Mollstrasse

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Mollstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Mollstrasse
View from United Nations Square in west direction into Mollstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District Mitte ,
Friedrichshain ,
Prenzlauer Berg
Created 1960s
Hist. Names Landsberger Allee ,
Gollnowstraße
and
Jostystraße ,
Linienstraße (eastern part)
Connecting roads
Torstrasse (west)
Landsberger Allee (east)
Cross streets Karl-Liebknecht-Straße ,
Prenzlauer Allee ,
Keibelstraße (south) ,
Mendelssohnstraße (north) ,
Otto-Braun-Straße (as  B2 ) ,
Pauline-Staegemann-Straße (north) ,
Berolinastraße (south) ,
Büschingstraße (north) ,
southern section the Mollstrasse (south)
Places United Nations Square
(adjacent to the east)
Buildings Königstadt-Carrée
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 850 meters

The minor street in Berlin is one of the main roads near the Alexanderplatz . It runs as an extension of Torstrasse from the intersection of Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse / Prenzlauer Allee ( Prenzlauer Tor ) over 850 meters further east to the United Nations Square in the Friedrichshain district , where it turns into Landsberger Allee .

It has only existed in its current form since the 1960s, when the route of a "north bypass" from Rosenthaler Platz to Leninplatz (today: United Nations Square ) was established to relieve Alexanderplatz from through traffic .

On August 9, 1963, the street was named after Joseph Moll , a member of the Communist League and co-founder of the German Workers' Education Association . He fell on June 28, 1849 during the fighting during the Baden-Palatinate uprising .

history

Historically, the location corresponds to the south of the royal city . However, this former suburb was divided up when Greater Berlin was formed in 1920. The Mollstrasse is thus divided into the three districts of Mitte , Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Pankow . Initially, the new street laid out in 1963 ran from Leninplatz to Hans-Beimler-Strasse (since 1995: Otto-Braun-Strasse ). It was extended to Prenzlauer Allee on September 3, 1969 . As a result of the Second World War after 1945, there was considerable damage to buildings along the street, including total losses and war ruins. With the creation of a center east around Alexanderplatz as a representative residential and central area in the east of the divided city , the existing buildings (some of which were only poorly rebuilt) were cleared to make space for new buildings that were to differ from the Stalinallee development.

  • On Gollnowstrasse, around 1890

  • Construction on Mollstrasse: between demolition and new construction

Mollstrasse is 70 meters wide on the approximate course of the former Gollnowstrasse and Jostystrasse (north lane) / Linienstraße (south lane) and follows a western section of Leninallee . Except for the latter, these were more like back streets. The Landsberger Allee led earlier directly to Alexanderplatz , but was at the beginning of the 1960s on Lenin Square : for (since 1992 the United Nations Square) in northwest Prenzlauer Tor out. This new section was named Mollstrasse.

Mollstrasse and Landwehrstrasse in a panorama photo from 1965

The course from Mollstrasse and Landsberger Allee forms one of the radial arterial roads in the historic center of Berlin .

These include - starting from the center from northwest to southeast - clockwise:

as well as west across the Spree :

description

Mollstrasse is located entirely in Berlin-Mitte in the postcode areas 10178, 10249, 10405. It has two lanes and four lanes, two to the east and five lanes at the intersection . On both sides there are mostly five-meter-wide sidewalks and mostly green strips in front of the residential buildings. The two tram tracks are in the middle. Until the 1990s, there were sidings between Prenzlauer Allee and Otto-Braun-Straße, on which special vehicles were provided for use by the transport companies for demos on Alexanderplatz (such as on May 1st ) or major events .

The plots are numbered consecutively . The southern development from the west end starting with numbers 1–18 belongs to the district of Mitte, the north development with numbers 19–31 belongs to Friedrichshain and the houses west of Otto-Braun-Straße on property 33–36 (followed by St-Nicolai- Cemetery) to Prenzlauer Berg. In the Berlin street list, Mollstrasse is listed under 41991 (based on the location of the street) for the Mitte district. It is entered in the road network with 850 meters as a higher-level road connection , which would correspond to the rank of a state road. However, a further 184 meters of road run are included in the detailed network as not categorized. This street in Friedrichshain , which extends to the southeast, is a straight continuation of the southern lane to Lichtenberger Strasse , while the main route to Landsberger Allee bends northeast via United Nations Square . It is the access road to the houses at Platz der United Nations 15-22 and the Kaufhalle property 14 and a one-way street from the direction of Weydemeierstrasse with the exit on the southern lane of Mollstrasse at the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district border to Mitte. Mollstrasse is categorized according to Okstra as "G" and in the regional reference system (RBS) as "STRA".

Residents

The "house martin house" (Mollstrasse 31) shortly before its demolition in March 2002

With the new construction and expansion of Mollstrasse, residential construction increased from Leninplatz (United Nations Square ) via Neue Königstrasse (Otto-Braun-Strasse) to the connection to Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse (Torstrasse) with ten-storey P2 and QP61 type buildings the WBS70 eleven storeys. The apartments were built with the participation of the state and workers' housing associations . Housing can be found in the east and on the north edge of the street.

