Sonnenallee

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Sonnenallee
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Sonnenallee
View towards Hermannplatz
Basic data
place Berlin
District Neukölln ,
Baumschulenweg
Created around 1880
Newly designed 1938/1939,
most recently after 1990
Hist. Names Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse,
Braunauer Strasse
Connecting roads
Urbanstrasse (northwest) ,
Südostallee (southeast)
Cross streets (Selection)
Kottbusser Damm ,
Pannierstrasse ,
Erkstrasse - Wildenbruchstrasse ,
Treptower Strasse ,
Grenzallee - Dammweg ,
Baumschulenstrasse (Berlin-Baumschulenweg)
Places Hermannplatz (north) ,
Hertzbergplatz ,
Venusplatz
Buildings Development and special features , residential complexes
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 4900 meters

The Sonnenallee is a 19th century street in Berlin , located in the districts of Neukölln (district Neukölln ) and Treptow-Köpenick (district Baumschulenweg ). The film of the same name made her famous throughout Germany in the 1990s.

Location and description

Sonnenallee is almost five kilometers long (4.5 kilometers in Neukölln and 400 meters in Treptow-Köpenick). It begins to the northwest as a continuation of Urbanstrasse at Hermannplatz . After around 2600 meters, it passes under the ring railway and shortly afterwards crosses the Neukölln shipping canal . After the intersection with the Grenzallee - Dammweg street, Sonnenallee touches allotment gardens and two larger housing estates and, at its southeastern end, opens onto Baumschulenstrasse (Berlin-Baumschulenweg) .

Several city ​​squares such as Hermannplatz, Hertzbergplatz and Venusplatz touch the street. Originally, the entire length of the traffic route had a central promenade and trees on both sides ( avenue ) on which tram tracks lay until 1965 . In the 1980s, the central promenade was replaced in some places by additional lanes or parking strips. The street is completely developed with six lanes and is an important traffic artery in the southeast of Berlin. The house number sequence has followed the principle of orientation numbering since 1938 , i.e. the odd numbers on the left and the even numbers on the right.

history

Road expansion and naming

View at Heidekampgraben to the southeast towards Baumschulenstrasse

The road was laid out around 1880 in a swampy area of Rixdorf in order to be able to accommodate people looking for accommodation from the population crowding into the cities during the rural exodus at the end of the 19th century. The inhabitants of this area belonged to the poorer classes of the population at the turn of the century. According to the development plan, the street was simply called Straße 84 . After the death of Emperor Friedrich III. in 1888 it was named Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse in 1893 in his honor .

When it was first entered in the Berlin address book in 1894, it reached from Hermannstraße / Kottbusser Damm to Reuterstraße with the appropriate development and was therefore only a little more than 300 meters long. The list contains the notes "construction sites" and "new construction" several times. Their house numbers were set in a horseshoe counterclockwise direction.

Already in the following year the address book shows the eastward continuation over three plan number streets up to the intersection with the street Erkstraße - Wildenbruchstraße about 1150 meters in length. The construction sites were completed and the parcels now comprised 248 numbers instead of the previous 5, with numbers 13-234 being kept free for a planned and gradual expansion of the road. The builders and therefore owners of the buildings are almost exclusively private individuals, especially master craftsmen. In 1897 a community school in Rixdorf appears at number 4, a few years later it was called “9. and 10th community school ".

In addition to numerous rental apartment buildings,  August Heise's piano factory (“Pianoforte Factory”) was located at Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 241. And many small traders, service providers and craftsmen found a livelihood along the street. Of course, restaurants could not be missing either, as Rixdorf owned two larger breweries at that time .

At the turn of the century, the population continued to rise, which is why - apart from Berlin - brisk construction activity began in Rixdorf and the surrounding areas. In addition, the first larger factories were founded and were looking for workers. Therefore, living space had to be created quickly and cheaply for the new workforce. The increase in existing residential buildings and the use of rear areas for side wings and transepts condensed the building stock.

In Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse , this development was evident in the multiplication of tenants per house. In addition, some of the vacant properties were gradually built on towards the southeast. The Rothmann Brothers sewing machine factory is noted as the first large-scale operation on property 227/228 . The Neue Immobilien-Aktien Bank (Berlin) (later: "Society") appears as the owner of the vacant areas and construction sites .

