Münzstrasse (Berlin)

Münzstrasse
Street in Berlin
Litfaß monument on the corner of Münzstrasse and Almstadtstrasse
Basic data
place	Berlin
Created	around 1750
Hist. Names	Contrescarpe (until 1770)
Connecting roads	Memhardstraße (east) , Weinmeisterstraße (west)
Cross streets	Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse , Almstadtstrasse , Max-Beer-Strasse , Rochstrasse , Alte Schönhauser Strasse , Neue Schönhauser Strasse
Buildings	see: List of cultural monuments in Berlin-Mitte / Spandauer Vorstadt
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	200 metres

The Münzstraße in Berlin in the suburb of Spandau extends between Rosa Luxemburg and New Schönhauserstraße. The course of the almost 200-meter-long street follows the moat of Fortress Berlin that used to exist here .

The first traffic route built around the city center of Berlin around 1750 after the fortifications were removed was therefore still called Contrescarpe . Since June 9, 1770, the street has been named after the royal mint building erected here in 1752 by the general mint director Johann Philipp Graumann . The western end of Münzstraße is the continuation of Weinmeisterstraße, the eastern end is continued behind Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße as Memhardstraße.

Historic Buildings

This hat shop on Münzstraße presents “Mexican shop displays”, inspired by the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics

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(The house numbers were re-numbered in the 1970s.)

• Münzstraße 4 - In 1855 the printer Ernst Litfaß built his first advertising column on the corner of Münzstraße and Grenadierstraße (now: Almstadtstraße ) and started an unprecedented success story with the cylindrical advertising medium. On May 18, 2006, VVR-Berek GmbH , the marketer of 3000 advertising pillars in Berlin, donated a bronze advertising memorial pillar designed by the Berlin sculptor Felicitas Franck .
• Münzstraße 21/23 - residential and commercial complex: long building following the bend of the Contrescarpe with a stretched street front in neo-renaissance shapes made of red clinker brick and sandstone . There is a memorial plaque for Carl Friedrich Zelter here. The house houses the exclusive Berlin club Münzsalon . The Alt-Berlin beer bar, popular with residents, also existed here from 1883 to 2014 . In the previous building at Münzstrasse 21, Ludwig Cauer (pedagogue) founded the Cauersche Lehr- und Erziehungsanstalt in 1818.
• Numerous residential and commercial buildings from the Wilhelminian era that have now been renovated and are under monument protection .

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• Münzstraße 1 (at today's location no. 23) - the birthplace of Carl Friedrich Zelter
• Münzstraße 20 (old) - Victoria Theater , theater founder Rudolf Cerf was the template for Wedekind's The Marquis of Keith
• Münzstraße 16 - 1899 Otto Pritzkow's theater of living photography under the name Berliner Abnormitäten-Theater opens as the first Berlin film theater
• Münzstraße 7–11 (new) - the house where Karl Philipp Moritz lived and where he died
• Münzstraße 11 - Bona Peiser's library and Cioma Schönhaus's house
• Münzstraße 10 - Royal Fine Art Foundry ( Hermann Gladenbeck )
• Münzstraße 23 (old, new 4; corner of Grenadierstraße) - this is where the billy goat guard stood (vigilante commemoration from 1848)
• Münzstraße, Palais von Sydow (1730/31 by Philipp Gerlach , rebuilt by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1774 , demolished in 1857)

People connected to the street

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie
• Karl Philipp Moritz
• Carl Friedrich Zelter

Literary setting

• Irmgard Keun : The artificial silk girl . Novel. Universitas, Berlin 1932
• Alfred Döblin : Berlin Alexanderplatz. The story of Franz Biberkopf . S. Fischer, Berlin 1929
• Cioma Schönhaus : The passport forger. The unbelievable story of a young graphic artist who fought underground against the Nazis , With drawings by the author, arr., With an afterword verse. and ed. by Marion Neiss. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2004

literature

• Ulrike Steglich, Peter Kratz: The wrong Scheunenviertel. A suburban seducer , photos: Carsten Jost, Ingrid Berg. Old Berlin bookstore, Oliver Seifert publishing bookstore, Berlin 1994
• Hans E. Pappenheim: Münzstraße 20. On the history of an unrecognized district . In: Bruno Harms, Walter G. Oschilewski (Ed.): The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin . Fifteenth episode 1966. arani, Berlin 1966

Web links

Commons : Münzstraße (Berlin-Mitte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Münzstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
• Münzstrasse . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
• Commercial street today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spandauer Vorstadt area monument
2. ↑ Monument residential and commercial building (1891/93) withGarden monument
3. ↑ Ulla Jung: Where old Fritz had his talers minted. In the footsteps of famous Berliners: the composer Carl Friedrich Zelter in Münzstrasse . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 17, 2010, p. 6, real estate supplement
4. ↑ Monument Münzstr. 1-5 (1890/1920) ,Architectural monument stairwell Münzstr. 8 (1866) ,Monument Münzstr. 10 (1869) ,Monument Münzstr. 12 corner of Max-Beer-Straße (1909/1910)Monument Münzstr. 14/16 (1883) Monument Münzstr. 15 (1905) ,Monument Münzstr. 18 (1908) ,Monument Münzstr. 19 Münzhof (1908/1910) ,Monument Münzstr. 20 (1880) ,Monument Münzstr. 22 (1880)
5. ^ Memorial plaque for Moritz unveiled . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 16, 1998

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '27  .4 " N , 13 ° 24' 30.4"  E