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All Saints' Church is a late 18th-century church in Lower Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which replaced a medieval church on the same site. All Saints' Church is the only elliptical church building in England, the third tallest religious building in Newcastle and the ninth-tallest structure in the city overall. It is a Grade I listed building.
History
The old church
A Christian church stood here in 1286, and here continued to stand, of course undergoing many changes and restorations between times, until the end of the eighteenth century, when it was pulled down, and the present church built. The original All Saints', or All Hallows', was built in the Gothic style. Its appearance is thus described by Henry Bourne:
This church is seated upon a hill, which is much about the same height with the situation of St. Mary’s, in Gateshead, and upon the same line with it. It is not so long as St. Nicholas, being only 55 yards 1 foot a quarter long, but it is broader, as being 25 yards 2 feet broad. The steeple is but a mean height being a square tower, with only one spire arising from it. The bells belonging to this church were founded in 1696. They were cast out of the metal of that famous statue of King James the Second which stood on the Sandhill. They were founded in the ground belonging to St Austin Friars, in that part of it which is in the back of the Hospital of the Holy Jesus. Their sound is not so melodious as the others in this town, but the note is exceedingly exact, and more tuneful than the others.
McKenzie, who was living when the old church was pulled down, and when much public interest was taken in it, gives in his history an interesting account, from which we gather that the steeple and west end occupied the site of the present church. The church extended further east over what is now the burial ground. The steeple was a low, square, inelegant tower, supported by buttresses at the corners of the west side, and terminated by large embrasures. From the centre rose a small square turret, surmounted by a short spire, terminated with a gilt vane. The principal entrance into the church was the west door of the steeple which corresponded in size with the west door of St Nicholas's. Above it was a large and beautiful Gothic window. There were also a north and south porch, the former leading into Silver Street, the latter into Pilgrim Street. The steeple contained a good clock, with chimes and two painted dials. The five bells were cast by Christopher Hodgson of London. There were seven chantries; one of them – St Peter's – being founded by Roger Thornton. The windows of the old church were large and ornamented with stained glass, but they were greatly damaged at the time of the civil war.
But the finest monument in the church was, fittingly, that erected to the munificent "Patron of Newcastle", Roger Thornton. Brand gives an illustration of it,[6] and Mackenzie describes it thus "It consisted of an altar, the front of which was enriched with beautiful gothic compartments and armorial bearings, over which rose an elliptic canopy, surmounted by a spiral arch rising in the centre and terminated with a tower, the crest of the Thornton family. The whole was included in a wall with a semi-octagonal tower at each end and embrasures along the top. On this part of the monument was the representation of two small figures supporting the family arms. But the principal ornament of this monument was the large brass plate which covered the top of the altar, on which were beautifully engraved the figures of Roger Thornton and Agnes his wife, with numerous effigies of the apostles and saints, many of them with the symbols of their martyrdom. The beautiful monument is now gone, but the brass is still preserved and hangs in the vestry. In 1841 the vicar of the church, the Rev. R. Green, had it cleaned, repaired, and fitted into the wood frame in which it now hangs." This memorial brass has now been installed behind the altar of St Nicholas's Cathedral in Newcastle.
A very interesting feature of the church was the seamen's porch, and gallery on the north side, built by the Master and Brethren of the nearby Trinity House, Newcastle in 1618. The front of the gallery was decorated with painted panels. The centre one bore the arms of Trinity House, and on the side panels were depicted four scriptural subjects, all most appropriately being connected with the sea.
Connected with the font of the old church is the name of a Newcastle worthy which deserves to be recorded. When the Scots entered the town in 1640 they commenced, in their fanatical zeal against Popery, to deface the religious monuments. Beginning at St John's, the first object sacrificed was, naturally, the font which stood in the porch. One Cuthbert Maxwell, a stonemason of Newcastle, seeing this, ran in haste to St Nicholas’ and All Saints’, and hid the fonts of these churches before the Scots had time to reach them. After the Restoration he set them up again, and thus to Cuthbert Maxwell we owe the preservation of the beautiful font of St Nicholas. Concerning that belonging to All Saints’ the font thus saved was octagonal in shape, and carved with armorial bearings. At the demolition of the church it was given to Alderman Hugh Hornby, that enthusiastic collector of antiquities who built the carved stones from Tyne Bridge towers into the wall of his garden in Pilgrim Street.
