Arnswalder Platz

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Arnswalder Platz
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Place in Berlin
Arnswalder Platz
Arnswalder Platz, 2007
Basic data
place Berlin
District Prenzlauer Berg
Created Beginning of the 20th century.
Name between 1937 and 1947 Hellmannplatz ,
nameless from 1974 to 1995
Newly designed Renovated in 2009
Confluent streets
Bötzowstrasse ,
Pasteurstrasse ,
Hans-Otto-Strasse ,
Danziger Strasse
Buildings Bull fountain
use
User groups Road traffic (edge), pedestrians
Space design Hermann Mächtig
Technical specifications
Square area 1.5  hectares

The Arnswalder Place is a Grade II listed, rectangular park in Berlin 's Pankow district , the district of Prenzlauer Berg , in Bötzowviertel . It houses the fertility fountain (better known as the bull fountain ), playgrounds and a small area with old trees.

location

The 18,000 m² space is located on the southwest side of Danziger Strasse 105 meters between Bötzow and Hans-Otto-Strasse, the latter limited to the east. Pasteurstrasse borders after 175 meters to the south. The square interrupted the parallel street between Danziger and Pasteurstrasse, Woldenberger / Friedeberger Strasse. The bull fountain stands on the middle path that corresponds to this. Woldenberger Straße was renamed Dietrich-Bonhoeffer in 1974. The Friedeberger Strasse was not rebuilt after the war damage when the new building in the Bötzow district was built, an unnamed 50 m stump at right angles to Hans-Otto-Strasse at the children's combination 40a and 40b remained.

history

The square was laid out in the course of the development of the Bötzowviertel between 1900 and 1904 according to designs by the landscape gardener Hermann Mächtig . Since the Hobrecht Plan in 1862 the area was simply called Platz A ; When the first development around it, it was named Arnswalder Platz in 1902 after the former district town of Arnswalde ( Pomerania province , since 1945: Choszczno ). It was a kind of crossroads, with lawns and flower beds in between, on which a digging place was gradually created, a small fountain and a rotunda set up as a urinal . The National Socialists renamed the square Hellmannplatz in 1937 and was called that until 1947, after which it was again called Arnswalder Platz. Between 1974 and 1995 the area was unnamed by a decision of the council of the city district because nobody lived directly on the square, which means it had no postal significance. It was not until February 1995 that it got its previous name Arnswalder Platz back; since the end of the 20th century, he is under monument protection .

Fertility fountain (bull fountain)

Work on the bull fountain on June 11, 2009

The most prominent feature of the square is the bull fountain , ox fountain or fertility fountain , made of red Rochlitz porphyry tuff . This system was originally the design of the Berlin sculptor Hugo Lederer in a competition in 1910 for a monumental fountain in Buenos Aires - Lederer received the fourth prize (2000 marks), his design was not carried out at the time. The Berlin magistrate bought the project under Mayor Boess in 1927 and arranged for it to be implemented, although it was unclear where the money would come from (it was estimated at around 400,000  marks ). Boess planned the installation on Baltenplatz . During the severe economic crisis that followed, the city was no longer able to finance the project and, in addition, considered the installation of the fountain on Baltenplatz impossible because of its size. After the stone carving work in the quarry near Rochlitz was completed in 1931, Lederer put pressure on and had “the finished bulls and architectural parts” filmed for the Ufa Tonwoche at the beginning of November 1932 .

On 15 March 1933, the coming to power, broke Nazis to the selected Berlin municipal authorities and set up NSDAP a -geführtes committee. On November 1st of the same year this approved 195,000 Marks for the installation of the fountain sculpture on Arnswalder Platz, newly selected by the city planning director Richard Ermisch . The Forckenbeckplatz site , which was also considered in the meantime, was also out of the question after more detailed soil investigations . In 1934 the 300 cubic meters of cut stone came to Berlin.

Bull with mother and child, condition before the renovation
Bull with fisherman, condition before renovation

On a stair landing that was then and now accessible via nine steps, a fountain shell with a diameter of 7.7 meters and a centrally placed, mushroom-shaped stone over which the water could run forms the center of the facility. On both sides there is a five-meter high bull with its back to the bowl of water. At the feet of the huge animals sit a reaper with a bundle of ears of corn and a fisherman with a net (northeast) as well as a shepherd with a ram and a mother with child (northwest).

