Mayakowskiring
| Mayakowskiring | |
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| Majakowskiring 29 - Wilhelm Pieck's former home | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Niederschönhausen |
| Created | 1880 |
| Cross streets | Silent Street, Boris-Pasternak-Weg, Köberle Steig, Rudolf-Ditzen-Weg |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | 970 meters |
The Majakowskiring is an oval-closed street and gives its name to the local location in the district of Niederschönhausen in the Berlin administrative district of Pankow . After 1945 the Soviet occupation forces declared the entire area a restricted area, which was designated as a military town on the pass. After the founding of the GDR, the residential area was expropriated by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and from 1949 it was converted into a closed-off housing estate for the power elite of the GDR leadership.
Location and history
The Majakowskiring runs from the western Grabbeallee that a part of this federal highway 96a is to the east at the park of the castle Schönhausen located Ossietzkystraße . The ring of Kronprinzenstrasse (the northern route) and Viktoriastrasse (the southern part of the street) was given the name of the Russian poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky on May 4, 1950 . Initially, the ring was called Mayakowskistraße for a short time.
The adjoining houses, which are predominantly villa-like , were mainly inhabited by industrialists until they fled and were expropriated after the war . Occasionally, the former owners also received rent payments for a transitional period, for example in the case of house no. 29. When the owners left East Berlin in 1950 , they too were expropriated.
After architects like Hans Scharoun had rebuilt the houses to accommodate the new residents, members of the GDR government lived in them until they moved to the Wandlitz forest settlement .
The Majakowskiring in the district of Niederschönhausen was metonymically identified as "Pankow" because it was located in this district, as was the official seat of the head of state of the GDR 350 m northwest, initially from 1949 to 1960 of President Wilhelm Pieck and after his death until 1964 the Chairman of the State Council Walter Ulbricht in Schönhausen Palace . From then on, Pankow was also considered a synonym for the GDR government. Thus spoke Konrad Adenauer of the "Men in Pankoff" even the song special train to Pankow by Udo Lindenberg referred to this connection.
The houses in the quarter had already been confiscated by the Soviet occupying forces in 1945. The military had fenced off the area and called it "Gorodok" ( Russian Городо́к = "town"). The government representatives living in the district on Mayakowskiring were later shielded from the outside world by a wall. This was retained even after the politicians moved to Wandlitz in 1960. Only when Lotte Ulbricht wanted to return to Mayakowskiring after the death of her husband in 1973, the barriers and controls were lifted. However, she was forbidden to return to her original place of residence and was assigned to house number 12, where she lived until her death in 2002.
Houses and their residents (selection)
- Majakowskiring 2: guest house of the GDR government, former "Kasbaumsche Villa" of the Pankgrave and photographer Richard Kasbaum.
- Majakowskiring 5, later 21, 55a: Horst Sindermann , President of the People's Chamber
- Majakowskiring 12: Lotte Ulbricht (after the death of her husband in 1973)
- Majakowskiring 13: Kindergarten of the GDR government (today Waldorf kindergarten )
- Majakowskiring 26: Hermann Matern
- Majakowskiring 28/30: Lotte and Walter Ulbricht ; was blown up in 1975 to erase any memory of Walter Ulbricht.
- Majakowskiring 29: 1959 to September 1960 service villa of Wilhelm Pieck , the only President of the GDR
- until 1976 widow and daughter Pieck
- from 1977 guest house of the Lord Mayor of East Berlin
- now "Rollmops", a taxi service for wheelchair users, resides there.
- Majakowskiring 34: Johannes R. Becher , expressionist poet (" Risen from the ruins "), from 1954 first GDR minister of culture.
- Majakowskiring 46/48: Otto Grotewohl , "occupied by active citizens in 1989" , "until 1990 Clubhouse of the GDR Writers' Association" , from 1991 to 2001 literature workshop , since 2006 Jasmin Tabatabai's house
- Majakowskiring 55: Kurt Hager
- Majakowskiring 58: 1945–1950: Soviet Military Liaison Mission (SMM)
- 1951–1952: Georgi M. Pushkin (Soviet diplomat and the first representative of the Soviet Union in East Berlin)
- 1952–1953: Rudolf Herrnstadt , (until 1953 member of the Central Committee of the SED, expelled in 1954)
- 1953–1955: Erich Honecker with his wife Edith Baumann
- 1955–1963: Fred Oelßner , (economist and member of the Central Committee of the SED)
- 1963–1989: Office building of the main department of personal protection of the MfS
- 1990–1995: Berliner Werkgemeinschaft gGmbH for the disabled
- 1995: "KULTI" Children and Youth Leisure house the district office Pankow House History
- Majakowskiring 59: Hilde Benjamin , Vice-President of the Supreme Court and later Minister of Justice, (the house was demolished in 1960 because it was dilapidated and she moved to Majakowskiweg, now Rudolf-Ditzen-Weg 18-20; previous tenant was Markus Wolf )
- Majakowskiring 63: Günter Schabowski
- Majakowskiring 64: Willi Stoph
- Majakowskiweg (now Rudolf-Ditzen-Weg) 14: Erich and Margot Honecker (1954–1960)
exhibition
In June 2009, the Center for Contemporary History and the Office for Culture and Education / Museum Association Pankow opened a permanent exhibition in the gatehouses of Schönhausen Palace . It is entitled “The Pankower Rulers. The Majakowskiring and Schönhausen Palace after 1945 ”and documents the history of the Pankow“ little town ”as a residential area of the GDR power elite.
Mayakovsky way
The Mayakowskiring is crossed twice by the Mayakovsky Trail, which was named at the same time. This often led to confusion until Mayakowskiweg was renamed Rudolf-Ditzen-Weg in 1994 after Hans Fallada, who last lived here in 1947 .
Web links
- The 'town' where the old cadres lived , by Jens Sethmann, Berlin tenants' association February 28, 2009
- The Pankow rulers. The Majakowskiring and Schönhausen Palace after 1945 Exhibition “Die Pankower rulers”, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam and Office for Culture and Education / Museum Association Pankow
- Mayakowskiring in Berlin
- City walk to the GDR celebrities
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Mayakowskiring. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Kronprinzenstrasse . In: Luise.
- Viktoriastrasse . In: Luise.
- Mayakovsky way . In: Luise.
- Rudolf-Ditzen-Weg with Luise
- Development of the Mayakowskiing in Pankow
Individual evidence
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↑ The Pankow rulers: ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Majakowskiring and Schönhausen Palace after 1945, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam & Museum Association Pankow A stroll through the forgotten SED ghetto , May 22, 2006, NWZ Online
- ^ History of the kindergarten
- ^ Die Rollheimer from Pankow by Antje Schmelcher Die Welt August 10, 2000.
- ↑ christawolf.berlin
- ↑ Site visit: LiteraturWERKstatt , by Stefan Bruns, taz November 28, 1992
- ^ Literaturwerkstatt Berlin: In Grotewohls Garten , by Katrin Hillgruber, Der Tagesspiegel , September 14, 2001.
- ↑ New home for the literary workshop Move from Majakowskiring to the Kulturbrauerei , by Jack Rodriguez Neues Deutschland July 5, 2001.
- ↑ Jens Sethmann: The 'town' - where the old cadres lived. Berliner Mieterverein eV, February 28, 2009, accessed on September 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Pictures and report from the exhibition opening (PDF; 158 kB)
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 10 ″ E