Tuchollaplatz
| Tuchollaplatz | |
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 View of the Tuchollaplatz |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Rummelsburg |
| Created | Late 19th century |
| Newly designed | 1982-1989; 1999–2001 (in the program for urban monument protection) |
| Confluent streets |
Geusenstrasse, Türrschmidtstrasse |
| Buildings | Line splitter, kiosk |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , market visitors |
| Space design | 19th century: unknown; 2001: Kerstin Laube and Regina Poly |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 1150 m² |
The Tuchollaplatz is a late 19th century landscaped square in Berlin surrounded by the narrow buildings of Victoria town in the district Rummelsburg of Lichtenberg . It is triangular and has a few older deciduous trees.
history
After 1870, Berliner Cementbau AG began building a “colony” far outside Berlin to alleviate the housing shortage of Berlin workers. The first houses were built in 1872. The settlement was named Victoria City , with which the then British Queen Victoria was honored. The central square of Victoria City was called Victoriaplatz . It was used early on to hold weekly markets and was therefore not planned as a jewelry place.
The original houses in Victoria City were built from concrete slag, an innovative process at the time. However, they met with criticism, also because of the unhealthy indoor climate. Most of these structures were demolished and replaced by higher residential buildings. One of the few concrete houses that have survived is at the southwest tip of the square (Türrschmidtstrasse 17) and is a listed building.
The address Victoriaplatz appeared for the first time in the address books in 1893, the houses Mozartstrasse 1, 2 and 3 (today Geusenstrasse 16, 14 and 12) and in the Türrschmidtstrasse on the south side of the square were noted as construction sites in 1890/1891.
In 1889, the Victoriastadt came to the newly founded municipality Boxhagen-Rummelsburg . Construction on Victoriaplatz began in the first half of the 1890s.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the eastern railway line leading south of the development of the square was raised. In this context, the lack of a path from the square to Prinz-Albert-Straße (today: Nöldnerstraße) with the Church of the Redeemer was criticized. The community then acquired the properties at Türrschmidtstrasse 24, 25 and 26 on the southeast side of the square. There the community built its town hall, which was given a passage under the railroad tracks to Prinz-Albert-Straße. It was used as a town hall until Boxhagen-Rummelsburg was incorporated into Lichtenberg and later called the town hall . A tram ran across the square since 1907.
During the Second World War, the houses on the southeast side of the square and the adjacent Türrschmidtstrasse were hit by bombs. The town house was badly damaged and rebuilt in a modified form. A green area was created on the area of the destroyed houses on the east side of Stadthausstrasse. The town house now houses the local history museum of the Lichtenberg district.
When street and square names with reference to monarchies were undesirable after the Second World War , the square was given its new name in 1951 after the resistance fighters Käthe and Felix Tucholla , who lived in the nearby Kaskelstrasse, who were murdered by the National Socialists .
Over the decades, the square has been redesigned several times, from 1982 to the political change in 1989, the East Berlin magistrate had the square and adjacent streets such as Pfarrstrasse or Kernhofer Strasse complex repaired. Further roads and building renovations followed after 1990.
The administration of the then Lichtenberg district , in coordination with the Hohenschönhausen district, announced a design competition around the year 2000, which the landscape architects Kerstin Laube and Regina Poly won. According to their concept, the existing plants and historical candelabra were combined to form a small, better structured resting place, with traffic separating the street that bounds the square in the north. The redesign, taking into account the preservation of historical monuments, and carried out by the company Verkehrsbau Union (road and civil engineering branch) from Marzahn (see information board on the construction work on Tuchollaplatz ), cost 1.8 million marks .
description
The triangular square has an area of around 1150 square meters. Only a narrow strip around the square is planted with bushes, the square itself is covered with paving stones and granite slabs. Older, newly painted wooden benches have been placed on all three interior areas, specifically on the roots of the robinia . During the last redesigns at the beginning of the 21st century, the planners called “slight height development and accentuation of the north corner”, which means that the square is more horizontal than before, but inclined steps made of light granite have been introduced at the lower points been. In addition, street trees were replanted along Türrschmidtstraße and granite street edges were partially renewed. The toilet had to give way to a kiosk built especially for this location.
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The cast-iron candelabra on the square are replicas based on historical models and were erected in the GDR times. Also worth mentioning is a line distributor that has been preserved at one corner of the square , which gives a glimpse into the beginnings of the telephone systems in the 20th century in the residential areas, as well as an emergency water pump on the north side, which dates from 1920. It is operated using a hand lever and pumps groundwater through its own pipe system.
A weekly market takes place on the square at least once a week . In addition, there is a Kiezfest with an artisan market at irregular intervals in coordination with surrounding cultural institutions such as the Lichtenberg Local History Museum and the Alte Schmiede .
A small access road runs from Geusenstrasse on the north side of the square . Only the apartment houses available here have the address Tuchollaplatz, the south side belongs to Türrschmidt and the west side to Geusenstraße. The street on the north side of the square was separated from the Türrschmidtstraße during the redesign around the year 2000 by stone blocks.
The closest S-Bahn station is Nöldnerplatz station .
Web links
- DVD Berliner Platz (including Tuchollaplatz) in www.rbb-online-shop.de.
- Final report of the Berlin Senate on the redesign work in Kaskelstrasse / Victoriastadt ; 2013. (PDF)
- Free spaces (brochure; PDF) at www.stadtentwicklung.de, Tuchollaplatz see p. 18.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Steer: Rummelsburg with the Victoriastadt . be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8148-0181-0 , p. 91
- ^ Suburbs → Lichtenberg → Viktoriaplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, V, p. 129.
- ↑ Christine Steer: Rummelsburg with the Victoriastadt . be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8148-0181-0 , p. 95.
- ^ Sections on Boxhagen-Rummelsburg in the Berlin address books from 1890; 1891 and 1893.
- ↑ Christine Steer: Rummelsburg with the Victoriastadt . be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8148-0181-0 , p. 67.
- ↑ Christine Steer: Rummelsburg with the Victoriastadt . be.bra-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8148-0181-0 , p. 50.
- ^ Report from the magistrate's meeting. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 11, 1951, p. 6.
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 208 .
- ^ Information according to the descriptive text from the Federal Archives for the photo from 1989.
- ↑ according to the final report (see under web links , p. 17: Tuchollaplatz ).
- ^ Weekly market in Tuchollaplatz on the website of the organizer, accessed on September 26, 2018.
- ↑ Kiezfest mit Kunsthandwerkermarkt, (PDF), p. 98, accessed on September 27, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 11.5 " N , 13 ° 28 ′ 47.6" E