Reichstagufer

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Reichstagufer
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Reichstagufer
View from the Reichstag towards the east
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created around 1882
Connecting roads
Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse,
Friedrichstrasse
Places Friedrich-Ebert-Platz
use
User groups Road traffic , pedestrians
Technical specifications
Street length 830 meters

The Reichstagufer (official spelling without Fugen-s ) is a street or promenade in the Berlin district of Mitte . It runs on the south bank of the Spree and connects the Ludwig-Erhard-Ufer in the west with the Weidendamm in the east. Opposite the bank of the Reichstag, on the north bank of the Spree, runs the Schiffbauerdamm .

history

The name was given in 1882 in connection with the construction of the Reichstag building . Uferstrasse is first listed in the Berlin address book in 1885, at that time in the Reichstag Ufer spelling . At that time it only extended from Hindersinstraße (abandoned, south of the Unterbaumbrücke or Kronprinzenbrücke) to the Reichstag Square (near the Reichstag building) and was accordingly given as only three properties. In the area between the Reichstag building and Friedrichstrasse station (Georgenstrasse), the riverside path was evidently only later turned into a street.

In addition to the Reichstag building and the Reichstag presidential palace, there are a few other older buildings on the banks of the Reichstag:

  • On the Spreefront of the building block between Neuer Wilhelmstrasse and Schlachthausgasse (since 1892 Bunsenstrasse) the Physics Institute (Neue Wilhelmstrasse 16 / 16a) and the Second Chemical Institute (Schlachthausgasse 1 and Bunsenstrasse 1) of the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität ( today: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ), of these new buildings only the corner wing of Bunsenstrasse / Reichstagufer of the Second Chemical Institute has been preserved as part of the Robert Koch Forum .
  • On the site of the former Markthalle IV , of which only the entrance building at Dorotheenstrasse 84 and a connecting tunnel have been preserved, a new building for the Berlin Post Office was built between 1913 and 1917 , which now houses the Federal Government's Press and Information Office .
  • To the east of the Friedrichstrasse train station , the so-called Tränenpalast (Reichstagufer 17), built between 1961 and 1962 , is a reminder of the everyday effects of the division of Germany.

Buildings after 1990

The most important new buildings erected in this quarter after German reunification include the buildings for parliament and government, on the banks of the Reichstag these are the Paul-Löbe-Haus and the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus . The ARD capital studio on the corner of Reichstagufer / Wilhelmstrasse is spatially and functionally related to this . The much-discussed office building of the same name next to the Tränenpalast was completed in 2009 on the triangular property between the easternmost section of the bank of the Reichstag, Friedrichstraße and the Friedrichstraße train station, the so-called Spreedreieck .

Web links

Commons : Reichstagufer (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichstag bank . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1885, part 2, p. 335.
  2. ↑ In the Berlin address book for 1885 there are only information such as "at the Marschallbrücke" or "at the Spree" instead of the usual street name of the confluent for the northern ends (corner properties) in Neue Wilhelmstrasse, Schlachthofgasse (later Bunsenstrasse) and Neustadtische Kirchstrasse Street.
  3. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin, Volume I. Henschelverlag, Berlin (GDR) 1983 / C. H. Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09599-2 , p. 199 f.
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 58 ″  E