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34-585: Leipziger Straße is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte district of Berlin , capital of Germany . It runs from Leipziger Platz , an octagonal square adjacent to Potsdamer Platz in the west, to Spittelmarkt in the east. Part of the Bundesstraße 1 highway, it is today one of the city's main east–west road links. Leipziger Straße has existed along this line since about the Baroque Friedrichstadt extension, laid out in 1688 at

68-535: A constitution and the associated demand for separation of powers, the continued existence of the State Council came into question. The Prussian constitution of 1850 therefore did not provide for one. A revival was attempted with the decree of 12 January 1852 that re-established the Council, but it found no proper place for itself in a state with a constitution. A second attempt to revive it in 1884, along with

102-491: A footway used by runners Sidewalk , a path for people to walk along the side of a road Shared path  – Pathway for pedestrians and cyclists Towpath , a path along a canal or river originally used for towing a boat Roundabout or traffic circle, a type of intersection that directs both turning and through traffic onto a one-way circular roadway Trail /track, a rough path through more wild or remote territory Many other types of road Strait or channel ,

136-533: A greenway along the edge of the sea, open to both walkers and cyclists Greenway , a wilderness area intended for "passive use" Highway , depending on jurisdiction, anything from a path (England) to a road restricted to fast motor vehicles Hiking trail , trails (footpaths), in the countryside Long-distance trail , recreational trail of exceptional length (between 50 km and 1,000 km or more) mainly through rural areas used for hiking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing Running course ,

170-1734: A heavily trafficked water route Street  – Public thoroughfare in a built environment Stroad , a street/road hybrid See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Look up thoroughfare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Right of way (disambiguation) (has many meanings, some of which make it synonymous with thoroughfare but with stricter legal definitions) Way (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thoroughfares . References [ edit ] ^ "Definition of Thoroughfare" . Etymology Online Dictionary . Retrieved 27 February 2021 . ^ "Thoroughfare Definition and Meaning" . Merriam-Webster . Retrieved 6 September 2023 . ^ "thoroughfare" . Answers.com . Authority control databases [REDACTED] National Germany France BnF data Czech Republic Other Historical Dictionary of Switzerland Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thoroughfare&oldid=1259318035 " Categories : Water transport Types of thoroughfares Routes Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Misplaced Pages articles needing rewrite from April 2018 All articles needing rewrite Articles needing additional references from February 2019 All articles needing additional references Articles with multiple maintenance issues All articles with failed verification Articles with failed verification from July 2024 Commons category link

204-633: A median and broad pavements including an underpass for pedestrians. On both sides large housing estates of the Komplex Leipziger Straße  [ de ] were erected. Dönhoffplatz was rebuilt as a green area and decorated with the reconstructed 18th century colonnades by Carl von Gontard , installed roughly at the historic site. The western half of the road retained its historic dimensions and has been newly built-up almost completely since German reunification . A tram line from Alexanderplatz to Potsdamer Platz along Leipziger Straße

238-519: A move towards dissolving the Landtag , Reich President Hindenburg by emergency decree unlawfully stripped Braun of his remaining powers on 6 February 1933 and replaced him with von Papen. Adenauer remained in office. A meeting of the three-man body that was necessary to dissolve the Landtag took place shortly afterwards. It consisted of the president of the Landtag Hanns Kerrl of

272-520: A two-thirds majority in the Landtag . All state expenditures that exceeded the budget required the approval of the State Council. It also had an indirect right of initiative: proposals went to the State Ministry (the Prussian minister president and his cabinet) and had to be passed on by it to the Landtag . The State Council had the right to express its opinion on all matters concerning

306-568: Is a primary passage or way of transport , whether by road on dry land or, by extension , via watercraft or aircraft . Originally, the word referred to a main road or open street which was frequented thoroughly. Different terms [ edit ] Highways , public or private road or other public way on land Roads , route or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved for travel Bridle path , for equestrian use Cycleway , for use by cyclists Footpath , for use only by pedestrians Foreshoreway ,