In 1959, the fountain system was renovated and provided with an underwater lighting system that illuminated the fountain in the dark. From 1990 the district did not have the money for a comprehensive renovation, the ensemble fell apart and was soon protected with a site fence. For years the fountain was marred by graffiti . The reconstruction announced on the district office's website in 2004 could only begin in October 2007. After the stone sculptures had been restored in winter 2008, the first test run of the fountain system took place on June 11, 2009. On May 12, 2010, Pankow's District Mayor Matthias Köhne officially put the fountain into operation.

playground

Arnswalder Platz as seen from Danziger Straße, 2009

At the edge of Pasteurstrasse there is an artistically designed children's playground with wooden elements and stone animals, all the usual climbing equipment and swings (which are fitted with safety belts and ergonomically shaped seats). The playground is a popular leisure activity for children. Next to it is a ball playground (where street competitions are also held) with small goals and a higher fence, as well as two table tennis tables. The facility was created as part of the redevelopment of the square in 2003/2004 as a playground for young people and small children in the southern area.

Small park

Historic hand pump on Arnswalder Platz

The part of the square in the area on Bötzowstrasse invites you to linger with old trees, especially chestnuts, and benches, with cut lawns to lie down or just take a short stroll. Some of the trees date from 1902, the year the square was first designed. The street furniture here is an old cast iron hand pump of the kind that can be found on the streets of Berlin every now and then.

literature

  • The architectural and artistic monuments in the GDR capital Berlin I . Edited by the Institute for Monument Preservation. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984.
  • G. Funeck, W. Schönholz, F. Steinwasser: Park and green areas in Berlin , Berlin Information 1987, ISBN 3-7442-0028-0 .

Web links

Commons : Arnswalder Platz  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ K5 map of Berlin 1: 5000: Arnswalder Platz
  2. ↑ K4 cards work Straube plan in 1910 , the following example from card 4228/4235.
  3. ^ Elbinger Strasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, III., P. 133. “South side: ← Greifswalder Straße → Building land of the Bauges. North-East ← Street 1 → Building land of the Bauges. ← Lost Way → “.
  4. ^ Arnswalder Platz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1903, III., P. 30. “Situation picture of the place. 1903/2523: Elbinger Strasse: ← Greifswalder Strasse → 71–78: tenement houses, 79: construction site Berliner Terrain-Ges., 80–85: tenement houses, 86: construction site of master builder Hahn ← Bötzowstrasse → ← Arnswalder Platz → ← Strasse 3a → 87 –89: construction site Berliner Terrain-Ges., 90: new building, 91–94: construction site Berliner Terrain-Ges., 95: new building ← Kniprodestrasse → “(1902/2235 Arnswalder Platz is not noted, the year of the address books is the year of issue 1902/2348: Between Bötzowstrasse and Kniprodestrasse the properties on Elbingerstrasse 87-95 were building land of the Berliner Terrain-Gesellsch.).
  5. ↑ Hellmannplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV., P. 349. “Site plan: NO55, Hellmannplatz, administrative district IV Prenzlauer Berg, tax office Greifswalder Strasse, Fritz Hellmann, SA-Scharführer * April 20, 2001, gef. 8.4.32 // # 4651, part IV. P. 188: Elbinger Strasse 74 / Bötzowstrasse 53: tenement house ← Bötzowstrasse → ← Hellmannplatz → ← Braunsberger Strasse → Elbinger Strasse 75 / Braunsberger Strasse 19: tenement ".
  6. ↑ Hellmannplatz . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  7. ↑ The German fountain for Buenos Aires . In: German art and decoration . 26th year 1910, p. 126–127 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed January 25, 2017]).
  8. ^ Ilonka Jochum-Bohrmann: Hugo Lederer, a German national sculptor of the 20th century . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-631-42632-1 , p. 169-170, 238-239 .
  9. ^ Historical archive of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, Sign. PrAdK 0840 p. 189.
  10. ↑ Wanja Abramowski : The monument on the Baltenplatz . In: mont klamott , monthly of the Friedrichshain history association Hans Kohlhase e. V .; March 2008 edition, pp. 1–19. Detailed description of the historical development of today's Bersarinplatz and the fountain
  11. ↑ fertility fountain 1934. akg-images.de, accessed on 21 February 2017 .
  12. ↑ Representation of the bull fountain on the Pankow District Office website
  13. ↑ a b Refurbishment continues - preparations begin on the northern part of Arnswalder Platz . In: Berliner Woche , March 15, 2017, p. 3

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 59 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 14 ″  E