Möllendorffstrasse
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| West side of Möllendorffstrasse seen over the Anger | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District |
Lichtenberg , Fennpfuhl |
| Created | in the 14th century |
| Hist. Names | Dorfstrasse (until 1909) , Jacques-Duclos-Strasse (1976–1991) |
| Connecting roads |
Gürtelstraße (south) , Weißenseer Weg (north) |
| Cross streets | Karl-Lade-Strasse, Herzbergstrasse , Storkower Strasse , Josef-Orlopp-Strasse, Scheffelstrasse Bornitzstrasse, Kielblockstrasse, Rutnikstrasse, Parkaue, Normannenstrasse, Rathausstrasse, Deutschmeisterstrasse, Am Containerbahnhof |
| Places | Roederplatz, Loeperplatz |
| Buildings | see: Remarkable buildings or ensembles |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1550 meters |
The Möllendorffstraße in Berlin 's Lichtenberg district is one of the oldest streets in the town center Lichtenberger. It runs in a south-north direction through the districts of Lichtenberg and Fennpfuhl and is around 1550 meters long. The northern continuation leads to the district Weißensee and is therefore called Weißenseer Weg . The southern continuation as Gürtelstraße belongs to the Friedrichshain district in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district .
Location description
The house numbers are assigned in the horseshoe numbering system . Möllendorffstraße begins according to its official numbering in the south at the intersection with Frankfurter Allee at house number 3 (east side). (Buildings 1 and 2 were destroyed in World War II and were not rebuilt.) To the north, on the east side, there is an extensive green area that replaces a former communal cemetery. After the Lichtenberg town hall (house number 6) and the confluence with Normannenstrasse, the street, separated by a median to guide the tram tracks, makes a slight bend and narrows so that the tram has to share the middle lane with car traffic. There are residential buildings from different construction periods on both sides. In the area of the former village green, the road forks in two lanes around Loeperplatz . At the intersection of Storkower Straße – Josef-Orlopp-Straße, the two lanes meet again, from here the tram runs again on a separate median. This street section belongs on both sides to the northern end of Möllendorffstraße at Roederplatz to the district Fennpfuhl with the house numbers 43–59 (northwards) and 60–75 (southwards). From house number 75a the western part of the Lichtenberg section continues. The last house number on Möllendorffstraße is number 118 and denotes the Ring Center II and III. This was officially assigned to the Friedrichshain district and by post belongs to Frankfurter Allee 111.
history
Origin and description of the state until 1918
It is the original village street on which the Angerdorf Lichtenberg developed. Between 1909 and 1910 the now independent community named the traffic route after the Prussian General Wichard von Möllendorff in Möllendorffstrasse. He had acquired a plot of land in Lichtenberg and had a manorial building (Möllendorff Castle) built on it. After the first street name, the spelling with double "f" was officially re-established on May 3, 1935.
When the street was renamed, the plots and properties were also renumbered. Dorfstrasse had started its counting on the Anger, from there northwards to Herzbergerstrasse , then southwards to beyond Frankfurter Chaussee and on the east side again to Anger. In the address books from the end of the 19th century, for example, you can find the local office at Dorfstrasse 12/13, number 30 the post office, number 45 / 45a the churchyard, numbers 45 and 51 schools, number 48/49 the volunteer fire brigade . Now the house number count began on Frankfurter Chaussee.
The intersecting or confluent streets were further changed as a result of the development of gaps that was carried out after the First World War. For example, until the mid-1920s, Rüdigerstrasse extended as far as Möllendorffstrasse. The same applies to the ownership structure, so the city of Lichtenberg also owned the plots 13/14, on which various food distribution points and other instances of the town hall (tax collection office, military office, trade office, school office ...) were housed. Lot 20/21 belonged to the Great Berlin Tram in 1918 and served as a tram station until 1913. Trucking companies, gardening shops and small factories followed up to house number 29 (corner of Bornitzstraße). The numbers 34-42 denoted areas that belonged to the manor owner Roeder. This was followed by a building site belonging to the “Terraingesellschaft Lichtenberg” up to Herzbergstrasse.
In the address books from the beginning of the 20th century, a building belonging to the 1st and 2nd Lichtenberg community school is listed under number 5, which may not have gotten beyond the planning phase. Because in 1910 the Cecilien-Lyzeum was built on the nearby Rathausstraße , on the other side of the street at around the same time the higher boys’s school and to the north in what was then Wördenstraße a community school.
On the western side (numbers 62-69), the Berlin State Insurance Institute maintained a tuberculin station. A hat factory, the "German import and sales company" and the "Ostpreußische Viehzentrale GmbH" are listed under house numbers 74 and 75. Number 111 belonged again to the city of Lichtenberg, which in 1910 had the office of the sewerage association and later the administration of its municipal gas, water and electricity works here. The freight yard at that time was number 118 and did not yet have its own access road. The house numbers ended with 123 on the corner of Frankfurter Allee. In 1918, some parcels in Möllendorffstrasse were still vacant.
