Skalitzer Strasse

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Skalitzer Strasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Skalitzer Strasse
Skalitzer Strasse with Görlitzer Bahnhof underground station , 1988
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created before the 19th century
Hist. Names Kottbusser and Lausitzer Communication
Connecting roads Oberbaumstrasse (east) , Gitschiner Strasse (west)
Cross streets (from east to west)
Köpenicker Strasse / Schlesische Strasse ,
Wrangelstrasse ,
Görlitzer Strasse ,
Oranienstrasse / Wiener Strasse ,
Reichenberger Strasse ,
Adalbertstrasse / Kottbusser Damm ,
Erzelenzdamm / Kohlfurter Strasse
Places Schlesisches Tor ,
Lausitzer Platz ,
Wassertorplatz
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length around 2000 meters

The Skalitzer road is a 2,000 meter long main road in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg the part and inner ring road . It runs from Wassertorplatz in the west as a continuation of Gitschiner Straße via Kottbusser Tor , Lausitzer Platz with the Emmauskirche and the listed post office SO 36 to Schlesisches Tor , where it merges into Oberbaumstraße .

particularities

The elevated railway of underground line 1 runs along the entire length of Skalitzer Straße on its median . The route , which was inaugurated in 1902, is considered to be the oldest underground line in Germany. Three subway stations are on the Skalitzer Street: at its eastern end of the subway station Silesian Gate , at the junction with the Viennese , Orange- and Manteuffelstraße there is the underground station Görlitzer Bahnhof , as well as approximately 700 meters west of this, the U -Bahnhof Kottbusser Tor .

History of the road

Skalitzer Strasse with the burnt-out Bolle supermarket, May 2, 1987

Its current name, which goes back to the Battle of Skalitz in what was then Bohemia (today: Česká Skalice ), was given to the street in 1868. From 1849 to 1868 one part was called Kottbusser Communication and the other part was called Lausitzer Communication . From 1851 to 1927 the Berlin connecting railway ran along the street. There were also trams that stopped operating after the Second World War.

After the fall of the Wall , residents fought unsuccessfully against the reopening of the Oberbaum Bridge in the early 1990s , which, among other things, made Skalitzer Straße a main street for through traffic again after decades of quiet due to the Wall .

At the corner of Skalitzerstrasse, Wienerstrasse and Manteuffelstrasse, there used to be a branch of the Bolle supermarket chain , which was looted and burned down on May 1, 1987 - an event that many consider to be the “original myth” of the Kreuzberg May riot . After that, the site lay fallow and the last remains of the fire ruins were only demolished years later. From 2004 to 2008 the Islamic Association for the Promotion of Charitable Projects built there . V. the Maschari Center , a seven-storey Islamic center, which also includes the Omar-Ibn-Al-Khattab mosque with its four minarets , named after the conqueror Umar .

The participants in the corner Skalitzer Wendenstraße today Spreewaldplatz location bar of the innkeeper Richard Scholtz 1889 was the birthplace of the term " sausage ".

Others

On the album Trips & Ticks , released by the electro pop band Grossstadtgeflüster in August 2019, a song is named after the street.

See also

Web links

Commons : Skalitzer Straße (Berlin-Kreuzberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Monument post office SO 36, 1925–1927
  2. The myth of Bolle. In: Kreuzberger Chronik , issue 57 (May 2004):

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57.6 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 49.9"  E