Schwedter Strasse
| Schwedter Strasse | |
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| Schwedter at the corner of Gleimstrasse, 2012 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District |
Prenzlauer Berg , center |
| Created | 18th century |
| Hist. Names | Lost way |
| Connecting roads |
Behmstrasse , Metzer Strasse |
| Cross streets | (Selection) Schönhauser Allee , Kastanienallee , Bernauer Strasse |
| Buildings | Architectural monuments |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 2270 meters |
The Schwedter Straße (until 1862: Lost Way ) is a road more than two kilometers long in the north of Berlin . It partly runs along the border between the Pankow and Mitte districts and crosses the Mauerpark .
history
The current course of the road follows a field path that has been documented since the 18th century, which began near the Vorwerk at Schönhauser Tor outside the Berlin customs wall and was paved in 1860. The street was named on May 29, 1862 after the city of Schwedt / Oder in the Uckermark, northeast of Berlin .
As was customary at the time, the spelling was in one word: Schwedterstrasse . As early as 1862, there were several residential buildings along the street, ten of which were apartment buildings, as well as smaller unnumbered residential buildings named after their owners (Kliese, Heese, Heintzel, Holzmann, Mitsching, Schultze, Scheibe, Schwarz, Streit, Schmidt, Löffler, Schütze) . An also unnumbered parcel was built on with a Protestant maids' hostel .
In 1875 the road was extended northwest and its numbering ranged from 1–46, 47–221 were designated as "construction sites". The southern side of the street runs from 222 (west, on Griebenowstraße) to house number 268 on Schönhauser Allee.
Berlin's Nordbahnhof opened in 1877 on Schwedter Strasse, north of Bernauer Strasse . It was in operation as a freight station until 1985.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Schwedter Strasse reached its current total length to the Behmstrasse bridge. In 1901 there were the following side streets: Christinenstraße, Templiner Straße, Choriner Straße, Kastanien Allee, Griebenowstraße, Fürstenberger Straße, Cremmener Straße, Oderberger Straße, Eberswalder Straße, Bernauer Straße, Gleimstraße, Ringbahn (here is an area of the treasury and the freight yard of the Nordbahn ), Behmstrasse. The house numbers remained incomplete.
During the division of Germany, part of Schwedter Strasse ran along the Berlin Wall . Between Eberswalder Strasse and the railway embankment in the north, the border wall ran directly on the west side of the street. Today this part of Schwedter Strasse is part of the Berlin Wall Trail .
course
The Schwedter Straße runs in a north-westerly direction through the districts of Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte . It begins opposite Senefelderplatz on Schönhauser Allee , and then turns to north-northwest with a bend near Choriner Straße. In the Gleimviertel it crosses the Mauerpark as a pedestrian and cycle path, passes Falkplatz and Gleimtunnel and then leads as a cycle road to a pedestrian bridge called Schwedter Steg , which extends to Behmstrasse . Larger cross streets are Kastanienallee , Oderberger Straße , Eberswalder Straße , Bernauer Straße and Gleimstraße . Between Choriner Strasse and Eberswalder Strasse, the north-eastern side of the road marks the district boundary between Pankow and Mitte. The Schwedter Straße is also part of the Berlin – Usedom long-distance cycle route between Schönhauser Allee and Gleimstraße .
The house numbers are given in a horseshoe shape , the counting begins on the north side at the corner of Schönhauser Allee. The numbers 53 to 75 and 91 to 222 have not been assigned, the station was initially located there and later the Mauerpark.
Edge development
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In the 1950s, the then Prenzlauer Berg district had a few new residential buildings built between Kastanienallee and Fürstenberger Straße.
The area of today's Marthashof in the Schwedter Straße 37-40 had been owned by the Kaiserswerther Diakonie since the middle of the 19th century . In addition to the maids' hostel, she ran the Martha's Hof educational school. A higher private daughter school and a small child protection institution were attached . The complex, which was destroyed in the Second World War, was released for building at the beginning of the 21st century, and from 2008 a residential complex with 129 units was built. Resident initiatives who favored a park instead of the building feared accelerated gentrification , rent increases and the destruction of established social structures in the neighborhood. The access road was given the name Marthashof when the development began.
In the Gleimviertel, the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark and the Max-Schmeling-Halle border to the east on the Schwedter Straße and the Mauerpark .
Architectural monuments
- No. 230: a five-storey residential building from the construction period around 1890 with a seven-axis facade. Was restored in 1975. In the current Senate database, the house is no longer listed as a monument.
- No. 231: Zionskirche preacher house , built in 1888
- No. 232–234: This building complex was named 89/96 in 1876/1877. Community double school built according to plans by Hermann Blankenstein . The ensemble consists of two four-story boys 'schoolhouses, a gym and a corner building on the courtyard side as a separate girls' school with an auditorium. The well-preserved brick building was the pedagogical school for kindergarten teachers “Friedrich Fröbel” in the GDR , which had moved here from Grabbeallee in Pankow. The school building is no longer listed as a monument in the current Senate database.
- No. 261–268: Apartment block development around Teutoburger Platz, which also includes Christinenstrasse, Zehdenicker Strasse and other parts.
Bicycle traffic
At the end of Schwedter Straße, at Schwedter Steg, there has been one of 17 automatic wheel counting stations permanently installed in Berlin since 2015. Of all the places in the city that have a counting point, this is the tenth most frequented place by bicycle traffic.
Plaque
The German resistance fighter Helmut Masche (1894–1944) was commemorated at his house at Schwedter Strasse 5 with a commemorative plaque from 1960. The plaque, which was only restored in 1984, was removed by strangers in 1991. However , in 1993 the non-profit association Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin installed a replacement plaque with the inscription:
“Here, at his house, was a memorial plaque for
Helmut Masche from
March 16, 1894 to August 28, 1944.
He participated in the resistance in the AEG turbine factory
and in illegal KPD meetings. In 1940 Helmut
Masche was arrested, imprisoned in the Wuhlheide labor camp and in Landsberg prison, and
sentenced to death and executed in 1944. "
This had already been badly scratched before the disappearance.
Web links
- Schwedter Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- The “Green Belt Berlin”: from the death strip to the green belt - the former strip of the wall. - 4. Information board on the Schwedter Steg . Senate Department for Urban Development, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lost Way . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Schwedter Strasse . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1863, part 2, p. 159.
- ↑ Schwedter Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1875, part 2, p. 356.
- ↑ Schwedter Strasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, part 3.1, p. 580.
- ↑ For the exact course of the road and border, see: Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment: Map Berlin Zoom , (as of August 10, 2014).
- ↑ Article on Scheinschlag.de
- ^ A b Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 311/312 .
- ↑ Schwedter Straße 231, Zionskirche preacher house, 1888
- ↑ Schwedter Straße 232–234, 89th and 96th community school
- ↑ Christinenstraße 4–37, Teutoburger Platz, square, apartment buildings, commercial and social buildings Angermünder
- ↑ Traffic survey bike counter for Berlin: How many cyclists are there? Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ 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
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 26.3 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 16.4" E