Wühlischplatz
| Wühlischplatz | |
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.jpg) View from the west of the park's green space |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Friedrichshain |
| Created | 19th century |
| Newly designed | 20th century, 21st century |
| Confluent streets |
Sonntagstrasse , Wühlischstrasse , Holteistrasse |
| Buildings | Hippopotamus fountain |
| use | |
| User groups | pedestrian |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | Around 2600 m² |
The Wühlischplatz is a green area in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain , which has its origins in the 19th century. It is bordered by Sonntagstrasse , Wühlischstrasse and Holteistrasse and has an approximately triangular shape.
history
At the end of the 19th century the square was on the Vorwerk Boxhagen , which the Sonntag family had previously leased from the city of Berlin. With the development of Berlin suburbs and the formation of administrative districts after the incorporation into Greater Berlin , this area came to Lichtenberg . The merchant August-David Wühlisch (1805–1886) inherited the large estate from his father David Leberecht Wühlisch (1777–1830), who had acquired it in 1854 from the city of Berlin against payment of 12,584 thalers . (A.-D. Wühlisch was the third generation to run the wool store August Wühlisch Cp. , Which was located at Grosse Georgenkirchgasse 37 in 1856. ) He made the area available to the city of Berlin free of charge.
From the end of the 19th century, streets and squares were laid out on this area, with which the suburbs expanded in order to be able to supply the rapidly growing population with living space. One street was named after the landowner around 1901. In 1904, a large number of parcels were still designated as 'construction sites', only the school building at the corner of Holteistrasse was already completed.
In the Hobrecht plan around 1860, open green space was called Platz G, Dept. XIV . The heirs A.-D. In 1901 the Wühlischs donated the property from the square to Böcklinstrasse along Wühlischstrasse and Sonntagstrasse to the community of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg for the construction of a community school (construction period 1902/1903) and a church. A church building was initially not built due to a lack of financial means, and not later either. In contrast, the Protestant Revelation Church, built in 1948/49 for the Boxhagen area, was created in Simplonstraße and not on Wühlischplatz through the exchange of land . The name of the square must have been given between 1901 and 1904 and honors the Wühlisch family. It is a small triangular area, in the middle of the road system there was a relatively small triangular area, on which a park-like green area with paths and plants was now created. It has remained that way ever since.
description
The green town square is fenced and designed with a gravel path and a sandpit. The hippopotamus fountain was created as an eye-catcher . In 1995 the district administration had the Wühlischplatz redesigned. The tracks of a tram run along its north side .
Hippopotamus fountain
The hippopotamus fountain is located at the northeast entrance to the square, Wühlischstraße and Holteistraße . It was created in 1978 based on a design by Nikolaus Bode made of bronze (the animal figure ) and sandstone (the fountain basin) and donated drinking water . On a circular platform there are three 30 centimeter high block-shaped plinths that support a circular bowl with a diameter of around 1.7 meters. On the edge of it is a hippopotamus sculpture with two small big game hunters facing each other with their backs: a woman with binoculars and a man with a rifle. The nostrils of the hippopotamus form the fountain's fountain.
The hippopotamus was stolen in 1991 and reconstructed five years later. With the reconstructed sculpture, the fountain was rebuilt for a sum of 16,000 German marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 11,000 euros) and put back into operation in July 1996. Since then, it has no longer been supplied with drinking water, but has been equipped with a circulation pump for financial, ecological and hygiene reasons.
More at the place
The building at Wühlischstrasse 15–18 is part of a monument complex.
See also
Web links
- Wühlischplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Art walks Detailed view of the fountain
- S. Heinemann (published by Friedrichshainer Wochenmarktgesellschaft GbR): Brief history of the Berliner Platz, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the market. Berlin-Friedrichshain; Year?
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wühlischplatz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1913, supplement to the address book, according to Part V: Verkehrsplan, p. 45. “Lichtenberg”.
- ↑ Wühlisch, AD In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1856, I, p. 475.
- ↑ Wühlischstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1904, Part V, Boxhagen-Rummelsburg, p. 9.
- ^ Public fountains in Berlin at the Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ The hippopotamus fountain is bubbling again . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 23, 1996.
- ↑ BD Knorrpromenade, Wühlischstrasse, Sonntagstrasse
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 26.6 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 52.9 ″ E