Bersarinplatz

In the 19th century, the area under consideration here did not yet belong entirely to Berlin but was located on the Berlin Feldmark, on the border between the municipality of Lichtenberg and the property of the city of Berlin, known as the Magistrat. In 1862, James Hobrecht developed the first development plan for the future expansion of Berlin. He gave the square on the eastern city boundary the working name Platz N in Division XIII, Section 2. This plan was revised again in 1882 and now took into account existing buildings on this site. These were, on the one hand, the bone mill and glue factory of Rentier Schulz and, on the other, a residential building belonging to J. G. Möses, who operated a Dutch windmill nearby on Lichtenberg land. The property of the bone mill was bought by the Actien-Gesellschaft für den Bau landwirtschaftlicher Maschinen und Geräthe für Wagenfabrikation, which had emerged from Heinrich Ferdinand Eckert's factory for agricultural machinery and iron foundry. In 1925, Berlin city planners developed the idea of erecting a monument to the recently deceased Reich President Friedrich Ebert on the square.