Urbanstrasse

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Urbanstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Urbanstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District Kreuzberg
Created before the 19th century
Connecting roads
Blücherstraße (west) ,
Sonnenallee (east)
Cross streets Tempelherrenstrasse ,
Baerwaldstrasse ,
Geibelstrasse , Fontanepromenade ,
Grimmstrasse ,
Körtestrasse ,
Fichtestrasse ,
Graefestrasse ,
Jahnstrasse ,
Schönleinstrasse ,
Kottbusser Damm
Places Hermannplatz
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport
Technical specifications
Street length 1780 meters

The Urban street in Berlin's district Kreuzberg of the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg runs from the west of the Blücherstraße until Hermannplatz . There it forms the northern intersection with Kottbusser Damm and Sonnenallee . It was fortified and expanded in the 19th century.

History of the road

Originally, Urbanstraße was a path along the guardianship of the Berlin butcher's guild, which led over Dammstraße to the Teltow -rand, where it met the path from Hasenheide . The guard was a flood-prone meadow that reached as far as the Landwehrgraben . Back then, the butchers were still fattening themselves, and the meadow was called Schlächterhüte or Urban, which is said to go back to a spelling mistake in the name Urlake . As far as Rixdorfer Damm , Urbanstraße marked the border between Cölln and Tempelhof .

Urbanstrasse has officially been named after November 1, 1874. Its western end was renamed Blücherstrasse in 1975.

Buildings, fountains and plaque

A part of the development is considered worthy of preservation and was placed under monument protection by the Senate of Berlin , such as the officers' mess (No. 21), the apartment buildings No. 28–35, built from 1888 to 1891, the Urbanhof (No. 116), which was built in 1912 / Residential buildings of the Berliner Stadtreinigung (No. 122/123) and the gate to pumping station VI (No. 177) built in 1913 . Not to be forgotten is the Aziz Nesin Primary School (No. 15).

Also noteworthy is the preserved and widely used industrial park Urbanstrasse 71. The five-storey buildings, spread over three courtyards, were built in 1910. In May 1945, the first editions of the daily newspaper T Tages Rundschau were printed in the then-based printing house . In 1967 the Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft bought the site and renewed the structural substance in several phases.

At Urbanstrasse 176 there was the Sri Mayurapathy Murugan Temple for followers of Hindu teachings . With the move to the new temple in Riesestraße 20–22 in Berlin-Britz in November 2013, the previous temple lost this function.

Wrangel well

The Wrangel Fountain , a work by the sculptor Hugo Hagen, stands on Urbanstrasse . The late classicist fountain initially stood on Kemperplatz in 1877 , but had to give way to the Roland fountain in 1902 and has since been located on Urbanstrasse and Grimmstrasse .

A memorial plaque on Urbanstrasse No. 20 (see also the list of Berlin memorial plaques ) reminds us that the first Turkish burial place in Berlin was located in the vicinity from 1798 to 1866 . The Turkish ambassador Ali Aziz Efendi was the first deceased to be buried there.

See also

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urbanstrasse . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1899, II. "Urbanstrasse - On the terrain of the old Schlächterwiese, called Urban".
  2. ^ GSG-Hof Urbanstrasse ; Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ History of the new temple building , ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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. Berlin Hindu Mahasabhai e. V. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mayurapathy-murugan-berlin.com

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 24 ″  E