Marienstrasse (Berlin)

Marienstrasse
Street in Berlin
Marienstraße (from left: house numbers 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21) in 1984
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	center
Created	19th century
Cross streets	Albrechtstrasse , Luisenstrasse
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length	300 meters

The Marie street in Berlin's district of Mitte is about 300 meters long to 1827 in the former Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt -scale, residential street. Its building, built as a continuous street, was built between 1830 and 1840. It is the only Berlin street of this era that has been almost completely preserved.

history

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt with Marienstraße, 1905 ( Meyers Konversations-Lexikon )

On this area of ​​the former Spandau suburb of old Berlin, there were meadows and morass until the 18th century. Due to the Prussian settlement policy with industrialization beginning around the same time, an expansion of the city became necessary, and from 1825 the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt emerged. The new streets were named after the nobles of the time. The name of Marienstraße is derived from Princess Marie Luise Alexandrine von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877), who was still fiancé of Prince Carl of Prussia when the street was named and a few weeks later the daughter-in-law of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. has been. Official documents indicate April 16, 1827 as the date on which the name was assigned.

The residential buildings on Marienstrasse are largely based on plans by August Stüler , a student of Schinkel . The three- or four-storey houses corresponded to the ideas of the time and primarily show elements of late classicism , which consist of clearly structured gables, friezes and flower reliefs. The first residential buildings were reconstructed as early as 1860, with some buildings being extended. Facades were adapted to the taste of the times, so that round arched gates were created from earlier rectangular central gates and gate decors were changed. Some houses were given side wings to create additional living space. More and more students, Charité employees , artists and intellectuals moved into the rented apartments - one spoke of a “ Latin Quarter ”.

During the revolution of 1848 there should have been a barricade on the corner of Albrechtstrasse .

The Second World War had caused severe damage in the inner city of Berlin , but the basic substance of Marienstraße was retained. The East Berlin magistrate had in 1970 adopted a comprehensive reconstruction of entire Friedrich Wilhelm city and the houses under grandfathering asked. Between 1970 and 1973 the facades were given fresh paintwork in the original tones of stone gray, rose and lime green, and decorative elements were touched up. At the same time, the apartments received modern living comfort such as central heating or hot water. Since this first restoration, Marienstrasse has been an architectural gem and almost all of its houses have since been included in the Berlin list of monuments.

Well-known former residents of Marienstraße

Adolph von Menzel : View from a window on Marienstraße

• Marienstraße 4: Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer, lived here during his studies in 1889. On April 23, 2008 a memorial plaque was inaugurated on the house.
• Marienstraße 6: Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka , Russian composer, lived here in the summer of 1856.
• Marienstraße 10: Dora Koch-Stetter , expressionist landscape and portrait painter, lived here with her mother (around 1911).
• Marienstraße 14: Johannes Tropfke , mathematics teacher and city councilor, lived here. There is a memorial plaque on the house.
• Marienstraße 22: Adolph von Menzel , realistic painter, lived here from 1865 to 1867 (according to other sources from 1860 to 1864). He immortalized the house in his painting Looking out of a window on Marienstraße . A memorial plaque was also attached to this building, although it gives incorrect dates.
• Marienstraße 24/27: Angela Merkel , Federal Chancellor and CDU Federal Chairwoman, lived here in the 1980s. In an interview with SZ-Magazin , Merkel confessed that she illegally renovated and occupied the vacant apartment, but that she still transferred the rent to the municipal housing administration.
• Marienstraße 28: Siegfried Dehn , music theorist and counterpoint teacher , lived here from 1855 to 1857.
• Marienstraße 32 / Luisenstraße 39: Mori Ōgai , Japanese military doctor, poet and translator, lived here from 1887 to 1888. The Mori-Ôgai memorial has been located in the house since 1989 .

Institutions in Marienstraße

• Marienstraße 10: On April 2, 1882, the post office NW 6 (later: Berlin 6 ) opened here , which had previously been located on Luisenstraße. From 1946 to 1950 it moved to Friedrichstraße station, but then returned to Marienstraße 10 until 1974. The further whereabouts are unclear. However, the official city ​​map of Berlin states that there was a post office at Marienstraße 10 until 1994.
• Marienstraße 11: Club rooms of the Chaos Computer Club Berlin
• Marienstraße 12: The official city ​​map of Berlin shows a transmission tower in the courtyard of Marienstraße 12 between 1966 and 1988.
• Marienstraße 19/20 (exact house number unclear): Between June 1945 and October 1947 there was a base of the Soviet NKVD / MGB here . An unknown number of prisoners were ill-treated here and died from injuries and illness.