The second south-eastern extension of the street took place in 1900, this time moved forward via Elbestraße to Treptowerstraße / Hertzbergstraße with again many “construction sites” and “new buildings”.

Third and fourth extensions and connection to the rail network

In 1901, the Berlin-Rixdorfer Terraingesellschaft began building on plots 229–234. In the same year, a storage area for the Great Berlin Horse Tram was named between Schönstedtstrasse and Erkstrasse , which was used to dismantle Depot IV of the forerunner of the Berlin tram in Erkstrasse. The horse tram depot has now been closed.

The fourth street extension (parcels 45–172) took place in 1905 to the Ringbahn and Ringbahnstrasse. The Rixdorfer Spar- und Bauverein eGmbH has now built new residential complexes here, and other master masons have appeared as owners and builders. The police headquarters building was opened on the corner of Wildenbruchstrasse .

Water and sewage pipes as well as gas connections were laid along the road parallel to the road expansion work. The (second) municipal gas station of the municipality of Rixdorf was now at the intersection of Ringbahnstrasse and Saalestrasse ( Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 137–142 at the corner of Teupitzer Strasse 15–35). For drainage, Rixdorf had the south-east pumping station built together with the Berlin administration (after 1939 parcel numbers 283–289).

From 1905 , the Rixdorf civil servants housing association had a housing estate built for its members across several parcels (numbers 177–182) including adjacent cross streets . In 1907 the buildings were already finished and the apartments were fully let. In addition, other companies joined in the street added as a wooden mosaic factory or a screw factory (number 218).

In addition to the Protestant community schools ( one for boys and one for girls) that already existed on Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse , the municipal higher educational institution Kaiser Friedrich- Realgymnasium and Realschule (house numbers 208-210 with apartments for the school clerk and the Director). Soon afterwards, the mural in this school auditorium was mentioned in the address book next to an imperial and war memorial as a sight in Neukölln (as Rixdorf was now called). A factory "E. Hoppe ”was run as a construction site (numbers 230/231).

S-Bahn station Sonnenallee of the Ringbahn, western entrance on Saalestrasse

A sports field was built next to Hertzbergplatz in the area of ​​house numbers 157–160. It served the football club Normannia Rixdorf (today: 1. FC Neukölln) as a training and venue.

Street scene on Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse , around 1926

The traffic situation had to be improved significantly in the years of enormous influx of people on this street. Numerous tram lines have already opened up the Rixdorf road network. As early as 1872, today's Neukölln station on Berliner Strasse (today: Karl-Marx-Strasse ) went into operation on the Ringbahn . The municipal administration agreed with the Royal Direction of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway (NME, part of the Prussian State Railways ) to set up another station on Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße . The Rixdorf architect Reinhold Kiehl provided the construction plans and from 1911 the new train station was built. It was opened on October 1, 1912 under the name of Ringbahnstation Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße . The road crossed the railway line at the same level. The received reception building with its entrance in the Saalestrasse of today's S-Bahn station Sonnenallee is meanwhile a monument.

One route is given the name Sonnenallee

The Kaiser-Friedrich-Straßebrücke (today: Sun Bridge ) built around 1914 over the Neuköllner Schifffahrtskanal enabled the road to be extended to the south-east and thus established a connection to the ice works on Dammweg. Such a road connection must have existed beforehand, because the natural ice sticks produced were delivered to grocery stores, restaurants, breweries and, in some cases, to private households in Rixdorf. A route without a street name can be seen on previous street maps.

Around the same time was at the 1896 commissioned in Neukölln Beautiful Weider railway the station Köllnische Heath created near the Dammwegs and opened in August 1920th

The municipal administration decided to set up new schools in line with the increased population. In 1916 there was the 1st and 2nd  auxiliary school on Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße with a class for the hard of hearing (numbers 207, 182).

In the last years of the First World War , further factories were established south of the canal bridge in the extended Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In 1919, for example, you can find the Maschinenfabrik Kraußer & Co. KG , Jacobius und Söhne GmbH Nachf. Schuhfabrik and Schäfer & Reiche, military equipment under property numbers 132/133 , and the Deutsche Oxydric AG oxygen works (Berlin) under numbers 135/136 . The last two named were repaid at this point in 1922, for which Neuköllner Stadtbaugesellschaft Hoch- und Tiefbau is registered. The previous factory halls were given new users in 1923 with the Kontrolluhr- und Apparatebau GmbH and the 'Milsana' milk separator factory . After another year, the Stamm & Nebelginne factory for small iron goods appears. In 1927 the Nat. Reg. Kassen GmbH , from which the Grünebergs Reg. Co AG emerged around 1933 . The companies in the buildings seem to have changed again and again, as examples from 1933 and 1938 show: Kipp-binder-Werk , Büro-Artikel AG , 'Regga' letter folder production or the animal feed manufacturer H. Diederichsmeier appeared in Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 132 / 133 for it.

