Ackerstraße

The arable street in Berlin's Mitte district begins in the northwest, stretching from Liesenstraße - Schering street in the district of healthy well and then runs straight up to the disability road. There she bends slightly to the south and ends at the line of road in the district center. It received its name from the fields of the Berlin field mark that has been developed with it.

History

The former garrison commander Lieutenant-General Count von Hacke had been ordered by the Prussian King Frederick II on September 22, 1751, to allow create an area in front of the Berlin city walls between the Gate and the Hamburger Rosenthaler gate houses. Plans were initially 30 houses for 60 families who were selected from a candidate group of settlers. The basic idea of Frederick II was the establishment of qualified professionals from non- Prussian German territories in his domain. The new residents were mostly artisans and came from the Voigt country, which is why the settlement area of ​​the newly formed label New Voigtland received. The streets were applied linearly parallel and referred accordingly - today Ackerstraße was initially the second series in the New Voigtland. All the houses in the colony of New Voigtland were due to the rapid and inexpensive production type buildings, which is a new trend has been set. Between the individual buildings, gardens were created. As in the 19th century and added a city densification and social restructuring more residents, nor new roads and these were re- counted emerged - now Ackerstraße was the third series in the New Voigtland. The existing houses were now often extended due to lateral extensions until finally closed facades were it. Later settled here coffee houses and beer taverns, in the neighboring mountain road even a brewery ( " Bergschlößchen " ) to.

The area now called no more colony of New Voigtland but Rosenthaler suburb. Your residents requested in August 1800 with a letter to the Police Board the granting of official street names. At the suggestion of a police officer who was in the New Third row Voigtland on 18 February 1801, the name Ackerstraße. ( Adjacent streets were named from the same date mountain road and garden street. ) On April 6, 1833, the next section of road between disability and Liesenstraße included in the Ackerstraße and initially called New Ackerstraße. The southern extension of the road to the Koppenplatz was 1877. However, local residents wanted a unique name for their Thoroughfare, he should be called Virchowstraße. This request was not granted.

Approximately in the middle of the field road (No. 37) St. Elizabeth's cemetery was planted in 1844, which is used to this day.

In the 1870s and 1880s, the road was new Mietswohnhäuser a completely new face and the population of the area compressed enormously. At the end of the 19th century, the agricultural hall was built on the corner of the disability road which is to this day.

Between 1961 and 1989, when the Berlin Wall divided the city, part of Ackerstraße lay on the border strip and could be entered only with special permission.

Characteristics and riparian

• In the 19th century, the term " Voigtland " had pronounced as a synonym for poverty and anti-social behavior in Berlin. The area was disparagingly called "Berlin Sahara ".
• The first section of the New Berlin horse tram from Alexanderplatz to the garden road led through the Ackerstraße.
• There was the blacksmith shop, melting experiments took in the Puhl & Wagner for their glass mosaics on the field road.
• In Ackerstraße 5 lived from 1990 the songwriter Rainald Grebe.
• Arable farms: field Straße 14 /15 campaign.
• The engineering entrepreneur Wilhelm Carl Johann Wedding entertained his business office in the Ackerstraße No. 50 and No. 76
• The Ackerstraße 80 is one of the few remaining tenements with square housing construction, a closed courtyard and peripherally accessible roof.
• Under the Acker Road 85/86 in the area of the district health fountain there is the ( Buddhist ) Fo Guang Shan Temple.
• There was the tenement Meyer's Farm to Ackerstraße 132.
• As of 1867, the Berliner Maschinenbau AG ( BMAG - 1870 ) produced on the farm road ( / field road).
• In Ackerstraße total of 19 historical buildings have been preserved ( house numbers 1-5, 10-13, 16 /17, 19-22, 144-147, 154/155, 165, 171) and are under preservation order.
• The farm road is the main venue of the trilogy of the turning points of Klaus Kordon, consisting of the volumes The red sailor or A forgotten winter, with your back to the wall and the first spring. The volumes in all standing at the center of family Gebhardt lives here in Ackerstraße 37, as stated by the author in the epilogue of the first volume is found, however, in reality, in that street, at number 37, a cemetery. In the preface of the first volume cordon characterizes the Wedding district of Berlin as the poorest and Ackerstraße than the poorest street in Wedding.
• The novel The Girl from the farm road. A manners from Greater Berlin (1920 ) by Ernst Friedrich ( pseudonym Hermann Fleischack ) and its sequels were filmed in several parts.