Later changes
In 1976 the street was renamed after the French communist politician Jacques Duclos in the GDR . After the fall of the Wall , the Lichtenberg district office followed the recommendation of the Berlin Senate to rename streets named after socialists or communists. At the ceremonial unveiling of the new street signs on January 9, 1992, the name was spelled with just one "f", which had to be corrected as quickly as possible.
Remarkable buildings or ensembles
East side, house number range 3–10
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- 3: Preserved and renovated house
- 4: former churchyard
- 5: in 1900 finished community school in the First World War served as a barracks and in the Second World War was destroyed
- 6: Lichtenberg town hall
- 7–9: Administration building of VEB Progress men's clothing from the GDR era, since 2011 an apartment house due to total renovation.
- 10: one of the few residential buildings on the east side of this street that was not destroyed by the war, with business premises on the ground floor.
In house number 9, the writer and doctor Alfred Döblin lived with his mother and his eldest brother from 1918 to 1919, before he set up his own medical practice in Frankfurt Avenue opened.
East side, house number range 11–42
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- 11–22: Four-storey typified prefabricated buildings built in the GDR era
- 33: Old parish church Lichtenberg , rectory
- old village green ( Loeperplatz )
- 42: Yellow plastered apartment block at the confluence with Josef-Orlopp-Straße, which had been started in the GDR era.
After the fall of the Wall, there were discussions about tearing it down or building it after new planning. After public protests, the district office decided to complete the construction.
East side, house number range 43–59
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Möllendorff-Passage
The shopping complex belongs to the Fennpfuhl district and was built on the site of the former “Bonack nursery”. - Office wing, built
shortly after 1990 by a real estate company from Bavaria - Slab residential buildings from the late 1970s, provided with a striking rainbow motif on the outside during the extensive reconstruction
- The operations control center of the ODEG as well as the ODEG Academy , an education and training facility, are located at Möllendorffstrasse 49 .
West side, house number range 60–75
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- 66/67:
Children 's facility "Märchenland", it was converted in the 1920s as a children's home for orphans from the former tuberculosis isolation ward. - According to a construction site sign, the intention in 2010 was to integrate the existing two-storey building into a comprehensive three-storey new building and to expand the complex into a multi-generation house . The work should be financially supported by the German Disability Aid "Aktion Mensch" e. V. and the State of Berlin. The plans envisaged a renovation period from May 2011 to August 2012. At the end of 2012 the construction site sign was dismantled and the implementation has therefore been postponed. - 20-storey high-rise slab building directly on the corner of Storkower Straße ,
on the ground floor area of which Café Sonja was initially located, which continued to operate under the changed name of Sergeant Pepper from 1990 . In the meantime there is a new management, and the Kiezlokal with darts - and Skat - game possibility operates as "Zum Dicken".
At this corner is the former coral fountain , which was designed by the artist Toni Mau and erected in 1976. The water is permanently turned off and the fountain basin is designed as a platform. - On the southwest corner of this intersection there
was a two-storey building in an area surrounded by a wall until around 2005. Until 1990 there was a mobile unit of the People's Police . After 1990 this police station set up a passport and registration office here at short notice. Eventually the building was demolished and the area greened. It now delimits a large parking lot at the grocery discounter Lidl .
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West side, house number range 76–117
- In the northwest area of the Scheffelstrasse intersection
is a residential building that housed a branch of the GDR post office on the ground floor between 1950 and 1990. Subsequently, the premises were leased by several innkeepers, then they were empty. There is now a wedding outfitter in it (as of January 2012). - 90b: This is the entrance to the AlexA senior citizens' residence Berlin-Lichtenberg, which is located in the quiet courtyard area.
- 102/103: Right next to the Lichtenberg City Park , the Lichtenberg GmbH Senioren-Wohnpark GmbH was opened after 1990 on the area of a former recycling yard ( SERO ) .
- The last striking building ensemble in the very south of Möllendorffstrasse
is the Ring-Center II with the new building of the Galerie Kaufhof / Ring-Center III . Before it was built, there were plans to build a high-rise here.
Green areas and memorials
- Green space in a former cemetery, now called Rathauspark Lichtenberg ,
with the grave of Wilhelmine Loeper, whose iron grave cross is listed. -
Blood wall :
a memorial for eleven Spartacus fighters and Red Sailors who were shot on this cemetery wall in March 1919. The memorial was designed by Hans Füssel in 1978. The wall is one of the remains of the old community cemetery of Lichtenberg, which was laid out in the 13th century and closed in 1923. - A memorial for the victims of fascism was
erected on the village green around 1950 . It consists of sandstone, steel and natural stone and reminds of the horrors of the Hitler regime with the inscription "To honor the memory of the murdered anti-fascist resistance fighters 1933–1945". The artist of the stele is not known. - There is a small park , the Gutspark Lichtenberg, between the parish grounds and the corner buildings on Josef-Orlopp-Straße . There are several tree monuments here .
