Frankfurter Tor

The Frankfurter Tor is a place in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain today. Although the name suggests, the place is not at the place of the former gate of the Berlin Frankfurter tariff wall, which was located some 800 meters to the west. Under the crossing is the same subway station Frankfurter Tor.

Location

The course is located at the intersection of Frankfurter Allee and Karl -Marx -Allee with the St. Petersburg and Warsaw road, which are part of the inner Wilhelmine ring. The federal highways B 1 / B 5 and B 96 a cross here. The development does not reach to the four corners up to the busy road junction, so that a rectangular course was built.

History

The name goes back to the old Frankfurter Tor. This was located at the intersection of today's Karl -Marx -Allee with the Akzisemauer whose history is represented by the Palisadenstrasse and peace road. It was created in 1716 and was initially made ​​of wood, because the first Akzisemauer of palisades was. The gate was from 1802 entirely of stone. During demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1867, the gate was also removed, a place with the same name as a reminder, however, did not persist.

The place of the old city gate is now scarcely recognizable, only the streets can give an idea of ​​the former location. Metro Station Weberwiese the U5 is located approximately at the level of the previous gate.

The present square was given on November 8, 1957 in the course of its redevelopment of its current name, before he was nameless. By naming the name of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) was again input in an official designation after 1950, the entire stretch of road had received the name Stalin Allee of Grosse Frankfurter Strasse and Frankfurter Allee. The name is reflected in the architecture of lying on the west side of the square buildings that were arranged symmetrically and work through their building height as a city gate. There are two tower high-rise buildings with a dome, which were modeled in the form of the Gontard domes on Gendarmenmarkt. The dramatic towers form the beginning of the architectural ensemble of the Karl -Marx -Allee, which was the western part of the Stalin Allee until 1961. The total area of ​​the square is now a protected monument.

The design for the building was by architect Hermann Hensel man who emerged as the winner of a competition in 1953.

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