Eichkamp settlement
The settlement Eichkamp is a local situation in the Berlin district of Westend the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . The settlement is located between the AVUS in the southeast and the Heerstraße settlement in the northwest and is bordered by the exhibition grounds in the north and the Grunewald in the southwest . It was planned by Max Taut immediately after the First World War as a settlement for workers and civil servants with low incomes on a former forest area on a larger scale. To the present day, it was largely built in the 1920s with the significant involvement of the architects Max and Bruno Taut , Martin Wagner , Franz Hoffmann , Wilhelm Büning and Otto Pflug .
The Waldschulallee and the permanent forest path form the northern and southern borders, while the Kühler Weg and the Eichkampstraße, which runs parallel to the AVUS , form the western and eastern borders .
Current condition
The settlement is mainly built with terraced and semi-detached houses and is characterized by the abundant stock of trees. Due to this and the remarkably narrow residential streets and farm roads, it retains a rural atmosphere on the edge of the western city of Berlin. At the same time it has good transport links via the train stations Grunewald and Messe Süd (Eichkamp) and the bus 349th
There are numerous sports fields in the immediate vicinity, including the Mommsen Stadium , where tennis Borussia Berlin and SC Charlottenburg train, VfK 1901 and SC Brandenburg , TuS Makkabi and the Helios sports club. The sports facility of the Technical University of Berlin is also located on Waldschulallee .
history
With the construction of the Berlin Stadtbahn in 1879, the Charlottenburger Feld forestry department, southwest of the Lietzensee , had to be relocated. It was moved to a new location on the corner of Eichkampstrasse and Alte Allee, north of the Grunewald station , which was newly opened under the name Hundekehle . After the old field name "Willmersdorffischer Eichelkamp" it was called "Eichkamp". On the Wetzlarer Bahn , another train station was added in 1896 between the stations in Charlottenburg and Grunewald, for which the name "Eichkamp" was adopted. It was given up in 1928 in favor of the Eichkamp train station - now: Messe Süd (Eichkamp) - built just a few hundred meters to the west on the newly laid Spandau suburban railway .
When the AVUS was built in 1914, the forestry department was relocated to its current location south of the permanent forest path. Until then, there were only a few sports facilities and recreational facilities in the Eichkamp area, in addition to a few excursion restaurants.
After the end of the First World War, the Märkische Heimstätte settlement company was founded in 1918 . Adolf Damaschke was the pioneer of the Heimstätten movement that emerged in the 1890s . Entrusted by the Prussian state government to carry out settlement projects against the prevailing housing shortage, the Märkische Heimstätte awarded the contract to plan the Eichkamp estate to Max Taut. The first plans included a much larger area than the area that was finally built. Due to the poor economic situation in the years after the First World War, the first houses completed in 1920 were equipped with a chicken coop and storage facility for the residents to be largely self-sufficient. The first houses were built as terraced houses , but as the economic situation improved, double houses soon became typical for the further expansion of the settlement.
Former prominent residents
- Siegfried Aufhäuser , trade unionist, Zikadenweg 72
- Ernst Böhm , graphic artist, Zikadenweg 37
- Wilhelm Büning , architect, Lärchenweg 35
- Carl Diem , sports official and scientist, Falterweg 31
- Cordelia Edvardson , journalist and writer, Im Eichkamp 33 (today Eichkatzweg )
- Almut Eggert , actress, Eichkampstrasse 10
- Herta Heuwer , creator of the currywurst , Eichkatzweg 54
- Victor de Kowa , actor, moved to Wacholderweg 7b in the 1940s, as reported by his friend Wolfgang Harich , who also lived there temporarily. Hildegard Knef also found temporary shelter here in 1945.
- Horst Krüger , writer, Im Eichkamp 35 (today: Eichkatzweg)
- Elisabeth Langgässer , writer, Im Eichkamp 33 (today: Eichkatzweg)
- Lüül (civil Lutz Ulbrich ), musician, Eichkampstraße 92
- Marie-Elisabeth Lüders , women's rights activist and politician, Im Hornisgrund 25
- Ludwig Marcuse , philosopher and journalist, Im Eichkamp 25 and 31 (today: Eichkatzweg)
- Kurt Rosenfeld , lawyer, Lärchenweg 28
- Wolfgang Spier , actor, Zikadenweg 58
- Max Taut , architect, Lärchenweg 15
- Arnold Zweig , writer, Zikadenweg 59 and Kühler Weg 9
The house at Falterweg 35 formed the backdrop for the house of the Wichert family from the ZDF series Die Wicherts next door .
literature
- Stephan Brandt: Berlin-Westend. Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-458-6 , pp. 81-93.
- Manuela Goos, Brigitte Heyde: Eichkamp. A settlement on the edge in the middle of Berlin. Eichkamp e. V., Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3000051258 .
- Fritz Hellwag: Tasks for the settlement architect / To the Eichkamp settlement by Max Taut. In: Das Schöne Heim 1 (1930), pp. 261–264.
- Horst Krüger: For example Eichkamp. An attempt on the German petty bourgeoisie . In: Neue Rundschau 75.4 (1964), pp. 632-649.
Web links
- Eichkamp Settler Association Homepage: www.siedlung-eichkamp.de
- Eichkamp settlement at berlin.de
- Stumbling blocks in Berlin-Eichkamp
- Old map clippings from Eichkamp at forst-grunewald.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Harich: An autobiographical fragment. To commemorate the day of death.
- ↑ Hildegard Knef: Chronology of her life 1925-1949
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ' N , 13 ° 16' E