Schloßstraße (Berlin-Steglitz)
 Schlossstrasse
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| View from the Steglitz roundabout in northeastern direction onto Schloßstraße. Steglitz town hall at the bottom left |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Steglitz |
| Connecting roads |
Rheinstrasse , under the oaks |
| Cross streets |
Bornstrasse , Gutsmuthsstrasse , Markelstrasse , Feuerbachstrasse , Schildhornstrasse , Hubertusstrasse , Deitmerstrasse , Ahornstrasse , Zimmermannstrasse , Kieler Strasse , Muthesiusstrasse , Albrechtstrasse , Grunewaldstrasse , Wrangelstrasse |
| Places |
Walther-Schreiber-Platz , Franz-Amrehn-Platz , Hermann-Ehlers-Platz |
| Buildings |
Forum Steglitz Titania-Palast , Boulevard Berlin , Bierpinsel , Das Schloss , Steglitz Town Hall , Steglitzer Kreisel , Wrangelschlösschen |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1700 meters |
The Castle Street is the main shopping street of the Berlin district in Steglitz ( Steglitz-Zehlendorf ). With over 200,000 m² of retail space , it is the largest retail location in Berlin and the main center for the south-western districts of the city.
course
The road runs for around 1.7 kilometers in a northeast / southwest direction through the district. Its southern continuation is the street Unter den Eichen in the district of Lichterfelde , the northern one is the Rheinstraße belonging to the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Friedenau . Walther-Schreiber-Platz forms the transition to Rheinstrasse and the district and sub-district boundaries (at Bornstrasse ) .
The Castle road can three underground stations of the U9 line to be achieved: underground station Rathaus Steglitz , Underground Station, Schloßstraße and Walther-Schreiber-Platz .
At the Steglitz roundabout stands the Friedenseiche , which has been designated a natural monument by the city of Berlin.
history
Schloßstraße is part of the old road connection from Berlin to Potsdam and Brandenburg an der Havel . There has been an efficient road here since the end of the 18th century . The Berlin-Potsdamer Chaussee was one of the first cobbled streets in the Kingdom of Prussia . With the rapid growth of the community of Steglitz in the Wilhelmine era , Schloßstraße was expanded into a modern urban main street around 1900.
Since the nationwide numbering of the trunk roads in 1932 (from 1934: Reichsstraßen ), Schloßstraße was part of Reichsstraße 1 from Aachen via Berlin and Königsberg to Eydtkuhnen on the border with Lithuania . It corresponds to today's federal highway 1 . When the A 13 (part of the planned west bypass, today: A 103 ) was opened in 1968, the route of the B 1 was relocated to the autobahn, as it now assumed the function of the main traffic axis.
Naming and spelling
On April 18, 1871, the municipal council of the then independent rural community of Steglitz decided to rename the part of the Provinzialchaussee Berlin-Potsdam in their area to "Schloßstraße". Its southern part was originally called Lichterfelder Chaussee . The new name refers to the Steglitz Castle located at the end of the former village meadow . It was built in 1804 for the heir to Steglitz, who later became the Prussian Minister of Justice Carl Friedrich von Beyme , and is the most historically valuable building in the district. Since it was later also the country seat of the Prussian Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel , it is now also called Wrangel Castle .
As a proper name and historical term, the street name has not been adapted to the new German spelling and therefore continues to be written with "ß". However, individual objects differ in their spelling from the official spelling , regardless of the spelling reform . Since it opened in 1974, the station signs in Schloßstraße underground station have been "SCHLOSS-STRASSE" (in capital letters , therefore correct with the double S), but the station is referred to as "Schloßstraße" in printed works by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). The Schloss-Straßen-Center has existed at Walther-Schreiber-Platz 1 since 2007 .
architecture
In the southern area of Schloßstraße, on Hermann-Ehlers-Platz , there is the Steglitz roundabout and the old Steglitz town hall . Due to asbestos pollution , the roundabout is to be refurbished in the near future, with costs of up to 100 million euros expected. The renovation of the roundabout is controversial, however. The CDU and FDP are pushing for the roundabout to be torn down and for a new building to follow, which should do justice to the desired image of Schloßstraße as an attractive shopping street.
The palace was opened in March 2006 directly at the old town hall on the corner of Grunewaldstrasse (the original planning name was Schlossgalerie ). On four levels there are 36,000 m² of retail, leisure and catering space as well as around 12,000 m² of service space. The three Berlin radio stations 98.8 Kiss FM , 94.3 rs2 , and Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 have also moved here. The building is controversial among many local politicians, as the Forum Steglitz built in the late 1960s , the Karstadt department store and other large shopping buildings already exist, resulting in excess space. In addition, attention is drawn to the precarious traffic situation on the adjacent, heavily trafficked intersection Schloß- / Grunewald- / Albrechtstraße . The Karstadt store , which opened in 1967, was demolished after it closed in March 2007 and reopened in 2009 in an enlarged form. By spring 2012, the former Wertheim department store (built in 1952) was demolished and replaced by a new building. The second largest shopping center in Berlin was built on the entire area with around 76,000 m². Since the front of the former Wertheim House is under monument protection, it was preserved and has been integrated into the new building. The Boulevard Berlin was opened on April 4, 2012.
