Lankwitz council scales
| Lankwitz council scales | |
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| place | Berlin-Lankwitz |
| architect | Fritz Freymüller |
| Construction year | 1917 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 25 '54.5 " N , 13 ° 20' 1.6" E |
The Ratswaage Lankwitz is located in the Berlin district of Lankwitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district on the corner of Charlottenstrasse and Elisabethstrasse . It was built in 1917 as a community scale for the then Lankwitz community and is now used as a public meeting place for women.
The women's meeting point is a facility of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office and is subordinate to the local women's representative .
With around 27 square meters, the Ratswaage is the smallest property in Berlin.
history
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The previous Lankwitz community scales were located on the village meadow in Alt-Lankwitz, but at the beginning of the 20th century no longer met the growing demands of the growing community of Lankwitz. Therefore, the Ratswaage Lankwitz was built in the immediate vicinity of what was then the Lichterfelde-Ost freight yard to provide traders and farmers with a "wagon scale", as it was called in the official building drawing from 1917, for weighing their goods. There were horse-drawn wagons and later trucks weighed. It was mainly used by coal traders and served farmers and market traders at the same time. The police later also used the council scales to check the weight of vehicles.
The balance was a weighbridge. The five-meter-long weighing bridge is covered with wooden planks and is still there today. A maximum weight of eleven tons could be weighed. The weighing room is located in the basement below the weighing bridge. The weighing device has been preserved as a technical monument .
The building was erected in 1917 in the style of a garden pavilion according to plans by municipal building officer Fritz Freymüller . The original roof was a dome covered with blue slate . The Ratswaage was damaged in the night of bombing in Lankwitz from 23 to 24 August 1943. In 1951 it was restored with a flat, pointed roof.
The council scales were predominantly led by women who also lived there. From 1918 to 1927 a war widow ran the public community scales. In 1927 Ms. Arndt took over the position of sworn weigher and went down in local history as "The weigher of Lankwitz". She ran the council scales and lived there with her husband until the 1940s. The work as a Wägner was only a sideline, as the income was transferred to the municipal administration. For example, in 1939 around 4,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 17,000 euros) were collected and paid.
In 1968, the community scales were shut down because the length of the weighing bridge was often no longer sufficient and most companies now had their own scales. The Ratswaage was used as a lounge for a neighboring beverage company until it was opened on April 15, 1993 as a meeting place for women for what was then the Steglitz district office after renovation and conversion of the interior .
The monument is located right next to the source of the Lanke , which has been marked since the 750th anniversary of Lankwitz in 1989 with a boulder donated by the sculptor Franz Merk with the inscription Lanke Quelle .
Meeting place for women
The Ratswaage women's meeting point serves to promote and support women in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district. Themed evenings, workshops, groups (including self-help groups ) and events are offered. Artists can exhibit their pictures in the women's meeting point.
To this day, the Ratswaage Lankwitz is the only meeting point for women in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district. She is subordinate to the women's representative Hildegard Josten, who publishes a women's program every six months as an event calendar.
Web links
- Tour23: Lankwitz of the Kulturring in Berlin e. V.
- Women's representative Steglitz-Zehlendorf with an event calendar for the women's meeting point
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The history of the Ratswaage Lankwitz. (pdf 523kb) (No longer available online.) District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 19, 2012 . ( 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.
- ↑ Entry in the state monument list
- ↑ Priorities of the women's representative. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 5, 2012 ; Retrieved March 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
