Finkenkrug

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Finkenkrug is a district of the west of Berlin city located Falkirk. The district takes its name from the Old Finkenkrug, a Teerofen in Bredower forest.

History

As the through train Berlin-Hamburg route was opened on December 12, 1846, the territory of Finkenkrug was one of Seegefeld forth farmland rich interspersed with forests, deserted landscape, which passed from the pipe Becker the way out to Dyrotz back to Königsgraben in an alder bush rich marshland whose were agriculturally cultivated fields to the manor Seegefeld. Unpaved connection paths were after the Nauen street, from Seegefeld forth the Finkenkruger road that einmündete directly in the western arc in the southern foothills of today Holbeinstraße and in continuation to the tube Becker path in the North by Falk Hagen. To the west of the Dyrotzer path is entered in old maps of the 18th century.

Bounded on three sides by the pipe Becker way Dyrotzer way to and from the stork street, existed at that time the idyllic Vorwerk Seegefeld, with the former hunting lodge, the sheep, the surrounding fields and the small pond at the Stork space. Built circa 1750 house with the dirt floor and his black kitchen, which was demolished in 1994 in a cloak-and -dagger operation, in this region the only and oldest dwelling house was far and wide. However, there was 2 ½ km from the present station Finke pitcher into north-north- westerly direction at the edge of Bredower Forst and on the Nauen street, the 1710 first mentioned Teerofensiedlung "Age Finkenkrug ", a later by Theodor Fontane described excursion of Berlin.

Two influential students, it is thanks to them that in 1850 after the introduction of the Berlin suburban first Sunday needs stopping place Finkenkrug and then in 1852 the new station was established. In the early days came from 1870 on Sundays up to 25,000 Berlin in the western suburb. In the Old Finkenkrug 25 waiters were working on days such crowds of visitors. It was not until 1891 held passenger trains regularly in Finkenkrug. In 1892, north of the railway line in the Karl -Marx -Str. built a station restaurant in the former half-timbered house Finkenkrug station (now Football area ). 1893/94 also was near the train station, directly opposite, the Garden Restaurant " New Finkenkrug "; Owner was Gustav Fichtner, later Rotter (Local Bellevue as of 1924, four seasons since 1945, today car parking areas ).

The economic crisis reached its peak in 1906. The stampede: " könn'n families make coffee here " ebbed. Around 1910 there was a bus on Sundays Berlin Station Finke pitcher.

The merchant Bernhard Ehlers (1848-1919), the founder Finke pitcher, acquired in 1888 the manor Seegefeld with the associated 657 hectare lands around the stations Seegefeld and Finke pitcher. 1892 Ehlers development plan for a 90 hectare area was south of the railway line in New Finke pitcher it began in 1891 to set up for the region between Rudolf -Breitscheid- road, ring road, road Rembrandt and Dyrotzer way approved by the authorities. It made ​​first tree planting, road dividers and purchase agreements. On November 20, 1892 William Droßmann, on 26 November with Heinrich Teichmann and 29 November with Rudolph King & Co. in 1893 gave District Steinmeister the first authorization for applying a colony of 30 villas near the station Finkenkrug. By 1895, about 20 settlers received a total of 40 acres, the morning to 1,000 marks. The first houses were built in 1895.

From 1895-1898 the population stagnated concept. Because Ehlers feared problems with the groundwater, he sold on May 5, 1898, the manor Seegefeld and land ownership ( 657.4161 ha, including 400 ha deciduous forest ) to the German settlement bank in Berlin- Hallensee for around 1 million mark. Land prices were up to 3 Mark / m². Ehlers kept at the Wilmstraße ( Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. ) / Finkenkruger road at the turning wall, the elevated part, his property in size from 12 acres and 22 other morning to (8.5 ha). He had a summer home there and barn with a shed it. 1899 were already two thirds of the settlement area sold. The settlement bank worked in 1900 for Neufinkenkrug an extended to 258 ha settlement plan, which was approved on September 5, 1903 by District Wilms and also places for a cemetery, for the school, the church and for the case of an autonomous local government is also space for a town hall, a prison, and a fire station ( tube Weg / Käthe- Kollwitz -Straße) foresaw. An Association for the Promotion of Neufinkenkrug was founded in 1903. In the same year construction began school in Finkenkrug and the paving of the pipe Becker path for 30,000 marks was approved. 1905 Neufinkenkrug counted 163 inhabitants.

1908 controlled the German settlers Bank 25,000 Mark in for the exhibition of eight villas on Elsterplatz ( Schiller Square). This exhibition was organized by the German settlers Bank and the publishing house August Scherl (Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger ) of any of the magazine " The Week" advertised and award-winning design, which was known and pioneering in the whole of Germany. In the same year, the expansion of the highway ( Wilmsstraße ) Dallgow- Finkenkrug was. In 1913 there were 650 inhabitants in Neufinkenkrug already.

1921 founded Anna von Gierke and Martha Abicht the GmbH Country Jugendheim Finkenkrug on Havelländer way. Just one year later, the first barrack was erected, the first children as well as students and employees of the club youth club recreation offered. The country youth center, which quickly grew into a large all-encompassing socio-educational institution, was first led by Alice Bendix and later by Isa Gruner.

Attractions

• The house Feuerbachstraße 13 inhabited from 1923 to 1939 by Gertrud Kolmar, a Jewish poet
• The "witch's house " in Poetenweg, backdrop in the film Männerpension by Detlev Buck
• Evangelical Church Neufinkenkrug the priest -Voigt Square, opening on October 31, 1926
• The Linde pond
• Opens first German nature trail in forest Bredower, on 11 June 1930

Personalities

• Otto Voigt, a Protestant pastor in Finke pitcher from 1926-61
• Hermann Lüddecke, ( born 1938 ) architect and painter
• Franz Haverland, painter
• Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943), Jewish poet, daughter of the lawyer Chodziesner from Kolmar / Poznan, lived in Finkenkrug, Feuerbachstraße 13, she was sent to Auschwitz with the 32nd Transport on 1943 and was murdered immediately after arriving there.