Olivaer Platz
| Olivaer Platz | |
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 Olivaer Platz, facing west |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Wilmersdorf |
| Created | 1892 |
| Newly designed | 1907-1910 |
| Confluent streets |
Lietzenburger Strasse , Konstanzer Strasse , Wielandstrasse , Schlueterstrasse , Württembergische Strasse , Xantener Strasse , Pariser Strasse , Bayerische Strasse , Bregenzer Strasse |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , road traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 11,500 m² + 1,150 m² |
The Olivaer Platz is a park-like facility in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district on Lietzenburger Straße , near the confluence with Kurfürstendamm . The triangular part on Kurfürstendamm is in the district of Charlottenburg .
location
Most of the square is located south of Kurfürstendamm between Konstanzer and Württembergischer Strasse in the Wilmersdorf district (house numbers 1–10 and 17, 18), the surrounding streets are also called "Olivaer Platz". The square itself has house number 20. Another part is located on the north side of the square in the district of Charlottenburg (house numbers 11-16) and south of Kurfürstendamm (no properties assigned) and is bordered to the east and southwest by the streets of the same name.
history
The square was named after the peace treaty of Oliva (closed in 1660 in the Oliva monastery in Pomerania ; today Oliva is a district of Gdansk ). On the one hand, this contract ended Brandenburg's successful participation in the Second Northern War ; It later turned out to be even more important that he confirmed the sovereignty of the Hohenzollern duchy and thus laid the foundation for the later Kingdom of Prussia . In the area from Kurfürstendamm to Hohenzollerndamm , the streets were named after people and events in the history of the House of Hohenzollern.
The square originally only encompassing the area between Konstanzer and Bayerische Strasse was laid out in 1892 and 1907–1910 according to a design approved in 1906 by the city gardener Richard Thieme . With this design, Thieme turned away from the traditional eclectic jewelry square, such as Ludwigkirchplatz , and turned to the new direction, which required geometric and symmetrical city squares. In addition, a children's playground has been integrated into the square. At that time, Olivaer Platz was considered the most modern square in Berlin and the surrounding area.
The largest part was a sunken garden, which was bordered by very steep lawn slopes. The central element here was a huge, rectangular carpet of flowers made of bed roses , astilbes , daffodils and tulips , which took up more than a third of the length of the space . This new type of planting was controversial among the public. To the west, the square was bounded by a retaining wall, in front of which was a three-pass water basin. The retaining wall as the grotto-like final prospectus of the entire space was structured monumentally with five arched niches. The material was embossed Rüdersdorf limestone blocks.
Originally the flowerbed reached close to the water basin. There was only a narrow path around the pool. In 1910, Thieme redesigned this place and created a larger free space with seating in front of the fountain basin by shortening the carpet of flowers.
After the Second World War , the square was first restored in the form of Thiemes, with the flower carpet being replaced by lawn. In 1961, on the occasion of the widening of Lietzenburger Strasse, the square was reduced in size and redesigned on its north side. The building block between Bayerische Strasse and Schlueterstrasse, which had been destroyed in the war, was cleared away and included as a parking lot in this area as Bayerische Strasse was closed.
At the beginning of the 1960s, the square was given its current design, which includes fountains, brick walls and concrete benches corresponding to the style of the time. A playground was created on the south side. There are numerous shops and restaurants around the square, especially since the south side of the square with the buildings Olivaer Platz 1–7 is the direct continuation of Xantener Strasse / Pariser Strasse and the north side is the continuation of Lietzenburger Strasse. The area around Olivaer Platz is a popular nightlife and residential area. The sculpture Lenz by Pit Kroke was located on the square from 1998 to 2014 .
A well-known novella by the Hungarian author Sándor Márai is set on Olivaer Platz . Furthermore, the stationery shop of Heinz Berggruen 's father , who was one of the most important German art collectors of the 20th century, was located on the square .
future
After a landscape planning competition was carried out by the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment with the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf District Office in 2011, the victorious Dresden office of Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten was commissioned to redesign the square. This should start in the second half of 2012 at costs of around 2.5 million euros, excluding the 123 parking spaces. After criticism of the citizens' initiative Olivaer Platz e. V. , the u. a. fought to preserve the flora and fauna that had grown over decades and what they believed to be an urgently needed parking space, the start of the redesign was delayed further (according to the status quo until summer 2016). At the end of 2015, the district office agreed with the votes of all parliamentary groups on a “multifunctional” square design. The place should be brighter and get a large meadow with old trees. Instead of today's snack bar, a café with a terrace is to be built and the playground is to be enlarged to 800 m². At the same time, 60 of the 123 parking spaces are to be retained. In March 2019, however, the work had not yet started.
Green space on Kurfürstendamm
Restaurants on the north side
snack
Parks
Statue "Lenz 92"
Stumbling blocks
- Olivaer Platz 5: Alfred Schmidt-Sas (March 29, 2008), Robert Gumpert (formerly Pariser Strasse 30/31; September 24, 2010)
literature
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Richard Thieme: garden director of Wilmersdorf (1876-1948): overview of works. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Environment Office, 2002
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The town squares of the Wilmersdorfer garden director Richard Thieme (1876–1948) . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins No. 104 (2008), pp. 114–124, also No. 105 (2009), pp. 150–160.
- Swantje Duthweiler: New plants for new gardens - Development of the range of colors for perennials and flower bulbs and their use in gardens between 1900 and 1945 in Germany. Worms 2011, p. 78 f.
Web links
- Olivaer Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Olivaer Platz. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Olivaer Platz. Citizens' initiative Olivaer Platz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Redesign of Olivaer Platz
- ↑ Elmar Schütze: Conversion of Olivaer Platz New plans versus old green . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 16, 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 53 ″ E