Möckernstrasse
| Möckernstrasse | |
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| Southern section of Möckernstrasse, which is dominated by Wilhelminian style apartment buildings | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Kreuzberg |
| Created | around 1850 |
| Hist. Names | Military road |
| Connecting roads |
Stresemannstrasse (north) , Kreuzbergstrasse (south) |
| Cross streets |
(from north to south) Hallesche Strasse , Kleinbeerenstrasse , Hallesches Ufer , Tempelhofer Ufer , Obentrautstrasse , Wartenbergstrasse , Hornstrasse , Yorckstrasse , Hagelberger Strasse |
| Buildings | see special features |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1580 meters |
The Möckernstraße is a traffic route in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , the district of Kreuzberg . It runs in a north-south direction from Stresemannstrasse to Kreuzbergstrasse and leads with the Möckernbrücke over the Landwehr Canal . The Elise Tilse Park and the Park am Gleisdreieck , which opened on September 2, 2011, border the west side of the street . Stairs and barrier-free ramps lead from the street into the slightly elevated park area.
Street history
The street was inaugurated on February 7, 1850 with the name Military Street (first spelling: Militair Street ). At that time only two houses are given. The naming was based on the route taken by the Berlin garrison to the parade ground on Tempelhofer Feld .
For the renaming of the street on October 31, 1864 in connection with the construction of the general train , two battles from the Wars of Liberation in 1813 come into question:
- After the town of Möckern in the Jerichower Land. It would be a reminder of the battle near Möckern on April 5, 1813, in which the French troops were defeated for the first time by the Prussian - Russian army led by General Yorck von Wartenburg .
- After the preliminary battle of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in today's suburb of Leipzig in October 1813, in which General Yorck was also involved.
The latter explanation is given in the Berlin address book of 1919.
Originally it was supposed to be crossed by Yorckstraße (today: Hornstraße ), which ran here at the time ; the crossing was supposed to be named after General Wartenburgplatz . Because of the pivoting of Yorckstrasse, this plan was not implemented. Its location when it was added to the address book was given as Vor dem Halleschen Thor . This year it already had 147 house numbers, its location was noted as “on Hirschelstrasse”.
In 2019, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen introduced a motion to the “demilitarization of public space” in the District Assembly (BVV) Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , to initiate a public discourse and participation process about a possible renaming of Möckernstrasse and the others in the district after Generals and Initiate battles on named streets and squares.
particularities
Möckernstrasse has different development in three sections. In the southern part between Kreuzbergstrasse and Yorckstrasse, tenement houses from the second half of the 19th century have been preserved. The neighboring buildings at Möckernstrasse 66-69 together with the building at Kreuzbergstrasse 27/28 form a listed building ensemble . House number 66 was built in 1872/1873 according to plans by Paul Casper , house number 67 was designed by the architect Götz in 1884/1885 and villa number 69 was designed by L. Timm (built between 1872 and 1880). To the Ernst-Gettke-Haus, house number 68, see below .
In the middle section of Möckernstrasse between Yorckstrasse and Landwehrkanal, tenement houses that were built after the Second World War dominate . In the northern part of the street between Landwehr Canal and Stresemannstrasse there are only public and administrative buildings, some of which are no longer used. Since Möckernstrasse ran between Stresemannstrasse and Landwehrkanal along the former Anhalter Bahnhof and between Landwehrkanal and Yorckstrasse along the associated freight station, the perimeter development in the two street sections is almost exclusively limited to the eastern side of the street.
District court Tempelhof-Kreuzberg
The Tempelhof-Kreuzberg district court is located at Möckernstrasse 128–130 and was originally established as the Berlin II district court in 1882–1885 on the neighboring property on Halleschen Ufer together with the Berlin II district court. It was a building in the neo-renaissance style . In 1899 the court was renamed the Tempelhof District Court and in 1915–1921 there was a structural expansion on Möckernstrasse under the direction of the architect Ernst Heinrich Petersen and the government builder Erich Meffert, which was based on plans from the building construction department of the Ministry of Finance . Four wings in the neo-baroque style were added.
During the Second World War the main building was badly damaged and subsequently demolished. In 1945 the Kreuzberg District Court moved into the remaining building complex, a year later the Tempelhof District Court again and after two years both were combined into one court. Oswald Mathias Ungers expanded the now listed building between 1993 and 1995 on the side facing Halleschen Ufer with a five-storey new building clad with light sandstone slabs with a clear porch. In addition, a red sandstone pavilion was built in front of the building as a “children's house”.
