Winterfeldtplatz
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 Winterfeldtplatz with the St. Matthias Church , seen from the north |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Schöneberg |
| Created | 1890 |
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Winterfeldtstrasse , Maaßenstrasse , Pallasstrasse , Goltzstrasse , Hohenstaufenstrasse |
| Buildings | St. Matthias Church |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , cars |
The Winterfeldtplatz is located in the Berlin district of Schoeneberg the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The course, which faces north-south, is around 280 meters long and 80 meters wide. The Catholic Church of St. Matthias stands at its southern end . The largest weekly market in Berlin takes place every Wednesday and Saturday on the area named after the Prussian general Hans Karl von Winterfeldt in 1893 .
Around 200 meters further north is Nollendorfplatz with the underground station of the same name . From there, the road axis continues over Lützowplatz to the Großer Stern with the Victory Column in the Tiergarten .
history
In the development plan of the environments of Berlin of 1862 ( Hobrecht plan ) the area was a place C reported. It was laid out in 1890 and built up with Wilhelminian style houses and the Matthias Church until the beginning of the 20th century . Until the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the eastern side belonged to Berlin and the western to Schöneberg, which received city rights in 1898 .
Pastor at the Church of St. Matthias was from 1919 to 1929 the later Cardinal and Bishop of Münster Clemens August Graf von Galen and from 1929 to his expulsion in 1941 Albert Coppenrath , the "Dickkopf vom Winterfeldtplatz".
In the late 1970s and 1980s there were several squats in the immediate vicinity of the square. One of them was the house at Winterfeldtstrasse 25, in which former occupiers still defend themselves against the eviction by the house owner.
At times, the proportion of voters on the Alternative List (a forerunner of the Berlin Greens ) was more than 50 percent. After renovation measures in the late 1980s and 1990s, the square with the neighboring area has re-established itself as a popular residential area.
The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was born in 1886 in Maaßenstrasse 1 and the Nobel Prize laureate Nelly Sachs in 1891 in Maaßenstrasse 12 (memorial plaques on the houses).
The square and its development
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Winterfeldtplatz is dominated by St. Matthias, one of the few free-standing Catholic churches in Berlin. The church, which was built according to plans by Engelbert Seibertz in the neo-Gothic style and consecrated in 1895 after two years of construction , was rebuilt in a simplified manner after being severely damaged in the Second World War and restored in the 2000s. The 93 meter high tower of the church, which was visible from afar before the war, has now been significantly shortened. A decorative filigree metal construction by the Berlin architect Hinrich Baller has been on the edges of the green space behind the church since 1995 .
In the longitudinal axis of the square are three tall two-armed arc lamp candelabra . According to the available photo credits, they date from 1910 and were still available in January 2020.
While much of the building stock from the Wilhelminian era with several individual monuments (comparable also in Winterfeldtstrasse) has been preserved in the immediate vicinity , almost the entire peripheral development of the square was destroyed during the war and replaced by new buildings. Of the buildings that have been preserved on the square, the listed tenement houses on Goltz-corner Winterfeldtstraße from 1887 and Goltz-corner Hohenstaufenstraße (called: "Kacheleck") together with the neighboring house at Hohenstaufenstraße 69 (both from 1895) with their unusual facades glazed clinker bricks, some with colored decorations . The western edge of Goltzstrasse is mainly built up with post-war buildings from the parish: the rectory, the Graf von Galen youth home, the Caritas residential building Cardinal Galen and the Catholic elementary and secondary school Sankt Franziskus, completed in 1960, with a Montessori train on the corner of Hohenstaufenstrasse, which has already been placed under monument protection and was supplemented by an extension on Hohenstaufenstrasse in 2011.
The eastern edge of the square on Gleditschstrasse was rebuilt in the 1990s according to a concept by Hinrich Baller , with which the space-forming edge of the square from the time before the Second World War was dissolved. Striking corner points of this development by Baller are the residential building on the corner of Gleditsch and Winterfeldtstraße and the sports hall of the Spreewald primary school on the corner of Pallasstraße . In between, a little further away from the square, there is a day-care center, also designed by Baller, and the main building of the Spreewald elementary school, a former backyard elementary school, built in 1884. In addition, the puppet theater Hans Wurst Nachfahren - Theater am Winterfeldtplatz on the site of the former cult pub Ruine ( popularly known as "Urine" in Berlin ) attracts not only children and sun-seekers on the large terrace. In August 2014, the theater was added to the Red List of the German Cultural Council and classified in Category 1 (threatened with closure).
The largely preserved Wilhelminian-style development northeast of the square in the area of Maaßenstraße, Winterfeldtstraße, Zietenstraße , Nollendorfstraße and Schwerinstraße from the years 1874–1888 was protected by a conservation ordinance in 2010. The house at Zietenstrasse 22 at the intersection of Nollendorfstrasse served from 1987 to 2004 as a film set for the television series Praxis Bülowbogen and Dr. Sommerfeld - News from the Bülowbogen .
About 150 meters east of Winterfeldtplatz at Winterfeldtstrasse 21 is the building complex of the former Fernamt Berlin, built between 1922 and 1929 (from 1958: Fernmeldeamt 1).
Economy and gastronomy
A weekly market was held here as early as 1890 after the square was fortified . Since 1990, the largest vegetable and weekly market in Berlin has been open every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Saturdays, the market with around 250 stalls has become a popular attraction for visitors from near and far. On the other days , there are roller hockey players who skate and play .
An extensive range of various second-hand bookshops has been flourishing around the square for decades .
Cross streets such as Winterfeldtstrasse, Maaßenstrasse, Pallasstrasse and Goltzstrasse offer traditional bar scenes and multicultural restaurants. Café Berio , Slumberland and Habibi have been popular institutions for many years. The gastronomic offer has been growing steadily for several years. In addition to Hackescher Markt , Bergmannstraße , Oderberger Straße , Oranienburger Straße , Oranienstraße , Kollwitzplatz and Simon-Dach-Straße , Winterfeldtplatz is a center of Berlin's pub and café scene. Not far away, Nollendorfplatz is the center of the lesbian and gay scene in the west of Berlin .
literature
- Jonas Geist : The ABC of the market. Part C, marketplace: the Winterfeldtplatz , Berlin: University of the Arts 2000, ISBN 3-89462-082-X .
- Stefan Maria Rother: Winterfeldtplatz , Berlin: Berlin-Story-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-86855-008-5 (illustrated book).
- Susanne Twardawa : The Winterfeldtplatz in Berlin-Schöneberg , Berlin: motzbuch-edition 6, 2006, ISBN 3-935790-06-6 , full-text reading sample .
Web links
- Winterfeldtplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- winterfeldt-platz.de
- Photo gallery
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 17 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ Prices: Cardinal von Galen's Caritas senior citizens' home. In: caritas-altenhilfe.de. October 27, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ The Red List . ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Politics & Culture No. 5/14, September – October 2014, p. 15, Cultural Life, accessed on August 31, 2014
- ↑ Ordinance on the preservation of buildings and urban design in the area east of Maaßenstrasse in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, Schöneberg district of Berlin, dated October 5, 2010 ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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