Art in Möllendorffstrasse
- Right on the corner of Frankfurter Allee, the Fischerbrunnen is located on a piece of cleared property . The central bronze sculpture was created at the beginning of the 20th century in Hans Latt's workshop and was originally placed in the entrance area to the city park. As a fountain ensemble, it was enlarged in a ring and, after a complete renovation, set up in a small park at the intersection mentioned. The facility including the fountain has been called Stefan-Heym-Platz since autumn 2014 .
- On a slightly elevated spot on the lawn of the former churchyard, near the grave of Wilhelmine Loeper mentioned above, there is a sandstone ensemble entitled Heirs of the Spartacus Fighters . It consists of a small (93 centimeter high) and a large single figure (205 centimeters high) as well as a central relief depicting an elderly couple. The sculpture was made by Emerita Pansowová on behalf of the then city district and erected in 1989.
- At the level of the city park, which touches Möllendorffstrasse between Parkaue and Kielblockstrasse, various bronze figures adorn the park. An obelisk for Frederick the Great erected on this green strip at the end of the 19th century was probably removed after the First World War.
- On the green area north of the old parish church is the figure of The Sower (Julius Loeper) , and next to the church portal stands the artistically designed marble urn copy of Anna Katharina von Schadow, which the son and famous sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow of his “best mother” stands on a pedestal to commemorate ”.
- A fountain in front of the Zum Dicken neighborhood in the skyscraper on the corner of Storkower Strasse, made of concrete and colored glass, was put into operation in 1979. The design comes from the artist Toni Mau and shows three coral sticks that have grown together ; the openings are covered with different colored glass. The water is now permanently turned off, the fountain basin leveled and the coral stock forms a central sculpture in a small green area.
- On a residential building on the corner of Am Containerbahnhof, a gable painting with a large-format representation of a container truck was made by Lothar Scholz on behalf of the city district in the 1980s . It is no longer preserved due to the subsequent construction activities.
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traffic
The full length of the street has at least two lanes and the tram runs in the middle . The first line through the street in the direction of Herzberge went into operation on June 12, 1893 and was operated by the Neue Berliner Pferdebahn-Gesellschaft . At the turn of the century, the company merged with the Great Berlin Tram , which introduced electrical operation on the line on October 1, 1901. As of July 1, 1913 additionally sailed flat track of the overhead railway company the southern Möllendorffstraße and later in the Normannenstrasse. The line numbers have changed several times since the first track was laid, and some have been added. Only the Metrotram M13 (formerly line 3, see picture) still runs on the historic route. Between 1956 and 1973 the O-bus line O30 operated on the northern section of Möllendorffstraße. Since the cessation of trolleybus operations in East Berlin, passenger transport has been carried out in a west-east direction with a bus line that crosses Möllendorffstrasse on the Storkower Strasse – Josef-Orlopp-Strasse. At its southern end, Möllendorffstraße can be reached from the Frankfurter Allee underground station .
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin, II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 167–170 (Jacques-Duclos-Strasse and streets west of Jacques-Duclos-Strasse).
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Jan Feustel : Walks in Lichtenberg . Berlin reminiscences 75. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7759-0409-3 ;
First walk: "Alt-Lichtenberg's rough edges" , pp. 11–24 - Möllendorffstrasse . In: Sylvia Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin; Lichtenberg . Catalog. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein e. V., 1993, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 , pp. 26-32
Web links
- Möllendorffstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Möllendorffstrasse . (PDF; 325 kB) In: Official street directory Berlin / Brandenburg (July 2011), p. 15
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dorfstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1909, Part 5, Lichtenberg.
- ↑ a b c d Möllendorffstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, Part 5, Lichtenberg, p. 251 (first mentioned in the address book).
- ^ Hans-Joachim Pohl: The new Berlin horse-drawn railway company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg (part 2) . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 2, 1986, pp. 32-38 .
- ↑ a b Möllendorffstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1918, Part 5, Lichtenberg, p. 121.
- ↑ Historical postcard of the community school (postmarked 1916) in Möllendorffstrasse on heimatsammlung.de
- ↑ Feustel: Walks ... , p. 19
- ↑ From the simulator to the real train . In: Berliner Woche , issue for Lichtenberg, Fennpfuhl and Rummelsburg, May 8, 2019, title page.
- ↑ a b “Coral fountain” becomes a concrete sculpture - jewelry fountain, part 4. ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Morgenpost online , January 2013.
- ↑ website Alexa Seniorenresidenz
- ^ Website senior citizens' residential park Lichtenberg
- ↑ Cultural monument grave cross Wilhelmine Loeper
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin, II. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 169.
- ↑ Information on the VVN-BdA Lichtenberg website
- ↑ Brösicke-Istok, Ivan, Köcher, Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains ... p. 26.
- ↑ Brösicke-Istok, Ivan, Köcher, Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains ... , p. 27
- ^ Art in public space . Compiled by the Free University of Berlin, go to "Gruppe RU" and enter "Scholz" in the search window
- ^ Hans-Joachim Pohl: The new Berlin horse-drawn railway company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg (part 1) . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 1, 1986, pp. 2-11 .
- ↑ Uwe Kerl: 100 years of the flat railway . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 10, 2001, pp. 179-189 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 46.5 ″ E