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Workshop of the citizen association Hansaviertel e.V.

On 10 December 2018, the Hansaviertel e.V. citizens’ association held a workshop at the Academy of the Arts on behalf of Ephraim Gothe, City Councillor for Urban Development, Social Affairs and Health, under the title “denk mal pflegen – denk mal weiter”.

The Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. is concerned about the declining quality of the outdoor space. The outstanding areas in the interior are counteracted by the fallow edges of the Hansaviertel. Especially the area around the S-Bahn suffers from an urban planning that has not been thought through to the end.

Hansaplatz is also accepted as a centre by the citizens of the wider surroundings, but suffers particularly from unrenovated building components and urban development brownfields, which lead to socially difficult and unsafe areas.

The association would like to be located at Hansaplatz:

To preserve the GRIPS Theatre and give it opportunities for development.

Preserve the REWE supermarket in the Hansaviertel shopping centre and offer it development opportunities.

The AdK on Hanseatenweg was to receive additional archive space in the Hansaviertel.

A lighting concept is urgently required in the Hansaviertel, as are further compatible measures to increase security.

We would like the Hansaviertel to continue its experimental thinking as it did when the quarter was planned and built! We ask the players of the city for the Hansaviertel: “think, nurture and think, keep on thinking!

 

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New Year’s reception despite construction site

On 21 January the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. celebrated its traditional New Year’s reception in the Hansabibliothek. Although there was still a construction site around, many members and guests had come there. Everyone was welcomed by the new director of the Hansa Library, Raimar Oestreich, who expressed his hope to be able to welcome the Bürgerverein again regularly in the rooms after the completion of the library. After all, the Bürgerverein had been founded on the premises of the Hansabibliothek!

As guests the association could welcome not only district councillor Sabine Weissler, but also Mittes mayor Stephan von Dassel.

 

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50 Years of GRIPS Theatre

The new season at the GRIPS Theatre is a special one. The theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary. As the artistic director of the Children and Youth Theatre, Philipp Harpain, said, four world premieres and one German premiere are on the programme for the anniversary season.
A special highlight will be the anniversary celebration, which is planned together with the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V., and the festival “On the Child Side” in June 2019.

 

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2.5 million euros for the Hansaviertel

The Hansaviertel receives 2.5 million euros from the Federal Programme “National Urban Development Projects” for measures on listed buildings and open spaces.

The “National Urban Development Projects” programme is broadly diversified in terms of content in order to take account of urban development projects with different objectives. On 18 November 2015, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Construction and Nuclear Safety, Florian Pronold, the District Mayor of Mitte, Christian Hanke, and the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel symbolically presented a plaque. This year, 46 “National urban development projects” will receive around 150 million euros in funding from the programme of the same name of the Federal Ministry of Building. An interdisciplinary jury of experts chaired by Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Pronold made the selection. In Berlin, the Hansaviertel Berlin is being funded with 2.5 million euros for measures on listed buildings and open spaces. The “National Urban Development Projects” programme promotes the careful revaluation and strengthening of the urban development and architectural qualities of the district. This requires investment measures in listed buildings and open spaces as well as the creation of accessibility and energy-saving measures. The intensive participation of local residents also plays an important role in this project. Only through a sustainable and forward-looking approach to further development can the Hansaviertel continue to be a place for art, culture, church, living, recreation and architecture in the future.

The projects in detail are:

Hansa Library: The listed building designed by Werner Düttmann in 1957 will be renovated so that it will continue to function as a place for culture, information, education and communication in the future.

Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche: The listed Protestant church was designed in 1957 by architect Ludwig Lemmer on the foundations of the previous building, which was destroyed in 1943. The filigree bell tower and the nave were renovated.

Academy of Arts forecourt: The aim is the careful renovation of the forecourt including the sensitive, monumental integration of barrier-free access to the main and side entrances.

Revitalisation of the area around Hansaplatz: For Hansaplatz as the centre of the quarter, a utilisation and development concept is being worked out with the citizens* to enhance the spatial and design situation of the square and its immediate surroundings.