Of the early history of old All Saints' there are few records except accounts of repairs. We hear of the assembly of the “Four-and-Twenty”, and of the “Ancients of the Parish” – for the purpose of considering needful repairs, and of levying cesses for carrying them out. The parish register commences in 1600.
The new church
About 1785 the churchwardens procured plans and estimates for the restoration of the building from William Newton, of Newcastle; but Dr Sharp, the Archdeacon of Northumberland, objected to the proposed design of shortening the chancel, and thus altering the form of an old Gothic church. Two other architects, David Stephenson and John Dodds, were called in, and they reported that it was impossible to give an estimate for restoring the church, as so many unforeseen circumstances might crop up. They reported, "That this decayed building cannot be repaired but at as much expense as building a new one. If one part is taken down the rest will follow." It appeared that "the south wall was in danger of falling by the pressure of the roof; one of the pillars of the steeple had considerably shrunk, and the steeple itself inclined to the south. The stone of the groined arches under the bells was decayed, the timber and bells in great danger of falling in, the stone in several windows decayed, the walls were rotten, and the lime had lost its cement and become almost dust".
On Easter Tuesday (18 April 1786) a general meeting of the parishioners was held, and they resolved unanimously to erect a new church. The work of destroying the old one proceeded immediately and, unfortunately, most of its old monuments, windows, and other interesting relics were not preserved; they either perished or were carried away during the operations. It was found necessary to blast with gunpowder the masonry of the tower, so tenacious was the mortar binding it, and while doing so a sad accident occurred, by which a well-known inhabitant of the town lost his life. This was Captain William Hedley, who was killed by one of the stones of the great west door falling upon him while he was standing watching the work of destruction. He was greatly respected in Newcastle, and well known abroad as the hero of a deed of humanity and daring, in saving a child from drowning in Bordeaux harbour. His conduct on that occasion was praised highly in the French newspapers.
The whole of the old church having at length been taken down, the construction of the new one was commenced with. The design of David Stephenson had been selected, and the foundation stone was laid on 14 August 1786 by the Rev. James Stephen Lushington, Vicar of Newcastle. In proceeding with the building the original design was departed from in two important points. The portico, which was to have had a colonnade of Ionic columns along the south front, was altered to the present Doric design, and the money thus saved was devoted to the improvement of the tower. According to the original design, the latter was to have consisted of "a plain octagonal tower, of uniform width, rising from the arch on which the present spire stands to the height of thirty-seven and a-half feet, and terminating with a semicircular dome twelve feet in diameter, making a total height of one hundred and forty-three feet from the ground. The tame and spiritless appearance of the model, however, happily caused its rejection. A model of the present handsome and superior design was exhibited to the trustees in August 1790, and finally adopted on the 12th of September following."
The new church was finished in 1796, and its cost was £27,000, the whole being obtained by assessment of the parish, except £2061.19s raised by the sale of pews, £30 by donations, and £100 given by Mrs Atlee for the additional expense of making the internal fittings of mahogany instead of oak. The church is built in the form of an ellipse, the longer diameter of which runs nearly north and south. It is in form like the Pantheon at Rome. The roof, without any supporting pillars, is a splendid piece of carpentry. It was first put together in the yard at the Austin Friars, where the bells of the old church were cast. The square tower on which the steeple stands is at the south end, and the interior forms the vestibule. On either side of it there is a wing – that on the left being used as a morning chapel and for baptisms, and that on the right as the vestry where hung the monumental brass of Roger Thornton, now moved to Newcastle Cathedral.
