Schiller promenade
| Schiller promenade | |
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| Schillerpromenade, view to Herrfurthplatz |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Neukölln |
| Created | 1905 |
| Connecting roads |
Fontanestrasse (north) |
| Cross streets | Leinestrasse, Okerstrasse, Allerstrasse, Kienitzer Strasse, Herrfurthstrasse, Selchower Strasse |
| Places | Herrfurthplatz |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 320 + 140 meters |
The Schillerpromenade in the Berlin district of Neukölln (until 1912: Rixdorf ) is the central street of the Schillerkiez . With a wide central promenade and magnificent facades, designed as a quarter for well-off citizens in 1900, the street and the Kiez are now in a process of gentrification .
Location and course
The Schillerpromenade leads from Selchower Strasse over the central Herrfurthplatz with the Galilee Church directly to Leinestrasse and ends there with a view of the former engineering school for civil engineering . The connecting piece between Selchower Straße and Columbiadamm belongs to Fontanestraße. The 50-meter-wide street has two smaller, single-lane carriageways and parking lanes, which are separated by the wide central promenade. The central promenade is characterized by a wide pedestrian path, on the sides of which there are green areas with park benches; In the southern area, a children's playground is also integrated into the strip. In its course from north to south, the Schillerpromenade (or Fontanestraße in the northern area) leads over the following cross streets, all of which belong to the Kiez: Mahlower Straße, Selchower Straße, Herrfurthstraße, Kienitzer Straße, Allerstraße, Okerstraße and Leinestraße.
The Schillerkiez is bordered in the north by Columbiadamm, in the west by Tempelhofer Park (until 1923 Tempelhofer Feld and until 2008 Tempelhof Airport ), in the south by Anita-Berber-Park on Leinestrasse and in the east by Hermannstrasse . The three remaining Kiezstrasse run parallel to the Schillerpromenade, Oderstrasse to the west next to the airport, Lichtenrader Strasse between Oderstrasse and Schillerpromenade and Weisestrasse to the east towards Hermannstrasse.
On historical maps of the Columbia dam is on the corner of Fontanestraße still Wanzlikstraße (until January 7, 1928 1907 by Wanzli ck street changed) after Neuköllner local politician Daniel Friedrich Wanzlick . Today's Kienitzer Strasse is recorded as Steinmetzstrasse in memory of the Prussian Field Marshal Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz . The green path marked between Leinestraße and Warthestraße is only available to pedestrians and cyclists. From the corner of Leinestraße in the direction of Warthestraße, Oderstraße is now also closed to motor vehicle traffic or reduced to one way by a bulge in the airport field at this point.
The quarter is 94.97 hectares and has 20,254 inhabitants.
history
From farmland to building trade school
The quarter around the Schillerpromenade, which arose on old farmland, was designed by the city of Rixdorf and its then mayor Hermann Boddin around 1900 as a “residential quarter for higher earners” and as a counterpoint to the workers' settlement on the Rollbergen , which had already been built in the decades before was. With this one wanted to break away from the reputation of a working class suburb in Rixdorf. In 1908 a landlord called the area “the most beautiful residential area in Rixdorf”. Magnificent facades, pavements lined with plane trees and a promenade with park benches, flower rondels and English lawns give the street an upper-class flair.
The street grid with the 50-meter-wide Schillerpromenade, Herrfurthplatz in the middle and the adjacent streets were already defined in the form that still exists today in the city's development plan from 1901. In contrast to the development in the Rollbergviertel, the Schillerkiez received public facilities in good time, such as two elementary schools in Mahlower Straße and Weisestraße. The primary school named after the poet Karl Weise in Weisestrasse 19/20 is still the central school location in the Kiez today.
Around 1910, 90 percent of all apartments in the Kiez consisted of one or two-room apartments with a spacious kitchen, bathroom, separate corridor and toilet, which were usually shared by up to four people in a family. On the first floors of the houses there were mostly commercial and catering rooms . These apartments were very popular because the nearby Hermannstrasse had already developed into an entertainment mile before the turn of the century. The Kindl and Viktoria festival halls, their theaters and cinemas, dance halls and beer gardens were a magnet for thousands of visitors and the new residents in the Schillerkiez.
