Martinikenfelde
Martinikenfelde is a locality in Berlin-Moabit , towards the end of the 19th century it was officially called Martiniquenfelde, among other things for a corresponding post office.
Location and history
Martinikenfelde is bounded in the west by the Charlottenburg connecting canal , in the north by the Westhafenkanal , in the east roughly by the Wiebestrasse - Huttenstrasse - Beusselstrasse and in the south by the Spree .
The name is derived from a French colonist named Martin who set up an inn in 1735 on the area on the northern bank of the Spree in the area belonging to Charlottenburg . Martin was called "Martinicken" because of his small stature. The name Martinikenfelde became common for the country around the inn. Today's Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee was named Auf dem Martiniquenfelde in the middle of the 19th century . At the end of the 19th century, the entrepreneur Ludwig Loewe bought the site and established an industrial area there with the construction of an arms and machine tool factory. In 1901, the largest tram depot in Europe at the time, with more than 10,000 m², was built on Wiebestrasse , the halls of which are now used by the Classic Remise Berlin . The AEG turbine factory on Huttenstrasse, built by Peter Behrens around 1909, is one of the most famous buildings in industrial architecture .
Marti Nike field in 1938 largely from the Charlottenburg district in the Tiergarten district reclassified and is now part of the district Moabit of the district center . However, a small part north of Sickingenstrasse has remained in the Charlottenburg district to this day . It forms the only part of the Moabit suburbs that does not run in the water.
Web links
- Martinikenfelde . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- Jacqueline Goineau: History of social development in Moabit West published by the Moabit West neighborhood management
Individual evidence
- ↑ authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1875, part 4, p. 12. "NW 52 = Martiniquenfelde".
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ' N , 13 ° 19' E