Rykestrasse
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| Rykestraße at the corner of Knaackstraße, towards Danziger Straße |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Prenzlauer Berg |
| Created | in the 1860s |
| Cross streets |
Danziger Straße , Sredzkistraße (formerly: Franseckystraße ), Wörther Straße, Knaackstraße (formerly: Tresckowstraße ) |
| Places | the southern end of the road forks into single lanes that surround two small, nameless triangular areas |
| Buildings | Water tower, synagogue and other architectural monuments |
| use | |
| User groups | Road traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 590 m |
The Rykestraße is a street in the Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg of Pankow . It runs parallel to Prenzlauer Allee from Knaackstraße to Danziger Straße through Kollwitzkiez . It is well known beyond the region because of the Rykestrasse synagogue there , which was one of the few Jewish sacred buildings to survive the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 and the Second World War and is the largest synagogue in Germany.
history
The street
The traffic route was built on the basis of the Hobrecht plan as Straße 35, Section XII . Its name, which has been valid since then, was given on April 2, 1891 in honor of the Berlin mayor Bernhard Ryke , who was active from 1358-1414 .
The corporation for real estate and mortgage transactions had the adjacent properties built with rental houses. The tenements were not very comfortable; some of them only had a latrine in the courtyard. The residential buildings, mostly with several backyards, served as cheap accommodation for the numerous workers and maids who had moved to Berlin.
During the National Socialist era, wanted people found shelter in the winding courtyards and apartments. Others, such as the resistance fighter Franz Huth, who was honored with a memorial plaque , were arrested and killed.
The street includes lots 1–54, the numbers of which have been assigned in a horseshoe shape .
The street has been part of the Kollwitzplatz redevelopment area since 1993 .
In addition to the facilities of the Jewish community in Rykestraße 53, the water tower at the head of the street at the corner of Knaackstraße is of historical importance. When it was built in 1877, it was Berlin's first water tower. Today, after reconstruction and renovation, it is only used as a residential building.
The street gained newer fame through the naming of the album by the Norwegian musician Hanne Hukkelberg , which makes her supposed place of residence Rykestr. 68 immortalized during a six-month work grant. However, she actually lived at Danziger Strasse 68, a house on the corner of Danziger Strasse and Rykestrasse.
Namesake
The eponymous Bernhard / Bernd Reiche / Ryke (* around 1380/1390; † around 1450) was mayor of Berlin from 1447 to 1448 and played a key role in Berlin's indignation . His family Ryke, also known as Reiche (High German form of Ryke), was a widely ramified patrician family from the Brandenburg region who held several communal offices in old Berlin and Cölln during the 14th and 15th centuries . For the mayor, also named Bernd Ryke, who had held the office several times between 1361 and 1447 (very likely father and son), Eugen Börmel designed a marble bust as a minor figure in monument group 14 on the occasion of Berlin's Siegesallee .
Memorial plaques
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- The German resistance fighter Franz Huth (1906-1933), head of the KPD -Parteischule in Zepernick - Röntgental is thought to whose house in the Rykestraße with a plaque. This was first attached in 1957 and restored in 1977. It was removed after 1989, but is now back at the house.
- At Rykestrasse 22 there is also a memorial plaque to commemorate the resistance fighter Johannes Wolf (1898–1943):
“In this house / lived the / anti-fascist / resistance fighter / Johannes / Wolf / who was murdered by Hitler bandits / on August 18, 1943 /. / Honor his memory "
Water tower, synagogue and other architectural monuments in the street
→ Main article Wasserturmplatz
At the southern end of Rykestrasse, in the middle of an elevated green area, is the former Prenzlauer Berg water tower , which has not been used as such since the 1970s. The building was erected between 1852 and 1877 as a water reservoir for the emerging residential areas in the northeast of the city and was called "Dicker Herrmann" in Berlin vernacular . In addition to the tower, there is a narrower and higher riser tower and other ancillary buildings on the site, in which there were administrative offices, workshops and machine shops. Underground storage facilities are located under the raised area. In the tower there are apartments on six floors, which previously served as company apartments . The → system with the two deep tanks is a listed building.
As a symbol, the tower was part of the unofficial and, from 1987, the official coat of arms of the Prenzlauer Berg district and city district since 1920 .
In the spring of 1933, the Berlin SA set up the water tower in machine house I.
Residential houses that have survived from the time of the first development are partially listed, including houses number 1 on the corner of Knaackstrasse, number 2 (built according to plans by W. Gläser and completed in 1893) and apartment buildings number 54 and number 25
Particularly noteworthy is the synagogue , which was built in 1903/1904 for the Jewish community.
literature
- Hermann Simon : The Synagogue Rykestrasse. 1904-2004 . Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich / Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin, Teetz / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933471-71-0 .
Web links
- Rykestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rykestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Stefanie Endlich, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann , Monika Kahl, Regina Scheer: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism - A Documentation , Volume II. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1999
- ↑ Information board for the Pankow district on the water tower in Knaackstrasse, text: Kulturamt Pankow 2005
- ↑ Monument ensemble on Wasserturmplatz with tenement buildings and school, Knaackstrasse 3/5, 6–8, 12/22, 23, 24/32, 33–34
- ↑ KZ Wasserturm ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6 kB)
- ↑ Architectural monument tenement Knaackstrasse 16/20 / Rykestrasse 1, around 1890
- ↑ Architectural monument Rykestrasse 2, tenement house, 1891–1893 by W. Gläser
- ↑ Architectural monument Rykestraße 54 / Knaackstraße 22/24, tenement house, built in 1887 by master bricklayer J. Scheidler
- ↑ Architectural monument of the tenement house Rykestrasse 25, 1891/1892 by H. Enders
- ↑ Architectural monument Rykestrasse 53, Synagogue Rykestrasse and front building with religious school, 1903/1904 by Johann Hoeniger for the Jewish community in Berlin; together with the school barracks from 1929
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 13 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 16 ″ E