On Tuesday, 17 November 1789, the new church was consecrated by the Right Rev. Thomas Thurlow, Lord Bishop of Durham, and the opening sermon was preached by the Rev. Hugh Moises, morning lecturer of All Saints’ and head-master of the Grammar School. His text was from Leviticus xix: 30: Ye shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.
In 1881 the churchwardens called the public attention to the state of the church, and appealed for help to remedy it. Subscriptions were gathered in and the work of restoration was vigorously proceeded with.
About the end of 1881 Richard S. Donkin of Campville, North Shields, a wealthy shipowner, whose place of business was close by the old church, made a handsome offer to improve the graveyard at his own expense. This offer was thankfully accepted by the parishioners, and early in 1882 the work was proceeded with. Many other generous gifts were at the same time made to the church, but we will only mention one more, that of the presentation of the new clock by Mr John Hall, another Newcastle merchant. It was formally set going and illuminated on the evening of 3 February 1882. On the occasion an address was presented to Mr Hall by Mr Joseph Cowen, M.P. for the town, on behalf of the people of the parish. In presenting this address Mr Cowen, standing on the steps of the church, made a speech to the assembled people who crowded below to the number of about ten thousand.
Recent history
The church was deconsecrated in 1961, and converted to offices/auditorium in 1983-84 as the Town Teacher initiative. It was then used by the Royal Northern Sinfonia before their move across the river to The Sage, Gateshead in 2004. The church was for a while used by the Church of Saint Willibrord with All Saints, a member of The Old Catholic Church Anglican Diocese. It has also hosted musical events. Following flooding damage caused by blocked roof drains over the 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 winters, the building was left in a state of semi-disrepair. In 2015 it was placed on Historic England's Heritage at Risk register. In 2019, the local congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales signed a 150-year lease for All Saints. After a comprehensive restoration project, worship services as All Saints' Presbyterian Church began in October, 2019. The minister is the Revd Benjamin Wontrop. In addition to two Sunday services, the church runs a mid-week Bible study. It is also open for self-guided tours weekly on Thursdays from 1-4pm and at various points in the year.
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the River Tyne's northern bank, opposite Gateshead to the south. It is the most populous settlement in the Tyneside conurbation and North East England.
Newcastle developed around a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius, the settlement became known as Monkchester before taking on the name of a castle built in 1080 by William the Conqueror's eldest son, Robert Curthose. It was one of the world's largest ship building and repair centres during the industrial revolution. Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it separated and formed a county of itself. In 1974, Newcastle became part of Tyne and Wear. Since 2018, the city council has been part of the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
The history of Newcastle upon Tyne dates back almost 2,000 years, during which it has been controlled by the Romans, the Angles and the Norsemen amongst others. Newcastle upon Tyne was originally known by its Roman name Pons Aelius. The name "Newcastle" has been used since the Norman conquest of England. Due to its prime location on the River Tyne, the town developed greatly during the Middle Ages and it was to play a major role in the Industrial Revolution, being granted city status in 1882. Today, the city is a major retail, commercial and cultural centre.
Roman settlement
The history of Newcastle dates from AD 122, when the Romans built the first bridge to cross the River Tyne at that point. The bridge was called Pons Aelius or 'Bridge of Aelius', Aelius being the family name of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who was responsible for the Roman wall built across northern England along the Tyne–Solway gap. Hadrian's Wall ran through present-day Newcastle, with stretches of wall and turrets visible along the West Road, and at a temple in Benwell. Traces of a milecastle were found on Westgate Road, midway between Clayton Street and Grainger Street, and it is likely that the course of the wall corresponded to present-day Westgate Road. The course of the wall can be traced eastwards to the Segedunum Roman fort at Wallsend, with the fort of Arbeia down-river at the mouth of the Tyne, on the south bank in what is now South Shields. The Tyne was then a wider, shallower river at this point and it is thought that the bridge was probably about 700 feet (210 m) long, made of wood and supported on stone piers. It is probable that it was sited near the current Swing Bridge, due to the fact that Roman artefacts were found there during the building of the latter bridge. Hadrian himself probably visited the site in 122. A shrine was set up on the completed bridge in 123 by the 6th Legion, with two altars to Neptune and Oceanus respectively. The two altars were subsequently found in the river and are on display in the Great North Museum in Newcastle.
