Market hall II

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Markthalle II
Lindenhalle
Head building at Friedrichstrasse 18 with a passage to the Lindenhalle

Head building at Friedrichstrasse 18 with a passage to the Lindenhalle

Data
place Berlin
architect Hermann Blankenstein ,
August Lindemann
Construction year 1886
Floor space 10,400 m²
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '8.7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 34.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '8.7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 34.5"  E

The market hall II in Berlin's Friedrichstadt (also called Lindenhalle ) was built in the first phase of the municipal building program for the Berlin market halls between 1884 and 1886. The small market hall , together with the central market hall on Alexanderplatz and other small market halls still to be built, was supposed to provide sufficient supplies for the constantly to ensure the growing population of Berlin with cheap and unspoiled food and free the streets and squares from the weekly markets , which are increasingly perceived as unsanitary and a traffic obstacle . In World War II almost completely destroyed, the ruins were soon cleared. To the north, a new wholesale flower market was built in the early 1960s . The history of the former market hall ends in 1953 when the ruins were cleared.

Description and location

Site plan of the Lindenhalle, 1896

The market hall was located north of Mehringplatz (at the time of construction: Belle-Alliance-Platz ). It had a permanent entrance from Friedrichstrasse and Lindenstrasse , which gave it the nickname Lindenhalle . When it opened, it had a sales area of ​​9114 m² with 746 individual stands. After the extension of Charlottenstraße with a breakthrough to Lindenstraße from 1913, the Lindenhalle with house numbers 12-14 also had a connection to the newly created connection, called Enckestraße from 1927 . The external dimensions of the hall were around 130 m × 80 m.

Market hall 1886–1945

Crafts school in the head building Lindenstrasse 97/98
Sectional view of the market hall II

The market hall inside the block, accessed through the properties Lindenstrasse 97/98 and Friedrichstrasse 18, was built according to plans by Hermann Blankenstein and August Lindemann on the basis of a type building project commissioned by the Berlin magistrate.

When the hall - built in the brick Gothic style over a steel girder system - was opened in 1886, a "Meat Inspection Station II" and the "Craftsman School I" and numerous residential uses - including small businesses - had settled in the neighborhood.

In contrast to some other halls, the Lindenhalle did not have to close due to a lack of demand. Over the first decades of the 20th century, it remained an important element of supplying the population of the city center with fresh products (meat, fish, vegetables or dairy products). Gradually, testing and teaching facilities (for example the "Gauß School, Electrical Engineering Institute" in 1930) or the Belle Alliance trading center in the southern area were added.

The first flower wholesalers opened their stands in the Lindenhalle because of the good heating. Their space requirements were subsequently realized through halls only for the flower trade in the vicinity of the market hall.

Post-war development

The entire area around the Lindenhalle was destroyed by bombardment at the end of the Second World War. The ruins of the almost completely destroyed Lindenhalle were cleared away after the war and the property had already been cleared of rubble in 1953. In the following decades, additional halls for the flower trade were built on the area of ​​the historic market hall. The last remaining hall from 1965 was extensively refurbished by the Berlin Senate and converted into a teaching building for the Jewish Museum opposite according to plans by the architect Daniel Libeskind between 2009 and 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Markthalle II  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lindenstrasse 97/98 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, part 3, p. 495.
  2. ↑ Lindenstrasse 97/98 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 4, p. 595.
  3. ^ Pharus plan , central edition 1944, grid square I9
  4. ↑ Kreuzberg wholesale flower market will soon be history: The Senate has decided to move to the wholesale market on Beusselstrasse. The district is surprised and angry . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 30, 2006.
  5. ↑ Berlin aerial photo plan 1953. Area: Ernst-Reuter-Platz to Stralau . Edition Panorama Berlin, Berlin 1999.