340-518: Is on Wikidata Prussian State Council Until 1848 the State Council in the Kingdom of Prussia was an important institution within the Prussian executive, but its importance dwindled with the development of constitutionalism. The Council produced expert opinions and made recommendations. Decision-making power, however, rested solely with the king and cabinet. With the push towards

374-495: Is planned, tracks are already installed on some sections. Other buildings along Leipziger Straße include the Bulgarian and New Zealand embassies. Thoroughfare Transportation route connecting one location to another For other uses, see Thoroughfare (disambiguation) . [REDACTED] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on

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408-529: The Landtag and thus on legislation. It also had a right to obtain information from the State Ministry. The State Council was convened by its president at the request of all the representatives of a province, of one-fifth of all members, or of the State Ministry. Konrad Adenauer of the Centre Party , then mayor of Cologne and after World War II the first chancellor of West Germany , held

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476-796: The Bundesrat , the upper house of the German Parliament, was erected between 1899 and 1903. After the House of Lords was abolished in 1918, the building became the seat of the Prussian State Council of the Free State of Prussia , where delegates from the provinces met for annual sittings. The Cologne mayor Konrad Adenauer served as president of this body until the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, when

510-424: The Free State with a federal element, although Prussia otherwise remained a unitary state whose provinces were not constituent states. (1921) The State Council was composed of members delegated by the provincial parliaments. Any male citizen over the age of 25 could be elected. The number of representatives from a province depended on its population; each province generally sent at least 3 representatives (with

544-513: The Prussian coup d'état of 20 July 1932, the national conservative Reich government of President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Franz von Papen issued an emergency decree to put executive power in Prussia into von Papen's hands as Reichskommissar . The decree left Braun's cabinet in place as an all but meaningless caretaker government and the State Council with little room to act. In

578-752: The Senate of West Berlin in March 1961 to build the Axel Springer AG headquarters. At its western end Leipziger Platz was given its current name in 1815 in celebration of the Coalition victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Leipzig , and it is sometimes assumed that Leipziger Straße was named at the same time: in fact it already had this name after the historic trade route to Leipzig. On

612-602: The Museum for Communication. Large sections of Leipziger Straße were destroyed in World War II. Upon the erection of the Berlin Wall , the east–west connection at Potsdamer Platz was closed. Despite the low traffic volume, the eastern half of the road between Spittelmarkt and Charlottenstraße from 1969 onwards was broadened and rebuilt as a prestigious street of a Socialist capital with four car lanes in each direction,

646-514: The Nazi Party, Prussian minister president von Papen and Adenauer as president of the Council of State . Adenauer left the room before the vote, probably convinced that he had made it legally impossible to pass a resolution. Papen and Kerrl interpreted Adenauer's action as an abstention and decided to dissolve the Landtag . The legality of the procedure was highly questionable. In the Prussian election on 5 March 1933 , held in parallel with

680-561: The State Court for the German Reich in 1922. The court reached a settlement in 1923 after Adenauer had withdrawn a large part of his demands. The Prussian state elections of 24 April 1932 , which gave the Nazi Party the most seats but not enough to form a viable coalition with any other parties, also largely deprived the State Council of its ability to function. Legislative and budgetary decisions could no longer be implemented. In

714-662: The behest of Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg . It was named after Leipzig Gate near Spittelmarkt, part of the Berlin Fortress which was finally slighted in 1738. In 1734 the road was extended up to the new Potsdam Gate , present-day Potsdamer Platz, one of the western entrances in what was then the Berlin Customs Wall . Near the eastern end, Leipziger Straße traversed Dönhoffplatz  [ de ] , named after Prussian general lieutenant Alexander von Dönhoff (1683–1742), where an obelisk marked

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748-549: The body elected Robert Ley , the Party's Reich organization leader, to succeed Adenauer. The Prussian "Law on the State Council" of 8 July 1933 dissolved the State Council in its previous form. Simultaneously with the dissolution of the old State Council, a new institution of the same name was created. The State Council of Nazi Germany then consisted of those who were members by virtue of their office (the Prussian ministers and certain other holders of public office) and those awarded

