Marie town square

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Town square Marie
Town square on the Marie
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Marie town square
Across the square to the northeast and to the school at Marie (2014)
Basic data
place Berlin
District Prenzlauer Berg / Winsviertel
Created 1999
Confluent streets Marienburger Strasse
use
User groups Pedestrians , residents
Space design Playground , green spaces
Technical specifications
Square area 6000 m²
building-costs Donations of money / material and unpaid community work , public funds

The town square Marie is located in the Winsviertel of the Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg , district Pankow and is the central meeting place in the Kiez .

location

The square is to the northeast on Marienburger Strasse on their properties 41-46 (continuous). The size of the square is 6000 square meters. The Marie square is the only large green space in this area. It has numerous retreat options in the densely populated residential area, such as park benches, a 1000 m² playground , sports facilities and the green area . The square is used by initiatives and associations for their offers and by the residents as local recreation . The lighting can also be used in the evening or extended in winter.

history

Ambulance service view
The ambulance office on Marienburger Strasse was demolished in the 1990s. The town square is located on the open space created in this way
View over the playground 2016

Like the rest of the city ​​quarters in Prenzlauer Berg , the residential area along Winsstrasse had its central town square according to the Hobrecht plan, along Strasse 25 (Winsstrasse) on the south side of Strasse 10 (Danziger Strasse) up to the level of Strasse 29 (Christburger Strasse). Place G was still in the planning phase from 1890 to the south. With the densification of the development (Chodowiecki and Jablonskistraße) on the southwest side of Danziger Straße, the planning of place G moved to the north-east side, in still free area west of the gas station, in front of the - no longer laid out - street 15 . This Danziger Platz in the north was no longer assigned to the residential area, as was the case with Hobrecht in 1862, but was separated from the settlement area by the wide Danziger Strasse on the "commercial area" west of the gas works (street cleaning depot, the infirmary - later the Nordmarkkrankenhaus - and the homeless shelter, rail connection of the gasworks). After 1945, this green area was not regarded as a town square by the residents of the Winsviertel, at best it was accepted as a green area at the gas works.

For a long time, the residents had asked for a central and green space. The opportunity arose with the demolition of the old rescue center in Marienburger Strasse in 1995. In the 1990s, the Winsstrasse redevelopment area's representatives were asked to set up this space for citizens.

The plot of land occupied by the town square has its origin in the depot of the Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus Act. Ges., Initially for horses and later buses and coaches at the beginning of the 20th century. As a result, the dense residential development, as in the surrounding square, was missing. At the end of the 1930s, the ambulance service with the fleet of vehicles was housed on the site of the bus depot. The place next to Christburger Straße 7 is the " Primary School an der Marie ", which was built around 1907/1908 as the 239th and 296th community school of the city of Berlin. During the war years , the school was converted into a military hospital, which was operated as a makeshift hospital in the post-war years and as a Prenzlauer Berg Polyclinic and branch of the Prenzlauer Berg Hospital until the 1990s . The rescue office of (now) East Berlin belonged to this hospital complex.

Between the elementary school on the Marie in Christburger Strasse and the town square on the Marie there is the old teacher's house, which was expanded in 2005 into a leisure center with a children's and youth area ("Gartenhaus an der Marie", Winsstrasse 49). “A major redevelopment goal was achieved with the creation and long-term security of the town square at MARIE. Due to its central location, a wide range of offers and the planning and development process carried out primarily by residents and space users of all ages, the square has become a point of identification for the quarter awarded a construction investor who is to meet the socially acceptable requirements on the northwest side of the square on the Marie with his project.

Freundeskreis Marie e. V.

The Marie town square has officially existed since 1999 and has been run by the Freundeskreis Marie e. V. managed. The land use in its current form is ultimately due to the initiative of local residents in 1997. The town square was created on the fallow land that remained after the local rescue office was demolished . Initially, the construction of a police and fire station was planned for the demolition area in 1995. After initial negotiations, a ten-year contract for “free use with an extension option” was signed between the Office for the Environment and Nature and the fire service in 1995. The provisional "interim use" achieved in this way guaranteed further activities until 2005 by the citizens' council. The design led to the improvement of the living environment through monetary and material donations and the unpaid collaboration of residents and artists from the neighborhood, supplemented with various public subsidies. After negotiations with the fire brigade (2005) about the property, the provisional interim use was converted into a permanent solution as a green area and town square.

The Freundeskreis Marie e. V. received the Gustav Meyer Prize of the State of Berlin in 1999 for its work and in 2001 won the “Social City 2000” competition for exemplary and innovative commitment. "The activities of the neighborhood gardeners as well as the communication between the residents - school, day-care center, youth facility, building group - and other users stand for the liveliness of the place."

