Riga Street
| Riga Street | |
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| Buildings on Rigaer Strasse | |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Friedrichshain |
| Created | 1893 |
| Cross streets | Liebigstrasse, Zellestrasse, Proskauer Strasse, Silvio-Meier-Strasse, Samariterstrasse, Voigtstrasse, Waldeyerstrasse, Pettenkoferstrasse |
| Places | Schleidenplatz |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
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| Street length | 1250 meters |
The Riga street is a street in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . The street is named after the city of Riga , today's capital of Latvia . It stretches from Bersarinplatz in the west to the Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station , including Liebigstraße , Zellestraße , Proskauer Straße , Silvio-Meier-Straße (formerly Gabelsbergerstraße ), Samariterstraße , Voigtstraße and Waldeyerstraße, which crosses Pettenkoferstraße and Schleidenplatz .
history
The street was named on June 24, 1893. The westernmost part of the city maps from 1890 and 1893 was marked as Eckartsbergstraße , after 1893 this part must have been included in Rigaer Straße. Before it was named, it was listed as street number 58 and 58a in section XIII of the development plan.
On October 24, 2009 an attempted car arson took place on Rigaer Strasse . During the investigation, all traffic data from 13 surrounding cell phone cells were queried as part of a radio cell query, which, after it became known in 2012, caused domestic political controversy . On January 13, 2016, there was a much-noticed police operation, which was mainly directed against the left-wing housing project Rigaer Straße 94 and which was controversially discussed.
At the end of 2015, the police declared Rigaer Strasse and adjacent areas a “ crime-laden place ” according to the General Security and Order Act (ASOG) due to the accumulation of politically motivated crimes , increased their presence and carried out personal checks without suspicion . The police checked 1,500 people between mid-October 2015 and January 27, 2016.
particularities
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Several buildings are listed on Rigaer Straße . These are the former Liebig Realschule (No. 8), which is now used as a medical center, the Galilee Church (No. 9/10), the Eckert workers' houses (No. 72/73), as well as the Heinrich-Hertz- Secondary school (No. 81/82). Memorial plaques commemorate the resistance fighters against National Socialism Fritz Riedel (No. 64) and Ernst Pahnke (No. 94), and the writer Theodor Plievier lived in house No. 68 around 1924.
Today, the development on Rigaer Strasse is a mosaic of old and new buildings that were placed in larger vacant lots. The street is known nationwide due to the squatter scene and several evacuation attempts by the Berlin police .
Former Liebig secondary school
The former Liebig Realschule in Rigaer Straße 8 is located in the immediate vicinity of the Galilee Church and is not visually separated from it. It was built in 1898 and consisted of a closed three-story building with two wings and a building with three wings in the inner area of the block. This inner building contained the classrooms and a gym . The building was built in the Brandenburg brick Gothic style and covered with red clinker . The street front has a decorative frieze above the ground floor. In 1945 the inner building was completely destroyed by bombs during World War II.
After completion in 1898, the school was occupied by the 12th Realschule, which was later renamed the Liebig Realschule after the chemist Justus Liebig . In 1941 the commercial school for girls moved into the building, and it was also used for the royal registry office and the municipal tax office. During the GDR era, a youth dental clinic was housed in the building; today it is rented as a medical center to various medical practices.
Galilee Church
The Galilee Church is a Protestant church that was built between 1909 and 1910 to a design by the architects August Dinklage and Ernst Paulus . It fits into the front of the houses on Rigaer Strasse. The Galilee Church today houses the youth resistance museum of the Hedwig Wachenheim Society.
Eckert workers' houses
The oldest surviving building in July 2016 the Samaritan quarter were by Heinrich Ferdinand Eckert for the workers of his country Maschinenfabrik commissioned and built 1875/1876. They were made of slag concrete. Of the original four houses, two were still standing so far, which were connected by an intermediate building in 1887/1888.
They were demolished in July 2016 to make way for the new Carré Sama-Riga project .
Heinrich Hertz High School
The current building of the Heinrich-Hertz-Oberschule was built in 1901/1902 according to designs by the Berlin City Planning Council Ludwig Hoffmann . It is a plastered building with three wings connected by covered walls and courtyard entrances. The teacher's house was in the building on the left, a gymnasium and a reading room in the building on the right. The middle part is set back slightly from the street front and contains the portal area embedded in double columns with a gable roof over which two bears are depicted in an ornament by Otto Lessing , each bearing a coat of arms. There is also a small roof tower on the central building. In 1985 extensive alterations and extensions as well as a renewal of the building front took place.
After completion, the school was first used as a community dual school by the 247th community school founded as a boys 'school and the 252nd community school founded as a girls' school. The Heinrich-Hertz-Oberschule, which has been quartered here since 1994, was a special school of mathematics in the GDR , whose students included numerous later mathematicians, the musician Tamara Danz (singer of the East German band Silly ) and the later Left Party politician Gregor Gysi . The school has been a grammar school since 1990, although the scientific profile has been retained. It is named after the physicist Heinrich Hertz .
Squatting
In the course of the squatters' movement in 1990/91, several houses on Rigaer Strasse were also occupied and the left-wing shared apartments moved into. Collective pubs and function rooms have opened in some of the squats. In 1992, some of the squatting was legalized through the conclusion of rental contracts, others were evacuated as part of the evacuation wave under the Interior Senator Jörg Schönbohm according to the Berlin General Security and Order Act (ASOG) 1997. The squatted houses at Rigaer Strasse 84 and 94 received national attention in the course of their struggle to preserve the projects.
literature
- Dagmar Girra: Berlin's street names - Friedrichshain . Edition Luisenstadt 1996 ISBN 3-89542-084-0
- Hans-Jürgen Mende and Kurt Wernicke (eds.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , Haude & Spener Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-7759-0474-3
Web links
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Riga Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Eckartsbergstrasse . In: Luise.
- autonomous residential and cultural project Rigaer Str. 94
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mass evaluation of cell phone data outraged interior experts. At: Spiegel-Online , January 20, 2012
- ↑ "Frank Henkel is a danger to security and order". At: Der Tagesspiegel , January 18, 2016
- ↑ Erik Peter: Danger Area Rigaer Straße, Berlin: Sabotagepils and Schikanen. In: taz.de . December 28, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Elmar Schütze, Andreas Kopietz: The neighbors on Rigaer Strasse are relaxed. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 14, 2016, accessed January 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Local residents angry: Police checked 1500 people in the Rigaer. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 11, 2016, accessed February 15, 2016 .
- ↑ "We entrepreneurs know how to help ourselves". In: www.tagesspiegel.de. July 13, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 .
- ^ For example, the occupied house at Rigaer Strasse 94 and the Filmrisz ( memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at Rigaer Strasse 103
- ↑ The occupied house at Rigaer Straße 80, see: the daily newspaper : House evictions legally controversial , July 29, 1997.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 58 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 55 ″ E