Scheunenfeld

The Scheunenfeld formed the topographical starting point for the Scheunenviertel. After its demolition, the Platz was created at that very spot. Today the term is also used for the streets up to Rosenthaler Straße and Hackescher Markt, but historically correct the term only applies to the rows of houses east of Almstadtstraße.
=== Origins ===
In 1672, Friedrich Wilhelm (the great elector) issued a fire ordinance that stated that all combustible material was to be stored beyond the then city walls. As early as 1683, one of the first streets on the Scheunenfeld was built on what was then the Dragoon bulwark, later known as Dragoon Street.>D. Weigert: Vom Scheunenfeld zum Scheunenviertel. in: Verein Stiftung Scheunenviertel (Hrsg.): Das Scheunenviertel. Spuren eines verlorenen Berlins. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1994.
Friedrich Wilhelm I issued an order in 1737 that all Jews who did not own a house should move to the Scheunenviertel. They were also only allowed to cross the customs wall (also excise wall) that now goes around today's Torstraße through the Schönhauser Tor and the Prenzlauer Tor.
In 1757 further streets are topographically recognizable: the long Scheunengasse (today's Kleine Alexanderstraße) and the Verlohrne Straße (today's Almstadtstraße).
Later, the following alleys developed on the field:
* 1. Scheunengasse (Bartelstraße)
* 2. Scheunengasse (Kleine Alexanderstraße)
* 3. Scheunengasse (Weydingerstraße)
* 4. Scheunengasse (Koblanckstraße)
* 5. Scheunengasse (Amalienstraße)
* 6. Scheunengasse (Füsilierstraße)
The northern border was Linienstraße, in the south the Hirtenstraße.
==== further development ====
In the first half of the 19th century, mainly three-storey houses were built in the rather narrow streets. T. Raschke: From suburban quarters to dark Berlin. in: Association Foundation Scheunenviertel (ed.): The Scheunenviertel. Traces of a lost Berlin. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1994. After the founding of the Reich in 1871, the population in Berlin and also in the Scheunenviertel skyrocketed. Above all, factory workers north of the former customs wall moved to the area. There were also people of the Jewish faith who saw no prospects in the Russian Tsarist Empire or in Austria-Hungary.
The condition of the houses that were in need of renovation, but also their population, who, being so unpresentable for the newly crowned capital of the Reich, loitered around in front of the door, ensured that the Scheunenviertel was the scourge of Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century and the sounds became louder and louder to erase the eyesore from the map.
==External Links==
*the Scheunenviertel on Berlin.de
== References ==