Wilmersdorfer Strasse
| Wilmersdorfer Strasse | |
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| Pedestrian zone in Wilmersdorfer Straße | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Charlottenburg |
| Created | at the beginning of the 18th century |
| Newly designed | in the 21st century |
| Hist. Names |
Kleine Spreestrasse, Wilmersdorfischer Weg |
| Connecting roads | Eosanderstrasse, Lewishamstrasse |
| Cross streets | (Selection) Otto-Suhr-Allee , Bismarckstrasse , Kantstrasse |
| Places |
Stuttgarter Platz , Hindemithplatz , Adenauerplatz |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 1900 meters |
The Wilmersdorferstraße in Berlin district of Charlottenburg the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf runs north-south, north of the Adenauer place . In the section between Schillerstrasse and Stuttgarter Platz at Berlin-Charlottenburg train station , it is designed as a pedestrian zone with a number of shops and department stores. It was the first motor vehicle-free zone set up on a Berlin street.
history
Originally the field path at that time was called Kleine Spreestrasse , before it was renamed Wilmersdorfischer Weg around 1794 and finally Wilmersdorfer Strasse before 1824 . The name arises from the fact that this route - viewed from Charlottenburg - represented the direct connection to Wilmersdorf . In the 18th and 19th centuries, only the northernmost part of the path within the then independent city of Charlottenburg was built on with houses.
At that time, the extension to Wilmersdorfer Straße beyond what would later become Otto-Suhr-Allee was calculated before this section was added to Eosanderstraße in 1928. The complete development took place until the turn of the 20th century, after a direct railway connection existed with the opening of the Charlottenburg train station in 1882. In 1906 the Berlin-Charlottenburger U-Bahn was opened up to the Wilhelmplatz station (later: Richard-Wagner-Platz ), which was located in the immediate vicinity of the intersection Wilmersdorfer / Berliner Straße (later: Otto-Suhr-Allee). This branch line gave way in the spring of 1978 to the extension of the U7 line beyond Fehrbelliner Platz , with this line between the stations Adenauerplatz , Wilmersdorfer Straße (not far from the Charlottenburg S-Bahn station) and Bismarckstraße , where a transfer station to the U1 (today's U2 ) was built, runs directly below Wilmersdorfer Straße, before it swings off at the level of Zillestraße to Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station . In the same year 1978 the pedestrian zone was opened. Wilmersdorfer Straße was the first pedestrian zone in Berlin at the time and is still one of the most frequented shopping streets in the city after Alexanderplatz , Schloßstraße in Steglitz and Tauentzienstrasse .
Worth seeing
The northern section of the street is characterized by apartment buildings with small shops. Here you will find, among other things, an old Berlin distillery from 1892, the well-known fish delicatessen shop Rogacki , an Asian restaurant, a toy store and an oriental hairdresser. In the pedestrian zone there is the Karstadt department store with five floors in a building that first housed the Graff und Heyn department store and later Hertie since 1906 . At clothing stores you will find u. a. Deichmann and Leiser , as well as several bank branches, the Hugendubel book department store, and two fast-food branches. This is followed by the Kant-Center , which opened in 2005, in which the Media Markt store is located next to the Peek & Cloppenburg fashion department stores . In February 2006, construction began on the Wilmersdorfer Arcaden , which opened on September 26, 2007 and houses 120 shops, bookstores, medical practices and offices. To the south of the S-Bahn bridge, at the intersection with Mommsenstrasse, is Hindemithplatz with the St. Georg fountain. Beyond the square, the western side of Wilmersdorfer Straße is dominated by sex shops, while restaurants and fashion shops alternate on the eastern side. The street ends at Adenauerplatz , in the immediate vicinity of Kurfürstendamm .
The working group Wilmersdorfer Straße e. V. a.
