Marheinekeplatz

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Marheinekeplatz
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Marheinekeplatz
In the foreground there are five water pans , on the
right side stands of the flea market;
in the background the Passion Church
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created 19th century
Newly designed 20th century
Confluent streets
Mittenwalder Strasse (north) ,
Heimstrasse,
Friesenstrasse (south)
Buildings Market hall XI , fountain
use
User groups Pedestrians , cyclists , traders; Motor vehicle driver
Space design several times, most recently redesigned in 2014
Technical specifications
Square area 20,700 m²

The Marheinekeplatz in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , the district of Kreuzberg is surrounded by the Bergmann Street (south), the Zossener Road (west), the road train Marheinekeplatz (north) and the Schleiermacherstraße (east). It was created in connection with the development of the residential area as a town square .

history

The residential district was built on the basis of the Hobrecht plan , for which the city planner James Hobrecht had developed far-reaching considerations for the expansion of the Berlin area. According to this plan, the area was called Platz F, Abth. II and the road bounding the north were given the name Straße 27a, Abth. II d. Zoning plan (SW) . On December 22nd, 1875 the square and the street were named after the philosopher and theologian Philipp Konrad Marheineke . Marheineke was a preacher at the nearby Dreifaltigkeitskirche from 1811 to 1846 . The first spelling of the square was Marheineke Platz , which was changed from 1914. The contractors Wegener & Körsten were the first to own the entire area . In the following year, the Belle-Alliance Berliner Bau-Gesellschaft is named as the owner. The street was numbered from 1 to 14 in an east-west route, with the numbers 6 and 7 left out. After the construction of the residential buildings in the north area was completed, the houses came to new owners such as gardeners, merchants, civil servants, craftsmen and pensioners, later also to the architect R. Wenzel and in 1920 even to a farmer from Australia (house number 9) . At the same time, the section of Bergmannstrasse to the south was also owned by the Belle Alliance construction company , and construction sites have been identified in the area of ​​Marheinekeplatz.

The plans for the construction of market halls in Berlin, carried out under the direction of the town planning officer Hermann Blankenstein , led to the previously established open marketplace being selected as the location of a covered, modern market hall. Hall XI , completed in 1892, also called Marheinekehalle after 1945 according to its location on Marheinekeplatz, takes up the western half of the square. Market hall XI, for which a market hall administrator was employed, was given house number 15. In the years of the First World War and for some time afterwards, the city of Berlin maintained the municipal public dining establishment no.9 in the market hall . A green area was created on the eastern half of the elongated rectangle, which was designated as a park in the address books from the late 1920s. At the end of the 20th century, the district office set up a public playground in a park area.

The square was owned by AG Berlin-Tempelhof LG II from the beginning of the 20th century until around 1940 .

From 1930 onwards, some ownership structures had changed: the owner of house number 4 became the Flavia asset management company , the tenants were the Kreuzberg health department, an infant welfare office, the Delos magazine publisher and other residents. House number 8 was owned by a Spanish lawyer (C. Serraʼn from Madrid ) with a general manager from Berlin-Wilmersdorf , house number 9 was in the hands of the Liesesche heirs, house 11 belonged to a manufacturer from Berlin-Lichterfelde (Edmund Schindler ). And the people's dining facility in the market hall was closed.

Further changes took place between 1936 and 1943: the asset management company withdrew as the owner of house 3/4, which came under forced administration , and in 1938 the Café Rheinland was established on the ground floor. In 1941 the address book names Wikinger Heim GmbH as the new home owner . Finally, in 1943, Consul General Roche is the registered owner.

Merchants and traders owned the other houses, the Madrid lawyer remained the owner of house 8 and the manufacturer Schindler was still shown as the owner of house 11. Building number 14 came to an owner from Königstein im Taunus . From the end of the 1930s, the administration of the Berlin market halls and wholesale markets moved to Markthalle XI (originally located near Alexanderplatz in the Zentralmarkthalle , Berlin C2). The eastern area in front of the market hall finally seems to have been fenced in, because in 1943 the number 15 of the tool yard 28 of the Berlin street cleaning company was given.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the above-ground area of ​​the market hall was largely destroyed. Although it cannot be backed up with a document, it can be assumed that a number of houses on the square were destroyed in the bombing. The churches in the city were generally used to orient the bomber pilots - and this is where the Passion Church is located.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the residential buildings along Marheinekeplatz deteriorated more and more, and German residents moved away. The mainly Turkish guest worker families found their first home here. To improve the living environment, a residents' initiative was founded in the 1980s, which was able to implement a redesign of the open spaces and renovation of rental houses. The former Kreuzberg druggist and later building councilor Werner Orlowsky had announced a design competition under public pressure. Among other things, this created the recreation area in front of the east entrance of the market hall with a fountain (five water crucibles) and seating.

