Roedeliusplatz
| Roedeliusplatz | |
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 Roedeliusplatz with adjacent streets |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Lichtenberg |
| Created | 19th century, first name: Wagnerplatz until 1935 |
| Newly designed | from 2010 |
| Confluent streets | Normannenstrasse, Glaschkestrasse, Plonzstrasse, Schottstrasse, Fanningerstrasse, Alfredstrasse, Magdalenenstrasse |
| Buildings | St. Anthony & St. Shenouda Church, District Court |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | around 10,000 m² |
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 52.5 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 21.5 ″ E
The Roedeliusplatz is a rectangular square in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg in the district north of the Frankfurter Allee between Möllendorffstraße and Eastern Railway . In the middle of the square is the former faith church ( St. Antonius & St. Shenouda Church ) and on the southern edge of the Lichtenberg district court . The overall layout of the square - church with green spaces and pathways, district court and tax office building as well as surrounding streets (sections) - forms a monument area listed in the list of monuments of the State of Berlin.
history
In the course of industrialization and the development for industrial purposes, the community of Lichtenberg experienced a strong population increase at the beginning of the 20th century , to which the administration first reacted with the construction of the religious church 1903-1905, the district court building 1904-1906 on a still undeveloped area - and then of course with the construction of new apartment buildings. The place was in 1897, when the plans for a new urban center Lichtenberg's name Wagnerplatz after the German composer Richard Wagner . The Terrain Development Company, which was also formed in Lichtenberg, still ran the square in 1905 under the name of Amtsgerichtsplatz . On February 12, 1935, the square was given a new name because of many streets and squares in Berlin that were named after Wagner. This goes back to Adalbert Roedelius , who was initially mayor of Spandau from 1851 to 1869 and from 1874 to 1877 the first mayor of the new Lichtenberg district; until then there had only been village mayors.
Development
Church and parish hall
The square is dominated by the St. Antonius & St. Shenouda Church with its 61-meter-high towers, which, according to plans by the architect Ludwig von Tiedemann and the builder Robert Leibnitz, are essentially in the late Gothic style with elements from other architectural eras ( Romanesque , Renaissance ) has been. The imperial couple and the Evangelical Church Building Association Auguste Viktorias contributed 80,000 marks to the construction costs of 338,000 marks . Built at the time as a religious church of the Protestant parish, it was acquired by the Coptic Orthodox Church in Germany in the 1990s . She uses the church for her Berlin congregation and intends to expand it into a bishopric. Since 2000 it has been named after two saints.
The parish hall was set back from the square at Schottstrasse 6. After it was used as an office building by VEB Agrochemiehandel in the GDR until the 1970s, it was returned to the Protestant community. Since the fall of the Wall , the building has belonged to the church district, which uses it primarily as an administrative building.
Administration building
To the south, the square is limited by the Lichtenberg District Court building , which was designed by the Prussian building officials Paul Thoemer and Rudolf Mönnich based on Westphalian baroque buildings. The building, designed for ten judicial departments, has a staircase in the Austrian Baroque style, which is decorated with allegorical figures. Behind the building is today's correctional facility for women , the old wing of which was built with the building of the district court at the beginning of the 20th century. With regard to the construction costs of the district court, different information can be found with 770,000 and 918,000 gold marks.
On the western edge of the square, on the corner of Magdalenenstrasse and Normannenstrasse, an administrative building in a square shape with an inner courtyard was built in the 1930s. Originally used by the tax authorities, it was first used after the Second World War as the seat of the police - Inspection Lichtenberg. From around 1957 the building complex was incorporated into the headquarters of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. Since 1990 the wing of the building facing Roedeliusplatz and Normannenstrasse has housed the tax office for corporations II. At the beginning of 2012, the Berliner Energieagentur GmbH installed a solar power system on the roof , which consists of 324 modules. A total of 72,000 kilowatt hours of electrical energy is to be generated per year, saving 40.5 tons of CO 2 annually. The Berliner Immobilienmanagement GmbH is investigating further options for implementing climate protection projects in the Lichtenberg district .
