Samariterplatz
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 Historic postcard with the Samaritan Church in the background |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Berlin-Friedrichshain |
| Created | 1893 |
| Confluent streets | Bänschstrasse, Samariterstrasse |
| Buildings | Samaritan Church |
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| User groups | pedestrian |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 3066 m 2 |
The Samariterplatz is a square in Berlin-Friedrichshain near Rigaer Straße and Forckenbeckplatz . It was named after the Samaritan Church built on the square , which in turn is named after the New Testament story of the Good Samaritan .
history
The open space was donated to the parish by the Aktiengesellschaft Berliner Neustadt. The square was named Samariterplatz on April 4, 1895 after the Samariterkirche was built on the square from 1892 to 1894. In 1895 the Samariterstraße was named after the square. At the end of the Second World War , an emergency cemetery with 289 graves for fallen civilians and soldiers was created on Samariterplatz. However, after some urns had been buried here in the 1960s, the area was closed in 1978 and leveled in 1983 . Furthermore, a green area and a playground were created at the same time. The graves of the emergency cemetery were reburied in 1994 to form the Hohenschönhausen cemetery.
description
The Samariterplatz is laid out as a rectangular square through the passing Bänschstrasse. In the middle of the plaz is the Samariterkirche , the outer surface of which is separated from the street by a fence. On the eastern side of the square there is a children's playground within a fence that acts as an extension of the church's facade. On the western side of the square, next to the main entrance to the church, there is a memorial plaque for Wilhelm Harnisch and a narrow, tall plaque for the Peaceful Revolution . Around the Samariterplatz, on the Bänschstraße, there are one-row parking lots.
Commemoration
On Samariterplatz there is a memorial plaque for the Peaceful Revolution and for Pastor Wilhelm Harnisch:
| Dating | image | inscription | Remarks |
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| October 9, 1997 by District Councilor Dieter Hildebrandt |
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Memorial plaque for Wilhelm Harnisch:
Here it worked socially and politically committed pastors WILHELM HARNISCH 9.10.1887 - 14.1.1960 Founding member of the Confessing Church Suspended from service as an opponent of the National Socialists he looked after in his "sermon shop" the professing Christians of his Samaritan community and directed the Reich press office of the Pastors' Emergency Association |
After the renovation work was completed, the memorial plaque was attached to the facade in a plastic frame to the right of the church portal. |
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Peaceful Revolution memorial plaque:
Front: Fig. 1: Prostest drums against the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in the summer of 1989 Fig. 2: Stephan Krawczyk and Freya Klier are banned from working . Few parishes allow an appearance. Fig. 3: German youths fill the church at the blues mass on June 15, 1980. Peaceful Revolution : Back: see figure on the left |
Web links
- Samariterplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Site of residents of the square
Individual evidence
- ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Kathrin Chod: Samariterplatz . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
- ↑ Memorial plaque advertisement. In: Memorial plaques in Berlin. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '4.91 " N , 13 ° 27' 59.54" O