Overview of the individual house numbers

House number	Construction year	Renovations	Residential units	Object no.	Other Information	photo
Marienstrasse 1	1826	around 1960 2002		09095862	Client: Christian Friedrich Kaphengst
Marienstraße 2	1843	2002	8th	09095863	Johann Rolapp, sculptor; Living space: around 1150 m² / commercial space: around 200 m²; The building was not affected by the milieu protection statute in 1999.
Marienstraße 3	1840	1870		09095864	Client: Jeremias Rudolph
Marienstraße 4	1838			09095865	Client: Jeremias Rudolph
Marienstrasse 5	1838	1870		09095866	Client: Fritz Florentin Niedlich, Kgl. Go Secretair law firm
Marienstraße 6	1838	1870, historicized reshaped		09095867	Client: Jeremias Rudolph
Marienstraße 7	1827			09095868	In the revolutionary year of 1848, a student cellar was located here , which served as a meeting point for the bourgeois-democratic student movement of the Berlin University .
Marienstrasse 8	1874	around 1890, historicized reshaped		09095869	Client: Johann Gottlieb Gieps, wagon owner
Marienstrasse 9	1883	1890, historicized reshaped		09095870	Client: Gustav Gieps, farmer
Marienstraße 10	1828			09095871	Client: Karl-Wilhelm Schweder, Councilor of Justice. Stairs preserved in the original
Marienstraße 11	1828			09095872	Client: Johann Christian Possart, businessman
Marienstrasse 12	1827	2002		09095873	Client: David Broege, Fuhrherr; Commercial space: around 700 m²
Marienstrasse 13	2000				Client: Regional Hausbau GmbH; Architect: Wimmeler; Type of construction: reinforced concrete, plaster facade; Land area: 795 m²; Built-up area: 446 m²; Gross floor area: 2583 m²; Investment amount: 3.7 million euros
Marienstraße 14	1827	2000	20th	09095875	Client: Theodor Wilhelm Franz Tropfke, carpenter; Living space: around 1300 m². The historic staircase has been preserved
Marienstrasse 15	1828			09095876	Builder: shaker, bricklayer
Marienstraße 16-17	1909-1910			09095844	Hotel Albrechtshof , client: Central administration of the Association for Berlin City Missions
Marienstrasse 18
Marienstraße 19/20	1842			09095877	Client: Wolf Hagelberg, paper manufacturer. In the center of the facade, a medallion with a bust of Mercury indicates the homeowner's trading activities.
Marienstrasse 21	1838			09095878	The historic staircase has also been preserved here.
Marienstrasse 22	1827			09095879
Marienstraße 23	1828	1870		09095880	Client: Friedrich Accum, Professor of Chemistry & Teacher at the Building Academy
Marienstrasse 24	1886			09095881	Client: Clemens, bricklayer
Marienstraße 25	1885			09095882	Client: Gustav Boehme & Carl Diechmann, Glaser
Marienstraße 26	1893			09095883	Client: Franz Klein, bricklayer
Marienstraße 27	1831			09095884	Client: Carl Friedrich Winckelmann, butter dealer
Marienstrasse 28	1840	1999	10	09095885	Client: Heinrich Wilhelm Salge, bricklayer foreman; Living space: around 740 m²
Marienstrasse 29	1841	1870		09095886	Client: Heinrich Wilhelm Salge, bricklayer foreman
Marienstraße 30
Marienstraße 31	1840			09095887	Client: Johann Carl Klauck, panel decker
Marienstrasse 32	1877			09095861	Client: Hesterberg (soap manufacturer); since 1989 seat of the Mori-Ôgai memorial

Marienstrasse in the media

• The protagonists Stella and Ben in the 2004 novel Spiel mit mir live in a converted attic apartment in Marienstraße. "Fifty meters down Marienstraße" from Albrechtstraße, the apartment is in the book.
• In 2009 the Berlin pop duo 2raumwohnung shot the music video for their song The Last Evening in the World on Marienstraße . In the video, the singer Inga Humpe walks down the street from Luisenstrasse in the direction of Albrechtstrasse .
• In 2011 the actress and singer Angela Winkler chose Marienstraße for the cover of her first album I can't say I love you .
• In 2012, the cinema chain CinemaxX filmed a commercial on Marienstraße.
• On January 14, 2017, the RBB broadcast the program Ulli cell explores Marienstraße in its Heimatjournal series .

Stumbling blocks in Marienstrasse

Stumbling stone for Adolf Zadek in front of Marienstraße 15

On October 20, 2014, in front of the houses in Marienstraße 7, 15, 25 and 27, the artist Gunter Demnig placed stumbling blocks for the Jewish residents who were deported and murdered during the Nazi era - Max Mosche Katzper, Bianka Levy, Adolf Zadek, Minna Seeliger, Edith Reiss, Nelly Henriette Reiss, Hermann Sziff and Klara Habel - published. In addition to the initiator Sebastian Pflum, many residents of the street and guests, family members of the Habel family from Great Britain and Israel as well as the British ambassador to Germany, Simon McDonald ( KCMG ), the Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander and the military attaché of the Israeli embassy attended the memorial event in Berlin , Erez Katz.

literature

• Dorothee Dubrau : Architecture Guide Berlin-Mitte. Volume 2. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938666-07-4 .
• Wolfgang Feyerabend: Right through the middle. The Friedrich Wilhelm City. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7759-0463-8 .
• Hermann Zech: The Friedrich Wilhelm City in Berlin-Mitte. Berlin 1997.
• Hans Prang: Through Berlin on foot. Leipzig 1990.
• Heinrich Trost et al. : The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Capital Berlin I. Berlin (GDR) 1983.
• Dieter Bolduan et al .: Berlin, capital of the GDR. Buildings under monument protection. Berlin (GDR) 1982.