782-725: The building became the seat of the Stiftung Preußenhaus  [ de ] (Preußenhaus Foundation), controlled by Hermann Göring . The building suffered severe damage during World War II , but was repaired and used during the GDR period to house several government offices, where the East German government was seized by insurgents during the Uprising of 17 June 1953 . The Bundesrat held its first session in this building in 2000. Between 1933 and 1936 Hermann Göring oversaw

816-591: The chairmanship of the State Council from its inception until the Nazi takeover in 1933. About one month after the provincial parliamentary elections, the elections for the members of the Prussian State Council were held by the provincial parliaments. The results by election date and party were as follows: AG: Preußische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (Prussian Working Group): DNVP , DVP and other middle-class and conservative parties Konrad Adenauer,

850-740: The construction of the vast Reich Air Ministry building next to the Preußenhaus at Leipziger Straße No. 7, on the corner of Wilhelmstraße. After 1949, when Leipziger Straße was located in East Berlin , the barely damaged complex became the headquarters of the GDR Council of Ministers. Today it houses the German Federal Ministry of Finance . Further east was the Reichspost Ministry building, today home of

884-677: The corner with Leipziger Straße stood the Wertheim department store, then the biggest in Europe. Demolished in 1955/56 the preserved basement of its ruins housed the Tresor techno nightclub in the 1990s. It is now the site of the Mall of Berlin shopping mall . The area around the Wilhelmstraße intersection before World War II was one of the centres of German national administration, being

918-405: The development of Leipziger Straße into a major shopping street. Nearby is the intersection with Jerusalemer Straße, named after Jerusalem Church , one of Berlin's oldest churches, dating from the late 15th century, rebuilt in the 19th century according to plans designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The church was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in World War II and its ruins were demolished by

952-639: The exception of the Hohenzollern Lands , which had only one). Otherwise, each province had one vote for every 500,000 inhabitants; a remainder of at least 250,000 inhabitants above that gave an additional vote. Like the Reichsrat – the body that represented the states' interests in the national parliament – the State Council had a right only to object to actions taken in the Prussian Landtag , and its objections could be overridden by

986-589: The location of various governmental buildings. Near Leipziger Platz was the first seat of the German Reichstag parliament, before the inauguration of the Reichstag building in 1894. The neighbouring house, former residence of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), was purchased by the Prussian state in 1856 as seat of the Prussian House of Lords . The present-day building which now houses

1020-531: The national Reichstag election , the Nazi Party achieved the necessary majority to pass a Prussian enabling act which gave the Reich chancellor full authority over the state. The State Council was thereby definitively deprived of its co-legislative and co-executive functions. Following the elections to the provincial parliaments held the same month, the Nazis secured a majority of seats in the State Council. On 26 April

1054-478: The other ministers, including those from Adenauer's Centre Party, were apprehensive of a possible dilution of democratic reforms by the conservative provinces east of the Elbe River. A rivalry thus developed between the two politicians and their respective state bodies which led the State Council to take a blockading stance towards the Landtag and its actions until the early 1930s. Adenauer took his case to

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1088-514: The president of the State Council, had significant reservations about the state government and its ministers. He thought that under Minister President Otto Braun of the Social Democrats (SPD), it was not treating the State Council with the importance that it deserved under the constitution. Braun and the rest of the government viewed the situation differently. He feared encroachment on his policy-making authority as minister president, and

1122-605: The transfer of the chairmanship to Crown Prince Frederick William , led to no significant results. The Council ultimately faded away. The Prussian Constitution of 1920 , implemented after the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the fall of the Hohenzollern monarchy , established a State Council in Section IV, Article 31 as a body for the participation of the provinces in the legislative process. It provided

1156-679: The zero point of the mileage on the road to Potsdam . Prime minister Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822) had a city palais built here, which from 1848 served as seat of the Prussian Landtag . Around the corner a Concerthaus was erected in the 1860s, the concert hall of the Benjamin Bilse orchestra, predecessor of the Berlin Philharmonic . Next to it Oscar Tietz opened his first department store in 1900, financed by his uncle Hermann Tietz ( Hertie ), starting

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