Ludolfingerplatz
| Ludolfingerplatz | |
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 View over the square to the casino tower |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Frohnau |
| Created | 1910 as a station square |
| Confluent streets |
Welfenallee , Karmeliterweg , Sigismundkorso , Ludolfingerweg , Maximiliankorso |
| Buildings | Fountain in the square |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Space design | Ludwig Lesser |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 5,200 m² |
The Ludolfinger place together with the Zeltinger Place the center of Berlin hamlet Frohnau in the district of Reinickendorf . Both squares and the road bridge are a monument ensemble. The dedicated public green and recreational areas are also protected as a garden monument.
history
The Zeltinger and Ludolfingerplatz were created as jewelery spaces in the garden city of Frohnau at the instigation of Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck . He had commissioned the garden architect Ludwig Lesser with the planning of the green areas, who made sure that the railway line disappeared in a soundproof trench and the bridge over it established the connection between the two Art Nouveau squares.
The almost round Ludolfingerplatz west of the bridge has been called Bahnhofsplatz since it was built . The naming on May 20, 1937 went back to the "old German ruling family" of the Liudolfinger . The character of the square is determined by a rectangular fountain , flower beds, stone benches, paths lined with box trees and lawns. The fountain, made according to designs by Josef Brix , Felix Genzmer and Ludwig Lesser, was put into operation in 1912. It is four meters wide and ten meters long, and the pool is made of concrete . The fountains can rise up to about 80 centimeters. A designed staircase leads from the square up to the Frohnauer Bridge.
Welfenallee , Karmeliterweg , Sigismundkorso , Ludolfingerweg , and Maximiliankorso end on the square from south to north . A smaller triangular area with a twelve-sided fountain to the east of the larger green area is added to the square. This granite fountain, also planned by Brix, Genzmer and Lesser, was installed here in 1912.
On the place
The shopping opportunities that arose at the two squares in the early years, such as a delicatessen, butcher, hairdresser, and hardware store, have now almost completely disappeared.
The landmark on Ludolfingerplatz is the 35 meter high casino tower, which went into operation in 1910 as a water tower with a viewing platform. In front of the tower was a casino complex with restaurants that was destroyed in World War II. The tower and casino were built according to plans by the architects Hart & Moritz Ernst Lesser. The tower, used as a flak tower during the war , and a connecting tract to the station building and the station complex remained undamaged. "The casino tower was completed as part of an ensemble that also included the train station and the casino on May 1, 1910, six days before the founding ceremony of the garden city."
As a replacement for the destroyed casino restaurants, a restaurant in the tower was built in 1950/1951, which was called the casino again . Its operator gave up his business at the beginning of the 21st century and found an Irish investor for the listed building . However, this has so far remained inactive, so that some artists had already tried to revitalize the tower (status: 2014).
For many years the post office Frohnau I was located in house number 4, and initially there was an official apartment for the postmaster. In the years after the Second World War, it was replaced by Police Station 298, while the post office moved into houses 1 and 3. The houses Ludolfingerplatz 2, 4 and 5 - commercial and residential buildings - are further architectural monuments.
Web links
- Ludolfingerplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Zeltinger and Ludolfingerplatz. rbb, broadcast on July 4, 2014
- Zeltinger and Ludolfingerplatz on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument complex Ludolfingerplatz 1–5, Frohnau town center with the Ludolfingerplatz and Zeltinger Platz squares and the road bridge
- ↑ Rectangular fountain on Ludolfingerplatz on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de .
- ↑ Fountain fountain on Ludolfingerplatz at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de .
- ↑ Casino Frohnau monument, Ludolfingerplatz 1/3, business and residential building with observation water tower, 1909/1910 by Hart & Lesser, reconstruction 1950/1951
- ↑ Little stories from the casino tower Frohnau .
- ^ Frohnau> Ludolfingerplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1938, Part IV, p. 2406.
- ^ Kaupert's street guide through Berlin , editions from 1946 and 1958
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 16.7 ″ E