Schwedter Straße

The Schwedter Straße (formerly: Lost path ) is a more than two- kilometer road in Berlin. It forms in large sections of the border between the districts of Pankow and Mitte. In the lack of development on the northeast side is the Mauerpark.

History

The present road follows a dirt road, which is documented in the 18th century. It was located near a Vorwerk at the Arnold Hauser gate outside the Berlin city walls. Well, in preparation for its official naming it should be fixed. The street name has been selected from the course towards the town of Schwedt / Oder in the Uckermark. The road, first written as one word ( Schwedterstrasse ), bears this name since 29 May 1862. At the time of designation stood along the road already several residences, including ten buildings were multi-family homes and other goods by the owners ( Kliese, Heese, Heintzel, Holzmann, Mitsching, Schultze, Slice, Black, strife, Schmidt, spoonbills, contactors) named smaller residential buildings, which had no numbering. A likewise unnumbered plot was planted with a Protestant maids hostel.

In 1875, the road has already been extended northwestward and their numbers ranged from 1 to 46, 47-221 are known as " construction sites " reported. The southern side of the road is 222 ( west, at the Griebenowstraße ) made ​​up to house number 268 on Schönhauser Allee.

Today's full length up to Gesundbrunnen reached the Schwedter Straße until the early 20th century. To this end, the following roads are indicated: Christine Street, Templin Road, Chorin Street, Auburn Avenue, Griebenowstraße, Fürstenbergerstraße, Cremmener road, Oderbergerstraße, Eberswalde street, Bernauer Strasse, Gleimstraße, ring road (there is an area of the Treasury and the goods station of the Northern Railway ), Behmstraße. The house numbers remained sketchy.

Course

The Schwedter runs in the districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and healthy well. Between 1945 and 1990 it was divided by the Berlin Wall, in the eastern part of the Wall ran a piece parallel to the road.

The road begins in the east at the beautiful Allee with the number 1, the house numbers are assigned in a horseshoe shape and form on the north side of the road, the numbers 1-52. The numbers 53-223 are missing in the system. The route carries out several pans northwestward through the Gleim quarter in the district of Prenzlauer Berg, then the fountain area in the district of healthy well until the Schwedter Steg at the Behmstraße. This last section on the web is recognized as bicycle road.

No significant cross- roads are the Eberswalde road that Oderbergerstraße, Bernauer Straße. In Rosenthalerstraße suburb Schwedter road forms the boundary between the districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. The section between straight Allee and the shopping and restaurant street avenue of chestnut trees is almost traffic-calmed.

Edge development

The terrain including buildings in the Schwedter Strasse 37-40 was owned by the Rheinisch- Westfälische Deaconess Association to Kaiserwerth on the Rhine. Diakonia entertained here with the maids hostel education school " Martha's yard". Connected had a higher private - school daughters and a small child heir true institution. The complex, later on referred to as Marthashof, was demolished in the 21st century, sold the surface and released for development. It was here, from 2008, criticized by local residents initiatives Hofrandbebauung with posh townhouses. Originally it was at this point a park in the conversation. The new buildings are aimed at an affluent segment of the population, so that an acceleration of gentrification, rent increases and thus the destruction of existing social structures to be feared. After threats from the left extreme environment had to be guarded by the police temporarily a pavilion of the investor at the corner Oderbergerstraße. The access road was named Marthashof with the beginning of construction.

In the 1950s, the then district of Prenzlauer Berg had built some new residential buildings that are seen in the adjacent pictures.

East of the Schwedter Straße and the Mauerpark is the Max -Schmeling-Halle and the Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn -Sportpark is here. Every Sunday west of this section, a large flea market.

Monuments

• No. 230: a five-storey residential building from the construction period around 1890 with siebenachsiger facade. Was restored in 1975. In the current Senate database, the house is no longer recognized as a historic landmark.
• Built preacher House of Zion Church, 1888: No. 231
• No. 232-234: This complex was 1876/1877 as 89./96. Community - double school built according to plans by Hermann Blankenstein. The ensemble consists of two four-storey boys' school buildings, a gymnasium and a courtyard side angular structure as a separate girls school with an auditorium. The brick building was well preserved in the GDR Educational school for kindergarten teachers " Friedrich Froebel ," which was moved here from Grabbeallee in Pankow. In the current Senate database, the school building is no longer recognized as a historic landmark.
• No. 261-268: residential block development around the Teutoburger Platz, which also includes Christine Street, Zehdenicker road and other parts.

Plaque

Of the German resistance fighter Helmut stitch (1894-1944) was thought to whose house in Schwedter Straße 5 with a derived from the 1960 plaque. The panel was restored in 1984, removed 1991 of unknowns. The nonprofit organization Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin, however, brought 1993 now also disappeared replacement plaque with the inscription

" Here, at his home, was a plaque for Helmut stitch 16.3.1894-28.8.1944 He participated in the resistance in the AEG turbine factory and illegal Communist Party meetings. 1940 Helmut was Arrested mesh, imprisoned in a labor camp Wuhlheide and in Landsberg penitentiary and 1944 sentenced to death and executed. "

Of. This had been badly scratched before the disappearance.