The Romans built a stone-walled fort in 150 to protect the river crossing which was at the foot of the Tyne Gorge, and this took the name of the bridge so that the whole settlement was known as Pons Aelius. The fort was situated on a rocky outcrop overlooking the new bridge, on the site of the present Castle Keep. Pons Aelius is last mentioned in 400, in a Roman document listing all of the Roman military outposts. It is likely that nestling in the shadow of the fort would have been a small vicus, or village. Unfortunately, no buildings have been detected; only a few pieces of flagging. It is clear that there was a Roman cemetery near Clavering Place, behind the Central station, as a number of Roman coffins and sarcophagi have been unearthed there.
Despite the presence of the bridge, the settlement of Pons Aelius was not particularly important among the northern Roman settlements. The most important stations were those on the highway of Dere Street running from Eboracum (York) through Corstopitum (Corbridge) and to the lands north of the Wall. Corstopitum, being a major arsenal and supply centre, was much larger and more populous than Pons Aelius.
Anglo-Saxon development
The Angles arrived in the North-East of England in about 500 and may have landed on the Tyne. There is no evidence of an Anglo-Saxon settlement on or near the site of Pons Aelius during the Anglo-Saxon age. The bridge probably survived and there may well have been a small village at the northern end, but no evidence survives. At that time the region was dominated by two kingdoms, Bernicia, north of the Tees and ruled from Bamburgh, and Deira, south of the Tees and ruled from York. Bernicia and Deira combined to form the kingdom of Northanhymbra (Northumbria) early in the 7th century. There were three local kings who held the title of Bretwalda – 'Lord of Britain', Edwin of Deira (627–632), Oswald of Bernicia (633–641) and Oswy of Northumbria (641–658). The 7th century became known as the 'Golden Age of Northumbria', when the area was a beacon of culture and learning in Europe. The greatness of this period was based on its generally Christian culture and resulted in the Lindisfarne Gospels amongst other treasures. The Tyne valley was dotted with monasteries, with those at Monkwearmouth, Hexham and Jarrow being the most famous. Bede, who was based at Jarrow, wrote of a royal estate, known as Ad Murum, 'at the Wall', 12 miles (19 km) from the sea. It is thought that this estate may have been in what is now Newcastle. At some unknown time, the site of Newcastle came to be known as Monkchester. The reason for this title is unknown, as we are unaware of any specific monasteries at the site, and Bede made no reference to it. In 875 Halfdan Ragnarsson, the Danish Viking conqueror of York, led an army that attacked and pillaged various monasteries in the area, and it is thought that Monkchester was also pillaged at this time. Little more was heard of it until the coming of the Normans.
Norman period
After the arrival of William the Conqueror in England in 1066, the whole of England was quickly subjected to Norman rule. However, in Northumbria there was great resistance to the Normans, and in 1069 the newly appointed Norman Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Comines and 700 of his men were killed by the local population at Durham. The Northumbrians then marched on York, but William was able to suppress the uprising. That same year, a second uprising occurred when a Danish fleet landed in the Humber. The Northumbrians again attacked York and destroyed the garrison there. William was again able to suppress the uprising, but this time he took revenge. He laid waste to the whole of the Midlands and the land from York to the Tees. In 1080, William Walcher, the Norman bishop of Durham and his followers were brutally murdered at Gateshead. This time Odo, bishop of Bayeux, William's half brother, devastated the land between the Tees and the Tweed. This was known as the 'Harrying of the North'. This devastation is reflected in the Domesday Book. The destruction had such an effect that the North remained poor and backward at least until Tudor times and perhaps until the Industrial Revolution. Newcastle suffered in this respect with the rest of the North.
