Masurenallee

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Masurenallee
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Masurenallee
Masurenallee, on the left the broadcasting center of the RBB
Basic data
place Berlin
District West end
Created around 1918
Hist. Names Ostpreußenallee
(1918–1934)
Cross streets Messedamm,
Soorstrasse,
Thüringer Allee
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 500 meters

The Masurenallee is a 500-meter-long main road in the Berlin district of Westend the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . It creates the extension of the Neue Kantstraße coming from the City-West to Theodor-Heuss-Platz .

The following buildings are located on Masurenallee:

history

Masurenallee and Ostpreußenallee

House of Broadcasting on Masurenallee, 1955

The avenue got its name in 1918 after Masuria , the East Prussian lake and swamp landscape in what is now northern Poland . Masurenallee once ran from Reichskanzlerplatz (today: Theodor-Heuss-Platz ) to the former Scholzplatz , from where the Ostpreußenallee led with a bend to Neue Kantstraße . The previous name of Masurenallee was Straße 5a, Section V of the development plan, the previous name of Ostpreußenallee was Straße 9g . For the opening of the Witzleben station (today: Messe Nord / ICC station ) on the Ringbahn in 1916, the two roads to Reichskanzlerplatz were also completed. With the expansion of the exhibition grounds for the 1931 building exhibition, Scholzplatz was given up and Masurenallee was connected in a straight line with Ostpreußenallee between Theodor-Heuss-Platz and today's Messedamm. The remaining part of Ostpreußenallee between Messedamm and Ostpreußenbrücke was incorporated into Masurenallee on July 13, 1934. On October 20, 1966, the section of Masurenallee between Messedamm and East Prussia Bridge was renamed Neue Kantstrasse.

Old Scholzplatz

While today's Scholzplatz is located at the bend in Heerstraße , a square with the same name was located between 1920 and 1929/1930 at the bend of the Masurenallee / Ostpreußenallee junction , now roughly on the site of Hall 18 of the exhibition grounds. The square was designed by the Charlottenburg City Garden Director Erwin Barth as a city square for the planned five-story residential development in the area, with a sunk-in playground facility inside, as it were a 2000 m² sandpit , which was surrounded by a 1.5 meter high concrete wall. The seating area at street level was planted with groups of four poplars each .

The space in the planning phase was named Place D . Simultaneously with the inauguration of the Barthschen facilities on September 30, 1920, the square was named Scholzplatz after Ernst Scholz , the last mayor of the independent city of Charlottenburg before it was incorporated into Berlin , who had meanwhile been appointed Reich Minister of Economics . The growth of the exhibition grounds in the 1920s ensured that residential developments around the square were never built. Finally, the plans for the 1931 building exhibition made it necessary to relocate Masurenallee to the north and the square was leveled in 1929/1930.

literature

  • Stephan Brandt: Berlin-Westend. Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-458-6 , pp. 72-73.
  • Dietmar Land, Jürgen Wenzel: Home, nature and cosmopolitan city. Life and work of the garden architect Erwin Barth. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7338-0338-8 , pp. 248-251.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silva overview plan of the city of Berlin and its 20 administrative districts . Flemming, 1925, author Willy Holz, grid reference N – P / 8–11, accessed on March 9, 2016
  2. ^ Erwin Neumann: The Witzleben stop of the Berlin city and ring railway . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 36, No. 71 (1916), p. 471. Digitized version ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.zlb.de
  3. ↑ An overlay of the location of the old Scholzplatz with the current situation can be found on p. 40 below in: Berliner Messearchitektur , 1995, ISSN  0940-774X
  4. ↑ Erwin Albert Barth, perspective view of Scholzplatz with surrounding residential buildings (planning from 1919). Technical University of Berlin - Architecture museum in the university library.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 35 ″  E