Wiesenburger way

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Wiesenburger way
coat of arms
Street in Berlin
Basic data
place Berlin
District Marzahn
Created in the 19th century
Newly designed around 1970
Hist. Names Bahnhofstrasse,
at the train station
Connecting roads Boxberger Strasse,
Dahmesweg / Georg-Knorr-Strasse
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic (residents)
Technical specifications
Street length 990 meters

The Wiesenburger Weg is a traffic route that was created in the 19th century in the then village of Marzahn , which was shortened to its western section and its route was changed in the 1970s. This is where the poor cemetery laid out in 1908 for the city of Berlin is located (today: Städtischer Friedhof Marzahn or Parkfriedhof Marzahn ).

history

Until the 1920s, the street that ran in a west-east direction was called Bahnhofstraße and Am Bahnhof after the transport links to the village. On May 11, 1938, it was given the new name Wiesenburger Weg, which was named after the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark in what was then Gau Brandenburg. The road had a direct connection to the village center of Marzahn.

After the East Berlin magistrate had decided in the 1970s to build a completely new district on the former agricultural land around Marzahn, the main road through the middle of the village first had to be relocated; a new long-distance road was created that ran northwards past the old village center Landsberger Allee . The eastern area of ​​the Wiesenburger Weg was separated for this re- alignment . Parts of it later merged into the Marzahner Promenade and Franz-Stenzer-Strasse.

Location and transport links

Since the completion of the first residential area Marzahn I, the street has been running from Boxberger Straße in a west-east direction to the railway embankment, then it bends south. There it flows into Georg-Knorr-Straße or continues under the Marzahner bridges as Dahmeweg. The street can be reached in a few minutes on foot from the Marzahn S-Bahn station .

The Marzahner Friedhof on Wiesenburger Weg

The Soviet memorial in the Wiesenburger Weg cemetery, 1985

The cemetery area (main entrance: Wiesenburger Weg 10) is around 23  hectares in size and is delimited by Otto-Rosenberg-Straße in the north, Boxberger Straße in the west, the embankment of the S-Bahn and regional trains and the Wiesenburger Weg in the south. It was designed as a park based on the ideas of garden designers at the end of the 19th century. The first burials took place here in 1908, later memorials and memorials such as a war memorial were added, and after the Second World War there was also an honorary grave for the sailors Fritz and Albert Gast who were shot at the Lichtenberg Blood Wall in Möllendorffstrasse , as well as steles and obelisks for fallen Soviet soldiers , 46 Resistance fighters , 400 forced laborers and 3,330 victims of the air raids on Berlin in 1944 and 1945.

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin, II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 248 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the train station . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1927, part 4, Marzahn, p. 2023.
  2. ↑ Bahnhofstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, part 4, Marzahn, p. 2137.
  3. ↑ Berlin city map from 1954 ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alt-berlin.info
  4. ↑ Wiesenburger Weg, Marzahn municipal cemetery, honor grove for those who fell in World War I, grave of Rote Sailors, memorial for the victims of World War II (oath hand), memorial for the Nazi victims, main avenue, Soviet grove of honor, memorial for the Sinti

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 18 ″  E