Liebenwalder Strasse zinc foundry
The zinc foundry Liebenwalder Straße is a listed building ensemble at Liebenwalder Straße 2–3 in Berlin-Wedding . The property, originally built as a simple house with a cellar, two floors, a tile-roofed gable roof and a rear wing, has been preserved as an example of the typical suburban development of the Wedding at the time. It was built in 1875 by master mason E. Bremer on behalf of pawnbroker CA Keßler and converted into a zinc foundry in 1888 by Rixdorf metal dealer Ernst Radicke.
history
The special administrative districts of Wedding and Gesundbrunnen, which at that time lay outside the rapidly developing residential city of Berlin , received a kind of first general development plan in 1840 based on the plan of the decorative and green corridors by Peter-Josef Lenné . However, he was more interested in the urban improvement of Berlin than in a planning-controlled development of the northern foreland. At that time, the development in the foreland consisted mainly of single-storey residential buildings with a pitched roof and a separate apartment with a kitchen, chamber and living room in an open-plan style with a rural appearance. The residential buildings with an auxiliary building at the rear stood on the property without alignment with the street layout.
The incorporation of the Weddings, which was carried out on January 1, 1861 on the basis of the cabinet order of January 28, 1860, was the legal prerequisite for the implementation of the Hobrecht Plan commissioned in 1858 . In the next few years, the single-storey colonist houses gave way to two- to three-storey residential buildings without side wings and rear buildings. In most of Berlin's backyards there were also commercial buildings that were constantly being changed and expanded. The ensemble of buildings erected at Liebenwalder Straße 2–3 is reminiscent of the typical combination of craft, trade and living at the time. The low brick buildings erected in 1878 by mason H. Eicke on the left and rear property line served as a stable and coach house . In 1888 these buildings were converted into a zinc foundry. The initials of the builder Ernst Radicke and the year of construction still adorn the old chimney (see picture on the right). The head building on the street, formerly adorned with a stepped gable , was built in 1891. A forge was later set up in the farm buildings. The store opened in 1897. 1908-09 the side building was raised to gain a storage room.
With the completion of the Wedding station in 1871 with a connection to the Berlin Ringbahn , Wedding developed into a workers' quarter and industrial district. Due to the development of the individual industrial locations, building with Berlin tenements began in the 1870s. In the next decades, however, the development was still characterized by irregular growth along the arterial roads, so that there could be no question of a “tenement belt”. Rather, during this time there was a fragmented residential development, which was separated from each other by railroad systems, canals or drill areas. It was not until the years after 1925 that the remaining areas of the Hobrecht plan were built on as part of social housing. Another decisive factor was the new building regulations, according to which only block perimeter development was permitted. The suburban development with courtyard, side wing and transverse building behind the front building was finally displaced by large-city apartment buildings.
The neo-classical décor of the surviving buildings at Liebenwalder Straße 2–3 was destroyed around 1947 and restored in a simplified manner in 1990–93. A youth welfare project is now housed in the repaired commercial buildings.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Monument database. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d District Office Wedding of Berlin, Dept. Construction (ed.): Wedding in the course of time . Verlagbuchhandlung Kroll, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-925024-01-8 , p. 13 ff .
- ↑ Life in the Pankstrasse neighborhood. (PDF) Quartiersmanagement Pankstraße, December 2009, p. 18 , accessed on August 31, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '8.1 " N , 13 ° 21' 56.9" E