Prenzlauer Allee
The Prenzlauer Allee is a street in the district of Prenzlauer Berg Berlin district of Pankow. It is named after the direction of Alt- Berlin to the city Prenzlau Uckermark.
Course
The road starts at the Prenzlauer Tor, where she meets an extension of the Karl- Liebknecht-Straße with the minor road and the Torstraße. From there it runs north-northeast toward Heiner village, crosses it in its course Danziger Straße and finally ends at the junction of the Baltic Sea and Wisbyer road. In the course of the road is called Prenzlauer Promenade.
Location in urban space
The Prenzlauer Allee is one of the seven leading north and east radial arterial roads, from the historic center of the city, so essentially from Alexanderplatz out. 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
History
The road has been used as early Fernhandelsweg to Prenzlau, hence the later name. Until about 1824 it was called Heinersdorfer way; Heiner Village was the first village on the road outside of Berlin. From 1824 it was called Prenzlauer Chaussee and in 1878 finally upgraded to the Avenue.
Notable buildings
On Prenzlauer Tor is the former department store jonass the Jewish merchant Herrmann About Goll. In the 1928/1929 in the style of New Objectivity built by the architects builders and Friedlander buildings were - after the expropriation of Jewish owners - from 1934 to 1945 the headquarters of the Reich Youth Leadership and 1946-1959 under the name House of Unity of the seat of the Central Committee (ZK ) of the SED. After that it was used by the Institute of Marxism -Leninism of the Central Committee of the SED. Since 1995, the building stood empty. After the re-transfer to the heirs it was purchased in 2007 by a British investment group and reopened in 2010 as Soho House Berlin, an exclusive private club for artists, media and business people from all over the world.
Immediately north of it are the beginning of 2000 renovated building of the former baking factory. On the site of the brothers Aschingers built late 19th century central administration and supplied from here their distributed over the whole city corner pubs and beer halls standing with pea soup and bread rolls. Mid-1920s, was added a large number of workshops and food production in order to additionally supply hotels and restaurants Aschingers empire can. 4000 people at that time were working at this location, weekly were 1.1 million baked buns. Aschingers was the largest at that time in Europe catering operation and is considered the forerunner of the fast food chains. From 1947 the first operation activist and later the baked goods combine Berlin used (VEB BAKO ) the premises to Schrippen, bread - to produce for the whole of East Berlin - and also the Moscow ice cream. 1990/1991 was acquired by the Berlin entrepreneur Horst Schiesser operation. He led the bakery until 1997 under the name City back on. Since 2002, the Backfabrik is a service center in which, inter alia, the company VZnet networks has its headquarters, which operates online communities like StudiVZ, schülerVZ and meinVZ. Even the darkness Nocti vagus here has its headquarters
A little further north, between Saarbrücken and Metz road, are only partially preserved buildings of Bötzow Brewery. Berlin was once the largest private brewery produced by 1864 to 1945. In the adjoining beer garden once found 6,000 spectators. In connection with the Spartacus or January Uprising of 1919 was held here the Revolution Committee, led by Karl Liebknecht. Because since 1959 a memorial stone by the sculptor Otto Maercker at the then rising to the garden restaurant ( corner Saarbrücken Street / Prenzlauer Allee). As of 1995, Metro AG was planning on brewery premises, a complex of shopping mall, offices, restaurants and apartments, which was never realized. 2010 bought the entrepreneur Hans Georg Näder the site and announced plans for a mixed commercial and residential usage.
Between the Raabe and Immanuelkirchstraße is the Immanuel Church, built 1891-1893 in Romanesque Revival style. At its inauguration on October 21, 1893 and the Emperor and Empress Auguste Victoria and Wilhelm II took part. Today there Immanuel church concerts with different contents are held in addition to the worship services.
Opposite is the building complex of the former municipality in 1886 finished double school, built as a boys 'and girls' school after plans by the City Commissioner of City Planning Hermann Blankenstein. In this building, Sebastian Haffner grew up because his father as director had an apartment here. In the 21st century, the buildings serve the education center at the water tower with adult education center, library and Prenzlauer Berg Museum.
At the house Prenzlauer Allee 35, between Immanuelkirchstraße and Marie Burger Street, a memorial plaque to Erich Nehlhans, who lived here until his arrest in March 1948. Nehlhans was after the Second World War, co-founder and chairman of the Jewish Community of Berlin.
Between Fröbelstraße and Stargarder street the buildings of the former municipal shelter, hospital and hospice house is relatively well preserved. It was built in 1886-1889 according to the design and under the direction of Hermann Blankenstein. Today it is the borough of Pankow ( Prenzlauer Berg part ) and used by various district's facilities. The House 3 falls on the fact that the entire building is surrounded by a band text (white text on black glossy background) in the upper culmination of the building base. The texts to be read to this part of the artistic Denkzeichen questions of artist Karla axis, which is to remember in this building later the Stasi on the existence of a place of detention of the Soviet NKVD and. The Denkzeichen goes back to a decision of the District Assembly and the commitment of a citizens' initiative and was inaugurated in October 2005. It should help to keep alive the sense of history.
Parks and Cemeteries
Just north is at today's district office and then close to the S-Bahn station, the Zeiss Planetarium. This limits the Prenzlauer Allee to the Ernst- Thalmann Park.
St. Mary and St. Nicholas Cemetery I is (also age cemetery of St. Nicholas and St. Mary's church called ) between the minor road and the road Prenzlauer Berg. It was opened by the Protestant churches of St. Mary's Church and St. Nicholas Church on July 27, 1802 and 1814 and extended in 1847. The site was immediately shifted to the specially Akzisemauer between Prenzlauer Tor and Bernauer Gate ( from April 1810 King's Gate ) within the former city of Berlin. Since the 1990s, the cemetery is a memorial garden.
To the north and outside the excise wall (now the road between Prenzlauer Berg and the Heinrich-Roller -Straße) bought the Virgin and St. Nicholas church in 1858 a new plot of land at the former Prenzlauer Chaussee. It was here that the New or the St. Mary and St. Nicholas Cemetery II The entrance is located in a gap between the buildings houses the Prenzlauer Allee No. 6 and No. 8 in the east to the Greifswalderstraße closes the cemetery I of Georgen- Parochialgemeinde, formerly George cemetery, at. It was created in 1814 before the king's gate.
Public transportation
As a horse railway between Alexanderplatz and the Gustav -Adolf-Straße in Berlin- Weissensee, the New horse tram in 1895 took the route operation by the Prenzlauer Allee. 1901 the line was electrified by the Great Berlin tram. Today the Prenzlauer Allee is traveled over entire length of the tram M2. This connects Heiner village to the city center and ends at Alexanderplatz. In addition, the tram lines M10 along the Danziger Straße and the 12 and M13 on the northern end ( Wisbyer Street / Prenzlauer Promenade ) cross the avenue.
About halfway between Wisbyer Street / East Sea Road and Danziger road is the S-Bahn station Prenzlauer Allee with a distinctive 1891/1892 built clinker- entrance building. Here there is a ring railway lines S41 and S42 and S8, S85 and S9.