Swiss Quarter (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
The Swiss Quarter is a local situation in the western center of Berlin hamlet Lichterfelde , of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district belongs. The name has existed since the 1930s and is based on the fact that many streets in this neighborhood are named after Swiss cities (including Basel , Bern and Zurich ).
location
The quarter is bordered by Finkensteinallee in the north, Goerzallee and Engadiner Weg in the east, Ortlerweg , part of Wismarer Strasse , Appenzeller Strasse and Luzerner Strasse and part of Osteweg in the south and Aarauer Strasse , Züricher Strasse and the Carstennstrasse in the west, named after Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn . In the quarter that took until 1994 US - Andrews Barracks and the sports field, a large room.
To the west behind Aarauer Straße are four allotment garden colonies , which also refer to the district in their name, such as Rütli or Schweizerland . Behind the colonies, to the southwest and already in the district of Zehlendorf, was the US barracks area McNair Barracks , today converted into the residential complex Monroe-Lofts and Lesley Lofts and opened.
The S-Bahn stations Lichterfelde Ost (line S25) and Lichterfelde West (line S1) are about the same distance from the district.
history
Until around 1850 Giesensdorf was the larger well-known place in the south of Steglitz, only later did the village of Lichtervelde (then name) become better known and Giesensdorf was incorporated into Groß-Lichterfelde in 1878 . Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , planner and architect of this area, had intended the immediate vicinity of the Prussian main cadet institute for simpler buildings for the institute's staff; it went z. B. around the extensions of Baseler Straße and Berner Straße in a southerly direction. This resulted in a spatial separation from the villa colony of Lichterfelde-West , which lies further to the north , and where most of the officers lived. However, the building stopped and until the end of the 19th century emerged a few late nineteenth Mietblocks. Increased development then began in the late 1920s with settlement houses typical of the time.
It was not until the 1930s that building work on the Swiss Quarter continued quickly. The originally numbered streets were given names of Swiss cities, cantons, valleys and mountains such as B. Appenzell , Basel , Bern , Chur , Engadin , Geneva , Lausanne , Lucerne , Thun and Zurich as well as from the famous Swiss mountain meadow Rütli . Today, other streets in the district are named after important women's rights activists such as Helene von Mülinen or Anna Mackenroth from Switzerland.
Until the 1950s, the tram ran from Rathaus Steglitz through Ringstrasse and Carstennstrasse and ended at Thuner Platz. Today the bus service (line 188) runs through the Ring-, Carstenn- and Luzerner Straße, further buses (lines 285 and M85) drive along the Goerzallee or coming from Zehlendorf (line 112) from the Osteweg into the Appenzeller Straße towards Lankwitz .
After 1945 houses were temporarily confiscated by fascists; the owners had to look around the city for rental apartments and US military personalities moved in. In the period after the Second World War until the beginning of the 1990s, the Swiss Quarter was shaped by the barracks of the Allies ( Andrew Barracks ) - especially the soldiers who lived there.
A DRK children's hospital was located on Carstennstrasse until the 1990s.
After the Allies withdrew, the barracks area that had become vacant was converted from 2001 to 2014 into 23 hectares of building land for small town villas and terraced houses as well as a small shopping center on Goerzallee / Lausanner Strasse. Streets that were previously limited by the barracks (such as Altdorfer-, Züricher- and Thuner Straße) have been opened and new paths have been added; these were named after Swiss personalities such as Johanna Spyri .
Streets with Swiss names in the quarter
Namesake cities
Streets
Aarauer , Altdorfer , Appenzeller , Baseler , Berner , Engelberger , Glarner , Lausanner , Lucerne , Murtener , Thuner and Züricher Straße
Way
Engadine , Geneva , Gersauer and Locarnoer way
Lines
Churer , Nidwalden , Obwalden , Reinacher , Sitten and Waadter line
Rütlier and Thuner Platz squares
Namesake personalities
Routes
Ruthner- , Anna-Mackenroth- , Elisabeth-Feller- , Helene-von-Mülinen- , Johanna-Spyri- , Sophie-Taeuber-Arp- and Marie-Vögtlin-Weg
Maggy-Breittmayer and Ellen-Widmann paths
Business
Before 1995 there were three corner shops and a supermarket in the area around the Swiss Quarter . Today there is a business center in the district at the end of Lausanner Straße in the direction of Goerzallee with various shopping opportunities such as supermarkets, drugstore, pharmacy and bakery. There is also a medical center on Lausanner Straße, in which various specialist areas are represented.
Institutions
In the south of the district is the Lichterfelde park cemetery with graves of personalities such as Karl Abraham , Otto Dibelius , Sebastian Haffner , Kurt von Schleicher , Georg Schumann and Drafi Deutscher .
In the east, the Lichterfelde power plant borders the district, but is located on the other side of the Teltow Canal .
Other important institutions in the Swiss Quarter are the Federal Archives , the Finckensteinallee swimming pool , the Institute for Contemporary History, the Johanniter homes of the Johanniter Accident Aid , the DRK headquarters (general vicariate) in Art Nouveau style , the Holy Family Church and the Johann Sebastian Bach Church .
After the construction boom in the Swiss Quarter and the arrival of numerous young families, a primary school was opened on the site of the former Paul-Braune-Schule on Drakestrasse in the 2014/15 school year. It started in the 33rd primary school with two first grades; later it was named after Friedrich Drake as the Friedrich Drake School.
Personalities
The prominent people who lived or still live in the Swiss Quarter include: a.
- Leon Boden ,
- Manfred Günther and
- Johannes Wendt .
Web links
- Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office: Directory of streets and squares in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district (as of February 2015); pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Risen from the barracks. In: Qiez , December 26, 2013
- ↑ The foundation stone laid for the new Swiss quarter - the “barracks” will now be a residential area. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 2001.
- ↑ Swiss Quarter: where children can move freely. In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 5, 2013.
- ↑ Primary school for the Swiss quarter is established . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 25, 2014, accessed on August 14, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '36 " N , 13 ° 17' 50.2" E