Before the city of Neukölln and the surrounding villages were incorporated into Greater Berlin , the newly created route of the extended Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse between the canal bridge and Dammweg was named 'Sonnenallee' on April 20, 1920.

The Sonnenallee, created from part of the previous nameless path to the ice works, now formed the extension of Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße towards the southeast. Their continuation beyond the Heidekamp trench to Baumschulenstraße in the district Treptow also was named, Sun Alley ', which now from the August 16, 1928 Neukölln Ship Canal to Baumschulenstraße in today's district of Baumschulenweg enough.

Time of National Socialism: The street becomes Braunauer Strasse

In the Sonnenallee 9–23 section in Neukölln, the “Tasmania” sports field was created around 1935 for the German Football Association and for the Brandenburg Ball Game Associations . Construction sites are indicated in the Treptower part. The house numbers 73-187 have been kept free.

The streets of Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse and Sonnenallee were merged on May 11, 1938 and named Braunauer Strasse (after Braunau am Inn , the birthplace of Adolf Hitler ). The Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße S-Bahn station and the Kaiser-Friedrich-Straßebrücke were only renamed accordingly on October 1, 1939.

Since then, the avenue has stretched from Hermannplatz to Baumschulenstrasse and is almost five kilometers long.

Renumbering of all properties and further developments

Now a new house number assignment was necessary. It was decided to keep number 1 starting at Hermannplatz. The newly assigned numbers were between 1 and 400. This resulted in complete house number changes that also had to be carried out at all municipal facilities such as schools, police stations and employment offices.

The following comparison serves as a guide:

  • 1–125 became 6–400 (even numbers; 2 and 4 are not assigned),
  • the previous double community school was now number 10 and was called the 17th and 18th elementary school ,
  • the grammar school (previously numbers 208/210) now had the address Braunauer Strasse 79,
  • the police building was given the number 107/109,
  • the factory site mentioned several times now had the parcel numbers 221/223,
  • 248–126 became 1–399 (odd numbers).

At Braunauer Strasse 241-257, a branch of Albert Hirth AG was built around 1941/1942 on the previous Tasmania sports field , which dealt with engine details.

Renaming to Sonnenallee, construction of the wall and the consequences

On July 31, 1947, over two years after the end of the Second World War in Europe , Braunauer Strasse was given the name Sonnenallee by decision of the Berlin magistrate . Also because there was Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse in Charlottenburg since 1892 , this name was not given again. On this occasion, the house numbers were readjusted slightly, since then they have ended on Baumschulenstrasse at 411 (odd) and 416 (even).

The individual buildings shown under development and special features refer to the house numbers valid since 1947.

The construction of the wall on August 13, 1961 led to the separation of the south-eastern end. The part in the Treptow district of East Berlin was very short at around 400 meters. For West Berliners and GDR citizens there was a border crossing between the American and Soviet sectors . Following the conclusion of the pass agreement between East and West Berlin, there was an increased rush of people at this crossing in the first few years who wanted to visit their relatives in East Berlin.

The sector border on Sonnenallee could also be overcome by GDR refugees (according to Section 213 of the GDR Criminal Code : illegal border crossing ), as the following example shows: on October 30, 1984 a 17-year-old youth (name not known) overcame the Potsdam area successfully built the wall near the Sonnenallee transition using a ladder. On the other hand, on the night of February 5 to 6, 1989, Chris Gueffroy was unable to get to the western part of the city via the Britzer Zweigkanal near Sonnenallee : he was shot by soldiers from the GDR border troops . The 20-year-old Gueffroy was the last to be killed on the Berlin Wall by the use of firearms.

Development from the 1990s and border memorial site

As a first measure, the street barricade of the Berlin Wall was cleared in November 1989. The control point was still in operation for a few months, the East Berliners had to show their personal documents here, which were stamped by the border authorities of the GDR.

