Tauentzienstrasse
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| Tauentzienstrasse with a view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , on the right the Europa Center | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg , Schöneberg |
| Created | 1860s |
| Hist. Names | Tauenzienstrasse |
| Connecting roads |
Kurfürstendamm , Kleiststrasse |
| Cross streets |
Rankestrasse , Marburger Strasse , Nürnberger Strasse , Passauer Strasse , Ansbacher Strasse |
| Places | Breitscheidplatz , Wittenbergplatz |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | approx. 500 meters |
The Tauentzienstraße ( colloquially : The Tauentzien ) is centrally located in the Berlin City West location, 500 meters long shopping street in the districts of Charlottenburg and Schöneberg .
It was designed and named in the 1860s and created around 1890, it belongs to the so-called " General Train ". At the time of its construction it was still a residential street, with the construction of the KaDeWe in 1907 it began to develop into a commercial street. Today, as a continuation of Kurfürstendamm, it is one of the most expensive and best-known locations in Germany.
investment
The course of Tauentzienstrasse was already sketched out in the first Berlin development plan - the Hobrecht plan from 1862, which outlined the planning basis of the entire “ New West ”. It was designated as part of a belt road that ran around Berlin and was 49 meters wide. As such, it marks the beginning and end of the “general procession”, a series of wide streets that were laid out in the second half of the 19th century based on the model of the Parisian avenues (“ boulevards ”) and crosses the entire south-west of Berlin. In a royal decree of July 9th, 1864 and a cabinet order of October 31st of the same year it was stated that all streets and squares of the Gürtelstrasse should be named in memory of battles and military leaders of the wars of liberation. Tauentzienstrasse was laid out around 1890 and, following the decree, was named after the Prussian general Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien .
Tauentzienstrasse runs between Breitscheidplatz and Wittenbergplatz , and Ranke , Marburger , Nürnberger , Passauer and Ansbacher Strasse cross or flow into them . Formerly ran on the median strip , the route of the tram . The tunnels of the underground lines U1 , U2 and U3 are located in sections under Tauentzienstrasse.
It currently belongs administratively to the districts of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ) and Schöneberg ( Tempelhof-Schöneberg district ). The suburb and district boundary is the eastern side of Nürnberger Straße . Until the Berlin territorial reform of April 1, 1938, Tauentzienstrasse belonged in its entire course to the city of Charlottenburg, which was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 .
New West and Roaring Twenties
After her father's death in 1909, the then eight-year-old retired Marlene Dietrich with her mother to the second floor Tauentzienstrasse 13. Since 1895 and, like the Dietrichs until World War I , lived in the same house and the same floor of the writer Hermann Sudermann with his family, the writer Clara Sudermann and her son Rolf Lauckner , also later writers. The building, which was built in 1893 and converted in 1910 for the Munich Pschorr brewery , was a well-known restaurant under the name Pschorr-Haus . The center of the restaurant was the regular actors' table, which met here until 1923. Samuel Beckett was also a prominent guest of the house during his time in Berlin in the winter of 1936/1937.
In the early 1920s, Tauentzienstrasse was known as the black market of the Russian exile colony in Berlin (colloquially: “Charlottengrad”), which had a meeting point around Wittenbergplatz, among other places. The Russian sociologist Fedor Stepun was shocked at the time by the obvious greed for "the 'Russian' Tauentzienstrasse".
The politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann lived in the war-torn house 12a (today No. 9, a plaque commemorates him there) between 1910 and 1923 . The painter Emil Nolde lived in house number 8 until 1928 .
Another prominent address was Café Zuntz , located on the first floor at Tauentzienstrasse 15 . Opened in the early 1930s as a small offshoot of the Romanisches Café around the corner, it became a meeting place for anti- Nazi intellectuals from 1934 .
National Socialism and World War II
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Three stumbling blocks remember the members of a Hahn family at number 13a, who were deported and murdered as Jews from 1941 onwards. Four more stumbling blocks are located at Tauentzienstrasse 7 for the Hirsch family.
As a centrally located street, Tauentzienstrasse suffered massive damage from Allied air raids during World War II . At the end of the war, the entire development on the north side was completely destroyed except for two houses, as was on the south side, but here two buildings could be partially restored, including the KaDeWe , which was rebuilt in the 1950s.
post war period
economy
Tauentzienstrasse is the most heavily frequented shopping mile in the city and is home to the KaDeWe, Germany 's largest department store. From Breitscheidplatz to Wittenbergplatz (KaDeWe) there are almost exclusively branches of well-known brands lined up next to each other, the branching rate is 84.8% and thus has the highest branching rate of all Berlin business streets after Kurfürstendamm (at 84.9%). Above all, department stores and fashion stores are concentrated in Tauentzienstrasse, with branches of clothing stores such as Peek & Cloppenburg , the Leiser shoe store , the Saturn electronics store, but also a flagship store like that of Adidas .
At peak times, the crowd reaches up to 10,658 passers-by in two hours on weekends. Because of the high density of the public, the highest rents are achieved here in Berlin's City West , in 2007 they were between 180 and 220 euros / m² for standard properties, but on Kurfürstendamm “only” up to 170 euros / m². Despite their high rents in the busy and fully rented street are stable due to the high demand from the chain stores.
Attractions
Listed buildings are the Europa-Center built in the mid-1960s by the architects Helmut Hentrich and Hubert Petschnigg , the German family department store (DEFAKA) built by Paul Schwebes in 1955 instead of the Pschorr-Haus at number 13, which was destroyed in the war , and the department store built by Alfred between 1893 and 1895 Messel built house no.14 and the buildings no.16 and no.18, both in 1954 by Ernst Runge .
Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff have erected the silver-colored Berlin sculpture made of chrome-nickel steel on the median strip of the street between Marburger and Nürnberger Strasse since 1987 . At that time it was supposed to symbolize the division of the city.
Until 2004, the Royal Palast cinema in the Europa Center was located at Tauentzienstrasse 9 and had the largest permanently installed curved wide screen in the world.
Web links
- Tauentzienstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Tauentzienstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Overview map of the development plan of the surroundings of Berlin. The development plan designed in Roth and made out four times for the Kgl. Police Presidium, the Charlottenburg Magistrate. Berlin 1862
- ↑ a b c Tauentzienstraße ( memento of the original from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Berlin.de, accessed March 27, 2013
- ^ Nicole Bröhan: Marlene Dietrich . 2007, ISBN 3-89773-127-4 , p. 16
- ^ A b Fred Oberhauser, Nicole Henneberg: Literarischer Führer Berlin. 1998, ISBN 3-458-33877-2 , pp. 352-357
- ↑ a b c Tauentzienstrasse . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ^ German family department store . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Erika Tophoven : Beckett's Berlin . 2005, ISBN 3-89479-159-4 , p. 20
- ↑ Christian Hufen: Fedor Stepun . 2001, ISBN 3-931836-35-5 , p. 101
- ↑ Damage to buildings in 1945 ( Memento of the original from December 18, 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. , alt-berlin.info; Publisher: B. Aust i. A. of the Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection
- ↑ a b Business Street Report Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 2006/2007 . ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin / Business Consulting; accessed March 28, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 8 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 27 ″ E