Nürnberger Strasse (Berlin)

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Nürnberger Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Nürnberger Strasse
Nürnberger Strasse,
towards Tauentzienstrasse (2010)
Basic data
place Berlin
District Charlottenburg
Schöneberg
Wilmersdorf
Created May 18, 1876
Hist. Names Birch Grove Road
Connecting roads Spichernstrasse ,
Budapester Strasse
Cross streets Augsburger Strasse ,
Tauentzienstrasse ,
Budapester Strasse ,
Lietzenburger Strasse ,
Eislebener Strasse ,
Schaperstrasse ,
Geisbergstrasse
Places Nürnberger Platz
Buildings Femina Palace , Tauentzien Palace
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 850 m

The Nuremberg street is in the Berlin City West location, residential and commercial street. It is a direct side street off Tauentzienstrasse and is particularly characterized by the Tauentzienpalast , an elongated building in the New Objectivity style that was a focal point of Berlin's nightlife for well over half a century .

investment

Nürnberger Straße was designated in 1862 in the first Berlin development plan, the Hobrecht Plan , as street no. 31 of Section IV. In 1874 it was created by the Tiergarten share building association. The previously located Birkenwäldchenstraße opened with its northeast section on March 16, 1888 in the south of the new road. Originally it was supposed to be called Kaiserwahl-Straße . Nürnberger Strasse is around 850 meters long and extends from Budapester Strasse and Kurfürstenstrasse via Tauentzienstrasse , Augsburger Strasse , Eislebener Strasse and Lietzenburger Strasse to Nürnberger Platz , where Schaperstrasse and Geisbergstrasse intersect and it becomes Spichernstrasse .

History until 1945

Local residents and neighbors

As in many of the surrounding streets of the “New West”, many well-known personalities lived in Nürnberger Strasse until the Second World War . At the turn of the century, the writer Ernst von Wolehmen lived at Nürnberger Strasse 26, around 1902 the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde lived at Nürnberger Strasse 36; In 1914 Else Lasker-Schüler stayed for a short time in a boarding house at Nürnberger Strasse 46, financed by a grant from Ludwig Wittgenstein . The philologist Hermann Diels lived at Nürnberger Straße 3 until 1920 . The writer Otto Flake stayed in a guesthouse at Nürnberger Straße 65 in 1915, 1917 and 1921. The modern Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas lived at Nürnberger Straße 19 from 1929 to 1933 , and the Swiss tenor Joseph Schmidt lived in Nürnberger Straße from 1930 to 1933 68. Around 1930, the writer Ernst Heilborn lived in number 13 .

In 1922, Joseph Roth described in a glossary some bars on Nürnberger Strasse that were contact points for “ oriental ” residents and Russian refugees in Berlin. He paints the picture of self-contained groups for whom Berlin was not a home and sums up, “that they all united Nürnberger Straße to a society of homeless people who can never leave their homeland, not even in Berlin and not in the vicinity Wittenbergplatz underground station , because they carry their homeland on their backs forever, like snails their houses. ”In the 1920s, at number 6 was the Nürnberger Diele , a well-known meeting place for homosexuals , also visited by artists like Klaus Mann and Erika Mann , Berthold Viertel or Karl Kraus .

Tauentzienpalast

The Tauentzienpalast was a large cinema with an open-plan café - in the house adjoining the Femina Palace - at Nürnberger Strasse 57-59 in the Schöneberg district . It was located there from 1913 to 1945 and was the UFA's premiere cinema . After the Ufa-Palast am Zoo, the house had the most seats of the more than 300 cinemas in Greater Berlin : 995 seats. The big premieres of UFA films took place here, including films that are still known today such as Berlin - The Symphony of the Big City in 1927. The silent film I kiss your hand, Madame with Marlene Dietrich and Richard Tauber was premiered here in 1929. The Nazi propaganda and historical film Kolberg , commissioned by Joseph Goebbels , also premiered on January 30, 1945 in the final days of the Second World War .

