Los Angeles Square
| Los Angeles Square | |
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 Los-Angeles-Platz, looking north to the Upper West |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | 1982 |
| Confluent streets | Augsburger Strasse, Rankestrasse, Marburger Strasse |
| Buildings | Steigenberger Hotel |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , car traffic (underground car park) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 7,993 |
The Los Angeles-Platz in Berlin 's Charlottenburg district is a green area by the Augsburger Strasse , Rankestraße and Marburger Straße is limited and is under this name since 1,982th
The space is built with an underground car park and is privately owned by the operator.
Location in urban space
Los-Angeles-Platz forms the immediate back of a block on Tauentzienstrasse , which is completely delimited towards the square by the square's only address, the Hotel Steigenberger Berlin. In addition to the hotel, which is located flush on the north side, it has only three streets as a boundary, namely Augsburger Strasse in the south, Rankestrasse in the west and Marburger Strasse to the east.
The square is the only publicly accessible green space between the Great Zoo and the University of the Arts . It is completely built under by an underground car park, the entrance is from Rankestrasse, the exit to Marburger Strasse.
history
Originally, the site of today's square had normal residential developments, which were largely damaged in the Second World War , and there were still a few houses on the site in the 1950s. These were later torn down and gave way to a first parking lot for Kudamm visitors. In 1981, at the same time as the Steigenberger Hotel was built, the square was given its current shape through construction work worth 17 million marks, and in 1982 it was named after the Berlin twin city of Los Angeles .
For several years, the underground car park, like all state-owned garages in the Charlottenburg district , was privately operated by City Dienst, a subsidiary of the City Working Group . In 1994, the then Senate decided to privatize the underground car parks administered and operated by the State of Berlin. In the course of this, the city sold the parking garage to the Contipark company in 1996. Since the drug scene at Bahnhof Zoo had dominated the square for several years, the actual square was also sold to Contipark on January 1, 1997. The park has been guarded by security guards ever since.
The sale of the park was criticized as the privatization of public space and led to protests and demonstrations. In particular, the access restrictions that Contipark introduced (prohibition of the consumption of food and drinks, blocking at nightfall) also sparked opposition from representatives of the district and politicians from various parties from the CDU to the Greens .
See also
Web links
- Entry in berlinl.de. In: berlin.de. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , accessed on May 29, 2020 (German).
Individual evidence
- ↑ berliner-stadtplan.com: Augsburger Strasse, Berlin-Charlottenburg (Strasse / Platz), accessed on December 30, 2012
- ↑ alt-berlin.info: Damage to the building 1945 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 1, 2013
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Los-Angeles-Platz was built in Charlottenburg 25 years ago. In: Berliner Chronik , August 22, 1982 in the Tagesspiegel , accessed on December 31, 2012
- ↑ a b berliner-zeitung.de: The drug scene is gone: Los-Angeles-Platz has been owned by a company for three years: the private park is closed at night. Archive of the Berliner Zeitung , accessed on December 31, 2012
- ↑ Severin Weiland: How many garages does the State of Berlin have? , August 4, 1994 in: taz - Berlin local, No. 4382, p. 22
- ↑ Uwe Rada: Public eating and drinking prohibited , May 23, 1997, in: taz - Berlin local, No. 5233, p. 21
- ↑ Uwe Rada: LA-Platz accessible free of consumption , June 5, 1997, in: taz - Berlin local, No. 5244, p. 21
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '7.8 " N , 13 ° 20' 5.1" E