Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse
| Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse | |
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| The renaming ceremony on April 30, 2008 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Kreuzberg |
| Created | April 30, 2008 |
| Hist. Names | Kochstrasse |
| Connecting roads |
Oranienstraße (east) , Kochstraße (west) |
| Cross streets |
Lindenstrasse , Axel-Springer-Strasse , Markgrafenstrasse, Charlottenstrasse, Friedrichstrasse |
| Buildings | see: Sights |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 490 meters |
The Rudi Dutschke-Straße is a street in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . As a continuation of Oranienstrasse, it leads from Lindenstrasse / Axel-Springer-Strasse to Friedrichstrasse , where it merges into Kochstrasse . Rudi-Dutschke-Straße was created after years of political and judicial disputes by renaming the eastern section of Kochstraße. The renaming, which was suggested by the national daily newspaper taz , was carried out on April 30, 2008 with the unveiling of a street sign on the corner of Rudi-Dutschke- and Axel-Springer-Strasse in front of the Axel-Springer high-rise .
designation
The taz's proposal to rename Kochstrasse, which was also where the newspaper's publishing house was located at the time, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Rudi Dutschke's death , was at the end of 2004 at the beginning of a long-lasting dispute about the symbolic name after the student leader.
A majority resolution of the district assembly of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg initially provided for the renaming of part of Kochstrasse on April 1, 2006. The administrative court postponed this on August 29, 2005 on complaints from residents, including Axel Springer AG and the Federal Chamber of Engineers . While the taz has been collecting signatures for the renaming since February 2006, the district's CDU initiated a list of signatures for a petition against the renaming. As a result of this, a referendum came about in which a majority on January 21, 2007 rejected the request to the district office to withdraw the renaming.
On May 9, 2007, the Berlin Administrative Court announced that the renaming was legal and did not violate any basic rights of the residents, and thus rejected the residents' lawsuit. The court did not allow the appeal. The community of plaintiffs then applied for admission on appeal to the Higher Administrative Court . On April 21, 2008, this rejected the application: The renaming could be understood as an expression of freedom of expression and information and is therefore not a violation of the prohibition of arbitrariness and the state's neutrality requirement .
When it was renamed, the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district violated a resolution of the district assembly from 2005 to rename streets only after women, in order to counteract an under-representation of women in street names.
Attractions
From west (Friedrichstrasse) to east (Axel-Springer-Strasse / Lindenstrasse):
- House at Checkpoint Charlie : the building designed as a residential building at Friedrichstrasse 43 at the corner of Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse is considered one of the main works of the International Building Exhibition 1984 . The privately operated Wall Museum is located here .
- Former editorial building of the taz with the relief Peace Be With You ( popularly also known as the dick over Berlin ) by the sculptor Peter Lenk . It shows a caricature by the editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper , Kai Diekmann , with a five-storey penis . The title of the work of art refers to Friede Springer . After the taz moved out in October 2018, the coworking company Betahaus moved into the building as its headquarters at the end of 2018 and has been offering coworking space there since the beginning of 2019.
- Axel-Springer-Passage : The passage was opened on January 13th, 2004 according to a design by the London architects Renton, Howard, Wood, Levin Partnership (RHWL Architects) and reminds of the tradition of the Berlin courtyards with eight mutually shifted inner courtyards. The Axel Springer high-rise building can be reached via the Ullstein Hall .
- To the southeast of the passage is a monument by Serge Mangin entitled Fathers of Unity . It shows former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , former US President George Bush and Russia's ex-President Mikhail Gorbachev . To the right of the memorial, an owl commemorates the Ullstein Verlag , which was based here in the former Berlin newspaper district .
- To the east of this memorial stands an oak tree that Axel Springer received from Berlin taxi drivers during the Cold War as thanks for his commitment to Berlin.
- Behind the oak in a northerly direction there is an information board that reminds of the location of the former Jerusalem Church . The outlines are marked with cobblestones in the adjacent intersection. A new church building is located further south on Lindenstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse.
- A work by Pomona Zipser (untitled) from 1999/2000 is on display on the opposite site of the BKK Verkehrsbau Union . It is part of a public sculpture park of the Berlinische Galerie entitled Art - City - Space .
See also
Web links
- Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Video: The fight continues. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 30, 2008, 1:07 min.
- Judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court of May 9, 2007 on the renaming of the street , accessed on May 15, 2011.
literature
- Malte König: "History is feasible, Mr. Neighbor!" The renaming of Berlin's Kochstrasse to Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse from 2004 to 2008. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 66, issue 3 (2018), pp. 463–486.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b taz campaign for Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse
- ↑ The Taz pulled the end of October 2018 its publishing house Checkpoint Charlie in a new building at the nearby Friedrichstrasse to and documented the change of location in a taz special for new initiation .
- ↑ a b Springer's lawsuit rejected. Dutschke Strasse is coming . In: the daily newspaper , April 21, 2008
- ^ Sebastian Heiser: Name dispute in Berlin: Quota woman on street sign . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on August 27, 2017]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '25.7 " N , 13 ° 23' 49.1" E