Paris Commune Street

Paris Commune Street
Street in Berlin
Basic data
place	Berlin
District	Friedrichshain
Created	in parts in the 18th / 19th century
Newly designed	after 1945
Hist. Names	Fruchtstrasse (sometimes also: Frucht-Strasse ) (1820–1971) , Linienstraße (before 1799–1820) , Kraut (s) -Gasse (around 1800–1820)
Connecting roads	Friedenstrasse (north) , Mühlenstrasse (south)
Cross streets	At the Ostbahnhof, Erich-Steinfurth-Strasse, An der Ostbahn, Lange Strasse, Wriezener Karree, Am Wriezener Bahnhof, Rüdersdorfer Strasse, Hildegard-Jadamowitz-Strasse, Karl-Marx-Allee , Weidenweg
Places	Stralauer Platz , Franz-Mehring-Platz
Buildings	look here
use
User groups	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length	1400 meters

The street of the Paris commune is a street in the Berlin district Friedrichshain , district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Paris Commune , the then Fruchtstrasse was given its current name on March 17, 1971.

course

The street originally began directly on the north bank of the Spree . This section was probably removed from the official documents administratively after the construction of the foreland wall . So the traffic route starts currently at the crossroads mill street corner Stralauer Platz and runs north under the railway tracks of the Ostbahnhof through, on the Karl-Marx-Allee to Georgen-Parochial Cemetery II at the junction with the Weidenweg where they in the Passes over Friedenstrasse . North of the Ostbahnhof there are almost exclusively prefabricated buildings . On the western side of the street, before the intersection with the former socialist boulevard Karl-Marx-Allee, some old buildings have been preserved.

history

On December 8, 1820, the traffic route was named Fruchtstrasse at the request of residents of Bullengasse and Grosse Frankfurter Strasse. The name Fruchtstrasse referred to the numerous flower gardens existing here, which were located on fertile soil. Previously the (today's northern part) was called Linienstraße, from Landsberger to Frankfurter Straße . The southern section of the road did not yet exist at that time. However, the following gardens are indicated along the later route : Schröder's garden, Bewer's garden, Cobien's garden, Möwe's garden. As early as 1801, the address book shows Kraut (s) -Gasse , which ran south from Große Frankfurter Straße to the Spree. On its east side lay further gardens of the gardeners Ostwaldt, Lackner, Behlicht, Marx, Schröder, Mielckens, interrupted by the Lehmgasse, the Rosenquergasse, the Lange Straße. Krauts-Gasse ended at Holzstrasse . On the western side of the street on Grosse Frankfurter Strasse, the restaurant Zum Schwarzen Adler was initially established. Other gardeners joined him, including Puhlmanns, Barthold, Gnädig, Lack, George, Krause and Jean Bouché . To the wooden road there was already some manufacturers and service providers as a calico factory, a German steel factory , a master blacksmith or a gypsum burner .

After the naming of Frucht-Straße , plots 1–50 were allocated in 1822 and many gardens continued to be used. About the course of the road it says literally: “Located in the Stralau district, starts with No. 1 at Mühlenstrasse and goes to Grosse Frankfurter Strasse, has 50 house numbers, is 1200 paces long and belongs to the 21st police station. ”This means that today's northward section of the road had not yet been included in Fruchtstrasse. The former Linienstraße , between Landsberger and Frankfurter Straße, became communication between the Landsberger and Frankfurter Tor, and it was not until the name ' Friedenstraße ' was given in 1872 that the southern section was left up to Große Frankfurter Straße and came to Fruchtstraße.

In the decades and centuries that followed, a lively and increasingly narrow development developed along Fruchtstraße, for which the following information can be found in 1900, for example: It led from the Spree via Mühlenstraße, Am Schlesischen Bahnhof, Madaistraße , Lange Straße, Friedrichsfelder / Müncheberger Straße, Am Wriezener Bahnhof via Küstriner Platz , via Rüdersdorfer Straße, Große Frankfurter Straße to the street Palisadenstraße – Friedenstraße. It now had 90 house numbers, the numbering of which ran in horseshoe form from 1 (on the Spree) to 48 and back. In addition, larger apartment buildings were the road defining and in the southern area the municipal gas works , the railway maintenance office, the post office and telegraph service. There were restaurants, bakeries, pharmacies, carpenters, colonial goods stores and many others to supply the residents . All the nurseries, however, had disappeared. House number 1 is a bathing establishment , back then that were river baths in the Spree.

Successful GDR participants in the 1955 peace trip with Täve Schur and Lothar Meister II are enthusiastically received by Berliners. The car drives through Fruchtstrasse, some of the preserved pre-war buildings can be seen in the background.

Due to the fighting at the end of the Second World War , large sections of the then Große Frankfurter Strasse and some side streets, including Fruchtstrasse, were destroyed. Until the early 1950s, many people cleared the ruins of the war. After that, the East Berlin magistrate had entire residential districts redesigned and built by its chief architects (including Hermann Henselmann ). In this way, Fruchtstrasse was largely given a new residential area.

Buildings

The Pegasus Hostel , the Ostel , the publishing house of the Neues Deutschland publishing house , a hardware store and smaller shops are on the street .

Between 1937 and 1941 the Jewish community of Berlin ran the Jewish construction school at Fruchtstrasse 74 . On the initiative of Walter Frankenstein, who was trained at this school, Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer unveiled a glass memorial plaque here on May 15, 2017.

House number 8 was the post office O 17 of the Deutsche Reichspost and directly connected to the post station behind it.

Building number 38 was the 52nd and 71st community school from the beginning of the 20th century until it was destroyed in the war in the 1940s. It also housed the 23rd public library of the district office. The Vitro Plaza office complex was built in 1997 on this plot of land on the corner of Karl-Marx-Allee , a 14-storey high-rise building with 8, 7 and 5-storey side wings.

See also

• List of streets and squares in Berlin-Friedrichshain

literature

• Annett Gröschner , Arwed Messmer (eds.): Fritz Tiedemann : Berlin, Fruchtstrasse on March 27, 1952 , with texts by Annett Gröschner, Florian Ebner, Uwe Tiedemann. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3472-1 .

Web links

Commons : Street of the Paris Commune (Berlin-Friedrichshain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paris Commune Street. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  • Fruit road . In: Luise.
• Berlin, Fruchtstrasse on March 27, 1952 from 1953 ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fruchtstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
2. ↑ Linienstraße . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative tables , 1799, p. 110.
3. ↑ Krauts-Gasse . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative Tables , 1801, p. 95.
4. ^ Fruit Street . In: CF Wegener: House and General Address Book of the Royal. Capital and residence city Berlin , 1822, III, p. 103.
5. ↑ Fruchtstrasse in 1875 on a Berlin city map (entered between Cüstriner Platz and the Spree). Retrieved May 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Fruchtstrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, III, p. 183.
7. ↑ Memorial plaque for the Jewish building school . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 15, 2017. p. 9.
8. ↑ Fruchtstrasse 38 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, IV, p. 264.
9. ↑ Vitro Plaza at www.allianz-realestate.com, accessed on May 16, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 44.7 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 18.9"  E