Prenzlauer Allee
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| Prenzlauer Allee, view from the Berlin TV tower |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Prenzlauer Berg |
| Created | before the 19th century |
| Hist. Names |
Heinersdorfer Weg, Prenzlauer Chaussee |
| Connecting roads |
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (southwest) , Prenzlauer Promenade (northeast, at the Weißensee tip ) |
| Cross streets |
(Selection) Torstrasse , Mollstrasse , Belforter Strasse Heinrich-Roller-Strasse, Danziger Strasse , Wichertstrasse, Grellstrasse, Wisbyer Strasse , Ostseestrasse |
| Buildings | Notable buildings |
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| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1380 meters |
The Prenzlauer Allee in Berlin is one of the main roads in the district of Prenzlauer Berg of Pankow . The 1.4 km long arterial road is named after the city of Prenzlau in the Uckermark .
It is the extension of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße coming from Alexanderplatz and merges into the Prenzlauer Promenade in the north . The northern section behind the intersection of Danziger Straße is also the first piece of federal highway 109 , which continues as Autobahn 114 to the Pankow triangle on the Berliner Ring ( federal highway 10 ).
course
From the border of the Mitte district at the Torstrasse / Mollstrasse ( Prenzlauer Tor ) intersection , it continues between Kollwitzkiez and Winsviertel in the north-north-east direction, crosses Danziger Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 96a and part of the inner city ring ), as well as the ring line at Prenzlauer Allee station on the S- Bahn before it ends at the intersection of Wisbyer Straße / Ostseestraße in front of the Weißenseer Spitze . From there, on the border between the districts of Pankow and Heinersdorf, the Prenzlauer Promenade leads to the Autobahn 114 that begins behind the Pankow-Heinersdorf station ( Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn ).
Location in urban space
Prenzlauer Allee is one of the seven radial arterial roads leading north and east that were laid out in the Hobrecht Plan in the 19th century. These include - starting from the center from north to south-east - clockwise:
- Hackescher Markt - Rosenthaler Strasse - Rosenthaler Platz - Brunnenstrasse - Badstrasse
- Alexanderplatz - Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse - Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Schönhauser Allee - Berliner Strasse
- Alexanderplatz / Alexanderstraße - Karl-Liebknecht-Straße - Prenzlauer Tor - Prenzlauer Allee - Prenzlauer Promenade
- Molkenmarkt - Gruner- / Alexanderstraße - Otto-Braun-Straße - Greifswalder Straße - Berliner Allee
- Prenzlauer Tor - Mollstrasse - United Nations Square - Landsberger Allee
- Alexanderplatz - Karl-Marx-Allee - Strausberger Platz - Karl-Marx-Allee / Frankfurter Tor - Frankfurter Allee
- Spandauer Strasse / Molkenmarkt - Stralauer Strasse - Holzmarktstrasse - Stralauer Platz - Mühlenstrasse - Stralauer Allee
history
The street was used as a long-distance trade route to Prenzlau early on , hence the name. Until about 1824 it was called Heinersdorfer Weg ; Heinersdorf was the first town on the street outside Berlin. With the design and planning by Salomo Sachs and the approval for the new building on December 3, 1824, it was called Prenzlauer Chaussee and finally upgraded to Allee from 1878 . A newly founded stock corporation and the Prussian government implemented Sachs' plans.
Notable buildings
The former Jonaß department store of the Jewish merchant Herrmann Golluber is located at Prenzlauer Tor . After the expropriation of the Jewish owners, the building, built in 1928/1929 in the New Objectivity style by the architects Bauer and Friedländer, was the seat of the Reich Youth Leadership from 1934 to 1945, and from 1946 to 1959, under the name House of Unity, the seat of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED . After that it was used by the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . The building has been empty since 1995. After being transferred back to the heirs , it was bought by a British group of investors in 2007 and used as Soho House Berlin in 2010 .
Immediately to the north of this are the buildings of the former baking factory , which were renovated at the beginning of 2000 . The Aschinger brothers set up their headquarters on the site at the end of the 19th century and from here supplied their corner pubs and standing beer halls spread across the city with pea soup and rolls . In the mid-1920s, a large number of workshops and food production facilities were added in order to be able to supply hotels and restaurants of the Aschinger empire. 4000 people worked at this location at the time, and 1.1 million bread rolls were baked every week. At that time, Aschinger was Europe's largest catering company and is considered a forerunner of the fast food chains. From 1947, the Aktivist company and later the Baked Goods Combine Berlin ( VEB BAKO) used the site to produce rolls, bread - and Moscow ice cream - for all of East Berlin . In 1990/1991 the Berlin entrepreneur Horst Schiesser acquired the company. He continued to run the large bakery under the name Cityback until 1997. Since 2002 the baking factory has been a service center in which u. a. the company VZnet Netzwerk is based, which operates online communities such as studiVZ , schülerVZ and meinVZ . The dark restaurant Nocti Vagus is also located here.
A little further north, between Saarbrücker and Metzer Strasse, are the only partially preserved buildings of the Bötzow brewery . The formerly largest private brewery in Berlin produced from 1864 to 1945. The adjoining beer garden once had space for 6,000 visitors. In connection with the Spartacus or January uprising of 1919, the Revolutionary Committee met here under the leadership of Karl Liebknecht . Since 1959 a memorial stone by the sculptor Otto Maercker on the entrance to the garden restaurant (corner of Saarbrücker Straße / Prenzlauer Allee) has been a reminder of this .
