Fritz Schloß Park is a park in

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in the district of

Moabit Moabit () is an inner city locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2016, around 77,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial and working-class neighbourhood i ...

, located in the borough of Mitte.

Location

The park is located adjacent to the

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between Rathenower Straße, Kruppstraße, Seydlitzstraße, and Lehrter Straße. The location was previously used as a military drill ground, and is today surrounded by residential and commercial spaces situated in former barracks. With a size of roughly 12 hectares, the park is the largest in Moabit.

History

After World War II, the military grounds were used as a dumping ground for debris from allied bombing, which in 1955 was covered in dirt by landscape architect Wilhelm Alverdes to form a

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which is located within the park. The park was named after Fritz Schloß (1895–1954), who was the mayor of the former district of Berlin-Tiergarten (since 2001 district Mitte) from 1946–52, which encompassed Moabit. The park contains a memorial by Alfred Frenkel dedicated to the '' Trümmerfrauen'', the women who helped clear rubble and rebuild the city after the war. The park is adjacent to the

, a multi-purpose stadium that was the site of several events during the 1936 Summer Olympics, including a quarter-final football match between Germany and Sweden. The grounds also contain additional football pitches, tennis courts, and other recreational facilities. An indoor swimming facility is directly accessible from the parking area on ''Seydlitzstraße''. An open-air swimming facility was closed in 2002 and used as a campsite from 2006 until 2011. The park also contains a playground. In 2009, a red path was added with fitness devices, with distance markers every 50 meters.

Planned mass transit connections

As part of a long-term expansion plan for the

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U5 line, a station has been planned at Fritz Schloß Park, which will eventually connect Berlin Hauptbahnhof to

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Jungfernheide Jungfernheide () is an area of forest and heathland located in Berlin in the present-day district of Charlottenburg-Nord, a locality of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Formerly a large forested area, it was progressively reduced in s ...

, Urban Tech Republic and towards Rathaus Reinickendorf. This plans were however removed by 2017, and replaced by tram extension from Berlin Hauptbahnhof, duplicating U5.

External links

Current work on incorporating the park into the "Döberitzer green corridor"

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