Frankfurter Allee

The Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest roads of Berlin. It is the extension of the Karl -Marx -Allee in Frankfurt ( Oder), part of the important federal highways 1 (the former National Highway 1 ) ​​and 5 and has a length of 3.6 kilometers.

History

In 1708 the Margrave Albrecht Friedrich of Brandenburg- Schwedt could create the road as Heerweg. From 1824 to 1872 was called the road Frankfurter Chaussee according to the direction of Alt- Berlin to Frankfurt an der Oder. The piece between the (then) Frankfurter Tor and the border of Berlin was renamed on September 20, 1872 following a Cabinet Order in Frankfurter Allee. More eastern sections of the road were later given their own names: Old -Friedrich field, Alt- Biesdorf, Alt- Kaulsdorf and Alt- Mahlsdorf. Behind the Berlin city limits is called the Thoroughfare Berliner Straße. On the 70th birthday of Joseph Stalin, the entire avenue was renamed in 1949 in Stalin Allee. 1961, in the wake of de-Stalinization in the GDR, received the part from Alexanderplatz to the ( new ) Frankfurter Tor the name Karl -Marx -Allee; the part from Frankfurter Tor to Alt- Friedrichsfelde was changed back in Frankfurter Allee.

This road was one of the main ways in which pushed forward the Red Army in the spring of 1945 in the Berlin city center. In the fighting and the previous air raids many homes were destroyed on both sides of the avenue.

With great effort and the work of many rubble women and the use of a debris path, the ruins could be eliminated until the mid -1950s. In the gaps you sat by and by new residential buildings, street corners were sometimes turned into small parks.

Were destroyed besides not counted Mietswohnhäusern among other, Maschinenfabrik H. F. Eckert (formerly: Frankfurter Allee 136-141 ), a branch of the liquor factory Gin (formerly: Frankfurter Allee 268), a large department store on the corner Möllendorffstraße and large parts of the station Lichtenberg.

Location in urban space

The Frankfurter Allee, together with the Karl -Marx -Allee one of the seven leading north and east radial arterial roads, going from the historic center of the city at Alexanderplatz. These are in the clockwise direction:

  • Fountain street
  • Beautifully Allee
  • Prenzlauer Allee
  • Otto - Braun-Straße - Greifswalderstraße
  • Landsberger Allee
  • Karl -Marx -Allee - Frankfurter Allee
  • Holzmarktstraße - Mill Road - Stralauer Allee

Road

The Frankfurter Allee begins west at Frankfurter Tor. It runs in a straight line eastward through the districts of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg and is at the confluence of the rose fields in Old Frederick Road over the field. The houses follow the horseshoe numbering from the south side to the north side.

Major cross streets are

  • The stretch of road Petersburgerstrasse - Warsaw road at Frankfurter Tor,
  • The stretch of road Möllendorffstraße Belt Road at Frankfurter Allee Train and Underground Station, and
  • The stretch of road Weitlingstraße - Scandinavian road at the Lichtenberg S- and U- train station under the Lichtenberger bridge.

Structures

Listed buildings and equipment

  • Fischer fountain corner Möllendorffstraße
  • Frankfurter Allee 40: a residential and commercial building from 1907, architect Hans Liepe and Oscar Garbe
  • Frankfurter Allee 82-84. Residential and commercial buildings from around 1905
  • Frankfurter Allee 96
  • Frankfurter Allee 151
  • Frankfurter Allee 286
  • Stalin Allee Block G, designed by architect Hanns Hopp
  • Water pump, before Frankfurter Allee 100

Other notable buildings

  • Rathaus- Passage Friedrichshain (No. 35-37 ) ( designed by several architects and built after the turn of the Bayerische Immobilien AG until 1995),
  • Commercial building Quasar, 1991-1994 or 1993-1995 built by the Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu on the corner Voigtstraße and close beside the Plaza,
  • The three parts of the ring center built in the place of the former circular railway hall from 1995,
  • A larger plate at the address Frankfurter Allee 216; There is a built in the communist era multi-storey elongated office building on the south side of the Frankfurter Allee immediately to the west in front of the premises of the station Lichtenberg. Here is an administrative building next to the former marshalling yard was started in the 1970s. Because yielding underground who first built elevator shafts were standing around a few years before the further construction took place. In the late 1980s the colossal building was ready and served various positions as Reichsbahn official residence. After the turn he came into the ownership of Deutsche Bahn, but not used it. Thus, the house stood empty for several years until the private investors Lutz Łakomski and Ulrich Arndt purchased it in 2009. The builders, already in the renovation of other buildings throughout Berlin successfully (former department store on the Anton Saefkow Square, former confectionary factory at the Konrad Wolf Road), left the tract completely remove seeds and expand into a residential building for students and single people. The construction with the label, Q216 ' has 438 one-bedroom apartments and is rented since autumn 2012.

Public transport

The Frankfurter Allee is for both the individual as well as for public transport is of great importance. It is traveled along the entire length of the underground line U5. This was opened on 21 December 1930, the station Frankfurter Tor, Samaritan road, Frankfurter Allee, Magdalene Street and Lichtenberg among today's Frankfurter Allee.

At the county line of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg Lichtenberg ring train crosses the road. The S-Bahn station Frankfurter Allee is located directly north of the road. A direct transition between S- and U -Bahn, however, was not realized with the construction of the subway in 1930.

By 1945, also sailed the tram road also on the entire length. Today it is only at the underground station Frankfurter Tor crossed by the line M10 and the Frankfurter Allee Train and Underground Station of the lines M13 and 16.

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