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Shantytowns and Pioneers beyond the City Wall: Berlin's Urban Frontier in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2014

Kristin Poling
Kristin Poling*
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In 1783, Friedrich Gedike wondered whether the city of Berlin was growing disproportionately to the rest of the country. Like any good enlightened observer of the city, Gedike praised the open vistas of newly planned suburbs over the cramped streets of the medieval city core. But, though a spacious city allowed for healthy use and recreation and Berlin remained much smaller than great capitals such as Paris and London, Gedike feared that Berlin's growth was becoming too rapid to control. Something, he worried, was out of proportion. Hundreds of buildings had been erected in place of the city's now demolished ramparts. This newly won land had not sufficed, however, and new suburbs with thousands of new buildings arose, streets irregularly placed, without adequate linkages to the inner city. This immoderate growth was evident in the failure to overcome the boundary between the city core and newly developed suburbs. The number of streets broken through the former fortifications land proved inadequate. This continued division, Gedike feared, would impede the city's ongoing development.

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Central European History , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 245 - 274
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118 This is most explicit in Max Ring's long Gartenlaube account, “Ein Besuch in Barackia,” which is framed as a dialogue between two friends who visit the “Republic Barackia” together.

119 The question of whether the dwellings had windows provides an interesting example of how physical description of the huts varied from account to account. The Demokratische Zeitung referred to the huts' “Guckloche alias Fenster” (Demokratische Zeitung, July 11, 1872, 3), while the Tageblatt marveled that their (often glass) windows were “meist zierlich mit Gardinen geschmückt” (“Die Barackenstadt vor Kottbuser Thor,” Berliner Tageblatt, May 27, 1872, 3).

120 Gerichts-Zeitung, June 8, 1872; and Kreuzzeitung, June 9, 1872.

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