Sperlingsgasse

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Sperlingsgasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Sperlingsgasse
Sperlingsgasse, 2010
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created in the 16th century
Hist. Names Neue Gasse zur Spree (16th / 17th century),
Kleine Spreegasse
(from 1685) ,
Spreestraße (until 1931)
Connecting roads Neumannsgasse , Friedrichsgracht
Cross streets Brothers Street
Buildings European School of Management and Technology
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 80 m

The Sperlingsgasse is a street in the Berlin district of Mitte , which until 1931 Spreestraße called (in the 16-17 century. Neuengasse the Spree , 1685: Kleine Spree alley , later Spreestraße ).

History of the Sperlingsgasse

Of the 18 houses Sperlingsgasse, 15 of which under monument stood, was in the Second World War, the house Wilhelm Raabe destroyed while the others were not varying degrees of damage or including the 1955 restored inn Raabe plank , a later spiked, plastered half-timbered building from the year 1621.

The restaurant Raabe-Diele at Sperlingsgasse No. 10, which was restored in 1955 , with the burned-out Schlüterhaus at the corner of Brüderstraße and Neumannsgasse from around 1700

In the text of the 1955 photo of the Sperlingsgasse shown, it says: “The house in which Ms. Konarske, called 'Joldelse' by the Berliners, who Raabe Diele looks after as landlady, has been renovated with the support of the national reconstruction organization.” Between 1960 and the In the spring of 1964, all the houses on Sperlingsgasse were demolished and a prefabricated building with apartments was built on the south side. The north side of the Sperlingsgasse remained undeveloped and bordered the garden of the GDR State Council building, which was built in 1962 and which has housed the European School of Management and Technology since 2006 . Today the development of the Sperlingsgasse consists of only one house, the Sperlingsgasse No. 1, a GDR prefabricated building . The Raabe-Diele , which opened as a replica in 1969 in the newly built Ermelerhaus on Märkischer Ufer, was closed around 1997.

Wilhelm Raabe and the Sperlingsgasse

The 1856 published successful novel The Chronicle Sperlingsgasse of Wilhelm Raabe (under his pseudonym Jakob Corvinus ) was Spreestrasse occasion in 1931 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the poet in Sperlingsgasse rename (then there was another six Spree streets in Old Berlin ). During his studies in Berlin in 1854/1855, Raabe lived at Spreestrasse 11.

architectural art

Mural by Walter Womacka on the house at Sperlingsgasse 1 / corner of Friedrichsgracht

At the western end of the house at Sperlingsgasse 1 on Friedrichsgracht there is a wall-filling work made of 360 colored, enamelled copper plates by Walter Womacka . It shows a construction worker surrounded by his attributes in a frontal view. Womacka created the wall decoration under the title Man, the measure of all things in 1968 for the building of the East German Ministry of Construction in the Breite Straße . Before it was demolished as part of the demolition of the street, it was removed in 2010 and attached to the house renovated by the Berlin-Mitte housing association (WBM) and expanded to include penthouse apartments.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sperlingsgasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Determined on the basis of a list of monuments after 1945 by Hans Müther: Berlins Bautradition. Small introduction . In: Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 1956, pp. 85–112: Register of historic Berlin urban development and architectural monuments in the Mitte district (with two plans)
  2. ↑ On Sperlingsgasse and Raabe-Diele see Erika Schachinger: Alte Wohnhäuser in Berlin. A tour of the city center . Verlag Bruno Hessling, Berlin 1969, pp. 31-33

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 52 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 8 ″  E