Urban historical importance of the northern part
The intersection of Wilmersdorfer and Haubachstrasse is one of the most interesting street crossings in Berlin in terms of urban history. The corner buildings are a testament to the development history of the old town of Charlottenburg . Buildings from the various historical epochs are gathered here in a small space. The four corner houses reflect different structural forms, whereby the buildings could often be restored in painstaking detail as part of the renovation.
The oldest building is the single-storey corner house at Haubachstrasse 13 / Wilmersdorfer Strasse 18. It is dated before 1823 and corresponds to the original development around 1705. The house is a prime example of the early, single-storey arable houses. Due to the commercial use, there were numerous shop conversions and facade changes. The house is privately owned.
Immediately afterwards there are two-story houses on both sides from the time immediately before the building boom around 1890, when the five- story tenement was built. The building at Wilmersdorfer Straße 18 was built in 1865, that of Haubachstraße 15 in 1880. In these two-storey Putzbauten with attic of the facades is stuck remained almost intact and restored as part of the renewal.
The first version of the building on the opposite corner of Haubachstrasse 14 and Wilmersdorfer Strasse 17 dates from around 1730. The original building was a traditional arable house. In 1880 it was increased and in 1988 it was reconstructed in detail in this version.
The two other corner buildings Wilmersdorfer Strasse 156 / Haubachstrasse 11 from 1877 and Wilmersdorfer Strasse 157 / Haubachstrasse 12 from 1902 can be seen as representatives of the final phases of structural development. The first from 1877 is a four-story plastered building. It belongs to the so-called “pre-founder phase” with its first, intensive development spurt. The original stucco design of the facade was only preserved on the side facing Haubachstrasse, while the facade on Wilmersdorfer Strasse had been chipped off and provided with scratch plaster. In 1985, the entire facade was renovated and the area on Wilmersdorfer Strasse, including the corner riser, was stuck on again.
The building at Wilmersdorfer Strasse 157 / Haubachstrasse 12 is a five-storey corner house. It shows the historical end point of the typological development. Its rich sculptural and ornamental design through bay windows and Art Nouveau elements was also restored in 1985. In the course of the renovation, the top floor was expanded for residential purposes. The endeavor to restore the historical condition as comprehensively as possible was not limited to the facades: stairwells and inner courtyards were also reconstructed.
Wilmersdorfer Strasse 18
Wilmersdorfer Strasse 17
Wilmersdorfer Strasse 156
Wilmersdorfer Strasse 157
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"The executioner of Charlottenburg"
The last executioner's address in Berlin and Charlottenburg, Julius Krautz, was Wilmersdorfer Strasse 13. Almost everyone in Berlin during the founding years knew the executioner Krautz by name. He ran cover shops in Charlottenburg and Spandau . The office of executioner was connected with this until 1888. He led 55 convicts to the execution block , among them the emperor assassin Max Hödel . He was not averse to wheat beer and women and frequented various distilleries . He hardly talked about his bloody craft. All the more they tore themselves over the sensational novel Der Scharfrichter von Berlin , which became a bestseller in 1889 with 250,000 copies. In the 3118-page work for 13 gold marks , his life, his victims, his love affairs and his sleepless nights were embellished into a gruesome sentimental painting of morals.
traffic
Wilmersdorfer Straße can be reached by rail-bound public transport via the stations Richard-Wagner-Platz , Bismarckstraße , Wilmersdorfer Straße and Adenauerplatz on subway line 7 and via the S-Bahn and regional train station Berlin-Charlottenburg at the level of Stuttgarter Platz . Until it was closed on August 1, 1964, tram line 3 (Fehrbelliner Platz – Osloer Straße / Grüntaler Straße) ran through Wilmersdorfer Straße.
literature
- Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Ed.): The Wilmersdorfer Strasse in Charlottenburg. History, residents, architecture . Berlin 2013.
Web links
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Wilmersdorfer Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- Kleine Spreestrasse . In: Luise.
- Wilmersdorf way . In: Luise.
- Site of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 30 most amazing Berlin streets. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Broadcast of the RBB 2010
- ^ Post-war history 1960–1969
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 24 ″ E