Yorckstrasse
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| The Kreuzberg Town Hall in Yorckstrasse | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Kreuzberg , Schöneberg |
| Created | 1862 |
| Connecting roads |
Gneisenaustraße (east) , Goebenstraße (west) |
| Cross streets |
Katzbachstrasse , Hagelberger Strasse , Möckernstrasse , Hornstrasse , Großbeerenstrasse , Mehringdamm |
| Buildings | Development |
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| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1400 meters |
The Yorckstraße connects the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Schöneberg together. It represents one of the central east-west connecting roads between the districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Tempelhof-Schöneberg . It was a section of the planned full ring road (Gürtelstraße) around the Berlin city center according to James Hobrecht's development plan for the surroundings of Berlin from 1862. The street is named after the Prussian general Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg .
course
Yorckstrasse begins in Kreuzberg at the intersection with Mehringdamm as an extension of Gneisenaustrasse and bends to the left at Hornstrasse . The next bend - to the right - is at the district border between Kreuzberg and Schöneberg on Katzbachstraße . It then crosses under the Yorckbrücken and extends in Schöneberg to the intersection with Mansteinstraße / Bülowstraße just after the S-Bahn station Yorckstraße (Großgörschenstraße) . From there the traffic route continues as Goebenstrasse. In the Kreuzberg part it crosses the Großbeerenstraße and the Möckernstraße , in the Schöneberg part the Bautzener Straße and the Katzlerstraße go south from it. Barrier-free ramps lead under the Yorckbrücken into the park at Gleisdreieck .
designation
The street was named on October 31, 1864 after Field Marshal Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg , who played an important role in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte . This goes back to the decree of the Prussian King Wilhelm I of July 9th, 1864 and the related order of the cabinet of October 31st of the same year that the Gürtelstrasse and other important squares and streets of the city after battles and well-known soldiers of the wars of liberation should be named. Thus, the general train developed from the Gürtelstraße , to which besides the Yorckstraße also the Gneisenaustraße (named after August Neidhardt von Gneisenau ), the Bülowstraße (named after Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz ), the Kleiststraße (named after Friedrich von Kleist ) and the Tauentzienstrasse (named after Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien ).
In 2019, the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen introduced a motion for the “demilitarization of public space” to the District Assembly (BVV) Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , in order to initiate a public discourse and participation process about a possible renaming of Yorckstrasse and the others in the district after generals and Initiate battles on named streets and squares.
Development
Riehmers Hofgarten
Riehmers Hofgarten is a listed building ensemble from the Berlin Wilhelminian era , the main entrance of which is on Yorckstrasse opposite the Kreuzberg town hall. It was designed by the Berlin builder and architect Wilhelm Riehmer and Otto Mrosk and built in 1891/1892. The center of the ensemble is an inner courtyard in the form of a short avenue, which is surrounded by lavishly designed residential buildings. The development extends in north-south direction to Hagelberger Straße.
“Unusually large facility, with the endeavor to overcome the dense perimeter block development of the time. Indoor arrangement in neo-baroque style. The older building along Großbeerenstraße is a late classicist palace. Front to Yorkstrasse accentuated by a monumental triumphal arch portal and mighty atlases in Schlütersian style - comparison of St. Boniface. "
The facades of the buildings are richly sculptured in construction , in which style elements from Romanesque , Renaissance and Baroque can be recognized. The approximately 300 apartments were originally built for a better-earning middle class of merchants, craftsmen and regimental officers from the nearby army facilities. This population structure changed due to inflation in the post-war years in the 1920s. In 1923, Riehmer's heirs sold the entire system. During the Second World War , the left wing was completely destroyed and not rebuilt. The ensemble has been a listed building since 1953 . Between 1963 and 1974 all facades were restored true to the original. Instead of the destroyed wing of the building, a new building was built in 1985/1986 in which two cinemas are housed, the Yorckkino and the New Yorck . In the restored garden there is a five meter high bronze figure, the abstract sculpture by Gerson Fehrenbach . The Hotel Riehmers Hofgarten is located in the right wing of the building next to the Yorckstraße entrance .
Around 2012 the residential complex was sold again. There are differences of opinion with the district office on the further treatment of the buildings, which is why the district council meeting (BVV) decided in spring 2013 to commission an empirical social study to check whether the residential complex belongs to one of the two neighboring milieu protection areas (Hornstrasse or Chamissokiez) can be assigned. In July 2017 it was announced that the owner's plans would give way to the Hotel Riehmers Hofgarten and the two halls of the Yorck cinema . In June 2018 Florian Schmidt, City Councilor for Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, declared that he wanted to take action against the vacancy in Riehmers Hofgarten and spoke out in favor of preserving the Yorck cinema .
Town hall Kreuzberg
The Kreuzberg Town Hall at Yorckstrasse 4-11 houses parts of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Office with the Department for Health, Social Affairs and Employment (GesSoz) and the Department for Building, Housing and Real Estate Service (BWI). The ten-story building from 1950/1951 by Willy Kreuer is a typical post-war building with a simple facade design. In front of the entrance there is a bronze portrait sculpture of the former social democratic mayor of Kreuzberg, Carl Herz, from 1985, which was created by Joachim Dunkel. The district office's canteen is located on the 10th floor and serves breakfast and lunch for employees and the general public.