In October 1914, the Königlich Preußische Baugewerkschule Neukölln (later: Engineering School for Construction ) was inaugurated, based on a design by the architect and Neukölln City Councilor Reinhold Kiehl . The listed building on Leinestrasse now houses the vocational and vocational school named after the union official Carl Legien .
“At the end of the Schillerpromenade you come across the Engineering School for Construction. Your students are an integral part of the street scene, young people with large cardboard tubes and long rulers under their arms. "
Weekly market
At the beginning of 1910, a weekly market was built around Herrfurthplatz along the Schiller promenade, which expanded to Okerstrasse around 1920. Around 1950, up to 250 dealers set up their stands here. In the early 1990s, the market was abandoned due to a lack of customers.
The association Pro Schillerkiez e. V. and other actors have been organizing the market again since May 2009 as an art, culture and weekly market with the support of the local district management. The market is named one of the competition winners of the initiative Mittendrin Berlin! funded by the Berlin Senate . The weekly market, known as the "Schillermarkt", takes place every Saturday and is supplemented by the art and culture market once a month.
Expansion and renovation
In the 1920s, Bruno Taut , the architect of the Britzer Hufeisensiedlung , added inexpensive workers' apartments on Oderstrasse, which were kept in the style of his social reform, non-commercial concepts. The Kiez was further enhanced in 1928 with the opening of the sports park along Oderstrasse in the Tempelhofer Feld area with numerous sports and play areas.
The parish hall of the Galilee community was inaugurated in 1930 at Schillerpromenade 16 , which was built according to plans by the architect Hans Jessen . The upper level of the Evangelical School Neukölln has been located on the ground floor and first floor since August 2003, and a hall on the second floor is still available to the community. The building is a listed building .
During the Second World War , the quarter remained almost undamaged and has thus largely preserved its original condition. Not least because of the increasing aircraft noise from the neighboring Tempelhof Airport and the associated decline in the price and quality of the apartments, there was a change in the resident structure, which was characterized by the move away of the better-off and the influx of more disadvantaged population groups with a high proportion of unemployed citizens.
When redevelopment measures began in Berlin at the beginning of the 1960s, interest was initially directed towards the areas with the poorest building fabric. In Neukölln, the Rollbergviertel was the first to be declared a redevelopment area. It was not until 1990 that the Schillerkiez was designated as a focus of urban renewal and two years later as a redevelopment investigation area. A conservation ordinance has been protecting the urban ensemble and the tenants since the summer of 1996 . A neighborhood management has been looking after the neighborhood since 1999.
Between 1945 and 1949 the sports park on Oderstrasse was named Werner-Seelenbinder-Kampfbahn . An ice rink with an open air and artificial ice rink with a length of 200 meters was added in 1958. On 24 October 2004, the Sportpark Neukölln the 60th anniversary of the death of the wrestler and resistance fighter was Werner Seelenbinderhalle in Werner Seelenbinder Sportpark renamed.
Opening of the Tempelhofer Feld to the public
On May 8, 2010, the Tempelhofer Park adjacent to the Schillerkiez and located on the Tempelhofer Feld (the former airfield of Tempelhof Airport ) was opened to the public.
Church of Galilee
Since the population in the north of Rixdorf grew rapidly from 1890, four new churches were built, including the Galilee Church on Herrfurthplatz. It was built according to the plans of the royal building officer Franz Schwechten , to whom Berlin also owes the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the Anhalter Bahnhof . The foundation stone was laid in 1903 and the building was inaugurated two years later, on June 4, 1905. Namesake was already in the Bible mentioned the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel .
The floor plan has the shape of a cross with arms of equal length. A pointed bell tower , 62 meters high , rose above the crossing and has had a remarkable fate. The increasing traffic at the neighboring Tempelhof Airport required a shortening to 38 meters in 1939/1940, which was achieved with the demolition of the top of the tower. During the time of the Berlin blockade (1948/1949) it was cut again to just 21.7 meters. After the destruction of the church by an Allied air raid on January 29, 1944, it was rebuilt in 1955 after a brisk donation campaign by parishioners. The re-inauguration took place on September 20, 1959.