Large paving stones mark the former border

In the Sonnenallee, near Heidekampgraben, on March 20, 1993, a copper floor relief was embedded, which was designed by the artists Rüdiger Roehl and Jan Skuin . The order came from the neighboring district offices of Treptow-Köpenick and Neukölln, and the handover to the public took place on the 4th anniversary of the first free elections in the GDR. The memorial plaque is part of a Berlin Wall history mile initiated in the 21st century . In addition, the action artist Heike Ponwitz has installed two tourist telescopes on stands at a distance of a few meters over the former border, which are intended to serve as a “symbol for surveillance in the past, for people's longing for distance and vastness”. The art action was the award-winning contribution to an invitation competition organized by the Senate and was realized in 1999. A memorial stele erected on the Britzer Zweigkanal commemorates the death of Chris Gueffroy .

The development of the resident population of Sonnenallee has taken place in the last few years towards internationality, numerous immigrants from the Middle East are now at home there. Because around 50 percent of the immigrants are unemployed and because of different cultures, conflicts arise frequently. According to a newspaper report, the neighborhood is therefore also known as the " Gaza Strip ".

Almost 50 percent of the children and young people in Sonnenallee live on state benefits .

traffic

Trams (first line 65, later changed to line 95) and at times also lines 98 and 148 opened up the entire length of Sonnenallee (Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße) from the beginning of the 20th century. As a result of the division of Berlin into four sectors, the tram line ended from 1953 at the Heidekampgraben, before the sector border. The West Berlin Senate decided the complete setting of the tram operation at the beginning of the 1960s, so that the line 95 through a bus line was replaced. The last trams on Sonnenallee ran between Saalestrasse and Von-der-Schulenburg-Park in 1966.
Currently (as of 2014) the metro day bus line M41 and night line N70 run through Sonnenallee.

On April 11, 1926, BVG opened the Hermannplatz underground station at the northern end of (today's) Sonnenallee .

After the strike of the western employees of the Berlin S-Bahn operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the Sonnenallee station was shut down on September 18, 1980. It was only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall , on December 18, 1997, that it could be reopened after the rails were relocated and the station facilities were restored. Because there was an inner-city border crossing at Sonnenallee, many GDR citizens were able to get to the western part of the city from this station in late autumn 1989.

There is no separate bicycle lane for cyclists. You have to drive around the parked cars and adapt to the traffic light phases. Therefore, some cyclists are also out and about on the sidewalk.

In September 2015, measures were taken to improve the situation of the congested M41 Metrobus line, which is affected by regular bulk formation : The frequency during rush hour was reduced from five to four minutes. In order to be able to adhere to the timetable, the short bus lane in front of Hermannplatz was extended to Elbestraße and new bus lanes were arranged in the Wildenbruchstraße and Treptower Straße area. The bus lanes are also open for bicycle traffic and are therefore mostly 4.50 meters wide.

Development and special features

The public buildings at the beginning of the 20th century were decisively shaped by Reinhold Kiehl , the head of the structural engineering office and town planning officer of Neukölln, who designed the orangery in the Körnerpark , the Neukölln town hall and the Neukölln public swimming pool , among other things . The station building in Sonnenallee is based on his designs. Below are some listed or significant buildings or objects along the street. Often they are not yet renovated.

Northern house number range

1–105 (odd)

  • Number 13: On September 24, 1996, the district mayor and representatives of a victims' association unveiled a plaque on the Heller couple's former home. During the Nazi era, Irmgard Heller and Benno Heller hid their Jewish fellow citizens at risk. They were denounced and sentenced to death.
  • Number 21/23: Apartment building, 1953–1955 by Helmut Ollk.
  • Number 79: School, 1901/1902 by Hermann Weigand , expanded in 1906/1907 by Reinhold Kiehl - opened as Kaiser Friedrich-Realgymnasium, renamed Karl-Marx-Schule in 1929/30 . In 1933 the school was given its old name again by the National Socialists and was finally named after the physicist Ernst Abbe in 1956 .