The building, which had been damaged by the Second World War, was used until the 1950s. The ruins were removed and a new building has been erected in its place.

Eden Hotel

Share over RM 1000 in Eden-Hotel AG from September 1930
Eden Hotel, street front opposite the aquarium, February 1914
Mini golf course on the roof of the Eden Hotel (1930)

On the road triangle Budapesterstrasse / Kurfürstenstraße / Nuremberg street opposite the Zoo-Aquarium was the Eden hotel on the historic address Kurfürstendamm 246/247. After the Kurfürstendamm section was renamed Budapester Strasse , the address was Budapester Strasse 35. The Hotelbau am Zoologischer Garten GmbH had the hotel built in 1911/12 according to plans by Moritz Ernst Lesser (1882–1958). The Eden Hotel was partially destroyed during the Second World War. From 1951 to 1958 the heavily damaged building was gradually removed. Today the Olof-Palme-Platz is located here . The writer Jakob Wassermann was a regular guest on stays in Berlin . The hotel bar was considered one of the most elegant in town, and the prices were accordingly high. Successful writers, actors and artists such as Heinrich Mann , Albert Bassermann , Gustaf Gründgens or Erich Maria Remarque , but also Wilhelm Herzog and Marlene Dietrich met here . The painter Max Beckmann documented the bar in 1923 in a woodcut called the Edenbar group portrait ; In his Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood describes a conversation with the German aviator Fritz Wendel that took place here. The hotel gained notoriety in 1919. At that time, it was the headquarters of the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division . On January 15, 1919, the illegally arrested Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were deported there, and at 10 p.m. that day the decision was made to murder them. While Luxemburg was shot a few meters from the hotel and her body was thrown into the nearby Landwehr Canal, the Liebknecht murderers brought the body back to the hotel from the location of the murder in the Tiergarten and handed it over to the station opposite as an "unknown corpse" .

Femina Palace

In the years from 1928 to 1931, a four-storey building complex was built as the Femina Palace , which extends over the house numbers 50–56 on Nürnberger Strasse. After its opening on October 1, 1929, the Ballhaus offered 2,000 seats in several halls and bars. It was correspondingly difficult to revive the house: the operators changed; There were repeated renovations, and in April 1933 the house even closed its doors and remained closed for several years. It was only at the turn of 1935/1936, it opened again, this time under the banner of ethnic Zeitgeist, Schoppenstube and Siechenbräu replaced bars and cabarets , provided the bands of the army , the SA and SS , the NSKK and flyers. However, this concept did not work, it was only when the house was redesigned into the "Swingpalast" that success began again. Leading German Swing - and jazz orchestra as that of Teddy Stauffer and Heinz Wehner guest appearances here, as well as the Tango King Juan Llossas . The house remained in operation (albeit to a limited extent) as an entertainment venue throughout the war . Only the ground floor was used as a place of entertainment, the four upper floors were rented out as offices. In 1938 the Reich monopoly administration for spirits moved into the office floors.

Second World War

As a street located directly on Tauentzienstrasse , Nürnberger Strasse was severely damaged by bombing during World War II . As if by miracle, the entire Femina Palace and the majority of the Wilhelminian-style buildings opposite it were preserved, but the southern half of the street was completely destroyed.

post war period

After the war damage to the former Tauentzienpalast, its name was transferred to the ballroom around the corner in the back of the office building Nürnberger Strasse 50–56 as a cinema in the Tauentzienpalast (1950–1957). The office building along Nürnberger Strasse was used for various purposes in the post-war period , such as an emergency sale for the KaDeWe .

In the 1950s and 1960s, Berlin's most famous jazz club was located in the basement of the Femina Palace with the bathtub . Jazz greats such as Count Basie , Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performed in it; in addition, the club was the first performance location of the cabaret Die Stachelschweine . From 1978 to 1993 the Dschungel discotheque was at number 53 of the building; prominent regulars were singer Nick Cave , entertainer Romy Haag , painter Martin Kippenberger , singer Blixa Bargeld , actors Ben Becker and Benno Fürmann ; the cultural theorist Diedrich Diederichsen and the musicians Iggy Pop and David Bowie . Occasional guests were Frank Zappa , Mick Jagger , Prince , Grace Jones , Depeche Mode , Boy George and Barbra Streisand .

