Back in 1797 had come the first of two proposed schemes that would have afforded the future Potsdamer Platz the appearance of a proper square. Several new districts were founded around the city's perimeter, just outside the old fortifications. It grew very rapidly in a piecemeal and haphazard way, and came to epitomise wildness and excess in a manner that contributed much to its legendary status. Prima simbolo della divisione, poi il maggiore cantiere degli anni ‘90 e infine uno dei quartieri più vivaci e splendidi della città: la storia della Potsdamer Platz emana ancora oggi un fascino unico. It was thus given a strong steel skeleton, which would stand the building in very good stead some three decades after its completion. La perfetta coniugazione per rendere la vita che avanza comunque in una dimensione accettabile. Vìtta. A key motivation behind the Edict was so the Elector could encourage the rapid repopulation, restabilising and economic recovery of his kingdom, following the ravages of the Thirty Years' War (1618–48). In the medium term, a tram connection through the Leipziger Straße is planned, which can be supplemented or even replaced by the long-planned U3 underground line. Nearby is a new Café Josty, opened early in 2001, while between the two is "Josty's Bar," which is housed in the Esplanade's former breakfast room. Now firmly in the centre of a metropolis whose population eventually reached 4.4 million, making it the third largest city in the world after London and New York,[2] the area was ready to take on its most celebrated role. Potsdamer Platz, meanwhile, was more or less left to rot, as one by one the ruined buildings were cleared away, neither side having the will to repair or replace them. Once the bombing and shelling had largely ceased, the ground invasion began as Soviet forces stormed the centre of Berlin street by street, building by building, aiming to capture the Reich Chancellery and other key symbols of the Nazi government. Consisting of a wooden palisade at first, it was later replaced with a brick and stone wall, pierced by 14 gates (later increased to 18), where roads entered the city. Potsdamer Platz è il più sorprendente esempio di come, negli anni Novanta, il rinnovamento urbano abbia potuto trasformare Berlino nella “Nuova Berlino” di oggi. Two other hotels which shared the same architect, in this case Ludwig Heim (1844–1917), were the 68-room Hotel Bellevue (sometimes known as the "Grand Hotel Bellevue"), built 1887–8, and the 110-room Palast Hotel, built 1892–3 on the site of an earlier hotel. L’anziano non riconosce, in quella spianata incolta, il luogo in cui aveva passato parte della sua giovinezza. Leggi anche: Berlino, a 360° su Potsdamer Platz con un drone, il video, Il tuo indirizzo email non sarà pubblicato. In Speer's plan the former Anhalter Bahnhof was earmarked to become a public swimming pool; the intended fate of the Potsdamer Bahnhof has not been documented. From the Panoramapunkt one can see such landmarks as the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Federal Chancellery, Bellevue Palace, Cathedral, Television Tower, Gendarmes Market, Holocaust Memorial and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Divenne famosa anche per i suoi locali a luci rosse, nonostante la prostituzione fosse severamente vietata a Berlino. With the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961, along the intracity frontier, Potsdamer Platz now found itself physically divided in two. Known today for its larger than life architecture, ritzy hotels, and bustling shopping areas, this square also has a long and eventful history as an important feature of Germany’s capital. Ristoranti vicino a Potsdamer Platz su Tripadvisor: vedi 451.190 recensioni e 58.204 foto autentiche di ristoranti vicino a Potsdamer Platz a Berlino, Germania. Il piazza Potsdamer Platz costituisce il vecchio cuore della città. It later became Potsdamer Straße; its point of entry into Berlin, where it passed through the customs wall, became the Potsdamer Tor (Potsdam Gate); once inside the gate Leipziger Straße was its eastwards continuation, and Wilhelmstraße was the first north–south thoroughfare that intersected with it. East German officer checks a car returning to East Berlin, November 1989. The announcement came on the ninth anniversary of their complex's official opening, a fact not lost on many people. So the layout stayed put, although in 1823-4 Schinkel did get to rebuild the Potsdam Gate. At 8.00 p.m. on 8 October 1923, Germany's first radio broadcast was made, using