Petersburg Street
 Petersburg Street
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| Petersburger Strasse in the direction of Danziger Strasse | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Friedrichshain |
| Created | 1874 |
| Hist. Names | Bersarinstrasse |
| Connecting roads |
Danziger Strasse , Warschauer Strasse |
| Cross streets | (Selection) Kochhannstrasse, Straßmannstrasse, Mühsamstrasse |
| Places |
Bersarinplatz , Petersburger Platz |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1120 meters |
The St. Petersburg street is a street in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . In addition to its importance as a section of the inner Wilhelminischer Ring and the inner city ring , it is also a section of the federal highway 96a . The street begins on Landsberger Allee , where it emerges from Danziger Straße , and ends at Frankfurter Tor , where it turns into Warschauer Straße . In its course it passes, among other places, the Petersburger and the Bersarinplatz . The street is named after the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg at the time .
location
Petersburger Strasse is located entirely within the Berlin S-Bahn ring as a section of the interior of the two Wilhelmine rings from the Hobrecht plan . This connects the districts of Prenzlauer Berg , Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in a three-quarter circle . Petersburger Strasse forms the section between Frankfurter and Landsberger Allee.
history
The road was initially laid out as a simple dirt road from 1822. Since its main task was to connect the northern and eastern arteries of Berlin with each other, the route was named Communication . The permanent development, however, only took place with the continuous implementation of the Hobrecht Plan from 1862. In this, the section that forms today's Petersburger Straße appeared as street no. 6 / Section XIII / 2 .
The street was given its name, which is still valid today, on April 23, 1874. The choice fell on what was then the Russian capital, as a few years earlier the Prussian Eastern Railway had created a continuous rail link between Berlin and Saint Petersburg. The terminus of this route, the Alte Ostbahnhof , is not on the street, but southwest of it.
On July 31, 1947, the street was renamed Bersarinstrasse . It was named after the first Soviet city commander of Berlin, Nikolai Bersarin , who had died in a motorcycle accident about two years earlier . At the same time, the former Baltenplatz was given its current name, Bersarinplatz .
The renaming took place on December 1, 1991. Unlike the street, however, the Bersarinplatz kept its name.
Development
Almost the entire course of Petersburger Strasse is characterized by tenements . While mostly citizens lived in the houses facing the street, the inner courtyards were mostly characterized by small one- to two-room apartments. These were partially demolished from the 1970s as part of several renovation measures when the blocks were gutted . There are often smaller shops or bars on the ground floor.
The Flessa Bräu brewery is located in the courtyard at Petersburger Straße 39 .
There are prefabricated buildings between Kochhannstrasse and Landsberger Allee , as well as around Bersarinplatz. They were built from the 1970s to the mid-1980s as replacements for the old buildings damaged by the war and later demolished.
Public transport
The first tram line through northern Petersburger Strasse went into operation between July 1, 1882 and March 31, 1883, and horse-drawn trams had crossed the street at Baltenplatz since December 15, 1881. The lines were operated by the Neue Berliner Pferdebahn-Gesellschaft , which merged with the Great Berlin Tram in 1900 . On October 1, 1901, the southern part of the road between Baltenplatz and Frankfurter Allee was used by the flat railway of the elevated railway company , which established a direct connection between the central cattle and slaughterhouse and the Warschauer Brücke elevated station . In 1910 this line became the property of the city of Berlin, which from then on ran its urban tram lines via this connection. In 1920 the two companies were united and the routes were connected. In the 1920s, the road was used by several ring lines (line 4 [Ost-West-Ring], line 5 [outer ring] and line 9 [Ostring]), of which line 4 was the only one that continued to exist after the war with a shortened route. This line has been operating as the M10 since 2004 and continues to travel along Petersburger Strasse for its entire length. Line 21 also runs along the street between Bersarinplatz and Frankfurter Tor.
At the southern end of the street, the Frankfurter Tor subway station provides access to the U5 line of the Berlin subway . The subway station was named after the street in its current name between 1930 and 1958 and from 1996 to 1998. From 1930 to 1946 and 1996 to 1998, respectively, the underground station was called Petersburger Straße , from 1946 to 1958 Bersarinstraße , and in 1958 for a short time with the addition of Frankfurter Tor .
In Petersburger Strasse, a high curb between the lane and the parking row is marked as a cycle path without any obligation to use it. In April 2020, one of the three lanes on both sides of the road was rededicated with yellow markings and bicycle pictograms as a pop-up cycle path . It was a measure in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Berlin .
See also
Web links
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Petersburg Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Bersarinstrasse . In: Luise.
Individual evidence
- ↑ brauerei-flessa.de
- ^ Hans-Joachim Pohl: The new Berlin horse-drawn railway company. The traffic development of Weißensee and Lichtenberg (part 1) . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 1, 1986, pp. 2-11 .
- ↑ Uwe Kerl: 100 years of the flat railway . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 10, 2001, pp. 179-189 .
- ↑ from 3 to 23 . In: Monument Preservation Association Berlin (Ed.): Tram history (s). From 3 to 23 . GVE, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89218-033-4 , pp. 15-21 .
- ^ André Loop: Frankfurter Tor. (No longer available online.) In: The Berlin U-Bahn Gallery. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 25, 2013 . ( 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.
- ↑ More pop-up cycle paths for Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg are coming. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 3 ″ E