tempelhof-Schöneberg connection inaugurated ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Kolp Ripke Architects: Elbbrücke at the Waldschlößchen site, Dresden, 1st prize ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Blue notes from Gotenstrasse - Alfred Lion on Rote Insel blog from Schöneberg. After Theresia Ziehe: Talkin 'about the Lion and the Wolff, In: Dietrich Rünger (Ed.) Painted Jazz !: talking about Blue Note. Bad Oeynhausen, Jazzprezzo, 2014, pp. 48–56, however, according to the birth certificate, Lion was born at Wielandstraße 22.
  10. ↑ Alice Lanzke: Exhibition: “Consistent Purge”. The persecution of city officials between 1933 and 1945. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , January 21, 2010.
  11. ↑ A walk through the neighborhood on May 10, 2003 through Wilmersdorf to the Festival of Nations with District Mayor Monika Thiemen. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  12. ↑ Red Island. Blog from Schöneberg: Bridge name: Block or Bluenote? July 5, 2011. Note: The quoted SPD contributions are included in the next individual statement (ASF).
  13. ^ ASF (Working Group of Social Democratic Women Tempelhof Schöneberg) Tempelhof-Schöneberg: Blog. Archive for the 'Culture' category. See articles: SPD calls for the naming of the new pedestrian and cycle path bridge to the memorial site SA prison Papestrasse after Hertha Block (April 29, 2011) and the pedestrian and cycle lane bridge to the memorial site SA prison Papestrasse symbolically named after Hertha Block. (May 24, 2011)
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List. General-Pape-Strasse barracks.
  15. ^ East-west green corridor / Alfred-Lion-Steg. , Hertha-Block-Promenade Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment; Retrieved on February 9, 2016.
  16. ↑ Papestrasse history trail. Booklet, Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg (Ed.), 2006, DNB 984204806 , p. 17 ff, PDF ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  17. ^ Addresses of the Robert Koch Institute ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Leuthener Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  19. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List. Leuthener Platz lavatory.
  20. ^ Urban redevelopment east and west. Networking of urban spaces: east-west green corridor / sub-area Leuthener Platz. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
  21. ^ Urban redevelopment west. Schöneberg-Südkreuz. […], Pp. 4–6.
  22. ^ Urban redevelopment west. Schöneberg-Südkreuz. [...], pp. 5 f, 10, 16.
  23. ↑ a b Urban redevelopment west. Schöneberg-Südkreuz. [...], pp. 10, 12, 16.
  24. ↑ Bottleneck . Grün Berlin GmbH
  25. ↑ 20 main green paths, path number: 5
  26. ↑ Dörte Döhl, Schöneberg Neighborhood Home: From coal merchants to memorials? September 25, 2012.
  27. ^ Exhibition of the results of the art competition for the memorial coal shop Annedore and Julius Leber. Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, press release No. 486 of September 14, 2012.
  28. ↑ Dörte Döhl: From memorial to memorial? In: Schöneberg district newspaper , September 30, 2012. Note: The article contains a description and evaluation of the vestibule memorial .
  29. ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: Leber Memorial. Art or Original? In: Berliner Zeitung , October 30, 2012. (Print edition: October 31, 2012, p. 17.)