In 1080 William sent his eldest son, Robert Curthose, north to defend the kingdom against the Scots. After his campaign, he moved to Monkchester and began the building of a 'New Castle'. This was of the "motte-and-bailey" type of construction, a wooden tower on top of an earthen mound (motte), surrounded by a moat and wooden stockade (bailey). It was this castle that gave Newcastle its name. In 1095 the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Mowbray, rose up against the king, William Rufus, and Rufus sent an army north to recapture the castle. From then on the castle became crown property and was an important base from which the king could control the northern barons. The Northumbrian earldom was abolished and a Sheriff of Northumberland was appointed to administer the region. In 1091 the parish church of St Nicholas was consecrated on the site of the present Anglican cathedral, close by the bailey of the new castle. The church is believed to have been a wooden building on stone footings.
Not a trace of the tower or mound of the motte and bailey castle remains now. Henry II replaced it with a rectangular stone keep, which was built between 1172 and 1177 at a cost of £1,444. A stone bailey, in the form of a triangle, replaced the previous wooden one. The great outer gateway to the castle, called 'the Black Gate', was built later, between 1247 and 1250, in the reign of Henry III. There were at that time no town walls and when attacked by the Scots, the townspeople had to crowd into the bailey for safety. It is probable that the new castle acted as a magnet for local merchants because of the safety it provided. This in turn would help to expand trade in the town. At this time wool, skins and lead were being exported, whilst alum, pepper and ginger were being imported from France and Flanders.
Middle Ages
Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress, the centre for assembled armies. The Border war against Scotland lasted intermittently for several centuries – possibly the longest border war ever waged. During the civil war between Stephen and Matilda, David 1st of Scotland and his son were granted Cumbria and Northumberland respectively, so that for a period from 1139 to 1157, Newcastle was effectively in Scottish hands. It is believed that during this period, King David may have built the church of St Andrew and the Benedictine nunnery in Newcastle. However, King Stephen's successor, Henry II was strong enough to take back the Earldom of Northumbria from Malcolm IV.
The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle, in 1174, after being captured at the Battle of Alnwick. Edward I brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town and Newcastle was successfully defended against the Scots three times during the 14th century.
Around 1200, stone-faced, clay-filled jetties were starting to project into the river, an indication that trade was increasing in Newcastle. As the Roman roads continued to deteriorate, sea travel was gaining in importance. By 1275 Newcastle was the sixth largest wool exporting port in England. The principal exports at this time were wool, timber, coal, millstones, dairy produce, fish, salt and hides. Much of the developing trade was with the Baltic countries and Germany. Most of the Newcastle merchants were situated near the river, below the Castle. The earliest known charter was dated 1175 in the reign of Henry II, giving the townspeople some control over their town. In 1216 King John granted Newcastle a mayor[8] and also allowed the formation of guilds (known as Mysteries). These were cartels formed within different trades, which restricted trade to guild members. There were initially twelve guilds. Coal was being exported from Newcastle by 1250, and by 1350 the burgesses received a royal licence to export coal. This licence to export coal was jealously guarded by the Newcastle burgesses, and they tried to prevent any one else on the Tyne from exporting coal except through Newcastle. The burgesses similarly tried to prevent fish from being sold anywhere else on the Tyne except Newcastle. This led to conflicts with Gateshead and South Shields.
In 1265, the town was granted permission to impose a 'Wall Tax' or Murage, to pay for the construction of a fortified wall to enclose the town and protect it from Scottish invaders. The town walls were not completed until early in the 14th century. They were two miles (3 km) long, 9 feet (2.7 m) thick and 25 feet (7.6 m) high. They had six main gates, as well as some smaller gates, and had 17 towers. The land within the walls was divided almost equally by the Lort Burn, which flowed southwards and joined the Tyne to the east of the Castle. The town began to expand north of the Castle and west of the Lort Burn with various markets being set up within the walls.
