Windscheidstrasse (Berlin-Charlottenburg)
The Windscheidstraße in the so-called "district court district", a part of the Berlin district in Charlottenburg , which also houses the Charlottenburg District Court is located, was on July 30, 1878 according to the lawyer Bernhard Windscheid (1817-1892), one of the leading representatives of Pandectist named. Until then it was called the Green Way . The street, lined for the most part with stately houses from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, runs from Bismarckstraße / Suarezstraße to Stuttgarter Platz , where it joins Gervinusstraße.
Course of the road and settlements
The approximately 700 meter long street branches off in the northern part from Suarezstraße (named after the lawyer Carl Gottlieb Svarez ) and runs from here in a south-easterly direction to Kantstraße . This part of Windscheidstraße is home to, among other things, the Alt-Luxemburg restaurant of the star chef Karl Wannemacher, which has been awarded a Michelin star and Gault Millau points in the Michelin Guide . From 1907 to 1913 the Berliner Elektromobilfabrik was located at number 23 , an automobile manufacturer that built three-wheeled electromobiles there under the name BEF. The street runs from Kantstraße to the southeast in the direction of the Charlottenburg S-Bahn station , where it joins Stuttgarter Platz . The headquarters of the daWanda e-commerce online portal is located in this southern part, which is characterized above all by the 4-5 storey old building typical of Charlottenburg .
architecture
Mainly because of its residential buildings No. 1, 12 (architect: Ernst Schrader), 15, 22 and 23 (architect: Albert Bühring), which were built between 1884 and 1909 and are under monument protection , Windscheidstraße next to the neighboring Leonhardtstraße is one of the Charlottenburg streets worth seeing. The multi-storey residential buildings are characterized by their sometimes magnificent facade designs and opulently designed vestibules .
Stumbling blocks
Before the Holocaust , Jewish residents lived on Windscheidstrasse, similar to many other streets in Charlottenburg. In their honor and memory, stumbling blocks have been erected in front of houses 9, 31, 32 and 37 in recent years .
House numbers with stumbling blocks
- 9 - Stumbling blocks for Elsbeth Rubensohn and Betty Rubensohn
- 31 - Stolperstein by Luise Kautsky
- 32 - Stumbling blocks for Amalie and Paula Goldschmidt
- 37 - Stumbling blocks for Max and Sabin Friedländer
literature
- Wolfgang Ribbe , Wolfgang Schächen (ed.): Builders, architects, urban planners - biographies on the structural development of Berlin. Stapp, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87776-210-7 .
- Elke Kimmel, Ronald Austria: Charlottenburg in the course of history. From the village to the elegant west. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8148-0137-7 .
Web links
- Windscheidstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Wannemacher. In: morgenpost.de . February 17, 2012, accessed July 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Windscheidstrasse. In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein . Retrieved July 4, 2016 .