Heerstrasse settlement
The settlement high road is a local situation of Berlin hamlet Westend in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . The settlement is located between Heerstraße in the north and Eichkamp in the east and is essentially bounded by the Grunewald in the west. The Waldschulallee forms the southern border.
The settlement is mainly built with terraced and semi-detached houses and is characterized by the abundant stock of trees (mainly pines). Thanks to this and the narrow residential streets, it retains a rural atmosphere on the edge of the western city of Berlin. At the same time, it has very good transport links via the Heerstraße S-Bahn station , where several bus lines stop in addition to the S-Bahn .
There are numerous sports fields in the immediate vicinity, including the Mommsen Stadium , where tennis Borussia Berlin and SC Charlottenburg train. The sports facility of the Technical University of Berlin is also located on Waldschulallee .
history
The oldest houses in the area of today's settlement date back to 1909. These are houses in Boyenallee 1a to 4, which were built by the Prussian State Railways directly at Heerstraße station.
Max Taut made the first development draft for the layout of a garden city between the suburban train stations Heerstraße, Eichkamp and Grunewald in 1919 for Märkische Heimstätten GmbH . However, this was not carried out because there were too many partners and too strong interventions in the permanent forest ( Hunting 79 and 80 in the Grunewald).
In 1919, with the participation of the city of Charlottenburg, the non-profit construction company Berlin-Heerstraße was founded to create living space for city officials and teachers. A new development plan, which only provided for the northern part of the area planned by Taut for development, was drawn up by Bruno Möhring for the construction company . This design provided for around 200 residential buildings and was implemented by the Charlottenburg Civil Engineering Office from 1920. In the autumn of 1920 the road construction began in the future Heerstraße estate and by 1926 229 houses (mostly semi-detached houses) had been built.
The south-eastern part of Marienburger Allee (numbers 31–43) was not privately built until 1935-1937. Karl Bonhoeffer lived at Marienburger Allee 43 and his son Dietrich Bonhoeffer also lived during his stays in Berlin . Today the Bonhoeffer House is a memorial and meeting place in the former home of the Bonhoeffers .
In December 1921, the first residents founded the community of interests Siedlung Berlin-Heerstraße e. V. This association is thus one of the oldest settlement associations in Germany. At the time, the most important task was helping the neighborhood with the establishment of the settlement. Today the association takes care of the maintenance and care of the settlement, which has been a listed building since 1995.
Prominent residents
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian and resistance fighter , Marienburger Allee 43
- Karl Bonhoeffer , psychiatrist and neurologist, Marienburger Allee 43
- Hans von Dohnanyi , lawyer and resistance fighter, Marienburger Allee 43
- Gustav Fröhlich , actor, Kurländer Allee 1
- Eugen Gerstenmaier , theologian and politician, Kurländer Allee 3
- Lilian Harvey , actress, Kurländer Allee 55
- Fritz Jöde , music teacher, Soldauer Allee 19
- Rüdiger Schleicher , lawyer and resistance fighter, Marienburger Allee 42
literature
- Interest group settlement Berlin-Heerstraße e. V. (Ed.): 75 years of the Heerstraße settlement 1921–1996 . Berlin 1996.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Interest group settlement Berlin-Heerstraße e. V.
- Website on the history of the "East Prussia Quarter" on both sides of Heerstraße
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 18 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 36 ″ E