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| Namesake | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| Type | Thoroughfare |
| Length | 3,600 m (11,800 ft)[3] |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Quarter | Friedrichshain,Lichtenberg,Rummelsburg |
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| Coordinates | 52°30′48″N13°28′41″E / 52.51339°N 13.478°E /52.51339; 13.478 |
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TheFrankfurter Allee is one of the oldest roads ofBerlin, the capital city ofGermany. It extends theKarl-Marx-Allee fromFrankfurter Tor in the direction of the city ofFrankfurt (Oder). It is part ofBundesstraße 1 and has a length of 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi).
LineU5 of the city'sU-Bahn runs beneath the length of Frankfurter Allee. The U-Bahn stations ofFrankfurter Tor,Samariterstraße,Frankfurter Allee,Magdalenenstraße andLichtenberg are all under or adjacent to the street. Frankfurter Allee and Lichtenberg stations are also served by the city'sS-Bahn.[4]
Following the establishment of theGerman Democratic Republic the Frankfurter Allee was officially renamed Stalinallee on 22 December 1949 to honourStalin's 70th birthday. The street was to become the most well known inEast Berlin, with the poetKurt Barthel penning a poem to commemorate the occasion of its renaming:
Wie soll man Stalin danken?
Wir geben dieser Strasse seinen Namen.
In August 1951 the first statute of Stalin to be erected in the GDR was unveiled on Stalinallee. A new building programme was also launched in the same year to provide housing in the area around the street. Led by the architectHermann Henselmann the project was designed in theStalinist style, but reputedly suffered from poor construction work and ran over budget. Despite being intended as a showcase of theStalinist project in the GDR, theEast German uprising of 1953 first began on a construction site of the project. In November 1961 the road was once again renamed Frankfurter Allee.[6]
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