Marzahn promenade
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| Marzahner Promenade, November 1987 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Marzahn |
| Created | from 1970 |
| Newly designed | from 2011 |
| Cross streets | Märkische Allee, Raoul-Wallenberg-Strasse, Franz-Stenzer-Strasse |
| Places | Victor-Klemperer-Platz |
| Buildings | Le Prom, Eastgate , Freizeitforum Marzahn |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , tram |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1600 meters |
The Marzahner Promenade is considered the center of the Berlin district of Marzahn . It is a double-guided street , largely parallel to the tram route along Landsberger Allee . The southern area is a motor vehicle access road for the residents and is used to supply and use the shops. The northern area - between Eastgate and Freizeitforum Marzahn - is a pedestrian zone and shopping street, in which small shops on the ground floor of the prefabricated apartment buildings offer everyday items and services.
The promenade from 1972 to 1990
After the construction of the large Marzahn housing estate at the beginning of the 1970s, the shopping street was planned and laid out as the “main social area” by the collective around the architect Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut . It served as a shopping and strolling mile, and leisure activities such as a bowling alley and small cafes brought life to the street for residents and their guests.
From vacancy to renovation
After the political change , the dissolution of commercial establishments such as HO and the consumer cooperative and the resulting privatization for business owners as well as the rapid spread of food discounters resulted in a larger vacancy in the row of shops.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the renovation of the communal houses and the concentration of shopping opportunities on the Eastgate instead of the former Marzahner Tor department store , there have been new uses for the small shops. A glass-roofed passage now connects the small shops to one row of shops. The acquisition of investors and interested parties for the premises let the promenade rise to earlier bloom. It is developing into an active district center.
Condition of the Marzahner Promenade
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In 2009, the district office organized a landscape planning ideas and implementation competition "Active City Center Marzahner Promenade" with a preliminary application process. From the proposals submitted, a jury placed the project of the bbzl landschaften stadtebau Berlin team (Ulrike Böhm, Cyrus Zahiri, Katja Benfer, Rita Leal, Maria Teles, Mara Werner, Miriam Sauer, Anna Vogels, Christina Bös, Pilar Morilla) in first place . It will be implemented gradually according to the budget situation of the district.
The hilly area down to Franz-Stenzer-Straße has now been intensively greened, the paths renewed and made accessible for the disabled . The promenade itself has also been restored since 2011. For this, the administrator, Degewo , received 4.5 million euros from the above-mentioned funding program of the Berlin Senate . In addition, the shop windows and entrance areas of the house entrances will be renewed. Some of the ground floor rooms have been and are rented to artists who already make extensive use of them - more than ten studios have been set up.
Art on and on the promenade
The Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office has set up a pavilion at the foot of a high-rise apartment building for its art department, which operates the M Gallery here .
In addition, numerous different works of art invite you to look at along the promenade. This ranges from fountains, facade painting , bronze statues to street surface designs and annually changing actions. In detail it concerns:
- Number 17: On the House of Services and in its entrance area there were various displays on the subjects of services and handicrafts . The building was demolished in 1993, some sculptures were removed and are viewable storage clipboard issued (Riesaer Straße 94 in the district of Hellersdorf).
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- On a green area in front of house number 30: A memorial to the builders of the then new city district, designed in 1988 by Karl Hillert with the help of Karl-Günter Möpert , was erected in 1990 in front of the Marzahner Tor department store . The three meter high bronze sculptures depict two construction workers who are currently taking an observer position. The memorial only came to its present location in 2005.
- A restaurant (house number 40) is located on an elevation to which a flight of stairs leads. On the gable of the restaurant building there is a mosaic picture based on a template by Walter Womacka with the topic of work for human happiness . The design elements of people, technology, nature and culture are flatly connected to form a colorful whole and challenge individual elements to be viewed.
The stair landings are designed as small fountains with plant ornaments made of sandstone from Nikolaus Bode's workshop . The stairwell and mural were made in 1989. - Another restaurant building (house number 45) also has a mosaic mural by Walter Womacka, which was applied here in 1988. It is 17 meters high and shows a mother and child in an intact colorful landscape under the symbol of a dove of peace . To a cursory glance, the picture looks more like a graffito . In 2013, the district office installed lighting for this mural on the initiative of dealers, artists and residents of the promenade.