Web links

Commons : Stadtplatz Marie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Danziger Platz: Created as place G of Section XII of the development plan. It was on Gedikestrasse, Diesterwegstrasse, Danziger and Winsstrasse. The name of the square was canceled in the 1950s, this green space without a name still exists. It should be noted that the (Wins-) Straße (in the course of Ella-Kay-Straße) provided for in the development plan XII led west of the gasworks to the railway site (Straubeplan 1910: sheet IF / IL / IM).
  2. ↑ The new building of the fire station was postponed due to austerity measures in the Berlin budget.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200 students from 11 school classes gave the square a new face with wall paintings and mosaics as well as a play fountain they designed themselves. The rows of trees could be paid for from a compensatory measure. With funds from the EU program URBAN II, it was also possible to set up solar lights. The gardening work was carried out with the support of long-term unemployed people who were paid by the Federal Labor Office.
  2. ^ FIS Broker (map of Berlin 1: 5000 (K5 color edition)) of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment Berlin
  3. ↑ Apartments and supermarkets are being built in the Prenzlauer Allee 44 lot . In: Berlin Week of February 16, 2016
  4. ↑ For example: Papa party on the Marie
  5. ↑ Light in the town square with solar cells . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 8, 2001
  6. ^ "Berlin, Marienburger Strasse, rescue office, ambulance central picture The rescue office in Berlin, Marienburger Strasse. Shown here: the outside view of the ambulance with the ambulance moving in and out. Photo taken in 1950. “Caption Federal Archives
  7. ^ Ferdinand Boehm: Plan of Berlin and the surrounding area to Charlottenburg . Published by Keller, Berlin 1862. See development plan XII and compare with Platz A to the east , the later Arnswalder Platz.
  8. ^ Latest plan of Berlin .
  9. ↑ Danziger Platz . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  10. ↑ Danziger Platz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV., P. 153. “NO55: Danziger Strasse 54-60 belongs to 61: Städt. Gasworks IV. And residential building gas workers, ← Winsstrasse → ← Danziger Platz / Danziger Strasse undeveloped → ← Diesterwegstrasse → 62 / Diesterwegstrasse 1: Berlin residential. und Geschäftsshaus GmbH "(1930 - 5963, part IV. p. 179: Danziger Platz:" provisionally school barracks of the 290th community school ", Danziger Strasse 62 / 62a: owner city of Berlin, school barracks of the 21st and 290th elementary school and caretaker D. Mielenz.).
  11. ↑ a b Plan of Berlin ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2015 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. Straubeplan IF from 1910, as well as sheets 4235 and 423B under the Soldner coordinates X = 26340, Y = 23165 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / histomapberlin.de
  12. ↑ Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg: A place for Marie (workshop city). In: werkstatt-stadt.de. Retrieved September 1, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Repealed redevelopment area Pankow - Winsstraße ( Memento from March 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Westermann's plan of Berlin . Publishing house Georg Westermann / Berlin W 40 / Braunschweig, Prenzlauer Berg around 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  
  15. ↑ Marienburger Strasse 41-46 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, III., P. 399. “Owner: Allg. Berl. Omnibus Act. Ges., Users: Omnibus depot IId, residents: the blacksmith, two conductors, the forage master, the inspector "(For 1913 it should be noted that the horse nurse, the forage master and an omnibus driver lived here. On Christburger Strasse, on parcel 5 –11 vacant lots owned by Kaufmann Schindler.).
  16. ↑ Marienburger Strasse 41-46 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV., P. 558. "Rescue Office of the City of Berlin" (In 1933 the building and the property were still claimed by the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft. The City of Berlin took over the property in 1936. Around 1938 the Rescue Office moves in .).
  17. ↑ Our school ... schule-an-der-marie.de
  18. ↑ Pharus City Map Berlin Large Edition .  ( 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. Pharus Plan publishing house in Treuhand / Berlin N54 / Schwedter Strasse 263, Prenzlauer Berg around 1954; and Berlin / city map .  ( 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. VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1987; 4th edition, 1989@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alt-berlin.info  
  19. ^ Abandoned redevelopment area Pankow - Winsstraße: Stadtplatz an der MARIE
  20. ↑ town square. August 5, 2010, accessed September 1, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Kiezpark - from temporary use to permanent establishment, werkstatt-stadt.de
  22. ↑ Fest: Stadtplatz prepared again - SPD in Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, Weissensee. SPD Pankow, accessed on September 1, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Redesign of the Marie town square ( Memento from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ^ Urban renewal - Pankow. stadtentwicklung.berlin.de:

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 27.4 ″  E