#OTD 1866 the street Am Urban was officially named after the swampy area called “Urban” (possibly misspelling of “Urlake”, moor, marshy ground) on the old slaughter-cattle grazing meadows along the Landwehrkanal in today’s #Kreuzberg. In 1966 part of the northern section was renamed Dieffenbachstraße and six years later the southern section became Fontanepromenade. The 1877 Baedeker map shows the street but includes no Urbanhafen - old inner-city harbour - yet. The latter would only be built in the 1890s.
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