Web links

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

• Marienstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
• We were free to make a video on the condition of Marienstrasse in 1989 (chapter from 05:38) . Retrieved March 10, 2012 . 
• Status of Marienstraße 1998. Retrieved on February 25, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ullrich Winkler: Foray through a street - rich in historical buildings. History and the present over a 150 year old quarter. In: Neues Deutschland , 23./24. May 1981
2. ↑ Marienstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
3. ↑ Chronicle Koepjohann'sche Foundation . Retrieved on September 25, 2012. The source goes back to a poster in the Berlin city library. Unfortunately it is cited unclearly there: “After [Hartmann] on the basis of the plan of Berlin, designed and drawn by C. Zirbeck Berlin, 1828 [enlarged. Excerpt]. ”The“ Hartmann ”source has not yet been found.
4. ^ 1848 - Barricade fighting in Berlin . “Auguststrasse” blog, accessed on September 25, 2012.
5. ↑ Heidrun Lorenzen (Ed.): Dora Koch-Stetter: ways to Ahrenshoop . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 39 .
6. ↑ Michael Bienert, Elke Linda Buchholz: Kaiserzeit und Moderne. A guide through Berlin . P. 190.
7. ↑ In the sources there is disagreement about the dates of Menzel's stay at Marienstraße 22. The Berlin address book lists a “Menzel, Professor” for number 22 in the years 1865–1867 and 1870: Marienstraße 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1864, part 2, p. 118 (no entry). Marienstrasse 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1865, part 2, p. 125. Marienstraße 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1866, part 2, p. 132. Marienstraße 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1867, part 2, p. 136. Marienstraße 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1868, part 2, p. 146 (no entry). Marienstrasse 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1870, part 2, p. 167. Marienstraße 22 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1871, part 2, p. 175 (no entry). It should be noted that the typesetting and printing of the address books had to be completed a few months before the corresponding year.
8. ↑ Merkel used to be a squatter . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 29, 2008. Retrieved on January 20, 2010. Under the article, a reader wrote a comment on February 29, 2008, which is no longer available online: “A. Merkel lived in Marienstrasse. No. 27, backyard on the left, 1st floor on the right and not in No. 24. The tenant board in the passage even reminds of this. We lived in the wing opposite. Since A. Merkel bought our old kitchen in 1981 before we moved from Marienstr. No. 27 moved out, I know very well that in the above Article was not properly stimulated. The apartment in which A. Merkel lived was usually rented to medical students at the Charité . "
9. ↑ And it was summer . In: SZ-Magazin , 9/2008, accessed on October 22, 2010.
10. ^ Stamm, Klaus-Dieter, compiler .: The Berlin post offices from 1850 to 1993: a directory of addresses. Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460-3863-6 , pp. 13 .
11. ^ Stamm, Klaus-Dieter, compiler .: The Berlin post offices from 1850 to 1993 - a directory of addresses. Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460-3863-6 , pp. 92, 123 .
12. ↑ Kartenwerk K5, Kartenblatt 423 C, edition 1994. In: HistoMapBerlin. Landesarchiv Berlin, accessed on April 16, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Chaos Computer Club Berlin e. V.
14. ↑ Kartenwerk K5, Kartenblatt 423 C, edition 1966. In: HistoMapBerlin. Landesarchiv Berlin, accessed on April 16, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Kartenwerk K4, Kartenblatt 4233, edition 1988. In: HistoMapBerlin. Landesarchiv Berlin, accessed on April 16, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives (ed.): Communication - for information - Berlin places of detention and repression apparatus 1945 to 1949 document Drs 15/4656 and 15/5331 . Printed matter 16/0017. Berlin October 26, 2006, p. 6 .
17. ↑ Peter Erler: Pretrial detention with the Soviet secret police. The Berlin detention centers 1945 to 1955 . In: Niko Rollmann (Ed.): Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, studies and analyzes . tape 08/2017 , p. 7, 11, 13, 24 .
18. ↑ Object number in the monument database of the State Monuments Office Berlin
19. ^ Marienstraße 1 Senate Department for Urban Development. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
20. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt: Displacement in spite of environmental protection. Berlin tenants' association. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
21. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Institute for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 323 f .
22. ^ Project Marienstraße 13 / 13a . Senate Department for Urban Development. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
23. ↑ Gisela Stelly: Play with me . Droemer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-19665-4 , pp. 20-22 .
24. ↑ The last evening in the world. MySpace video. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
25. ↑ I love you I can't say. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
26. ↑ Emotions are the best gift. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
27. ↑ Ulli cell explores the Marienstrasse. January 14, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2017 . 
28. ^ Marking the Scenes of Tragedy .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: NHK World (Japan) , February 13, 2015  
29. ↑ Winchester man walks in footsteps of aunt who died in the Holocaust . In: Hampshire Chronicle , November 18, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '19.2 "  N , 13 ° 22' 55.4"  E