Perelsplatz

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Perelsplatz
until 1961: Maybachplatz
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Perelsplatz
Deluge fountain at the eastern entrance to the park
Basic data
place Berlin
District Friedenau
Created 1896
Newly designed 1931
Confluent streets
Handjerystrasse ,
Sarrazinstrasse ,
Isoldestrasse ,
Evastrasse ,
Lauterstrasse ,
Hähnelstrasse
Buildings Friedrich Bergius High School
use
User groups Pedestrians , cyclists , cars
Space design Fritz Zahn

The Perelsplatz is located in the Berlin district of Friedenau and is part of the Berlin administrative district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg .

Position and extent

The square is an elongated rectangular park that was designed and built in 1907 by Fritz Zahn.

The system is affected by the following roads:

Naming

The square has been named since October 1, 1961 after Friedrich Justus Perels , legal advisor of the Confessing Church , who was shot in a Gestapo action on April 23, 1945 in Berlin-Tiergarten . He was arrested in autumn 1944 in connection with the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . In the 1920s he was a student at what was then the Friedenau High School.

The Perelsplatz was 1873-1884 Berliner Platz , then to 1961 Maybachplatz , named after the Prussian Minister of Commerce and Minister of Public Works Albert von Maybach .

Flora and plants in the park

The park was popularly known for a long time as the "birch grove" because of its trees. In the meantime, a large variety of trees and shrubs has emerged on this site. In addition to the previously numerous birches , oaks , chestnuts , beeches , walnut trees and yew trees are now found .

The 4.20 meter high deluge fountain designed by Paul Aichele has stood at the eastern entrance to the park since 1932 , which previously had its domicile on the former Hamburger Platz on the Friedenauer Südwestkorso . At the western entrance to the park there is a small green area with a memorial from 1923 in honor of the soldiers who fell in World War I , erected by the Huth brothers.

In the western part of the park there is a children's playground.

On the northern edge of the park is a half-timbered houses , the 1909 public convenience built and later to a park bistro has been redesigned with outdoor seating.

Surroundings of the Perelsplatz

The neo-baroque building of the former Friedenau grammar school, which was built between 1901 and 1903 according to plans by the architects Paul Engelmann and Erich Blunck , stands on Handjerystraße, on the western part of the square . Since 1958, the educational establishment has been called the Friedrich Bergius School . The building is decorated with eye-catching details such as a bell tower, cast-iron jewelry, portal frieze and others and is a listed building .

West of Perelsplatzes closes built between 1905 and 1909. The Wagner quarters to where the streets after characters from the operas of Richard Wagner are named. The Sportpark Friedenau was located on the grounds of the Wagner Quarter until 1903.

  • Pictures from Perelsplatz

  • The Maybachplatz at the time , 1908

  • War memorial on Perelsplatz

  • Park café on Perelsplatz

  • Country house from 1886 on Perelsplatz from the time of Friedenau's first development

Web links

Commons : Perelsplatz (Berlin-Friedenau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deluge Well . Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing; accessed on September 17, 2017
  2. ^ Alfred Bürkner: Friedenau - streets, houses, people . Stapp-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87776-065-1 , p. 122.
  3. ^ Alfred Bürkner: Friedenau - streets, houses, people . Stapp-Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 124.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 33 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 3 ″  E