Skalitzer Strasse
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| 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
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 ".
View from the tower of the Emmauskirche to the Skalitzer Straße. the Görlitzer Strasse and the Görlitzer Park
Hochbahntrasse above Skalitzer Strasse, in the background the Görlitzer Bahnhof underground station
Skalitzer Strasse with elevated railway , Post Office 36 and Emmaus Church, 1997
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
- Skalitzer Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Skalitzer Straße in the district lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument post office SO 36, 1925–1927
- ↑ The myth of Bolle. In: Kreuzberger Chronik , issue 57 (May 2004):
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57.6 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 49.9" E