Majakowskiring
The Majakowskiring is an oval stretch of road in the district of Pankow in Berlin, Niederschönhausen. The quarter was also well known because it was temporarily residence of many representatives of the SED leadership.
Location and History
The Majakowskiring extends from the westerly Federal Highway 96a, which bears the name of this stretch of road Grabbeallee, to the east located at the park of the castle Niederschoenhausen Ossietzkystraße. By May 4, 1950, the ring bore the name of the Crown Prince (the northern route ) and then renamed Victoria Street (the southern part of the road train ) and was named after the Russian poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. First, the ring was for a short time Mayakovsky street.
The adjacent houses have mostly villas character, lived primarily here industrialists, to the majority of owners were expropriated after the war. Chance of the former owners for a transitional period but also received rental payments, as in the case of house No. 29 When the owner left in 1950 East Berlin, they were also expropriated.
By 1960, lived here now members of the East German government, after the houses were within the meaning of the new residents rebuilt by architects such as Hans Scharoun. The Majakowskiring ( or even the district of Pankow ) were henceforth often used as a synonym for the GDR government. Thus spoke Konrad Adenauer of the gentlemen in Pankoff, also the song special train to Pankow Udo Lindenberg referred to this context.
The most Majakowskiring living in the district government officials were shielded by a wall from the outside world. This was also maintained after the move of the politicians to Wandlitz in 1960. Because of the foreclosure you also spoke of the so-called " town ". It was only when Lotte Ulbricht wanted to return in 1973 after the death of her husband Walter Ulbricht back into the Majakowskiring, the locks and controls were lifted. However, it forbade her to return to their original place of residence, you had her now the house number 12, where she lived until her death in 2002.
Houses and their inhabitants (selection)
- Majakowskiring 2: Guesthouse of the GDR government
- Majakowskiring 12: Lotte Ulbricht (after her husband's death in 1973 )
- Majakowskiring 28/30: Lotte and Walter Ulbricht
- Majakowskiring 29: Wilhelm Pieck, later Guesthouse East Berlin's Mayor
- Majakowskiring 34: Johannes R. Becher
- Majakowskiring 46/48: Otto Grote well (since 2006: Jasmin Tabatabai)
- Majakowskiring 58: Erich Honecker and Edith Baumann ( 1953-1954/55 )
- Majakowskiweg 14: Erich and Margot Honecker ( 1954-1960, then Wandlitz )
Exhibition
In June 2009, a permanent exhibition was set up in the gatehouses of the castle Schönhausen52.57634513.406283 by the Centre for Research on Contemporary History and the Office of Culture and Education / Museum Association Pankow. It is entitled " The Pankow rulers. The Majakowskiring and Schönhausen castle after 1945 " and documents the history of the Pankow " small town " as a residential area of the East German power elite.
Majakowskiweg
The Majakowskiring was twice crossed by designated at the same time Majakowskiweg. This often led to confusion, so that the Majakowskiweg was renamed in 1994 after the last here in 1947 living in Hans Fallada Rudolf Ditzen pathway.