Sevan district

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The Sewanviertel is a large housing estate in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Berlin district of Lichtenberg . It was built from 1961 to 1966 as the first larger East Berlin new building district under the name Hans-Loch-Viertel .

location

The Sevan district is on both sides of Sevan Street . It is bounded in the north by Rummelsburger Strasse , in the east by the street Am Tierpark , in the south by the VnK line of the railway and in the west by the district boundary to Rummelsburg .

Hans-Loch-Strasse 1963

history

The new district was built in 1961–1966 on a former arbor on both sides of the then Triftweg (today Sewanstraße) based on designs by the Werner Dutschke / Gerd-Heinz Brüning (urban development), Leopold Wiel / Günther Kabus / Wolfgang Radtke / Gerhard Hoelke (building construction) and Heinz Peldszus collectives (Green planning). It was named Hans-Loch-Viertel after the GDR's finance minister, LDPD politician Hans Loch, who died a year earlier .

Sewanstrasse 233 high-rise building

Around 5000 residential units for around 15,000 residents were built on 80 hectares. The quarter consists predominantly of four-storey rows of living quarters made of large floor-to-ceiling panels of the QX type from the Q3A residential series . Three eleven-story high - rise buildings are in the center. In 1963 a ten-story central aisle building was built on Schwarzmeerstraße . From 1965 onwards, the quarter was expanded to the south with eight to ten-story residential slabs.

The social center of the quarter was the “passage”. It was built between 1964 and 1966 at the intersection of Volkradstrasse and the green corridor along the Tränkegraben. In contrast to the three high-rise buildings, the residential center was designed as a low-rise building. Numerous public functions of the area were concentrated in a single complex on an inner "pedestrian street" ( department store , restaurant, post office, pharmacy, hairdressing salon). A primary school and a public library were also included in the center. When the ailing “Passage” was torn down at the turn of the year 2002/2003 and replaced by two functional buildings, one of the most innovative building ensembles of the 1960s in the Berlin-Lichtenberg district disappeared. The area surrounding the new Volkrad Passage was redesigned in 2006–2008.

Most of the streets got the names of the waters: Baikal , Balaton , Dolgensee , Mellensee , Moldau , Black Sea .

In 1992 Hans-Loch-Strasse was renamed Sewanstrasse. It was named after Lake Sevan in Armenia . This also changed the name of the district. Also in 1992, parts of Hans-Loch Strasse became independent streets and were given the names of North American lakes ( Erieseering , Huronseestrasse ).

traffic

The Sewanstraße is traversed in sections by the bus routes 194, 296 and 396 of the BVG . On the northern edge of the district is the Friedrichsfelde underground station , on the eastern edge of the Tierpark underground station , both on underground line 5 . To the south of the district is the Rummelsburg depot on S-Bahn line 3 .

schools

  • Bernhard Grzimek School, Sewanstrasse 184
  • Elementary school, Sewanstrasse 43
  • Butterfly primary school, Dolgenseestraße 60
  • Paul and Charlotte Kniese School, Erich-Kurz-Strasse 6-10
  • George Orwell High School, 223 Sewanstrasse

Personalities

  • Agnes Kraus (1911–1995), actress, lived at Mellenseestraße 36
  • Herbert Ziergiebel (1922–1988), writer, lived at Schwarzmeerstraße 50
  • Heiner Müller (1929–1995), writer, lived 1979–1993 at Erich-Kurz-Strasse 9

See also

literature

  • Architecture guide GDR. Berlin. Capital of the German Democratic Republic. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1976, p. 130.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Lichtenberg through the ages. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2017, p. 85.
  2. ^ Center for Hans-Loch-Viertel. In: Neues Deutschland , August 15, 1965, p. 2.
  3. ↑ New building with many shops replaces “Volkradpassage”. In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 28, 2002.
  4. ^ Lichtenberg participatory budget. Friedrichsfelde Süd at www.buergerhaushalt-lichtenberg.de
  5. ↑ Redesign of the Volkradpassage on www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
  6. ↑ Street reminds of actress Agnes Kraus. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 14, 2011.
  7. ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin. 1986 edition, p. 552.
  8. ↑ Memorial plaque for Heiner Müller on www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 51 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 30.2 ″  E