107–223 (odd)

  • Number 107: Police service building at the corner of Wildenbruchstrasse, 1901/1902
  • Number 111: In the 1930s, a small cinema ("Excelsior-Lichtspielhaus") offered the residents a little variety. That was a branch of the Neuköllner Filmtheater GmbH from Hermannstrasse.
  • Numbers 125–133: Housing complex (with Innstrasse 31/32, 34 and Stuttgarter Strasse 1–6)
    1904–1908 by Patrzek and v. Januszkiewicz planned and executed on behalf of the housing cooperative housing association Neukölln eG - only front buildings with short side wings were built and each apartment was equipped with a bathtub (which was considered sensational in 1905). The associated striking "tower block", a five-storey residential building at Sonnenallee 125, was destroyed in the Second World War.
  • Number 137: A stumbling block was laid here on September 12, 2008 in memory of the fate of Willa Kolbe.
  • Numbers 191–199: Housing complexes built from 1925–1929 based on designs by Bruno Möhring and Hans Spitzner, expanded in 1938 by Walter Kühling
  • Number 223: Factory building, 1916 by Otto Rehnig

225-415 (odd)

  • Number 225: After the political change in 1989, one of the largest hotels in Europe was built, the Estrel , directly on the Neukölln shipping canal and near the Sonnenallee S-Bahn station . The hotel has its own jetty at the Sun Bridge.
  • Number 291: S-Bahn station Köllnische Heide and civil servants' residence, built 1911–1920 according to plans by Karl Cornelius and Heinrich Best
  • Numbers 293–295: residential complex (with Drosselbartstrasse, Planetstrasse, Rübezahlstrasse and Wegastrasse); 1919–1924 according to plans by the architects Blume and Josef Zizler, executed by Georg O. Richter & Hans Roboter, on behalf of the Neukölln civil servant housing association

Southern house number range

Numbers 2 and 4 do not exist.

6–106 (straight)

  • Number 70: Tenement house, 1903–1905 by Hermann Serno

108–280 (straight)

  • Number 124 (formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 64): House of Curt Kaiser (1865–1940), Lord Mayor of Rixdorf from before 1910 to 1920
  • Numbers 130–132: Apartment building, 1914–1918 by Fritz Wandray
Sonnenallee 262, facade renovated in 2013
  • Numbers 262–280: Formerly the “Agency for Employment Berlin South” (at the time Sonnenallee 38–56 was opened) was created in 1931/1932 as the South East Employment Office , which belonged to the “Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung” with its headquarters in Charlottenburg . The building complex was built according to plans by Leo Lottermoser. On the day the employment office opened, March 2, 1932, several thousand people had gathered to apply for benefits. There were tangible arguments among those waiting, so that police had to intervene. Since 2012 a branch of Fixemer Logistics GmbH.

282-414 (straight)

Former petrol station from 1938
  • Number 414: The remains of a gas station still stand on this property, which was built in 1938 by the German-American Petroleum Company and operated as a standard and Esso gas station from 1938 to 1945 . At the beginning of the 1950s, VEB Minol took over the operation of the petrol station with Alfons Wasikowski as the lessee, who was in charge of it before 1945. After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, this petrol station remained open, only a few meters away from the inner-city street and pedestrian crossing Sonnenallee . The operation of the gas station ceased in the early 1990s. The building has been falling into disrepair ever since.

City squares and parks

  • Number 1: Here Hermannplatz marks the beginning of the avenue.
  • Numbers 115–123: between Finowstrasse and Innstrasse there is a communal playground that was laid out early.
  • Between numbers 163 and 165: About half the length of Sonnenallee, Hertzbergplatz borders the route on the north side of the street .
  • Numbers 165–179: Next to the town square is the Hertzberg sports field, as reported above, as a sports facility for a Neukölln football club.
  • Numbers 293–295: This is where the Schulenburg Park, laid out in 1919, is located with a fairytale fountain . It was modernized in 1924 by Ottokar Wagler and equipped in 1935 with a “German Forest” fountain based on a design by Ernst Moritz Geyger . In 1970 the green area had to be renovated and the fountain restored, the latter carried out by Katharina Szelinski-Singer . Another renovation of the sculptures was recently carried out by Anna Bogouchevskaia .
  • Numbers 284–290 on the southern side of the street: touch Venus Square, which is more of a specially named intersection with Planet Street.