Residential buildings
To the north, a uniform residential development in squares with green inner courtyards closes the square. The entire residential complex initially extends as a closed perimeter block development over the full side length of the square from the corner of Normannenstrasse / Glaschkestrasse with a superstructure across Plonzstrasse to Schottstrasse and merges into a heterogeneous development structure at the edges in Rüdigerstrasse and Atzpodienstraße. The complex, which comprises more than 1000 residential units, was probably built according to plans by Willy Schmitz between 1936 and 1940 by the non-profit Heimstätten Spar- und Bau AG (GEHAG) and modernized in 1996.
The eastern outskirts of Roedeliusplatz consists of residential and commercial buildings, which have largely been preserved in the old buildings from the times before the Second World War.
Tram terminus at Wagnerplatz
The spacious layout of the street space and the structure of the pavement on the northern edge of the square (see picture on the right) were the last signs until 2009 that a tram operated here years ago. It was the terminus of the flat railway, which had been extended from Normannenstrasse to what was then Wagnerplatz since July 1, 1913 , and which was given line number 90 with the introduction of the standard tariff for trams, buses and underground on March 1, 1927. It was shut down in 1944 due to the war.
remodeling
Over the course of several decades, the number of complaints from residents and businesses in the area north of Frankfurter Allee, especially around Roedeliusplatz, increased. The traffic had increased significantly, the roads were not maintained and the building was disorderly. In 2008, for example, the Lichtenberg district office commissioned the company Stattbau GmbH to provide an appraisal to summarize the deficits and problems and develop suggestions for improvement. In July 2009, the participants presented the results in a public event. The most important measures for upgrading Roedeliusplatz were street renovation with partially improved traffic management and partial replacement of the historical road surface. The results were confirmed at a meeting of the district office in February 2010, with work starting in spring 2010. In the autumn of 2011, the renovation was completed, especially in Normannenstrasse, the traces of the previous rail routing still shown in the picture above have been removed and the cobblestones have been replaced by a layer of asphalt.
Roedeliusplatz is to become a place of remembrance and commemoration of the victims of the military jurisdiction of the SMAD and the GDR judiciary, whose institutions were based here.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin II , Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987
- Jan Feustel : Walks in Lichtenberg , Haude and Spener publishing house, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7759-0409-3
- District Office Lichtenberg of Berlin - Dept. Human Resources, Finances and Culture - Lichtenberg Local History Museum: In search of the city of Lichtenberg , Berlin 1998
Web links
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Roedeliusplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Wagnerplatz . In: Luise.
supporting documents
- ↑ Berlin State Monument List: Roedeliusplatz square ensemble
- ↑ District Office Lichtenberg of Berlin, Dept. Personnel, Finances and Culture, Heimatmuseum Lichtenberg (ed.): In search of the city of Lichtenberg , Berlin 1998, p. 61.
- ↑ a b c District Office Lichtenberg of Berlin, Dept. Personnel, Finances and Culture, Heimatmuseum Lichtenberg (Ed.): In search of the city of Lichtenberg , Berlin 1998, p. 52.
- ↑ Feustel: Walks ... , p. 29
- ^ Internet site of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Berlin ( memento from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), (new) accessed on January 8, 2016.
- ↑ photo collection of the State Archive Berlin, F 290 65/2975
- ↑ Feustel: Walks ... , p. 31
- ↑ Solar power is generated on the roof of the tax office ; Berliner Morgenpost of May 21, 2012, p. 14
- ↑ Wolfgang Schächen: 75 years of GEHAG 1924–1999. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2310-1 .
- ↑ photo collection of the State Archive Berlin, F 290 II / 12907 and II / 12908
- ↑ City map Berlin 1926, Verlag Sanwald Pasing in front of Munich. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . , first accessed on March 25, 2008 (the tram route is shown in red).
- ↑ photo collection of the State Archive Berlin, F 290 65/3011
- ^ Hans D. Reichardt: The trams of Berlin - A history of the BVG and its trams , Alba Buchverlag GmbH + Co KG, Düsseldorf 1974, p. 12.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: kick-off event Preparatory Investigations Frankfurter Allee-Nord from July 2009 ) (PDF; 3.7 MB); Retrieved September 30, 2010.
- ↑ Press release on the resolutions of the BA Lichtenberg from February 9, 2010
- ↑ Lively town square and memorial in one. In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg, Fennpfuhl and Rummelsburg edition, June 3, 2020, p. 5.