Rüdesheimer Platz

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Rüdesheimer Platz
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Place in Berlin
Rüdesheimer Platz
Fountain system on Rüdesheimer Platz (detail: Siegfried, the Rosslenker )
Basic data
place Berlin
District Wilmersdorf
Created from 1905
Newly designed 20th and 21st century
Confluent streets
Rüdesheimer Strasse ,
Ahrweilerstrasse ,
Landauer Strasse ,
Eberbacher Strasse
use
User groups pedestrian
Space design Paul Jatzow
Technical specifications
Square area 18,000 m²

The Rüdesheimer Platz is located in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf and represents the center of the Rheingauviertel . The square is flanked to the west by Rüdesheimer Strasse and to the east by Ahrweilerstrasse. The streets are named after cities and towns in the Rheingau-Taunus district in the state of Hesse . Since 1972 there has been a sponsorship between the then Wilmersdorf district and the Rheingau-Taunus district, a partnership since 1991. The partnership has also included the vineyard in the Wilmersdorf stadium with vines from the Rheingau-Taunus since 1984 (100 each of the Riesling and Ehrenfelser varieties ), from which the winemakers press the Wilmersdorfer Rheingauperle . The first harvest was in autumn 1986.

Emergence

Rüdesheimer Platz, 1920

The Rüdesheimer Platz was planned around 1905 by Georg Haberland under aesthetic aspects and inspired by the reformist ideas from English architecture. In order to maintain a uniform and nonetheless individual character of the surrounding buildings, he hired a single architect, Paul Jatzow , for the facades , while the floors were planned by other architects. Georg Haberland was the investor and managing director of Terrain-Gesellschaft Berlin-Südwesten , son of Salomon Haberland , member of the Wilmersdorfer municipal administration and Berlin city councilor.

The housing estate is considered an exemplary early form of relaxed architecture in the countryside. The houses built around 1910 in the English country house style shape the entire town square with their facades, gables and also the front gardens, the so-called “garden terraces”.

Appearance

Father Rhine Mother Moselle
Father Rhine
Mother Moselle

The green area is a little deeper and is a small oasis in the middle of the city due to the old trees and the flower beds. The entire area was designated as a "Protected Building Area with Garden Monument" in 1988. For the opening of the subway station Rüdesheimer Platz , built 1911–1913 by Wilhelm Leitgebel, the “Garden Terrace City” was also commissioned by the city fathers of Charlottenburg .

Siegfriedbrunnen

The Siegfriedbrunnen is located on Rüdesheimer Straße. The 1911 by Emil Cauer d. J. designed fountain system is dominated by Siegfried , the Rosslenker. It is flanked by two sculptures : on the right by a wine queen, often referred to as an allegorical figure of the Moselle , on the left by a male sculpture - also described as the Rhine father . At the eastern end, towards Ahrweilerstraße, a children's playground has closed off the green area since the late 1970s.

Interesting on and on the square

Rüdesheimer Platz underground station

Rüdesheimer Platz underground station

The Rüdesheimer Platz underground station was built as part of the expansion of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer subway between Wittenbergplatz and Thielplatz in the south of the Dahlem domain , today a section of the U3 line from Warschauer Straße to Krummen Lanke . The opening was on October 12, 1913.

The then independent community of Wilmersdorf attached great importance to the design of the train stations. Like the other historic stations on the U3 line, the Rüdesheimer Platz underground station relates to its surroundings. Viticulture motifs decorate the train station in the form of mosaics and ceramics by the artist Martin Meyer-Pyritz .

From 1987 to 1988 the station was renovated and largely returned to its pre-war state. The former advertising space in the train station was provided with modern graffiti art .

Historic toilet house

A “ Café Achteck ” reconstructed from the remains of the former urinal from Goslarer Platz was inaugurated on May 18, 2006. The company Wall AG took care of modern equipment and the re-installation. ( Location )

Street library

“BücherboXX”, 2010 and the first project of the Friends of Rüdesheimer Platz network: The “Villa Libris” book cell “BücherboXX”, 2010 and the first project of the Friends of Rüdesheimer Platz network: The “Villa Libris” book cell
“BücherboXX”, 2010 and the first project of the Friends of Rüdesheimer Platz network: The “Villa Libris” book cell

From the beginning of September 2010 to the end of January 2011 there was a public street library called “BücherboXX” . It is a discarded and converted telephone booth (type TelH78) from Deutsche Telekom , in which anyone can put their no longer needed books so that others can borrow them. The project was funded by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district as an LSK (Local Social Capital) project with funds from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the State of Berlin and awarded the quality label “Werkstatt N-Impuls 2011” by the German Council for Sustainable Development . Since June 2011 the book box has been redesigned as “Villa Libris”.

Rheingau wine fountain

The Rheingau Weinbrunnen has been in operation since 1967. Wine and sparkling wine from the region are served at a wine tasting stand that is typical of the Rheingau . It takes place in the summer months from May to September. Since the 1980s, winemakers from the Rheingau wine-growing region have been offering their wines alternately. Winegrowers from Winkel , Oestrich and Erbach have also been participating since 2005 . The noise associated with visiting the small wine festival often led to arguments with local residents. The district office then issued strict requirements: the wine stand must close at 9:30 p.m., the deposit glasses can still be returned until 9:45 p.m. A security company then kindly ensures that the Weinbrunnen area is left, which is finally closed with a construction site grid. Nevertheless, on June 11, 2014, a resident filed an urgent application to the Berlin administrative court to withdraw the liquor license , but was defeated in the main proceedings in 2016.

media

The Rüdesheimer Platz served as inspiration for the songwriter Manfred Maurenbrecher , who later wrote and composed the song Paradies Rüdi in 2011 . It is often presented in his performances.

In 2015, the New York Times named the adjacent Rüdesheimer Straße as one of the twelve most beautiful streets in Europe as representative of the entire neighborhood .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rüdesheimer Platz (Berlin-Wilmersdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ Café Achteck, historic toilet. berlin.de, accessed on January 16, 2011 .
  3. ↑ BücherboXX international ; BücherboXX blog
  4. ^ Rheingau wine fountain . In: Bezirkslexikon on berlin.de
  5. ↑ The wine can continue to flow at Rüdesheimer Platz . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on July 16, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Favorite Streets in 12 European Cities . In: The New York Times . April 16, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 30, 2016]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 23 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 57"  E