Petriplatz
| Petriplatz | |
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 View towards Petrikirche at the end of the 19th century |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | center |
| Created | 14th Century |
| Newly designed | 20th century. (After removal of the church ruins) and parking overbuilt |
| Confluent streets |
Gertraudenstrasse , Kleine Gertraudenstrasse, Scharrenstrasse, Brüderstrasse |
| Buildings | Petrikirche (until 1964), Cöllnisches Rathaus (destroyed), Latin school (no longer available) |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Space design | Parking spot; After the archaeological excavations have been completed, new buildings will be built in 2014 with a prayer and teaching house for three religions |
The Petriplatz with the Petrikirche was the central square in the medieval city of Cölln near Berlin . The Brüderstraße , which begins at the original location of the Schloßplatz , flows into the square . As with the church that gave it its name, the name is related to the neighboring fishing island and the role of Saint Peter as the patron saint of fishermen.
Petriplatz is located in Berlin 's Mitte district near the Gertraudenbrücke and became almost complete as a square after its destruction in the Second World War in the 1960s when the area around Brüderstraße with the State Council building and the adjoining residential development as well as the traffic axis Grunerstraße - Leipziger Straße were rebuilt eliminated. After years of using the remaining area as a parking lot , extensive soil surveys are carried out. According to a project by the State of Berlin in cooperation with the evangelical parish St. Petri - St. Marien and other groups, an interreligious building called House of One is to be built at this point .
history
On October 28, 1237, Symeon , pastor of Petrikirche zu Cölln, was named as a witness in a document. This first mention is generally regarded as the date of birth of Berlin and gives an indication of the church and its location. As was customary in the past, the congregation built a cemetery at the church, which was abandoned when Cölln was expanded. In connection with the archaeological excavations since the beginning of the 21st century, the graves of 3500 people have been discovered and uncovered here.
Until the Second World War, the Petriplatz was much smaller than today's open space up to the Breite Straße would suggest because of the development . The first Berlin town hall separated Petriplatz from the Köllnischer Fischmarkt on Breiten Strasse; the former dense peripheral development can only be seen on Scharrenstrasse.
Development of Petriplatz in the 21st century
Archaeological excavations for a new building
On the basis of the inner city plan , the Berlin Senate decided in 2006 to restore and develop Petriplatz in its former dimensions and to convert it into a city square at a historical location. In parallel to the excavations, a competition for architects and landscape planners was held in autumn 2007 to design the square. With the peripheral development, the urban space of the Breite Straße , Scharrenstraße and Gertraudenstraße is to be regained and an urban experience area to be designed.
House of One
After the groundbreaking ceremony by the Senate Building Director Regula Lüscher Gmür on March 5, 2007, archaeological excavations began to investigate the historical nucleus of Berlin on Petriplatz. The diggers found structural remains of the foundations of the Petrikirche as well as remains of the old Cölln town hall, medieval town houses and graves of the oldest citizens of Cölln. Those interested were able to find out more about the excavation results and the planning project on display shovels. Finally, the Senate decided not to simply level the sites again as usual, but to build an archaeological visitor center over the area , in which the finds will be presented. A corresponding building, which at the same time symbolizes the religions that have been associated with Berlin for the longest time ( Christians , Jews and Muslims ), is now being built after an architectural competition . The name expresses that almost all religions in the world worship a single God who only bears a different name, it is The One.
The common building is clearly divided into three areas and thus also structurally clarifies the basic idea of the three religions in Berlin. Daily guided tours are planned, also for school classes as well as use for symposia and also for private purposes. The religious representatives involved have drawn up a joint charter in which non-violence, solidarity, unselfishness and equality form the core.
The project of the House of One - prayer and teaching house is supported by its own foundation with Roland Stolte as chairman and an association. From 2018 to January 2019 there was an information pavilion on the edge of the excavation pit, which was actively used. The total construction costs are estimated at around 44 million euros (as of the end of 2018), of which the federal government is providing ten million and the city of Berlin also providing ten million. The rest should come together through private donations and crowdfunding . The laying of the foundation stone is planned for April 14, 2020, the anniversary of the world premiere of Lessing's drama Nathan the Wise 1783 in Berlin.
Changes in building law
With the renovation of Petriplatz, the streets that affect it are to be changed: the dismantling of the Breiten Straße and the Mühlendamm, as well as the renewal of the Scharrenstraße, the Kleine Gertraudenstraße and the Friedrichsgracht . In the spring of 2019, the preparation of the development plan I-218-1 in accordance with Section 13a of the Building Code was made public. According to this, the previous sub-area of Petriplatz, the "public traffic area for special purposes, pedestrian area 'is to be rededicated as private traffic area for special purpose, lounge area" " . The right to walk in favor of the general public should be preserved.
Web links
- Petriplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Senate Department for Urban Development
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Julia Haak: A house of prayer for three. Christians, Jews and Muslims want to build an interreligious place on Petriplatz in Mitte. Berliner Zeitung , 4./5. August 2012; Page 22
- ↑ a b Sylvia Perdoni: Bethaus am Petriplatz - Secret outside, dialogue of religions inside , accessed on January 4, 2013
- ↑ Petriplatz and Breite Straße. Planning for Alt-Cölln. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, August 2012, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Charter of the Bet- und Lehrhaus association , accessed on January 4, 2013
- ↑ House of One receives ten million euros from the federal government , broadcast on rbb24 on November 22, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2019.
- ↑ laying of the foundation stone in spring 2020 on house-of-one.org; accessed on March 7, 2019.
- ↑ Public announcement on the development plan I-218-I in: Berliner Zeitung , March 22, 2019, p. 15.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 47.7 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 14.5" E