The Federal Motorway 104 , which still existed in the 1960s, was provided with a road construction for a connection to the Federal Motorway 103 (western bypass) running parallel to Schloßstraße . The bridge over Schloßstraße in the area of the intersection with Schildhornstraße , which was completed in 1971 and named after the Berlin politician Joachim Tiburtius , is seen by critics as a construction sin from a later point of view . Immediately next to a bridge pillar is the 46-meter-high tower, which opened on October 13, 1976 and was officially declared a tower restaurant, which was built according to plans by the architects Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler . He received in the vernacular soon dubbed Bierpinsel , thus, the use of dining options and particularly on the serving of the design free beer will be played at the opening. It is a tower structure clad with red plastic material, which supports a polygonal three-story house on an exposed concrete stair tower. The beer brush has been closed since 2002 due to the need for renovation and modernization. Larissa Laternser and her mother Tita bought the tower in 2006. They found some sponsors for the renovation and we are still looking for an operator of the restaurant. As a new attraction, the owners have three street art artists spray paint the tower for around 500,000 euros in April / May 2010. The commissioned sprayers Flying Förtress , Honet and Sozyone have (almost) free choice of motifs, but the depictions should be removed after a year, which has not happened so far (as of 2012).
The Titania Palace is located at the northern end of Schloßstraße . It is a traditional cinema that was known far beyond the borders of Berlin before the Second World War and until the 1960s. Today the building houses several shops and a modern cinema with seven halls of different sizes.
Immediately behind it, the Forum Steglitz was opened in 1970 . At that time it was the second shopping and service center after the Europa-Center . For a long time it was a main attraction on Schloßstraße, but in the early 2000s the attractiveness of the house declined significantly. Among other things, this was due to the fact that corporate chains occupied a large proportion of the floors on the upper floors ( e.g. Karstadt- Sport , WOM , Schaulandt ). This displaced many smaller stores, which in turn contributed to the decline in customer numbers. In 2005/2006 the Forum Steglitz was modernized in order to offer a contemporary appearance and appropriate technical equipment.
The Hertie department store right next to the forum (until the 1960s it was called the Held department store ) was demolished in 2005. Between this area and the forum, the district border between Steglitz-Zehlendorf and the Friedenau part of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district runs along Bornstrasse . For many residents, the department store, which was emotionally located on Schloßstraße, was therefore located on the corner of Bundesallee and Rheinstraße and thus not in Steglitz. At the end of March 2007, the Schloss-Straßen-Center (SSC) opened as a further shopping center on the site . In terms of sales area, this is significantly smaller than the Das Schloss shopping center in the south of Schloßstraße and was designed as its northern counterpart in order to achieve a more even distribution of visitor flows. In connection with this work, the Walther-Schreiber-Platz was redesigned. The bus stops formerly in the middle of the square have been moved to the roadside.
In order to increase the attraction of the northern part of Schloßstraße as a shopping mile, the urban planning committee of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district decided to convert Schloßstraße. Among other things, the road was limited to one lane for motor vehicles and one bicycle lane for each direction of travel. The construction work was completed in 2011. The through traffic is directed via the parallel west bypass.
Transport links
The entire length of Schloßstraße was traversed by the tram . The Berlin Steam Tram Consortium put the first line into operation in 1888. The last line ran in 1963.
In addition to several bus lines that run on Schloßstraße, the three southernmost underground stations of the U9 line are along the street . The underground line under Schloßstraße was opened in 1974.
At the northern end of Schloßstraße is the Walther-Schreiber-Platz underground station , in the middle of the building is the Schloßstraße underground station and further south is the Rathaus Steglitz underground station , which is also a transfer station for the S1 line of the Berlin S-Bahn - the Wannseebahn - is. Not far from Walther-Schreiber-Platz is another station on the S1 line, Feuerbachstraße .
Web links
- Schlossstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- schlossstrasse.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: New shopping center in Steglitz / One thing is still possible . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 29, 2012.
- ↑ Urban Development Plan Centers 2020 . Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin 2007.
- ↑ Rolf Grevelmann: village remains village . In: District Mayor of Berlin-Steglitz (Ed.): 100 years of Steglitz Town Hall. 1898-1998 . Berlin 1998, p. 8.
- ^ Prehistory of the western bypass and the citizens' initiative. Website of the citizens' initiative Westtangente.
- ↑ Rolf Grevelmann: village remains village , p.17, In: district mayor of Berlin-Steglitz (ed.): 100 years Rathaus Steglitz. 1898–1998 , Berlin 1998.
- ↑ Honet-Graffiti, online ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2009 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.
- ↑ Claudia Fuchs: Beer brush with mask , article in the Berliner Zeitung , December 21, 2009, p. 22
- ^ Wolfgang Kramer, Uwe Kerl: Berlin steam tram 1886–1889 (part 2) . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 2, 2012, p. 19-24 .
- ↑ Marcel Götze: Post-War History 1960–1969. In: Berlin-Straba.de. Retrieved October 9, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 33.7 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 22.6 ″ E