Street June 17

17 June Street (German: Straß e des 17. Juni) is a street in Berlin, part of the East-West Axis and the B2 and B5 federal roads passing through the German capital. The street is named in memory of the events of June 17, 1953 in the GDR.

In the west, the street starts from Ernst-Reuter-Platz and crosses the campus of the Technical University of Berlin. Further, the street crosses the Landver Canal along the Charlottenburg Bridge with the Charlottenburg Gate on the border of the administrative districts of Charlottenburg and Tiergarten. In the center of Great Tiergarten, 17 June Street is interrupted by the Big Star Square. Next, the street ends at the square on March 18 (Platz des 18. Mä rz) at the Brandenburg Gate on the border with the Mitte district. Continuation of 17 June street from the Brandenburg Gate - Unter den Linden Boulevard.

The street was laid in 1697 by order of King Frederick I of Prussia and connected the City Palace of Berlin with the Litzenburg Palace, which he was building for his wife. After the death of his wife Sophia-Charlotte of Hanover in 1705, the Litzenburg Palace was renamed Charlottenburg and the street was renamed Charlottenburg Highway.

The street in the Greater Tiergarten was expanded to its present size only under the Third Reich during the implementation of Hitler’s idea to turn Berlin into the World Capital of Germany. Before the Nazi plans of reconstruction could not resist and the oldest tram line in Berlin, which since 1865 led from Kupfergraben through Tiergarten to Charlottenburg. Representative street of Berlin received in 1935 the official name East-West axis. In 1938, it was decorated in the center of the Victory Column, moved to the Big Star Square from Koenigsplatz (now Republic Square).

The modern name of the street was given by the decision of the government of Berlin on June 22, 1953 in memory of the popular unrest in the GDR on June 17, 1953. This day until 1990 was a national holiday of Germany.