Roederplatz
| Roederplatz | |
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.JPG) View of the square from the north, October 2018 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Fennpfuhl |
| Created | around 1896 |
| Newly designed | 2012-2016 |
| Confluent streets |
Herzbergstrasse (south) , Weißenseer Weg (with interior area) , Bernhard-Bästlein-Strasse (north and east) |
| Buildings | former fountain, Tube youth club |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists |
| Space design | Georg Balzer (2013) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | approx. 4600 m² |
| building-costs | 723,000 € (2012/2016) |
The Roederplatz is a town square in the Berlin district of Fennpfuhl in the Lichtenberg district . It consists of a tree-lined green area at the western end of Herzbergstrasse and further planted areas off it between the twin high-rise building at the beginning of the Weißenseer Weg and the service center built in the 1970s. In the conversion plans, a total of six rectangular areas of different sizes are shown as parts of the new Roederplatz.
description
The entire divided area of the square is public road land. It consists of several nested rectangular areas that are delimited on the one hand to the south by Herzbergstrasse and to the east by the access road to a supermarket , on the other hand between the " service cube " on Bernhard-Bästlein-Strasse and a 22-storey high-rise apartment building on the corner of Weißenseer Weg 1 / 2 lie. The redesign carried out in 2013 created a number of visually connecting elements for the square and led to barrier-free use.
Slender street lights with LED lamps were set up along the connecting green band, a footpath .
The low-rise building of the Tube youth club is located at the very western edge of the square . It was created from a reused roofed access to a pedestrian tunnel under the Weißenseer Weg.
A weekly market takes place regularly on the unplanted area at the corner of Herzbergstrasse and Weißenseer Weg .
history
The square goes back to the first Roederplatz, which consists of the five-way intersection Dorfstraße (now: Möllendorffstraße) - Weißenseer Weg , Roederstraße (now: Paul-Junius-Straße) - Herzbergstraße and the one kilometer long Hohenschönhaus (ne) r Path through the arbor colony Kleine Berglage existed. Its original square has not been handed down; from rough estimates using old city maps, it can be assumed to be around 2000 square meters.
According to research by the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , Roederplatz received its name around 1896. The place was named after Hermann Roeder (1856–1941), manor owner and local politician in the Lichtenberg community, who owned all of the areas of the former Lichtenberg manor until the late 19th century.
Immediately at the intersection, a small triangular area was created between Woerdenstrasse (now Paul-Junius-Strasse, northwest), Roederstrasse (south) and Weißenseer Weg (northeast), which is also referred to as Roederplatz on the historical city maps. The Berlin address book from 1939 shows the location of Roederplatz between Hohenschönhauser Weg / Weißenseer Weg and Möllendorffstrasse. "Construction sites" are identified here for house numbers 1–4.
A petrol station was built on this triangular area at the beginning of the 1950s and operated until the mid-1970s.
In the GDR era, the square and its name were abolished in April 1975 with the creation of the new building area around the Fennpfuhl , but it was preserved in the knowledge of the population and on some maps. In addition, the branch of the Lichtenberg district library, located on the ground floor of the high-rise Ho-Chi-Minh-Straße 1, continued to be called the branch library on Roederplatz.
In addition to the two-story "service cube" with a restaurant , post office , hairdresser and other facilities, an important object of the square was the fountain set up here in the 1970s , planned by the artist Friedrich Schötschel . The water system and the basin had become in need of repair over the years. The Lichtenberg town planners decided to leave the fountain basin, but not to renovate the ornamental parts of the fountain, but to store them. Shortly before this step, an anonymous artist performed a performance in 2007 : From two of the five originally water-spraying stainless steel arms, he stretched red artificial threads like water jets downwards. These clearly highlight the appearance of the running water.
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Then the pipe system was dismantled and the fountain basin was newly clad with colorful ceramic tiles. The city gardeners planted permanent perennials and small shrubs in it, added seating on the edge of the pool and have been maintaining the pool regularly since then. An adjacent mobile snack bar had to be dismantled.
In 2009 the district office dealt with the condition of the square and a possible structural upgrade. Students from the Institute of Architecture at the TU Berlin were asked for their idea sketches, 15 drafts were received and were presented to interested residents in a small exhibition in the City Point Center (CPC).
On June 3, 2011, BVV Lichtenberg decided, at the request of the Roeder heirs, to officially reassign the historic square name to a green area that had been upgraded by replanting and located further east of the former square. The public naming ceremony with the erection of a historicizing sign in Gothic script took place on September 14, 2011 in the presence of representatives of the Lichtenberg district office, a descendant of the Roeder family and a historian.
The first drafts of the architecture students prompted the district office to start a second design competition for which numerous drafts were received. There was a workshop and several public discussions on this in 2013, and the citizen notices were largely taken into account in the final version.
In 2013, in connection with the preparations for the redevelopment of the square, the floor of the former petrol station contaminated with mineral oil residues and BTEX aromatics on the triangular area at the City-Point-Center was rinsed and partially removed by specialists.
