Motzstrasse

Motzstrasse
	Street in Berlin
	Motzstrasse near Nollendorfplatz , 2007
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	Schöneberg and Wilmersdorf
Created	1870
Hist. Names	Street 20, Section IV
Connecting roads	; Else-Lasker-Schüler-Strasse
Cross streets	Eisenacher Strasse, ; Kalckreuthstrasse, ; Gossowstrasse, ; Martin-Luther-Strasse , ; Geisbergstrasse, ; Viktoria-Luise-Platz , ; Hohenstaufenstrasse
Places	Prager Platz (estuary), Viktoria-Luise-Platz
use
User groups	Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists
Technical specifications
Street length	1500 meters

The Motzstraße extends over approximately 1.5 kilometers from Berlin district of Schoeneberg at the Nollendorfplatz about Viktoria-Luise-Platz until Prager Platz in the district of Wilmersdorf . The section between Nollendorfplatz and Martin-Luther-Straße has an accumulation of bars from the gay scene and is known nationwide for the lesbian-gay city festival , the so-called “Motzstraßefest”. Since 2019, Berlin's LGBT Christmas market Christmas Avenue has been taking place at the end of Motzstrasse, on Nollendorfplatz .

history

Motzstraße was one of the Schöneberger Straße that was laid down in the Hobrecht development plan and was numbered 8 here . From Nollendorfplatz to Bamberger Straße it belongs to the Schöneberg district of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . From here to Prager Platz it is part of the Wilmersdorf district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district .

The street was named after the former Prussian Finance Minister Friedrich von Motz . The section located in Schöneberg was named after a cabinet order announced on July 6, 1870. The eastern section between Nollendorfplatz and Kurfürstenstrasse, which was included in 1870, was renamed Mackensenstrasse in 1934. Since August von Mackensen was Adolf Hitler's supporter , there was a lengthy political controversy over the name change in the 1990s ; since 1998 this part has been called Else-Lasker-Schüler-Straße after the German- Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler , who lived in the street from 1924–1933, albeit on the other side of Nollendorfplatz.

The former Straße 20, Section IV of the Berlin development plan from Nollendorfplatz to what was then Lutherstraße (this part was only renamed Martin-Luther-Straße on March 1, 1963 ) was opened in 1889 and the street section to the west of Viktoria-Luise-Platz , the then Königshofer Strasse in Wilmersdorf, incorporated into Motzstrasse in 1901. The name has only been valid for Wilmersdorf since October 21, 1901. Until 1938, a section of the street also belonged to the then Charlottenburg district .

In 1910, today's U4 line of the Berlin subway was laid under Motzstraße .

Buildings (selection)

The residential building at Motzstrasse 22 is a listed building monument ; it was built together with the house at Motzstrasse 14 according to plans by the architect Gustav Gebhardt in Art Nouveau style between 1897 and 1899. The residential buildings at Motzstrasse 58 and 61, both completed in 1901, are also on the Berlin list of monuments. Further buildings were redesigned after a Schinkel competition held in 1980 . In Motzstraße 8 on Nollendorfplatz, a garden architecture with a statue is worth mentioning, which was created in 1891 according to a design by the architect Franz Piater and is a cultural monument.

Life in Motzstrasse

While Motzstraße to the west of Martin-Luther-Straße has the character of a purely residential street, it is known between Martin-Luther-Straße and Nollendorfplatz for a cluster of gay pubs, bars and restaurants whose predecessors were here before and after the First World War existed in the 1920s when Christopher Isherwood lived in the area. Interrupted by the time of National Socialism , it was resumed after the Second World War . Since the beginning of the 21st century is here and in the side streets every year in June, the Motzstraßenfest - a lesbian and gay street festival - takes place.

Rudolf Steiner - the founder of anthroposophy - and his second wife Marie von Sivers lived at Motzstrasse 30 from 1903 to 1923. From 1924 to 1933, the poet and painter Else Lasker-Schüler lived at Motzstrasse 7 (at that time Hotel Koschel at number 78 ), which a memorial plaque reminds of. The Motzstrasse district was a political group of national conservatives around Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm and Eduard Stadtler .

Web links

Commons : Motzstraße (Berlin-Schöneberg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Motzstraße (Berlin-Wilmersdorf) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Motzstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Information from Berlin Tourism
Berlin lifelines (2) Motzstrasse: Emil and the literati . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 30, 2010, with photo gallery

Individual evidence

↑ BD Motzstrasse 22
↑ BD Motzstraße 58, Architects Bauer & Bruhn ,BD Motzstrasse 61 , architect Walter Zander
^ Project Motzstraße 51 In: Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin; Retrieved November 3, 2015.
↑ Garden architecture with statue, 1891 by Franz Piater (architecture)

52.496172222222 13.343213888889Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 46.2 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 35.6" E

[1] BD Motzstrasse 22

[2] BD Motzstraße 58, Architects Bauer & Bruhn ,BD Motzstrasse 61 , architect Walter Zander

[3] Project Motzstraße 51 In: Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin; Retrieved November 3, 2015.

[4] Garden architecture with statue, 1891 by Franz Piater (architecture)