The established flea market was limited to the weekend. A Christmas market takes place on the square in the run-up to Christmas.

The residents were not satisfied with the condition of the increasing neglect of the square and, above all, the pollution with dog excrement, so that a special project group “Clean City Berlin” was set up. Workshops, information campaigns, appeals to local patriotism, discussions with the fallible dog owners at the scene of the crime, handing out sachets and final admonitions - all of this had hardly brought about any improvement. However, the results of the work showed that nothing could be achieved without fines. The public order office did not take appropriate action here because the "step mines" cannot be assigned to the dogs afterwards. Annoyed residents and tradespeople founded the “Save the Marheinekeplatz” initiative around 2010. Now an architecture firm has proposed a complete paving of the square. The activists, however, demanded "We want to keep our meadow". The district office wanted to curb the problem by putting up no dog signs. (The Passionskirche was also given barrier-free access.) It seems that (by the end of March 2013) no final, satisfactory solution has yet been found, because the Kreuzberg district committee. V. calls for further citizen participation.

Since October 2014, the playground, including the adjacent green area in the middle of the square, has been fundamentally redesigned; the renovation work is almost complete (as of April 2015). The decision to redesign is based on several neighborhood-related citizen participations.

In and around the square
View across the square in front of the market hall to the Global Music Academy, 2012
  • Bergmannstraße 28–29: School ensemble, built in 1884/1885 as the 133rd and 149th community schools based on a design by Hermann Blankenstein on behalf of the Berlin City Administration. The multi-wing building borders Arndtstraße in the south and is a listed building. In the 20th century it was the Rosegger elementary school . This was renovated in 2007/2008 with funding and should reopen as a public Protestant primary school in 2009 . Some of the rooms in the school complex have apparently been set up as an art gallery Rosegger Kunstzentrum , the elementary school project was not implemented despite a corresponding BVV decision. Instead, the Global Music Academy is now located in the building , a university for music with the aim of "teaching music-cultural multilingualism".
  • At the southeast corner of the square (address Bergmannstrasse 39-50) are four extensive cemetery complexes : Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof , Friedrich-Werder-Kirchhof , Jerusalem churchyard and New Church as well as the churchyard of the Luisenstadt parish .

traffic

Marheinekeplatz can be reached by public transport ( underground line U7 ) and buses from lines 140 and 248. In order to calm the traffic , during the renovation work in the 1990s, the passage from Bergmannstrasse to Zossener Strasse was only made possible for delivery vehicles. From December 2007, it was possible to curb individual motorized traffic through parking space management. A car sharing company has set up shop at Marheinekeplatz 9.

Web links

Commons : Marheinekeplatz (Berlin-Kreuzberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street 27a . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1886, part 2, p. 406.
  2. ↑ Marheineke Platz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1877, part 2, p. 214. “Wegener & Körsten, Belle-Alliancestr. 57 “(Marheinekeplatz included for the first time).
  3. ↑ Marheineke Platz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1878, part 2, p. 226.
  4. ↑ Bergmannstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1878, part 2, p. 32.
  5. ↑ General playground Marheinekeplatz on Ihrspielplatz.de
  6. ↑ Marheinekeplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1914, part 3, p. 571.
  7. ↑ Thomas Loy: Kreuzberg legend . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 8, 2008; accessed on March 30, 2013
  8. ^ Sabine Schuster: Marheinekeplatz in Kreuzberg. Honorable only with a bag . In: Mietermagazin , 6/2003; accessed on March 31, 2013
  9. ↑ Sabine Flatau: Residents want their meadow at Marheinekeplatz . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 29, 2011; accessed on March 30, 2013
  10. ↑ Overview of various redesign variants and protocols of previous dialogue rounds ( memento of the original from March 14, 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. District Committee Kreuzberg; accessed on March 31, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtteilausschuss-kreuzberg.de
  11. ↑ Monument Passionskirche, Marheinekeplatz 1–2
  12. ↑ Marheinekeplatz 8 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1941, part 4, p. 556. “Weinberg, S. Israel. Head of Office a. D. “(listed for the first time as roommate of house number 8). In the following year, it was replaced by “Weinberg, F., Frau”.
  13. ↑ Marheinekeplatz 4 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, part 4, p. 564. "Tarrasch, M. Israel, Handelsvertreter" (mentioned for the first time and for the last time as a roommate of house number 4).
  14. ↑ Monument 133rd and 149th community dual school Bergmannstrasse 28/29
  15. ↑ New primary school on Marheinekeplatz . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 16, 2008; accessed on March 31, 2013
  16. ↑ Homepage of the Music Academy accessed on March 31, 2013
  17. ↑ Cambio Carsharing-Station at Marheinekeplatz accessed on March 31, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 21.8 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 44.5 ″  E