In 1400 Henry IV granted a new charter, creating a County corporate which separated the town, but not the Castle, from the county of Northumberland and recognised it as a "county of itself" with a right to have a sheriff of its own. The burgesses were now allowed to choose six aldermen who, with the mayor would be justices of the peace. The mayor and sheriff were allowed to hold borough courts in the Guildhall.
Religious houses
During the Middle Ages a number of religious houses were established within the walls: the first of these was the Benedictine nunnery of St Bartholomew founded in 1086 near the present-day Nun Street. Both David I of Scotland and Henry I of England were benefactors of the religious house. Nothing of the nunnery remains now.
The friary of Blackfriars, Newcastle (Dominican) was established in 1239. These were also known as the Preaching Friars or Shod Friars, because they wore sandals, as opposed to other orders. The friary was situated in the present-day Friars Street. In 1280 the order was granted royal permission to make a postern in the town walls to communicate with their gardens outside the walls. On 19 June 1334, Edward Balliol, claimant to be King of Scotland, did homage to King Edward III, on behalf of the kingdom of Scotland, in the church of the friary. Much of the original buildings of the friary still exist, mainly because, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the friary of Blackfriars was rented out by the corporation to nine of the local trade guilds.
The friary of Whitefriars (Carmelite) was established in 1262. The order was originally housed on the Wall Knoll in Pandon, but in 1307 it took over the buildings of another order, which went out of existence, the Friars of the Sac. The land, which had originally been given by Robert the Bruce, was situated in the present-day Hanover Square, behind the Central station. Nothing of the friary remains now.
The friary of Austinfriars (Augustinian) was established in 1290. The friary was on the site where the Holy Jesus Hospital was built in 1682. The friary was traditionally the lodging place of English kings whenever they visited or passed through Newcastle. In 1503 Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII of England, stayed two days at the friary on her way to join her new husband James IV of Scotland.
The friary of Greyfriars (Franciscans) was established in 1274. The friary was in the present-day area between Pilgrim Street, Grey Street, Market Street and High Chare. Nothing of the original buildings remains.
The friary of the Order of the Holy Trinity, also known as the Trinitarians, was established in 1360. The order devoted a third of its income to buying back captives of the Saracens, during the Crusades. Their house was on the Wall Knoll, in Pandon, to the east of the city, but within the walls. Wall Knoll had previously been occupied by the White Friars until they moved to new premises in 1307.
All of the above religious houses were closed in about 1540, when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.
An important street running through Newcastle at the time was Pilgrim Street, running northwards inside the walls and leading to the Pilgrim Gate on the north wall. The street still exists today as arguably Newcastle's main shopping street.
Tudor period
The Scottish border wars continued for much of the 16th century, so that during that time, Newcastle was often threatened with invasion by the Scots, but also remained important as a border stronghold against them.
During the Reformation begun by Henry VIII in 1536, the five Newcastle friaries and the single nunnery were dissolved and the land was sold to the Corporation and to rich merchants. At this time there were fewer than 60 inmates of the religious houses in Newcastle. The convent of Blackfriars was leased to nine craft guilds to be used as their headquarters. This probably explains why it is the only one of the religious houses whose building survives to the present day. The priories at Tynemouth and Durham were also dissolved, thus ending the long-running rivalry between Newcastle and the church for control of trade on the Tyne. A little later, the property of the nunnery of St Bartholomew and of Grey Friars were bought by Robert Anderson, who had the buildings demolished to build his grand Newe House (also known as Anderson Place).
With the gradual decline of the Scottish border wars the town walls were allowed to decline as well as the castle. By 1547, about 10,000 people were living in Newcastle. At the beginning of the 16th century exports of wool from Newcastle were more than twice the value of exports of coal, but during the century coal exports continued to increase.
