Rigaer Straße

The Riga Street is a street in Berlin's Friedrichshain district and thus in the district of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg. Named is the road to the city of Riga, the modern capital of Latvia. It ranges from Bersarinplatz in the west to S-Bahnhof Frankfurter Allee, where it crosses the Liebigstraße that Proskauer Straße, Pettenkoferstraße, the Samaritan road, Voigtstraße and Schleiden place.

History

The naming of the road took place on 24 June 1893. Here, the westernmost part was listed on the city maps of 1890 and 1893 as Eckartsberg road, after 1893, this part must have been involved in the Riga road. Before appointing it was listed as a street # 58 and 58a in the Division XIII of the development plan.

On 24 October 2009, an attempted car - arson took place in Riga street. During the investigation as part of a radio cells query all traffic data from 13 surrounding mobile cells were queried what made ​​after the announcement in 2012 for domestic political controversy.

Special

In the Riga road several buildings are national monuments. It is the former Liebig -Realschule (No. 8 ), which is now used as a medical center, the Galiläakirche ( 9/ 10) and the Heinrich Hertz High School (No. 81 /82). Plaques recall Fritz Riedel ( No. 64) and Ernst Ranke ( No. 94), also the writer Theodor Plievier inhabited around 1924 the house No. 68

Today, the building of the Riga street is a mosaic is made ​​of old and new buildings that were put into larger vacant lots. Nationally known is the road due to the squatter scene and several eviction attempts by the Berlin police.

Former Liebig -Realschule

The former Liebig- secondary school in Riga Street No. 8 is located in the immediate vicinity of the Galiläakirche and is not deducted from this visually. It was built in 1898 and consisted of a closed three-storey building with two wings as well as a building with three wings in the interior area of the block. This building contained inside the classrooms and a gymnasium. The building was built in the style of brick gothic and filled with red clinker. The street front has a jewelry frieze above the ground floor. In 1945, the Interior building was completely destroyed by bombs in World War II.

After completion in 1898 the school was purchased by the 12 junior high school, which was later renamed to Liebig -Realschule after the chemist Justus Liebig. 1941 moved the business school for girls in the building, it also was used for the Royal registry office and the municipal tax office. During the communist era, a youth dental clinic was housed in the building, now it is rented as a medical center to various medical practices.

Galiläakirche

The Galiläakirche is an evangelical church building, which was built in 1909-1910 after a design by the architect August Dinklage and Ernst Paul. He fits into the homes front of the Riga road. The Galiläakirche now houses the Museum of the youth resistance Hedwig Guard Home Society.

Heinrich Hertz High School

The present building of the Heinrich -Hertz- secondary school was built in 1901/1902 according to the designs of Berlin's head of planning Ludwig Hoffmann. This is a plastered building with three wings, which are connected by covered walls and Hofzugänge. In the left building there was the teachers residence, the right gymnasium and a reading hall. The middle part is slightly set back from the street frontage and contains embedded in double-column portal area with a Giebelverdachung about the two bears are displayed in an ornament of Otto Lessing, who bear a coat of arms. In the central building there is also a small roof tower. 1985 they conducted extensive renovations and additions as well as a renewal of the building front.

Upon completion, the school was first used as a community of dual school founded as a boys' school and 247, which was founded as a school for girls 252 community school. The 1994 billeted here Heinrich -Hertz- secondary school in the GDR was a special school mathematics and science direction to their students in addition to numerous later mathematicians also the musician Tamara Danz ( singer of the East German band Silly ) and the subsequent Left Party politician Gregor Gysi included. Since 1990, the school is a secondary school, the scientific profile was retained. It is named after the physicist Heinrich Hertz.

Squatting

As part of the squatter movement in 1990/91 a number of houses were occupied in the Riga Street, moved into the left residential communities. In some of the houses occupied collectively operated pubs and function rooms were opened. 1992 some of the squatters were legalized by the conclusion of lease agreements, others were cleared in the evacuation shaft under the interior minister of Brandenburg, after the Berlin general safety and Planning Act ( ASOG ) 1997. Nationwide attention was paid to the occupied houses in Riga street 84 and 94 in the course of their struggle for the preservation of the projects.