The SPD member of the Bundestag Eva Högl, whose constituency also includes the Hansaviertel, said: “The award is an appreciation for the work done, but also an opportunity to upgrade the quarter”.

Pronold commented on the jury’s decision for the Hansaviertel that the strong local civic commitment had been an important criterion for the selection. “Urban development”, he said, “is not just an investment in concrete”.

 

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Window of remembrance

When the “Window of remembrance” (in the Hansaplatz underground station on the library side) was opened to the public in January 2014, it was a moving moment for those who initiated and implemented the project. Now, four years later, the moment was no less moving to inaugurate the revised “Window of remembrance”.

This was done by the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. on July 9, 2018, together with a group of American Jews who were in Berlin as part of the “Germany Close up” exchange program sponsored by the federal government, many citizens of the Hansaviertel, with representatives of the BVG and the Proft company that installed the window. The revision was made possible by financial means granted to the Bürgerverein by the LOTTO Foundation.

Not far from Hansaplatz, in Levetzowstraße, once stood one of Berlin’s largest synagogues. In 1941 the Nazis turned it into a collection camp for Berlin Jews who were to be deported to the extermination camps. It is estimated that there were over 32,000 people. Tatjana Ruge researched 1,030 names of Jewish residents in the Hansaviertel. The inscription board with the names of these inhabitants, which Katja van Dyck-Taras designed, visualizes the tragic procession of the 1,030 Jewish inhabitants of the Hansaviertel.

The “Window of remembrance”, a glass pane on which a foil was stuck in 2014, now consists of two 5 mm thick panes. This is laminated safety glass, in the middle of which the names of the 1,030 Jewish residents were printed.

Sabine Röhm, pastor of the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Tiergarten, said in her inauguration speech: “If your child asks you tomorrow… then tell him what happened. Give him your values, your faith and your traditions. Give him your story, your memories and those of your people, so that they may live on from generation to generation. Do not conceal anything. Tell also the terrible that has happened. Do not put a page before your mouth” (from the 1st Testament, the 5th book of Moses).

 

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Quast medal for the citizens association Hansaviertel e.V.

On 8 January 2018 the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. received the Ferdinand-von-Quast medal from the hands of Senator of Culture Klaus Lederer. This medal has been awarded since the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin in 1987. It is named after Ferdinand von Quast, the architect and employee of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who was born in Neuruppin in 1807 and died in Berlin in 1877. In July 1843, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed von Quast as curator of the monuments in Prussia.

The winners are many private house owners, but also the architectural historian Julius Posener, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the painter Manfred Butzmann, many civic associations, the Association of Architects and Engineers.

In 2018, the Bürgerverein Hansaviertel e.V. and the Rockband Rammstein received the award for the careful renovation of a large industrial hall in Pankow. The stage and concert equipment will be stored in this hall, as well as the band’s offices. The senate praised the area surrounding the hall for having been saved from further deterioration.

Barbara and Hans-Dieter Jaeschke received the Quast Medal for the renovation and conversion of the Prenzlauer Berg public swimming pool in Oderberger Straße. This monument to the bathing and hygiene culture of the imperial era was inaugurated in 1902 according to the plans of Ludwig Hoffmann, a municipal building inspector. It was shut down in 1986 and stood empty for decades. Barbara Jaeschke, head of the language school located directly next to the swimming pool, and her husband took over the building in 2012. It was converted into an extension of the school, a hotel and an event venue. And now you can swim there again.

The Bürgerverein, founded in 2004, is committed to the preservation of the Hansaviertel, which was built in 1957 as part of the International Building Exhibition and as the flagship of West Berlin. In the 90s, the Senate Building Administration was convinced that the Hansaviertel had to be densified in order to lead it back onto the tracks of “European” urban development. The fact that this did not happen can also be attributed to the commitment of the residents and their association. Above all, however, they made the general public and politicians aware that the Hansaviertel is a gem of Berlin and belongs on the World Heritage list.

 

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