the world's first[citation needed] medium-wave transmitter, from a building (Vox-Haus) close by in Potsdamer Straße. Meanwhile, in another part of the building, the Information Office of the Olympic Games Organising Committee was housed. Columbushaus, with its H.O. The Berlin Senate (city government) organised a design competition for the redevelopment of Potsdamer Platz and much of the surrounding area. [citation needed]. The traffic lights were delivered by Siemens & Halske and mounted on top of the tower cabin. In addition, in 2006, a connection between the Uferstraße on the Landwehrkanal and the main tunnel was put into operation, the Tunnel Tiergarten Spreebogen is part of the Bundesstraße 96. On 16 August 1914, less than three weeks after the start of World War I, the Café Piccadilly was given a new name – the more patriotic-sounding Café Vaterland. Der Potsdamer Platz ist ein platzartiger Verkehrsknoten in den Berliner Ortsteilen Mitte und Tiergarten im Bezirk Mitte zwischen der alten Innenstadt im Osten und dem neuen Berliner Westen. (The Wise Berliner Buys With The HO) Underneath were the words NÄCHSTE VERKAUFSSTELLEN (Next Sales Premises), between two arrows pointing left and right, suggesting that large shopping developments were forthcoming in the immediate vicinity, although these never appeared. A month later, on 18 November, the Communist authorities in the east ordered its destruction using a catapult made from a compressed air hose loaded with pebbles and small pieces of metal. When the city was divided into sectors by the occupying Allies at the end of the war, the square found itself on the boundary between the American, British and Soviet sectors. Centinaia (se non migliaia) di veicoli transitavano ogni giorno per le strade della piazza. Potsdamer Platz in 1930. Potsdamer Platz fu il luogo dove, nel XIX secolo, si realizzò un’intensa attività commerciale e culturale e ancora si conservano alcuni resti di questo sviluppo, come il primo semaforo d’Europa, che funzionava manualmente. Meanwhile, facing the Palast Hotel across the entrance to Leipziger Platz (the Potsdam Gate), was the 400-room Hotel Fürstenhof, by Richard Bielenberg (1871–1929) and Josef Moser (1872–1963), erected in 1906/07, also on the site of an earlier building. On 17 December 2007, Daimler announced that they were selling their entire complex of 19 buildings at Potsdamer Platz to SEB Asset Management, a Frankfurt-based subsidiary of the Swedish banking group SEB. His son, the wine wholesale dealer William ("Willy") Huth (1877–1967), took over the business in 1904 and, a few years later, commissioned the replacement of the building by a new one on the same site. Initially known appropriately as the Achteck (Octagon), on 15 September 1814 it was renamed Leipziger Platz after the site of Prussia's final decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Leipzig, 16–19 October 1813, which brought to an end the Wars of Liberation that had been going on since 1806. In origine era la tentacolare cinque piani Berlino Postpalais, e qualcosa dell'ufficio postale 1930 rimane negli ampi corridoi, soffitti alti … The traffic problems that had blighted Potsdamer Platz for decades continued to be a big headache, despite the new lights, and these led to a strong desire to solve them once and for all. Despite its undoubted success, this in turn led to what many saw as an "Americanisation" of the area, with even its private security force being kitted out in something resembling New York Police uniforms. As was the case in most of central Berlin,[6] almost all of the buildings around Potsdamer Platz were turned to rubble by air raids and heavy artillery bombardment during the last years of World War II. They had to organize the traffic, define traffic rules and select a solution to control the traffic. Consequently, Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station became the most infamous of several Geisterbahnhofe (ghost stations), through which trains ran without stopping, its previously bustling platforms now decrepit, sealed off from the outside world, and patrolled by armed guards. Elegante business hotel in centro a Berlino, vicino a Potsdamer PlatzSituato in un ufficio postale del 1930, l'hotel Crowne Plaza® Berlino - Potsdamer Platz è a breve distanza dalla stazione U-Bahn Möckernbrücke. After major refurbishment, the S-Bahn line and station reopened on 1 March 1992, followed by the U-Bahn on 13 November 1993. It was also very popular with film fans, as it had three cinemas with nearly 30 screens, including an IMAX