St. Boniface Church
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic parish church and was built in 1906/1907 in neo-Gothic style according to plans by Max Hasak . The church was not destroyed in World War II, but it burned down completely. In 1946 the church was put back into use after a provisional renovation. Today's interior design was created in 1966 by Paul Brandenburg . In 1969 a large picture of Fred Thieler was added behind the altar .
Yorckschlösschen
The Yorckschlösschen is a jazz café and at the same time a pub in Yorckstraße 15, which has now been in existence for over 100 years. It was set up in 1895 in the house that was nicknamed "Schlösschen" because of the richly decorated stucco facade . In its founding phase up to the First World War , it was mainly visited by the officers of the garrison who lived in the surrounding area and who were stationed in the Dragoon Guard Barracks on Mehringdamm and at the parade ground at what would later become Tempelhof Airport. After the military was gradually withdrawn from the district, the audience changed, analogous to the tenants, towards the upper middle class. Part of the small beer garden borders the quiet Hornstrasse .
The Yorckschlösschen has been characterized by its current ambience as a jazz and artists' pub for decades. Olaf Dähmlow (long-term owner - until 2005 and then again since 2006), established multiple weekly live concerts, at which musicians / bands from the fields of rhythm & blues and New Orleans jazz play.
Yorck59
Yorck59 refers to a left house project founded in 1988 in the rear building of Yorckstraße 59 in Kreuzberg. In addition to residential communities in which 60 people lived, left-wing initiatives and organizations were located in the building complex. It was an important point of reference for the Berlin and German left-alternative movements. After a conflict over the rent level, which was accompanied by strong protests by supporters, the property was cleared by the police in June 2005. The owner of the house at the time, a bank, ignored an offer of one million euros from a buyer's community and sold the house as a whole to a businessman. Shortly afterwards, he offered his new tenants the apartments for around twice the purchase price.
Residential ensembles and others
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In addition to the residential complexes at Riehmers Hofgarten and at the Bonifatiuskirche already mentioned, the residential complex at Yorckstrasse 80/82 is also a listed building. This was built in 1899/1900 according to plans by Carl August Essmann . Also under monument protection are:
- the house at Yorckstraße 89a, built 1896–1897 also by Wilhelm Riehmer and Otto Mrosk, the builders of Riehmers Hofgarten,
- the house Yorckstrasse 90, built 1890-1891 by Paul Opitz and
- the corner house Mehringdamm 40, which extends into Yorckstraße and which helped shape it, was built in 1868 by Wilhelm Riehmer.
There are very few works of art on Yorckstrasse. There is a bust in front of the town hall that commemorates Paul Herz and on the building there is a plaque commemorating those who died in the Kreuzberg resistance fighters against National Socialism . At house number 11 a plaque commemorates Ernst Barlach , at house number 22 a plaque commemorates Karl Behrens , who lived in this house, and at house number 63 another plaque dedicated to Bruno Henze .
S-Bahn and U-Bahn
At the level of the Yorckbrücken is the Yorckstraße station complex , which consists of two S-Bahn stations on the S1 Yorckstraße (Großgörschenstraße) and S2, S25 and S26 Yorckstraße and the station of the same name on the U7 subway line . The underground station is located between the two S-Bahn stations, which are around 200 meters apart. The suburban railway station of the main line (today's S1 line) was opened in 1891, the suburban railway station of the Dresdener Bahn (today's S2 line) and Anhalter Bahn (today's S25 / S26 lines) in 1903. The underground station only opened in 1971 .
Bicycle traffic
One of 17 permanently installed automatic wheel counting stations in Berlin has been located on Yorckstrasse since 2015. Of all the places in the city that have a counting point, the street is the eighth most frequented place by bicycle traffic.
See also
literature
- Horst Fritzsche: Berlin's street names - Kreuzberg . Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89542-052-2 .
- Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .
- Yorckstraße: Before five in the jungle . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 21, 2010
Web links
- Yorckstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Group Xhain: DS / 1154 / V - Demilitarization of the public space. In: Green Xhain. March 7, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 (German).
- ^ Antje Lang-Lendorff: Renaming streets in Berlin: What Kreuzberg is up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 19, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
- ^ Karin Schmidl: More tenant protection. Riehmers Hofgarten in sight. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 24, 2013, p. 18
- ↑ Yorck operators are in talks with investor. At: rbb24 , July 14, 2017
- ^ City council on expropriation. “The vacancy is a scandal.” In: taz , June 17, 2018, accessed on June 23, 2018
- ↑ Hans W. Korfmann: The jazz close on the track . In: taz , 2005
- ↑ The restaurant. In: yorckschloesschen.de. October 2, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans W. Korfmann: ... and the shark has teeth. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , 2005
- ↑ Traffic survey bike counter for Berlin: How many cyclists are there? Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 32 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 24 ″ E