Otto-Suhr-Allee
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| View from southeast to northwest with the Charlottenburg town hall |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | before the 19th century |
| Hist. Names |
Berliner Strasse (1859–1957) |
| Connecting roads |
Spandauer Damm (west) , Hardenbergstrasse (south-east of Ernst-Reuter-Platz ) |
| Cross streets | Lohmeyerstraße, Gierkezeile, Brauhofstraße, Eosanderstraße, Wilmersdorfer Straße , Wintersteinstraße, Richard-Wagner-Straße, Warburgzeile, Krumme Straße, Zillestraße, Loschmidtstraße, Leibnizstraße, Cauerstraße, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Straße, Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße |
| Places |
Richard-Wagner-Platz , Ernst-Reuter-Platz |
| Buildings | several architectural monuments |
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| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1630 meters |
The Otto-Suhr-Allee (until 1957 Berlin Street ) is one of the main roads in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . The road passes directly in front of the Charlottenburg Palace in Spandauerdamm round and is part of the historical connection of the Berlin City Palace on the boulevard Unter den Linden and the Pariser Platz by the Brandenburg Gate and the Tiergarten on the Ernst-Reuter-Platz Charlottenburg Palace . Until the city of Charlottenburg was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920, it was the most important link between the two cities.
history
Berliner Straße was filled in in 1703/1704 and inaugurated by the King in May 1705 as the new Charlottenburger Hauptstraße. It received the first street lighting in 1710. At the beginning of the 19th century the historic avenue was paved and its edges were planted with six rows of linden trees. By the end of the 18th century, Charlottenburg developed into a popular summer excursion destination for city dwellers. Apartment houses were built along Berliner Straße and wealthy citizens built villas.
On September 3, 1957, just four days after the death of the Social Democrat Otto Suhr , who was Governing Mayor of Berlin from January 11, 1955 to August 30, 1957 , the section leading to the southeast was given a new name. Otto-Suhr-Allee, laid out in six lanes with a green median, leads from Charlottenburg Palace to Ernst-Reuter-Platz . Before the Second World War it made a kink at this point (called "Das Knie") and ended at the Charlottenburger Tor . All parcels and houses were given new house numbers when they were renamed .
Buildings
Some residential / commercial and official buildings
In 1865, August Wilhelm Bullrich, the mayor of Charlottenburg, lived at Berlinerstrasse 25. At the same time, a royal tax building was named at Neue Berlinerstrasse 24 . Numerous small craftsmen (carpenters, shoemakers , gilders, locksmiths, plumbers, bakers), traders (antiquarian, flour and food retailer, tapestry merchant ) formed the main inhabitants of the street.
The town houses built from the end of the 19th century in the Wilhelminian style that were not destroyed in the Second World War are listed as historical monuments . These include the Ottilie-von-Hansemann-Haus, named after the women's rights activist Ottilie von Hansemann , and the Cecilienhaus , built between 1907 and 1909 at Otto-Suhr-Allee 59 (originally Berliner Straße 137). It served war victims and poor relief as well as health care. In 1943 the copper roof turret and part of the rear building were destroyed.
Further listed buildings in the Otto-Suhr-Allee are
- the Charlottenburg town hall , a monumental building from 1905; about halfway up the street.
The citizens' office and the economic office of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district are now located here; - an office and warehouse (house numbers 26-28), built 1924-1928 according to plans by KA Herrmann,
- a residential complex (house numbers 50–68 and Loschmidtstrasse), 1957/1958 based on a design by Norman Braun ,
- the former post office Charlottenburg I (house numbers 80–82) with outbuildings, from the years 1929–1935 and
- a residential complex (house numbers 110–112), built in 1953/1954.
More buildings
- The German headquarters of the Scientology organization is located between the town hall and Ernst-Reuter-Platz on the corner of Cauerstrasse ,
- On plot number 18-20 which is Ottilie von Hansemann house with the end of 2008 closed private theater tribune .
- On the neighboring property, between Otto-Suhr-Allee and Fraunhoferstraße, which runs parallel to the north, the Cologne-based project developer Art-Invest is building a new seven-story office building for Deutsche Bank . Construction began in 2014, the completion of the building according to plans by the architects Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner is scheduled for 2016. The new building, for which a construction cost of 150 million euros is planned, complements the existing Deutsche Bank high-rise, which was built in the 1960s.
- The "Hof-Apotheke" from 1799 is at number 89.
- In today's Otto-Suhr-Allee 93, his residence, Magnus Hirschfeld and friends founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in 1897 , which marked the beginning of the organized lesbian and gay movement.
traffic
The first horse tram line in Germany had been running on the street since June 22, 1865, operated by the Berlin Horse Railway Company E. Besckow . It initially led from the horse-drawn tram station at the time at the corner of Spandauer Damm and Sophie-Charlotten-Straße via today's Otto-Suhr-Allee to the Brandenburg Gate . It was electrified at the beginning of the 20th century. The closure of the last tram line 55 on the now unused median of Otto-Suhr-Allee on October 2, 1967 also meant the end of tram operations in West Berlin.
It was replaced by a bus route . Today Richard-Wagner-Platz the U7 at the former William place was opened in 1906, he was lying in the center of Charlottenburg and in 1978 replaced by a new building. A historical entrance has been preserved on the southeast side of the square.
literature
- Henrike Hülsbergen (ed.): Charlottenburg really is a city - from the unpublished chronicles of Johann Christian Gottfried Dressel (1751–1824) . Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-925683-04-6
- Wilhelm Gundlach: The history of the city of Charlottenburg . Springer Verlag, Berlin 1905.
Web links
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Otto-Suhr-Allee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Berliner Strasse . In: Luise.
- Otto-Suhr-Allee in the district lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gundlach: The story [...] ; Vol. II, p. 261.
- ↑ Gundlach: The story [...] ; Vol. I, p. 47.
- ↑ Berlinerstrasse . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1865, part 10, p. 92.
- ↑ New Berlinerstrasse . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1865, part 10, p. 93.
- ↑ Architectural monument O. v. Hansemann House
- ^ From idyll to big city - Charlottenburg district 1877–1920 . District Office Charlottenburg, Berlin 1987, p. 15.
- ↑ BD office and warehouse
- ↑ BD formerly Post Office Charlottenburg I
- ↑ BD Otto-Suhr-Allee 110–112
- ^ Ulrich Paul: Departure at Ernst-Reuter-Platz . In: Berliner Zeitung of November 26, 2014, p. 18.
- ^ Lexicon Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Memorial stele for Magnus Hirschfeld in front of his house at Otto-Suhr-Allee 93. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, 1995, accessed on August 29, 2015 .
- ↑ berlin-straba.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 57.8 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 37.9" E