Sperlingsgasse
Sperlingsgasse | |
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Street in Berlin | |
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.
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
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
- Herbert Mayer: A book as a namesake . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 9, 1997, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 98-99 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Web links
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Sperlingsgasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- New alley to the Spree . In: Luise.
- Spreestrasse . In: Luise.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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