Taubenstrasse (Berlin)

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Taubenstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Taubenstrasse
View into Taubenstrasse from Gendarmenmarkt to the east
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created 17th century
Hist. Names Mittelstrasse,
Am Bullenwinkel,
Johannes-Dieckmann-Strasse
Cross streets Mauerstrasse,
Glinkastrasse ,
Friedrichstrasse ,
Charlottenstrasse,
Markgrafenstrasse,
Oberwallstrasse / Niederwallstrasse
Places Gendarmenmarkt ,
Hausvogteiplatz
Buildings look here
use
User groups Road traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 390 m (west of Gendarmenmarkt)
+ 230 m (east of Gendarmenmarkt)

Taubenstrasse is a street in Berlin-Friedrichstadt that was created in the 17th century as a result of the city's expansion with the arrival of Huguenots .

history

Historical name on a renovated house in Taubenstrasse:
Am Bullenwinkel

Part of the current route was initially named after its location in the new residential area: Mittelstraße (after 1691 to around 1770), another part describing Am Bullenwinkel (after 1691 to 1886). Finally, both parts were combined and a breakthrough was made at Hausvogteiplatz up to the former fortress moat . Now it was given the name Taubenstrasse, which was derived either from a nursing home for soldiers who became deaf in military service or from an electoral dovecote that is said to have stood here before the Friedrichstadt was built.

Between Markgrafenstrasse and Charlottenstrasse there was the French Comedy House, built in 1774 according to plans by Johann Boumann (in the place of which the theater was later built according to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel ) and the German Church by Martin Grünberg and Giovanni Simonetti, completed in 1785.

In the 1880s, extensive new construction was carried out on this street, especially banks and insurance companies settled here. For this purpose, a construction company was founded, which initially became the owner of some houses (for example in 1886 under No. 21, 27, 28).

Partial view of the destroyed Taubenstrasse, 1950

After the reconstruction of the Berlin city center, which was largely destroyed in the Second World War , the street was named Johannes-Dieckmann-Straße after the politician Johannes Dieckmann in 1971 during the GDR era . In 1991, as a result of German reunification, according to a resolution of the Senate, some streets were renamed back, since then it has been called Taubenstrasse again.

Location and sights

The road connects Mauerstrasse in the west via Friedrichstrasse with Hausvogteiplatz , but is interrupted by the Gendarmenmarkt . The house numbers range from 1 to 54 and are horseshoe-shaped. There are numerous architectural monuments here.

  • No. 1/2: Berlin branch of Allianz insurance ; used after 1945 by the Committee of Fighters for Peace and from 1947 by the Volk und Welt publishing house.
  • No. 3: two-storey group of buildings, erected in the 18th century as a rectory and school for the Trinity Church . A memorial plaque honors Friedrich Schleiermacher , who preached here. Today the building is used by the Evangelical Church Community in Friedrichstadt . These are the only originally preserved residential buildings from the 18th century on this street. In the building and in the inner courtyard, pieces of equipment from the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof and Friedrichswerder Church are said to be kept, as well as a bust of Schleiermacher, memorial urns , reliefs and a baptismal font from the Trinity Church.
  • No. 5: In 1886, the Rosenthal bookstore housed.
    After its demolition and the purchase of neighboring properties, Zurich Insurance had an administration building built under No. 4–6: 1913/1914 ( Zurich House ); in the GDR period it was the administrative seat of the VEB rationalization and data center foreign trade . After 1990 the complex became federal property and thus it is owned by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau .
  • No. 10: first administrative headquarters of the Patzenhofer stock brewery , built in 1906/1907 by the architect Hermann Dernburg . In the GDR it was the seat of the German Publishing House for Science . After renovation and renovation in 1994/1995, the secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Education moved into the building in 2009 .
  • From 1997 to 2012, the Berlin-Brandenburg office of the ADAC was under No. 20–22 .
  • No. 23: Rebuilt in 1922 by the Berlin architect Paul Zucker . The Embassy of Colombia has been located here since 2013 .
  • No. 26: 1910 planned as a trading house in iron skeleton construction by Max Reichhelm for Ager Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH and carried out by Max Reichhelm und Co.; equipped with life-size figures of Mercury and the allegory of industriousness as well as two copper reliefs with a sailing ship and a steamship. In the GDR times it was the headquarters of VE Kombinat coal supply . 2001–2003 the building was redesigned as the Gaffelhaus Berlin .
  • No. 30: In the 19th century, the Concordia life insurance company from Cologne was located here with a Berlin branch.
  • No. 32: Heinrich Heine also lived here for a short time during his stay in Berlin.
  • No. 46: The day care center of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) Kinder im Kiez gGmbH was set up here.
  • No. 48/49: built in 1928/1929 for the Deutsche Bau- und Bodenbank, used after 1945 by the LDPD for their publishing house Der Morgen , in 1990 the building fell to the FDP . In the 2000s it came into federal possession . From 2006 to 2010 the conversion and expansion for the BMFSFJ took place.

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 222 ff .

Web links

Commons : Taubenstraße (Berlin-Mitte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Taubenstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ^ The architectural and art monuments ..., p. 212
  3. ↑ The architectural and art monuments ..., p. 217
  4. ^ Taubenstrasse . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative Tables , 1799, street representations and residents, p. 178.
  5. ↑ a b c Taubenstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1886, part 2, p. 412.
  6. ↑ The architectural and art monuments ... , p. 223
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  8. ↑ botschaft-kolumbien.de ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.botschaft-kolumbien.de
  9. ↑ [2]

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 46 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  E