The house at Nürnberger Strasse 50-56 was always an administrative building. From 1948 to 1951 it was the seat of the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO), a West Berlin predecessor organization of the DGB . From 1951, the Senate Department for Finance was also located here, and in 1996 it moved out of the building at the same time as the last other tenants. In the following years the building complex fell into disrepair and with it the entire street became neglected. The renovation to the Ellington Hotel , which opened in 2007 , brought the building and street back to life. Its congress rooms are located on the floor area of ​​the ballroom.

Today Nürnberger Strasse, south of Tauentzienstrasse, is a particularly lively side street off Tauentzienstrasse as a commercial and residential street. The part of Nürnberger Strasse north of Tauentzienstrasse is mainly characterized by the rear side of the Europa Center and the Crowne Plaza Hotel, a four-star hotel . For the parts of the street towards Spichernstrasse (but especially towards the zoo), measures were taken to extend this character after the section at the Ellington Hotel had been revitalized.

Seven stumbling blocks in Schöneberg , Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf are reminiscent of the victims of the Holocaust who lived on Nürnberger Straße.

Web links

Commons : Nürnberger Straße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Measurement using Google Maps with Maps Labs rangefinder , accessed March 3, 2013
  3. ^ Nürnberger Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  4. ^ A b c Fred Oberhauser, Nicole Henneberg: Literarischer Führer Berlin. , 1998, ISBN 3-458-33877-2 , pp. 57, 292, 353
  5. ↑ Volker Wahl: Henry van de Velde in Weimar , 2007, ISBN 3412013064 , p. 79
  6. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger : Else Lasker-Schüler , 2010, ISBN 3-8353-0682-0 , pp. 240–241
  7. ↑ William M. Calder III (Ed.): Hermann Diels (1848-1922) et la science de l'antiquité: huit exposés suivis de discussions , 1999, ISBN 2-600-00745-8 , p. 263
  8. ^ Karl Voss: Travel Guide for Literature Friends Berlin , 1980, ISBN 3548040691 , p. 280
  9. ^ Joseph Roth: Die Asyle der Heimatlosen In: Klaus Westermann (Ed.): Joseph Roth Werke I - The journalistic work 1915–1923 , 1989, ISBN 3 7632 2988 4 , pp. 720–723
  10. ↑ the-seed-of-europe.tumblr.com: Advertisement for the Nürnberger Diele (a gay nightspot)  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / the-seed-of-europe.tumblr.com   , Accessed April 5, 2013
  11. ^ Rainer Schachner: In the shadow of the titans , 2000, ISBN 3826017110 , p. 281
  12. ↑ Jeanpaul Goergen: When the cinema was still called Amor. In: Die Welt , June 10, 1999
  13. ↑ Hans Wollenberg: I kiss your hand, Madame ... In: Lichtbild-Bühne No. 15, January 18, 1929
  14. ^ Berlin address book from 1933
  15. ↑ Jürgen Schebera: Back then in the Romanisches Café - artists and their bars in Berlin in the twenties. Rev. new edition. Berlin: The New Berlin . 2005, ISBN 3-360-01267-4 , p. 143
  16. ↑ Kevin Starr: The Dream Endures , 1997, ISBN 0195100794 , p. 351
  17. ↑ Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories , 2008, ISBN 0811220281
  18. ↑ ellington-hotel.com: pm_ellington_historie - Ellington Hotel Historie PDF ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ellington-hotel.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed March 23, 2013
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  20. ^ Helga Grebing , Siegfried Heimann: Workers' Movement in Berlin , 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-691-8 , p. 112
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 13.6 ″  E