screen, showing many films in their original versions (especially English-language films), plus a film academy and a film museum. Since German reunification, Potsdamer Platz has been the site of major redevelopment projects. These measures were only partially successful: after further skirmishes in which shots were fired, barbed wire entanglements were stretched across some roads, a foretaste of things to come. Potsdamer Platz mit Columbushaus. Essentially, four major roads, in the east–west direction, Potsdamer Straße and Leipziger Straße, and in the north–south direction, Ebertstraße and Stresemannstraße, lead the motorized individual traffic to Potsdamer Platz. It was also claimed that 17 or 18 Soviet soldiers were executed for refusing to shoot demonstrating workers,[12] but this remains unconfirmed by post-1990 research. In one scene an old man named Homer, played by actor Curt Bois, searches in vain for Potsdamer Platz, but finds only rubble, weeds and the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall. The heyday of Potsdamer Platz was in the 1920s and 1930s. Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, with the Palast Hotel on the right and the traffic light tower in the centre, circa 1930. The largest of the four parts went to Daimler-Benz (later Daimler-Chrysler and now Daimler AG), who charged Italian architect Renzo Piano with creating an overall design for their scheme while sticking to the underlying requirements of Hilmer & Sattler's masterplan. Residential building by Richard Rogers, part of the Daimler complex at Potsdamer Platz, in 2008. Thus Potsdamer Platz was off and running. In una delle scene più famose della pellicola si vede l’anziano camminare in un deserto di sterpaglie. The new gate was officially dedicated on 23 August 1824. Its street layout followed the Baroque-style grid pattern much favoured at the time, and was based on two main axes: Friedrichstraße running north–south, and Leipziger Straße running east–west. After that, only two buildings in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz still stood – one complete, the other in a half-ruined fragmented form: the Weinhaus Huth's steel skeleton had enabled the building to withstand the pounding of World War II virtually undamaged, and it stood out starkly amid a great levelled wasteland, although now occupied only by groups of squatters. Workers clearing the square for a new border crossing, November 1989. At almost any time of the day, the place is alive with people. 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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, "Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)", Leuchtschriftanlange – "Die Freie Berliner Presse Meldet" (in German, click on the link), 17juni53.de: Tote des 17. Since the city authorities would not allow the new line to breach the customs wall, still standing at the time, it had to stop just short, at Potsdamer Platz, but it was this that kick-started the real transformation of the area, into the bustling focal point that Potsdamer Platz would eventually become. By the mid-1860s direct taxation had made the customs wall redundant, and so in 1866–7 most of it was demolished along with all the city gates except two – the Brandenburg Gate and the Potsdam Gate. It did not run in 2009 or 2010 due to equipment problems, but is expected to be operational again in 2011. It was not until later on that many of these buildings began to be replaced by important historical palaces and aristocratic mansions. Meanwhile, a row of new single-storey shops was erected along Potsdamer Straße. Media in category "Potsdamer Platz in the 1930s" The following 24 files are in this category, out of 24 total. There were wrangles over land-usage: although a central feature of the Daimler-Benz development is a top shopping mall – the Arkaden (Arcades), this did not form part of the plans until the Berlin Senate belatedly insisted that a shopping mall be included. Venne vinto dagli architetti Heinz Himmler e Christoph Sattler di Monaco. [9] No one really knows how many people died during the uprising itself, or by the subsequent death sentences. The removal of the customs wall allowed its former route to be turned into yet another road running through Potsdamer Platz, thus increasing still further the amount of traffic passing through. One design submitted by Wagner himself comprised an array of gleaming new buildings arranged around a vast multi-level system of fly-overs and underpasses, with a huge glass-roofed circular car-park in the middle.