Residential complexes

Bridge house built across the street from the high deck estate
  • South of Von-der-Schulenburg-Park, on both sides of Sonnenallee, the high-deck housing estate was built in the 1970s and 1980s . This large estate with five to six-storey buildings for around 6,000 residents, built as part of social housing according to innovative urban planning plans by Rainer Oefelein and Bernhard Freund at the time, is bordered by Heidekampgraben (north and east), Neuköllnische Allee (south) and Jupiterstraße (West).
  • Another residential area north of Sonnenallee begins at Sonnenallee at the corner of Dammweg and stretches along Aronsstrasse in a north-westerly direction, bounded by Dieselstrasse and Nernstweg. The tiered houses with up to 18 floors form a dominant feature in the middle of a villa complex. They are large panel buildings (the “western counterpart” of the GDR prefabricated buildings ) and their silhouette can be seen clearly from the Görlitzer Bahn railway towards Plänterwald and Schöneweide.

The avenue in art, music and media

  • From 1989 onwards, the street festival “Singende, klingende Sonnenallee” took place once a year in mid-September on Sonnenallee between Pannierstraße and Treptower Straße, and it even reached as far as Hermannplatz. Less and less interest from the showmen led to the once successful street festival being shortened. In 2009 the Neukölln District Office finally rejected the approval on the grounds of the significantly lower level. The initially well-attended street festival with stages and live music, drinks stands with beer garden flair and rides for the little ones turned into an event dominated by market traders. The festival could not be revived. In contrast, two residents have launched the “Weser rocket” - a modest cultural festival in the trendy bars - around the avenue, which started in 2008. There is still a call for participants in the 2011 festival on the Internet, but the actual website has been switched off. This leads to the assumption that this new culture attempt for Sonnenallee has failed.
  • Facades of Sonnenallee 307 (medical center), 308 and 309 as well as the adjacent Jupiterstraße 15 are decorated with large areas of murals by the French artist group CitéCréation . The works were inaugurated on November 1, 2010.
  • In 1990 Rio Reiser published a song entitled Sonnenallee on his studio album *** ("Sternchen") .
  • The book At the shorter end of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig as well as the previously made film Sonnenallee describe life in the shorter eastern part of the street during the existence of the Berlin Wall . However, the film was not shot in the Sonnenallee, but completely in the Babelsberg film studios and equipped with run-down buildings from the early days . At the locations embodied by the Berliner Straße film set , however, houses from the 1950s actually determine the street scene at the level of the border crossing.