Orenstein & Koppel administration building
The former administration building of Orenstein & Koppel OHG in Möckernstrasse 120 / 120a was built in 1909 and 1910 by the architects Wilhelm Cremer and Richard Wolffenstein ( Cremer & Wolffenstein ). A nearby second administration building by Orenstein & Koppel at Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 was built in 1913. Orenstein & Koppel AG was a trading agency for light and small railways founded in 1876 by Benno Orenstein and his partner Arthur Koppel . The company, which was restructured several times, was mainly active in locomotive construction until 1981 .
The facade of Möckernstrasse 120 / 120a is clad with shell limestone and white clinker brick . In contrast to the building on Tempelhofer Ufer, the listed building is now empty.
Post office SW 11
The former post office SW 11 is located at the corner of Möckernstrasse 135–141 / Hallesche Strasse 10–14 and is one of the few remaining large buildings in Kreuzberg from the Nazi era . According to plans by Kurt Kuhlow 1933/1934 a first four-storey building part of red was clinker built. In 1935/1936, Kuhlow, in collaboration with Georg Werner, expanded the post office with a five- story steel frame building clad with shell limestone and travertine and divided by several pillars. One corner of this component is rounded and continues the structure through the pillars. The building with the typical architecture of National Socialism survived the air raids of the Second World War and the Battle of Berlin with relatively little damage due to its stable construction and is a listed building .
Designed by the Reichspost as a large letter distribution office Südwest 11 ( SW 11 ), it was responsible for letter distribution in southern Berlin and was at the time the largest facility of its kind in the world. The neighboring Anhalter Bahnhof was accessible via a tunnel. The connection with the second large Berlin distribution office in the then Szczecin train station was provided by the S-Bahn trains (today's S1 and S2 lines ), which ran through the new north-south tunnel from October 1939 . After the division of Berlin , from 1962 onwards, as "Post Office 11", the facility was in charge of mail distribution for the entire western part of the city . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the building was no longer able to cope with the increasing demands and the tasks of the closed post office 11 were taken over by the newly built mail center 10 on Eresburgstrasse in the Schöneberg industrial area in the mid-1990s .
Under the working title “Hotel Postpalais”, Pott Architects Ltd. Berlin / London converted the 21,000 m² gross floor area of the five-story building. The from Potsdamer Platz Hotel distant about 1 km was in 2013 by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) as Crowne Plaza Berlin - Potsdamer Platz reopened.
Ernst Gettke House
The Ernst-Gettke-Haus is located in the middle of an industrial estate at Möckernstraße 68, which consists of a Wilhelminian-style factory owner's villa with a garden and several buildings behind it. The five-story factory building was built in 1883 by the architects Blumberg & Schreiber as the headquarters of the Kindermann & Co. lamp factory. The total area is around 4000 m². The Ernst-Gettke-Haus is a listed building as part of the Möckernstrasse 66–69 and Kreuzbergstrasse 27/28 building complex. The lamp factory was located on the site until the First World War . After that, the building was used by various craft businesses as well as a factory of the Minerva metal works, a beverage dealer and a canning factory until the Second World War. After the Second World War, a shoe mail order business, a pharmaceutical wholesaler and a warehouse for sanitary items moved into the building. In 1976 the property was acquired for the Axel Springer Foundation , which used the income from the rental for social purposes (Aenne and Heinz Ullstein Fund). In the course of this, the former factory building was named after the theater writer Ernst Gettke .
In the 21st century, the buildings of the Möckernstrasse 68 industrial estate are used by the Tanzfabrik Berlin and other cultural associations, as well as artists' studios. The Berlin center of Opus Dei was located in the villa, which is located directly on Möckernstrasse, from 1992 to 2005 .
Memorial plaques
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- At the house Möckernstraße 91 a plaque on the recalls resistance fighter Karl Behrens , who lived here with his family from 1909 to 1932.
See also
literature
- Horst Fritzsche: Signpost to Berlin's street names - Kreuzberg . Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89542-052-2 .
- Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .
Web links
- Möckernstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Militair Street . In: General housing indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1850, part 2, p. 106.
- ↑ Military Road . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Berlin address book from 1919 on zlb.de, entry "Möckernstraße"
- ↑ Möckernstrasse . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1865, streets and squares newly added during printing.
- ↑ Group Xhain: DS / 1154 / V - Demilitarization of the public space. In: Green Xhain. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 (German).
- ^ Antje Lang-Lendorff: Renaming streets in Berlin: What Kreuzberg is up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
- ↑ Meffert, Erich . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1918, Part 1, p. 1794. "Reg.Baumeister".
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 ; P. 297
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 ; P. 301
- ↑ The Pope's Holy Mafia . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1995, p. 46-54 ( online - Jan. 9, 1995 ).
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