ADN building on Mollstrasse

With the development on the south side (Mitte district), buildings of public importance for the GDR were erected to the west and on Otto-Braun-Strasse. A once important building on this street was the Mollstrasse 1 skyscraper . From 1971 to 1990 the seat of the GDR news agency ADN was located there . In 2013, the Zalando company took over the office building in Mollstrasse, which was built in 1971 especially for the GDR news agency ADN.

The current dominant feature of Mollstrasse is the Königstadt-Carrée on the corner of Otto-Braun-Strasse (Mollstrasse 30–32, Otto-Braun-Strasse). The complex of a 20-storey office building with 24,000 m² of rental space and a ten-storey extension, in which the Accor Group operates the Ibis Hotel , was completed by the end of 2010 for around 70 million euros. It was built on the site of a residential high-rise from the 1970s that was demolished in 2002. This original building at Mollstrasse 31 was a 17-storey experimental building that was built by Hungarian builders according to their architectural documents. The prestigious building from 1988 had to be cleared due to structural defects . After the last users moved out in the summer of 1989, this stood for eleven years as an empty building in which house martins built their nests. The house then became known as the "House of House Martins". Several investors with different plans came up for this stand area , but resigned as a result of contracts until the replacement building followed in 2010. The demolition was delayed due to protests by conservationists.

Memorial plaque for the burning of the Jews in 1510

It is worth mentioning the southern part of St. Nikolaikirchhof on the northwest corner of Mollstrasse , whose listed chapel can be seen exactly at the intersection of Prenzlauer Allee behind the cemetery wall.

At Mollstrasse 11 there is a memorial stone for the victims of the Berlin burning of Jews in 1510, when 38 Berlin Jews were burned.

traffic

Tram M8 at the stop Mollstraße / Otto-Braun-Straße heading out of town (2012)

In the middle of Mollstraße there are demarcated track areas for the following tram lines :

  • United Nations Square - Otto-Braun-Strasse: M5, M6
  • United Nations Square - Prenzlauer Allee : M8
  • crossed by lines M2 and M4

The bus lines TXL, 200 and 142 run partly on Mollstrasse.

A subway line ( U11 ) has been planned since the 1970s , which could run from the main train station (then still Lehrter Bahnhof ) to Marzahn partially under Mollstrasse. A realization of this line is unlikely in the foreseeable future for financial reasons.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tangents in the chessboard grid. In: New Germany . November 3, 1966, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Mollstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ Scan of the map of building damage 1945 from the publication: Urban development of Berlin since 1650 in maps , Soldin coordinates: R = 25964, H = 22309
  4. ↑ Google Earth: picture from December 1953
  5. ^ Condition in plan 1961: Large Berlin city map .  ( 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. Verlag Richard Schwarz Nachf. Compared to the state since the 1970s: Berlin / city map .  ( 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. 4th edition VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1987@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  
  6. ↑ Berlin city map from 1960 with the previous streets in the approximate course of today's Mollstrasse
  7. ^ Central picture Spremberg August 16, 1965: “Berlin is becoming more beautiful. Our panorama shows a view from the corner of Mollstrasse and Landwehrstrasse to the new buildings behind Karl-Marx-Allee . In the course of the rebuilding of the city ​​center , the old houses, which now also demonstrate the contrast between old and new, will have to give way to the lavish urban planning. ”The eleven-storey building on the right is the house at Mollstrasse 5-7, panel construction type QP-61. The eight-storey building on the left is Berolinastraße 15-17, panel construction type QP-64. The houses in the middle, type Q3A, are in the park-like area between Berolina and Mollstrasse. The course of Mollstrasse is not visible to the right of the picture. The Landwehr Road (the old buildings) has completely disappeared, its course is currently in the cityscape no longer comprehensible (in this case, the Froebel Kindergarten is Berolinahaus corner Mollstraße). It ended roughly where the Berolinastraße parking lot is behind the Statistics House.
  8. ↑ FIS-Broker map display map of Berlin 1: 5000 (K5 color edition) , Soldner coordinates: R = 26104 and H = 22001
  9. ↑ Detailed network of road sections
  10. ↑ Zalando moves to Alex . In: Berliner Zeitung . 17th May 2013.
  11. ↑ Mercedes-Benz Bank moves to Alex . In: Berliner Morgenpost , with information on the Königstadt-Carree; Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  12. ^ Picture of the empty building from 1998
  13. ↑ Investor builds a new "House Martin" . In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 25, 2004.
  14. ↑ House of martins is being demolished . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 18, 2001.
  15. ↑ The House of House martins on Mollstrasse makes space for offices, a hotel and new apartments. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 28, 2001
  16. ↑ House of martins: A cold plate is served. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 22, 2001.
  17. ↑ And facing the future. For many years the house of house martins rotted away. Then it was torn down. But little has changed since then. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 24, 2007.
  18. ↑ Garden and architectural monuments Prenzlauer Allee 1, old cemetery of the St. Nikolai and St. Marien parishes, laid out in 1802, extensions 1814–1847; with graves of Eduard Knoblauch, Bernhard Rode and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Mollstrasse Prenzlauer Berg

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '28.3 "  N , 13 ° 25' 17.1"  E