Web links

Commons : Sonnenallee (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1894, Part 5, Rixdorf, p. 163.
  2. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1895, part 5, Rixdorf, p. 175.
  3. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, part 5, Rixdorf, p. 157 (Neue Immobilien-Aktien Bank (Berlin) and No. 227/228: Sewing machine factory).
  4. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, part 5, Rixdorf, p. 167.
  5. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, part 5, Rixdorf, p. 176.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Kramer: Depots of the Berlin horse railways . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 6, 1995, p. 100.
  7. ↑ a b Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 137–142 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, Part 5, Rixdorf, p. 257.
  8. ↑ The later Karl-Marx-Schule , today's Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium.
  9. ↑ Neukölln . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, part 5, p. 772. “Sights” (bottom right).
  10. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 208/210 and 230/231 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1907, part 5, Rixdorf, p. 328.
  11. ↑ Monument entrance building of the Sonnenallee S-Bahn station
  12. ^ Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, part 5, Neukölln, p. 813. “Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse-Brücke” (between No. 122 and 137).
  13. ↑ Neukölln . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1916, part 5, p. 727 (see “Aid schools”).
  14. ↑ Sonnenallee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, part 5, p. 800.
  15. ↑ City map Berlin 1932.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The transition from Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße to Sonnenallee at the level of the Neukölln shipping canal is clearly visible@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  
  16. ↑ Neukölln . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, Teil 4, Neukölln, p. 1837 (the Sackführerdamm listed here is a renaming of Leo-Arons-Straße; since 1973 again as Aronsstraße). Sonnenallee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 4, Treptow, p. 1942 (between Baumschulenstrasse and Forsthausallee).
  17. ↑ a b Braunauer Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1941, part 4, p. 1907 (course of the road).
  18. ↑ Braunauer Strasse 241-257 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1942, part 4, p. 1909. “Zweigwerk Hirth AG”.
  19. ↑ Sonnenallee . ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 334 kB) Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg; As of January 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de
  20. ↑ a b Information on the Sonnenallee border crossing. ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Senate Administration Berlin; Retrieved February 4, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  21. ↑ Berlin day after day on luise-berlin.de : Category: City Chronicle, enter “Sonnenallee 1984” in the search window
  22. ↑ Research project “The Death Victims on the Berlin Wall, 1961–1989”: Balance sheet 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) with the list of 136 fatalities  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-mauer-dokumentationszentrum.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berliner-mauer-dokumentationszentrum.de  
  23. ↑ Information on “Near and Far” on Sonnenallee ( memento of the original from September 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 4, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  24. ↑ KunStstadtRaum. 21 art projects in the urban space of Berlin; Memory of historical events after 1945. “Transition - proximity and distance”; Page 28 . Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin, 2002.
  25. ↑ Ferda Ataman : Neukölln - the Middle East conflict in the neighborhood. In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 13, 2008; Retrieved February 4, 2013
  26. ↑ Susanne Memarnia: Myth Sonnenallee: Street full of light and shadow . In: The daily newspaper . March 23, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed May 7, 2019]).
  27. ↑ Map of Berlin 1939 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : see red tram lines along Braunauer Straße @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alt-berlin.info
  28. ↑ Photo of Sonnenallee from 1966 with tram, Tram Forum, 3rd picture from above
  29. ↑ Route map of the metro bus line M41; Status as of December 2012 (PDF)
  30. ↑ Inventory of the Sonnenallee / Weserstraße traffic concept
  31. ↑ Press release from the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
  32. ↑ Berlin in 1996 (September 24). In: City chronicle of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  33. ↑ Architectural monument residential building Sonnenallee 21/23
  34. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 79, school, 1901/1902 by Weigand, 1906–1907 by Reinhold Kiehl
  35. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 107, Police Service Building, 1901/1902 Wildenbruchstrasse
  36. ↑ Book excerpt on google.books from "Wohnungsbau-Verein Neukölln eG: Photo documentation of the residential complexes" with reference to buildings by Patrzek, accessed on January 31, 2013
  37. ↑ Monument complex residential complex, 1904–1908 by Patrzek and v. Januszkiewicz
  38. ↑ Monuments complex Sonnenallee 191–199, residential complexes, 1925–1929 by Bruno Möhring and Hans Spitzner, 1938 by Walter Kühling
  39. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 223, factory building, 1916 by Otto Rehnig
  40. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 291, S-Bahn station Köllnische Heide and civil servants' residence, 1911–1920 by Karl Cornelius, Heinrich Best ,planeterstraße 46/48
  41. ↑ Illustration of an inner book title from the historical book and magazine inventory of the Weimar Art and Building School (today Bauhaus University Weimar) , accessed on January 31, 2013
  42. ↑ Monument complex Sonnenallee 293–295; Drosselbartstrasse 1-5, 7; Planet Road 3–35, 37–47; Rübezahlstrasse 1–21, 25–27; Wegastraße 1–5. Housing estate 1919–1924
  43. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 70, tenement house, by Hermann Semo; 1903-1905
  44. ^ Municipal administration of Rixdorf . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, part 5, p. 372. “Lord Mayor Kurt Kaiser”.
  45. ↑ Architectural monument at Sonnenallee 130/132 at the corner of Geygerstrasse, tenement house, 1914–1918 by Fritz Wandray
  46. ↑ Monument Sonnenallee 262–280, formerly: Arbeitsamt II, 1931/1932 by Leo Lottermoser
  47. ↑ Berlin on March 2 (1932). In: City chronicle of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  48. ↑ Von-der-Schulenburg-Park architectural and garden monument
  49. ↑ Stefan Strauss: No partying . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 28, 2009.
  50. ↑ Singing sounding Sonnenallee 2006 youtube.com (2:45 min.) For the festival 2006
  51. ↑ Uta Keseling: This is how a day goes on the planet Sonnenallee . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 8, 2010; Retrieved February 1, 2013
  52. ↑ For pictures of the facade paintings of the CitéCréation see Murals Sonnenallee Berlin on Wikimedia Commons .
  53. ↑ The 30 most amazing streets in Berlin in the rbb .
  54. ↑ Here it says: "Name (earlier / later) Sonnenallee (1929–1938)".
    This does not mean that the street has to be renamed in its entirety, just that there were at least a few meters of street that changed the name. However, this may be a mistake; the previous name extended to the bridge over the canal. It probably stayed that way. However, it is sufficient that only the meters across the bridge from one canal bank to the other change the name in order to note a temporarily changed street name in the database of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein .

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 34 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 9 ″  E