The central cattle yard was the central urban slaughterhouse in Berlin and lay first in the triangle Thaerstrasse Eldenaer road ring course. Later it was extended after northwest between ring course and house castle route up to the Landsberger avenue. The today's rapid-transit railway yard Storkower road was called to center of the 1970er years central cattle yard. After the building of the development area at the Fennpfuhl, for which this rapid-transit railway yard was an important point of entrance, renaming took place.

The central cattle yard lay in the citizen of Berlin district Prenzlauer mountain directly at the border to Friedrichshain and Lichtenberg. To the district Prenzlauer mountain it belonged since the year 1938, when the borders of the citizens of Berlin of districts were corrected. Before it it belonged since the formation of large Berlin in the year 1920 to the district Friedrichshain.

Prehistory

Development of the battle trade in Berlin

The so-called sausage yards, the two oldest slaughter houses of Berlin, were to the Spree. Near the holy spirit hospital at splinter duration the gate at the end of the splinter duration road was, the other one was in the lane to the Friedrichsgracht. One let the cattle feast on the meadows before the Stadtmauer and drove it to slaughtering to the slaughter houses. In the Paddengasse (the later small Stralauer road) a further slaughter house since 1661, which introduced its wastes directly into the Spree, was. 1725 were it in a so bad structural condition that 1727 a new slaughter house were likewise established in the Paddengasse, which were used until 1810. It was one by three slaughter houses, those at this time was established and was on buildings of stakes over the Spree. A further slaughter house was established 1750 near the shipbuilder dam in the Dorotheenstadt.

The battle trade was reduced since 1591 by royal regulations. They should ensure that only in the urban slaughter houses cattle could be slaughtered. The introduction of the freedom of trade as part of the Prussian reforms in the year 1810 made the establishment possible of private battle places, whose number in the consequence continued to rise ever. Usually they would however not fulfill the necessary hygenic requirements.

1827 opened the restaurant operator/barkeeper plaintiff before the tariff and excise duty wall in the proximity of the Landsberger of gate a cattle market with slaughter house and stables for 1000 cattle, 4000 pigs and 6000 muttons. In contrast to the past slaughter houses this was the first slaughter house, which in the city inside and proximity of residential areas, direct in, and thus no contamination did not lie and smelling nuisance by cattle impulse and aminal husbandry caused. Since 1848 a weekly market order regulated the sales regulations also on the cattle market and 1853 an appointed circle veterinary surgeon for Berlin controlled cattle and weekly markets. The Klaeger cattle yard was closed 1871, after the cattle plague in Berlin broke out.

A further large cattle yard of this time was the 1867 by the entrepreneur Ebers on a 30 hectare large area between the well and field route in the healthy well established citizen of Berlin cattle market. The plans for the cattle yard, on that the Sponholz & CO. Cattle market corporation was resident, supplied the building master August Orth. Already 1868 bought up the Industrielle Bethel Henry Strousberg the enterprise and let the necessary and still missing rail connection build. 1870 was to a large extent posed the buildings. Strousberg sold the enterprise 1872 to the citizens of Berlin cattle market corporation. The citizen of Berlin cattle market was able to cover the meat need this time to large parts.

Considerations for the building of a central cattle yard

Rudolf Virchow already suggested 1864 in the town council, from the city a Berlin operated furnishing public slaughter house in order to ensure for the always far increasing citizens of Berlin population a better quality in the meat supply. A commission recommended 1866 that a slaughter house as well as a cattle market on the same area should be established, since from the combination for the cattle dealers cost advantages would result and controls in the stables and slaughter houses could be simplified. One suggested a property in Moabit the close Beusselstrasse, but the majority of the city delegates rejected the project.

To 18. March 1868 issued the Prussian government due to the bad states in the battle trade and the far spreading of the Trichinose the law over "„the establishment more publicly, excluding using slaughter houses "“, the so-called battle obligation law, which should promote the building of local slaughter houses and permit the following prohibition of private Schlachtereien. Also Berlin had now the legal task to establish a public slaughter house and accomplish there hygenic controls.

The fact that the public cattle and slaughterhouse were opened however only 13 years later was because of longer arguments in the town council, mainly because of the costs and the lobbyism on the part of the citizens of Berlin butcher guild. There were about 800 private slaughter houses 1875 in Berlin and surrounding countryside. Many of it slaughtered the cattle under very bad hygenic conditions and the meat with the few were controlled. The butcher guild argued with the fact that the majority of the Schlachtereien in good condition it were and one to close only the improper. In addition the roads of Berlin by the building of drains would be already many cleaner.

Virchow was 1874, when the discussions flashed again around the building of a public slaughterhouse, also strong proponent of this plan. The citizen of Berlin municipal authorities negotiated with the citizens of Berlin cattle market corporation around the purchase of the cattle market at the well route. The majority of the delegates rejected 1876 the purchase however, since the costs of the necessary around and finishing works on the area were too highly regarded including the purchase price than and the area was under the growth of the city already too close one because of the city centre. One wanted to rather acquire a still vacant area for a new building. But two areas were considered: one in Rummelsburg with connection to water routes and the other one on the field Mark Lichtenberg at the Landsberger avenue. After one had decided for property secondarymentioned, one made a counter offer at a value of eight million Marks, which was not accepted however for the cattle market corporation.

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