As part of the project workshops to redesign the green areas of the Schillerpromenade , the residents developed the idea in 2003 of including the church in the development of the neighborhood by adding a café. On June 23, 2003, the Senator for Urban Development Peter Strieder started the renovation of the Church of Galilee with the groundbreaking ceremony . The aim is to make the Church of Galilee again the cultural and social center of community and neighborhood life. The office and group rooms next to the café also enable all activities of the community to be relocated from the parish hall on the Schillerpromenade to the church. The heart of the church, the round church space, is to form the center of the community again in the future.
Others
Also in the district Oberschoeneweide the district Treptow-Koepenick , there is a street called Schillerpromenade.
literature
- Heimatmuseum Neukölln (Ed.): A neighborhood in Europe . One-time newspaper for the Schillerpromenade and the surrounding area, on the occasion of the exhibition A House in Europe . Berlin 1996.
- Schillerpromenade 27, 12049 Berlin: on the change in urban culture using the example of a Berlin apartment building . In: Kulturamt Berlin-Neukölln (ed.): A house in Europe . 1st edition. tape 1 . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 978-3-8100-1588-4 (this book appears as a companion volume to the exhibition Schillerpromenade 27, 12049 Berlin, a house in Europe in the Heimatmuseum Neukölln, May 11, 1996 to March 23, 1997).
- Promenade mail . Kiezzeitung. BSG mbH District Management Schillerpromenade, Berlin 2005.
- Claudia Rücker, Andrea Szatmary: Discoveries . Out and about in the Neukölln Schillerpromenade. BSG mbH District Management Schillerpromenade, Berlin 2002.
- Christiane Borgelt, Regina Jost: Architecture Guide Berlin-Neukölln . In: District Office Neukölln of Berlin, Dept. Construction (Ed.): The new architecture guide . Stadtwandel, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933743-91-5 .
- Dieter Althans (idea): 100 years of building for Neukölln . A municipal building history. District Office Neukölln of Berlin, Dept. of Construction, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015848-0 .
- Angelika-Benedicta Hirsch , Lothar Köster: A house in Neukölln. Almost a declaration of love . 18 portraits of the residents of Warthestrasse 49. Misunderstood Publishing House, Berlin 2008.
- Angelika-Benedicta Hirsch: Globus Warthestraße - people with a migration background tell their story . 23 interviews, 17 portraits. Misunderstood Publishing House, Berlin 2009.
- Schillerpromenade: goddess in a jogging suit. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 20, 2010
- Promenade mail. District management, news & stories from the Schillerkiez. District Management Schillerpromenade, Berlin 2006 to 2011, urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-7827819 (archive)
- Promenade mix. The Schillerkiez newspaper. District Management Schillerpromenade, Berlin 2012 to 2013, urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-7809562 (archive)
- Integrated action and development concept. Neighborhood management Schillerpromenade, Berlin since 2008, urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-7781886 (archive)
Web links
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Schiller promenade. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Wanzlickstrasse. In: Luise.
- Steinmetzstrasse . In: Luise.
- Kienitzer Strasse. In: Luise.
- District management Schillerpromenade
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gentrification? Not that bad! taz.de , March 26, 2014
- ↑ The Schillerkiez is regarded by sociologists as the "focal point of gentrification". In: Berliner Zeitung
- ↑ … the Schillerkiez has been attracting students and young academics since the flight operations were shut down in 2008 . Spiegel Online , May 23, 2014
- ^ Quartiersmanagement Berlin: Schillerpromenade ( Memento from January 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Monuments in Rixdorf - Schillerpromenade Neukölln online
- ↑ Cooperation partner of the Schillermarkt
- ↑ Winner of the competition “MittendrIn Berlin! The Centers Initiative “2008/2009 awarded
- ^ Website of the Schillermarkt
- ↑ Architectural monument, Schillerpromenade parish hall
- ↑ Galilee Congregation: Church (PDF)
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 34 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 21 ″ E