The final redesign of Roederplatz began in 2013 according to the plans of the Berlin office Georg Balzer Stadtlandprojekte . The district office initially made 300,000 euros available from the Urban Redevelopment East program for the work . In the course of the work, this sum increased to 723,000 euros. However, the completion was delayed by the simultaneous construction of the REWE store , which was completed in 2014.
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On June 30, 2016, the new inauguration of Roederplatz took place.
The elements of a boules playground under the plane trees in the middle section, the installation of children's play equipment, a ball game field and a multi-generation playground with balance and fitness equipment in the northern area on Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße have not been implemented (status: October 2018). According to statements from some residents, this is due, among other things, to the fact that the owners of the buildings on Weißenseer Weg cannot agree on the design or on a financial contribution. In any case, the system is open to expansion or future changes.
In the neighborhood
The City-Point-Center (CPC) office and commercial building was built on the triangular western part of the historic Roederplatz by 1994 , which houses two underground parking levels and was given the address Paul-Junius-Straße 70. It is officially no longer part of Roederplatz.
At Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße 22, a standardized standard school building was built in connection with the residential development of the 1970s , which was given a band-shaped cladding with ceramic plates on the street-side staircase , which reproduces some letters of the alphabet in different fonts. The former 34th Polytechnic High School "Ilja Ehrenburg" became a primary school on Roederplatz after the reunification .
One of the more than 2,100 emergency water pumps in Berlin is located on a small lawn in front of Weißenseer Weg 3/4 .
There are no subsequent use concepts for the former service center. The facilities that still existed there after reunification, such as a flower shop, a pharmacy or the highlights sports bar, have gradually given up. As of autumn 2018 there will be a tailoring shop, a wellness shop, a textile cleaning and a beauty / nutrition salon. The district office is in negotiations with the owner, a Luxembourg entrepreneur, but he hardly does anything.
The east adjoining the Roeder place Rewe -Markt was built on the area of a former East German consumption - department store . The associated parking lot was redesigned to be more user-friendly and barrier-free , and the staircase was completely removed.
In the summer of 2017, a large part of the hall burned down so that extensive repair work had to be carried out. The estimated property damage to the structure and the existing goods was around 250,000 euros. The repair was not yet completed in autumn 2018, and a reopening date is not known.
Web links
- The Roederplatz in new splendor. In: Berliner Abendblatt , Lichtenberg edition, June 25, 2016 (with overview map)
- Schnipp - schnapp: Clear the way for the new Roederplatz. In: Berliner Woche , Lichtenberg, Fennpfuhl and Rummelsburg edition, July 8, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sheet 1a of the Roederplatz renovation project , with "movement belts " and communication / seating options; accessed on October 18, 2018.
- ↑ The Roederplatz in new splendor on Abendblatt.de , here is a detailed map of the Roederplatz; accessed on October 17, 2018.
- ↑ Homepage of Tube: About Us , accessed on October 17, 2018.
- ↑ Roederstraße with Roederplatz . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, V, p. 101 (entry of Roederstraße between Dorfstraße / Roederplatz - Buggenhagenstraße (south) - Landsberger Chaussee, with three inhabited houses and construction sites).
- ↑ Roederplatz on berlin.kauperts.de ; accessed on October 16, 2018.
- ↑ Berlin city map from 1932 , accessed on October 17, 2018.
- ↑ Roederstraße and Roederplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1939, IV, p. 2273.
- ^ Photo of the petrol station at Roederplatz in 1969, in the background the school building in Woerdenstrasse (today Paul-Junius-Strasse) can be seen.
- ^ Roederplatz on Luise-Berlin .
- ↑ Another photo of the gas station at Roederplatz, also in 1969, shows the general view with a Wartburg 353 in the foreground. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
- ↑ Business directory for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin. Edition 1978/79, p. 42.
- ^ Information on the re-erection of the Roederplatz sign on the BVV / Die Linke website , accessed on September 29, 2011.
- ↑ a b Anka Stahl: Roederplatz upgrade concept, July 2013 , accessed on October 16, 2018.
- ↑ Karolina Wrobel: District Office wants to include citizens' ideas , December 21, 2012; accessed on October 16, 2018.
- ↑ Press release of the BA Lichtenberg of April 18, 2013: Removal of contaminated sites at Roederplatz , accessed on October 18, 2018.
- ↑ 3 sheets of the Roederplatz conversion project by Ing. Georg Balzer on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; As of 2013; accessed on October 17, 2018.
- ↑ The Roederplatz in new splendor. At: Abendblatt.de , accessed on October 17, 2018.
- ↑ 34. POS Ilja Ehrenburg, Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße 22 in: Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin, 1986 edition; accessed on October 18, 2018.
- ↑ Homepage of the primary school at Roederplatz .
- ↑ Sports bar “Highlights” , with address, but no further information such as opening times or telephone numbers; accessed on October 18, 2018.
- ↑ Information on the users according to the company signs on the building in October.
- ↑ Marcel Gäding: Supermarket goes up in flames. At: lichtenbergmarzahnplus.de , accessed on October 26, 2018.
- ↑ Berit Müller: Rewe-Markt on Roederplatz remains closed for longer after the fire . In: Berliner Woche , October 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '36.2 " N , 13 ° 28' 43.2" E