At the end of the 1980s, there was a small café pavilion (rose café ) next to the inn . There were some ceramic reliefs with the subject of muses on the interior walls. The house including the art was demolished. - Near the number 49, separately since 1999 as Victor Klemperer place called, received a simple form sculpture made of sandstone and marble a new course: The egg of Reinhard Jacob . In 1983 the work of art was initially used as a fountain on Allee der Kosmonauten 147. In 1999 it was placed on a separate square base and accentuated the path area of the new town square.
- Between Marzahner Promenade 49 and Landsberger Allee, five stainless steel columns shine in the daylight at different heights. At the top they have shaped and curved symbolic leaf ornaments that turn even when the wind is weak. The wind chime was designed and executed by Matthias Frotscher (artist) and Hans-Joachim Kunsch (metal sculptor). It has been in the small park since 1985.
- Green area in front of number 55: three figures by Ingeborg Hunzinger represent a memorial for communists and anti-fascist resistance fighters . They are set up individually in front of the Marzahn leisure forum. The theme is symbolically made clear by the ensemble Die Geslage (sandstone), Die Aufrichtende (bronze) and The Liberate (bronze). The sculptures were created between 1986 and 1991 as part of an art competition and came to their current location as they were completed. On the floor between two sculptures there is the inscription "hanged - fought - loved - burned - forgotten - tortured - triumphed - kicked and beaten - liberated" and describes the sufferings during the Nazi era in a succinct way .
- Number 55, directly in the Freizeitforum Marzahn (FFM), again invites you to look at the art. Peter Hoppe designed a symbolic daily routine (synthetic resin on plaster) for the ceiling area: morning / day / evening / night . The ceiling picture was completed in 1991 and decorates the event room of the FFM.
- Two other monuments are located in the area of the FFM: the stairwell torso of a falling (bronze on zweistrebigem metal base) by Wieland Förster in 1985 and in the library of the house: Gypsies in Marzahn (bronze, a small sculpture of a human couple) that the gypsy camp in Marzahn ( Forced camp for Sinti and Roma 1936) artistically processed.
After all, the employees of the district office themselves provide further points of attraction here, for which a special art project is selected and presented for one year after an annual competition.
activities
In 2012, the first time was the Berlin Senate initiated Centers Competition instead of "Right in the middle of Berlin" for which the Marzahner Promenade an experience parcours was redesigned. A competition jury looked at all the participating streets and the implementation of the concepts, after which the Marzahn Promenade made it to the final round of a total of eight streets. In October 2012, the three best projects were honored, for which a total of 100,000 euros was made available. The dealers and tradespeople on the Marzahner Promenade received a grant of 9,000 euros, for which the activities were expanded from 2013: among other things, running events with a high-rise run , the issue of a corresponding running card for interested visitors to the shopping mile and the continuation of the senior citizens' day around around the leisure forum.
literature
- Peter Brock (ed.): Berlin streets rediscovered. 33 forays through the capital. Jaron Verlag Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-89773-114-2 ; P. 123–128: Marzahner Promenade. Brave name .
Web links
- Marzahn promenade. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- News about the Marzahn Promenade (as of mid-March 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brock: Berlin streets rediscovered , p. 123.
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin, II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 246 .
- ↑ Marzahner Promenade on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , accessed on February 22, 2013
- ↑ The design competition on competitionline.com, an architects' portal, accessed on April 15, 2011.
- ^ Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. A documentation. Published by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf District Office and prepared by a commission with members Thorsten Goldberg, Ellena Olsen, Martin Schönfeld, Andreas Sommerer. District Office Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7 , pp. 132-138.
- ↑ Thomas Loy: The long shadow of the GDR. tagesspiegel.de, July 29, 2018
- ↑ Wall painting by Womacka now illuminated . In: Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on February 22, 2013
- ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: Positive from the plate. Not dreary: Marzahn-Hellersdorf attracts artists and tourists . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 14, 2011, p. 21.
- ↑ The shopping mile becomes a runner's course for customers . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 7, 2012; Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Press release of the BA Marzahn-Hellersdorf: 30 years of Marzahn-Hellersdorf - Senior Active Day 2009 on June 24, 2009 , accessed on March 21, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 41 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 3 ″ E