From 1995, Metro AG planned a complex of shopping center, offices, restaurants and apartments on the brewery site, which was never realized. In 2010, the entrepreneur Hans Georg Näder bought the site and announced plans for mixed commercial and residential use.
The Immanuelkirche, built from 1891 to 1893 in neo-Romanesque style, stands between Raabestrasse and Immanuelkirchstrasse . The imperial couple Wilhelm II and Auguste Viktoria also took part in its inauguration on October 21, 1893 . Today, in addition to the services of the Immanuel parish, concerts of various contents take place there.
Opposite is the building complex of the former community dual school, completed in 1886, built as a boys 'and girls' school according to plans by the town planning officer Hermann Blankenstein . Sebastian Haffner grew up in this building because his father had an apartment here as the director. In the 21st century, the buildings serve the education center at the water tower with adult education center, library and Prenzlauer Berg Museum .
At the house on Prenzlauer Allee 35, between Immanuelkirchstrasse and Marienburger Strasse, a plaque commemorates Erich Nehlhans , who lived here until his arrest in March 1948. After the end of World War II, Nehlhans was co-founder and chairman of the Jewish Community in Berlin .
Between Fröbelstrasse and Stargarder Strasse, the ensemble of buildings of the former urban shelter, hospital and infirmary (house numbers 63–79) is relatively well preserved. It was built between 1886 and 1889 according to the design and under the direction of Hermann Blankenstein . In the 21st century, the Pankow District Office (part of Prenzlauer Berg) with its archive and various district institutions use the building ensemble. House 3 is noticeable because the entire building is framed by a text band (white texts on a shiny black background) at the top of the building plinth. The texts to be read on this belong to the artistic symbol of questions by the artist Karla Sachse , which is intended to remind of the existence of a place of detention of the Soviet NKVD and later of the MfS in this building. The memorial goes back to a resolution of the district assembly and the commitment of a citizens' initiative and was inaugurated in October 2005. It should help keep the historical awareness alive.
On the corner of Danziger Strasse, the plastic Kinder, created by Stephan Horota in 1967/1968, stands under an umbrella .
Parks and cemeteries
Immediately to the north of today's district office and not far from the S-Bahn station is the Zeiss large planetarium . Here Prenzlauer Allee borders Ernst-Thälmann-Park .
Between Mollstrasse and Prenzlauer Berg there is the St. Marien and St. Nikolai cemetery I (also called the old cemetery of the St. Nikolai and St. Marien parishes ). It was opened by the Protestant parishes of the Marienkirche and the Nikolaikirche on July 27, 1802 and expanded in 1814 and 1847. The site was located directly on the specially relocated excise wall between Prenzlauer Tor and Bernauer Tor (from April 1810 Königstor ) within what was then Berlin's urban area. The cemetery has been a garden monument since the 1990s .
To the north of it and outside the excise wall (between Prenzlauer Berg and Heinrich-Roller-Strasse), the Marien and Nikolaigemeinde bought a new piece of land on what was then Prenzlauer Chaussee in 1858. The new or St. Marien and St. Nikolai cemetery II was built here . The entrance is located in a gap between the buildings Prenzlauer Allee 6 and 8. In an easterly direction to Greifswalder Straße, Cemetery I of the Georgen Parochial Community , formerly Georgenfriedhof, joins. It was laid out in front of the King's Gate in 1814.
Public transport
As a horse-drawn tram between Alexanderplatz and Gustav-Adolf-Straße in Weißensee , the New Berlin Horse-drawn Railway began operating on Prenzlauer Allee in 1895. In 1901 the line was electrified by the Great Berlin Tram . The entire length of Prenzlauer Allee is served by the M2 tram line. This connects Heinersdorf with the city center and ends at Alexanderplatz. In addition, the tram lines M10 along Danziger Straße and the 12 and M13 at the northern end (Wisbyer Straße / Prenzlauer Promenade) cross the avenue.
About halfway between Wisbyer Strasse / Ostseestrasse and Danziger Strasse is the Prenzlauer Allee S-Bahn station with a striking entrance building built in 1891/1892 using clinker brick. In addition to the two ring lines S41 and S42 of the S-Bahn , the lines S8, S85 and S9 operate there.
See also
Web links
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Prenzlauer Allee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Prenzlauer Chaussee . In: Luise.
- Heinersdorfer Weg . In: Luise.
- Prenzlauer Allee station at stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Information sheet on the baking factory from the Berlin Center for Industrial Culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephan Lebert: The secret living room . In: Zeit.de , August 26, 2010
- ↑ Backfabrik website, History section , viewed on August 5, 2011
- ↑ website of the vagus Nocti
- ↑ Näders plans for Duderstadt, Vienna and Berlin. In: Göttinger Tageblatt , June 11, 2010.
- ↑ Monument database of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Suburb - Building and Living in Prenzlauer Berg , viewed on May 18, 2010.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '39 " N , 13 ° 25' 38" E