Wöhlertstrasse

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Wöhlertstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Wöhlertstrasse
Wöhlertstrasse
Basic data
place Berlin
District center
Created 1888
Connecting roads
Pflugstrasse ,
Chausseestrasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic
Technical specifications
Street length 220 meters

The Wöhlertstraße in Oranienburg suburb in Berlin district of Mitte is a side street to Chausseestraße , the last street to the north of central Berlin. Until 2013, the Wöhlertstrasse with Schwartzkopffstrasse and Pflugstrasse formed the turning loop of several tram lines .

history

The street laid out in 1888 was named on March 12, 1889 after the Berlin entrepreneur Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert , who had been running his mechanical engineering company and iron foundry Wöhlert on Chausseestrasse since 1843 . In 1890 the development was already well advanced. In a newspaper report of the same year it was said that the terrain was less favorable than the nearby Borsig district. “Nevertheless, the Schwarzkopffstrasse and Wöhlertstrasse built on it have complete rows of houses, the individual properties of which are for the most part already inhabited. By the end of next year, the Wöhlert terrain should be completely built on. "

Objects

In the GDR there was an FDJ home at Wöhlertstrasse 7 . During the uprising of June 17, 1953 , at around 12:50 p.m. , demonstrators coming from the West Berlin district of Wedding tried to demolish the home via the Chausseestrasse border crossing .

Between 1900 and 1902, the future painter George Grosz, born in 1893, lived for a year in Wöhlertstrasse, “across from a coal square. […] The usual sign with the black, crossed hammers still seems to me like a pessimistic symbol. Behind the tarred firewall was the usual view of the backyard, the gray urban backdrop of asphalt in the stone, ”wrote Grosz in his memoirs. In 1902, the coal yard of the J. Hausmann fuel store was located opposite Wöhlertstrasse 11 on the property at Pflugstrasse 10, which closed off Wöhlertstrasse to the northeast and was built on from around 1910 with the neoclassical Wöhlertgarten residential complex .

The avant-garde Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski lived with his half-brother Antoni Przybyszewski (also: Anton , Antek ) in 1892 in No. 14, transverse building, 1st staircase, until Stanisław married the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel in 1893 . Stanisław's long-time lover Marta Foerder (also: Martha ) also lived with Antoni . She bore him three children and committed suicide, abandoned and pregnant again, 23-year-old in 1895 suicide with poison or died after illegal abortion at a blood poisoning . Przybyszewski then presented himself as a victim of sex in the novel Im Malstrom (1895). The half-starved writer Peter Hille moved in in 1893; August Strindberg , Richard Dehmel , Adolf Paul and Bengt Lidforss also frequented the apartment . Lidforss described the poverty environment in an essay. In 1896 Przybyszewski lived in Wöhlertstrasse for a few weeks. 5, where as early as 1894 he had money sent to Anton for Marta and the children.

The arcade house No. 16/17 for the Sisters of Charité , built between 1958 and 1960 and renovated in 2008 , is a listed building, a transitional model between the late Stalinist , still handcrafted residential buildings and the industrially manufactured prefabricated buildings. The open arcades to the apartments are on the rear side; there are small balconies facing the street.

In front of house number 18 there is a listed hydrant for fresh and extinguishing water, as it was set up between 1875 and 1892.

  • Special buses at the border crossing at Chausseestrasse, make Ikarus 66 , for West Berlin New Year's Eve visitors, 1963

  • Tram in Wöhlertstrasse, 1974

  • View from Chausseestrasse, ending with the Wöhlertgarten, behind it the church tower of St. Sebastian, Wedding, 1991

  • View from Pflugstrasse to Chausseestrasse, with the small balconies of the former nurses' home of the Charité, 1991

Web links

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 11 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 40"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Teltower Kreis-Blatt, April 5, 1890, p. 166, online , accessed on August 26, 2013
  2. ↑ Geborge Grosz: A small yes and a big no, Hamburg 1955. Quoted from Karl Voss: Travel Guide for Literature Friends Berlin, Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 30. Cf. also Diether Schmidt: A melancholy lion from Wöhlertstrasse. Drawings by George Grosz. In: Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts (ed.): Good parts in drawing and coloring. 300 years of the art collection of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, Berlin 1996, pp. 115–124
  3. ↑ Address book for Berlin and its suburbs, 1902, p. 507
  4. ↑ George Klim: Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Paderborn 1992, p. 141, note 67
  5. ↑ Krystina Kolinska: Stachu, jego kobiety, jego szieci. Krakow 1978, p. 39. - George C. Schoolfield: A Baedeker of Decadence. Charting a literary fashion, 1884-1927. New Haven (CT), 2003, p. 185 - Rüdiger Bernhardt: Literary wanderers between artist colonies. From Scandinavians, Germans and Poles. In: Bernd Neumann u. a. (Ed.): Literature, borders, spaces of memory. Explorations of the German-Polish-Baltic region as a literary landscape. Würzburg 2004, pp. 323–338, here: p. 335.
  6. ↑ Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature 1870-1900. Munich 1998, p. 407
  7. ^ Nils Rottschäfer: Peter Hille (1854–1904). A chronicle of life and work. Bielefeld 2010, p. 227, excerpt online (PDF; 2.7 MB)
  8. ↑ Bengt Lidforss: Proletärpsykologi ("Proletarian Psychology "), in: Utkast och Silhuetter, Malmö 1909. See Bengt Lidforss: Socialistik Journalistik. Volume 1, Malmö 1921, pp. 156–170, here p. 161 (online) ff .; Translated in excerpts into Polish by Stanisława Swackiego: Psychologia proletariacka. In: Przegląd Współczesny, 1937, pp. 69–74, (online) . Cf. also George Klim: Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Paderborn 1992, p. 156, note 456.
  9. ↑ George Klim: Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Paderborn 1992, p. 141, note 67 - Michael M. Schardt: Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Works, notes and selected letters in eight volumes and a commentary volume. Volume 8: Letters. Oldenburg 1999. p. 53. The Berlin address books of this time contain no entries on Przybyszewski or Foerder at Wöhlertstrasse 5 and 14.