Teutoburger Platz
| Teutoburger Platz Teute |
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.jpg) Part of the square seen from the south |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Prenzlauer Berg |
| Created | 19th century |
| Newly designed | in the 20th and 21st centuries |
| Confluent streets |
Zionskirchstrasse, Christinenstrasse, Fehrbelliner Strasse, Templiner Strasse |
| Buildings | Square house |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists |
| Space design | Erwin Barth |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 8250 m² |
The Teutoburg space is a rectangular park in Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg . The approximately 8,250 m² town square is bordered by Zionskirchstraße, Christinenstraße, Fehrbelliner Straße and Templiner Straße. It was created at the beginning of the 1860s in connection with residential developments.
history
The area around Teutoburger Platz was planned and built between 1860 and 1875. At that time it was one of the most densely populated residential areas in Berlin (an average of twelve inhabitants per 100 m²). The square was initially a nameless market and was named in 1875 after the Teutoburg Forest , in which the Varus Battle is said to have taken place in AD 9 . The Teutoburger Platz is popularly known as "Teute" for short.
Around 1880 the square was planted with trees. Robinia , birch and mountain ash are mainly to be found there until well into the 21st century . The development of the northern area around the square mostly took place around 1900. In 1910 the green area received a playground and a lavatory , which was especially important for the schools built inside the block.
In the late 1920s, the square was redesigned according to the plans of the garden architect Erwin Barth . For Teutoburger Platz, Barth drew the garden plan and the plan for the shelter , which is now called the Platzhaus . This building had a strongly structured facade that opened up to the square through three arched entrances. Behind it was a lounge with seating. The hipped roof of the house had a lantern as a special design feature , which also brought daylight into the interior of the building. After 1945 the square building was given a flat roof and served as a transformer house . In 1997 the hipped roof of the house was rebuilt in a simplified form. The Platzhaus has become a meeting place for residents, is used for games, for small art exhibitions or flea markets and can be rented for private events by the sponsoring association Menschen am Teute .
In the 1950s, the green area was redesigned with a new playground and benches. The landscape architect J. Greiner had drawn up the plans. Around twenty years later, the district administration had the square reconstructed as a predominantly recreational sports facility based on a design by H. Löffler.
In the mid-2010s, the playground took up around 2000 m², around a quarter of the total area of the square. At the end of 2016, the playground was completely renovated. An attempt was made to preserve the original character with the boulders brought from Brandenburg after the political change . Most of the rest consists of a lawn, which residents like to use as a lawn, especially in summer, and a strip of trees all around. At the edge of this green area is a historic cast iron hand pump (→ List of street fountains in Berlin ).
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In the middle of the square since 1989, the three-piece plastic sandstone group Frog King of the sculptor Stephan Horota . The drip fountain consists of a base with a water outlet on which a frog sits. A water catchment basin is offset from this and a plinth with a crouching girl is offset again.
The civil rights activist Bärbel Bohley lived on Teutoburger Platz for a long time . After twelve years in Bosnia , she returned to her old apartment in 2008.
Residents
To the east of the square is the site of the former Pfefferberg brewery . Today the buildings of the industrial monument are mainly used by artists and galleries. There is also the primary school here on Teutoburger Platz . The neighborhood house at Fehrbelliner Strasse 92 was built as a Jewish kindergarten at the beginning of the 20th century. Among other things, there is a rental shop in the building.
To the south-west, more precisely on a 4500 m² corner plot of Fehrbelliner and Templiner Strasse, stood a department store built on fallow land during the GDR era. After the political change, this served as a sales facility for Kaiser's Tengelmann . The supermarket had to close on December 31, 2015; TLG had already sold the property to the US investor Lone Star in 2013 for around 17 million euros . The hall was demolished in 2016 and replaced by a residential complex with condominiums, and a supermarket was set up again on the ground floor.
Web links
- Teutoburger Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Green places in Prenzlauer Berg: Teutoburger Platz at the Pankow district office
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Ensemble Teutoburger Platz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 368 .
- ^ A b c Joachim Schulz, Werner Gräbner: Berlin. Capital of the DDR. Architecture guide GDR. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1974; P. 103.
- ↑ a b Residents' Association People on the Teute
- ↑ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag GmbH: Fresh fish with lots of color on Teutoburger Platz . In: Berlin Week . December 18, 2016 ( berliner-woche.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
- ↑ Frog King Fountain at the Senate Department for Urban Development.
- ↑ Interview in SZ-Magazin with Bärbel Bohley
- ↑ Homepage of the school
- ↑ Lukas Dubro: Leila rental shop. In: taz.de , May 29, 2012
- ^ Stefan Strauss: Apartments instead of department stores. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 6, 2016, p. 16
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 55.3 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 31.9" E