Under Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, sponsored an act allowing Newcastle to annexe Gateshead as its suburb. The main reason for this was to allow the Newcastle Hostmen, who controlled the export of Tyne coal, to get their hands on the Gateshead coal mines, previously controlled by the Bishop of Durham. However, when Mary I came to power, Dudley met his downfall and the decision was reversed. The Reformation allowed private access to coal mines previously owned by Tynemouth and Durham priories and as a result coal exports increase dramatically, from 15,000 tons in 1500 to 35,000 tons in 1565, and to 400,000 tons in 1625.
The plague visited Newcastle four times during the 16th century, in 1579 when 2,000 people died, in 1589 when 1700 died, in 1595 and finally in 1597.
In 1600 Elizabeth I granted Newcastle a charter for an exclusive body of electors, the right to elect the mayor and burgesses. The charter also gave the Hostmen exclusive rights to load coal at any point on the Tyne. The Hostmen developed as an exclusive group within the Merchant Adventurers who had been incorporated by a charter in 1547.
Stuart period
In 1636 there was a serious outbreak of bubonic plague in Newcastle. There had been several previous outbreaks of the disease over the years, but this was the most serious. It is thought to have arrived from the Netherlands via ships that were trading between the Tyne and that country. It first appeared in the lower part of the town near the docks but gradually spread to all parts of the town. As the disease gained hold the authorities took measures to control it by boarding up any properties that contained infected persons, meaning that whole families were locked up together with the infected family members. Other infected persons were put in huts outside the town walls and left to die. Plague pits were dug next to the town's four churches and outside the town walls to receive the bodies in mass burials. Over the course of the outbreak 5,631 deaths were recorded out of an estimated population of 12,000, a death rate of 47%.
In 1637 Charles I tried to raise money by doubling the 'voluntary' tax on coal in return for allowing the Newcastle Hostmen to regulate production and fix prices. This caused outrage amongst the London importers and the East Anglian shippers. Both groups decided to boycott Tyne coal and as a result forced Charles to reverse his decision in 1638.
In 1640 during the Second Bishops' War, the Scots successfully invaded Newcastle. The occupying army demanded £850 per day from the Corporation to billet the Scottish troops. Trade from the Tyne ground to a halt during the occupation. The Scots left in 1641 after receiving a Parliamentary pardon and a £4,000,000 loan from the town.
In 1642 the English Civil War began. King Charles realised the value of the Tyne coal trade and therefore garrisoned Newcastle. A Royalist was appointed as governor. At that time, Newcastle and King's Lynn were the only important seaports to support the crown. In 1644 Parliament blockaded the Tyne to prevent the king from receiving revenue from the Tyne coal trade. Coal exports fell from 450,000 to 3,000 tons and London suffered a hard winter without fuel. Parliament encouraged the coal trade from the Wear to try to replace that lost from Newcastle but that was not enough to make up for the lost Tyneside tonnage.
In 1644 the Scots crossed the border. Newcastle strengthened its defences in preparation. The Scottish army, with 40,000 troops, besieged Newcastle for three months until the garrison of 1,500 surrendered. During the siege, the Scots bombarded the walls with their artillery, situated in Gateshead and Castle Leazes. The Scottish commander threatened to destroy the steeple of St Nicholas's Church by gunfire if the mayor, Sir John Marley, did not surrender the town. The mayor responded by placing Scottish prisoners that they had captured in the steeple, so saving it from destruction. The town walls were finally breached by a combination of artillery and sapping. In gratitude for this defence, Charles gave Newcastle the motto 'Fortiter Defendit Triumphans' to be added to its coat of arms. The Scottish army occupied Northumberland and Durham for two years. The coal taxes had to pay for the Scottish occupation. In 1645 Charles surrendered to the Scots and was imprisoned in Newcastle for nine months. After the Civil War the coal trade on the Tyne soon picked up and exceeded its pre-war levels.
A new Guildhall was completed on the Sandhill next to the river in 1655, replacing an earlier facility damaged by fire in 1639, and became the meeting place of Newcastle Town Council. In 1681 the Hospital of the Holy Jesus was built partly on the site of the Austin Friars. The Guildhall and Holy Jesus Hospital still exist.
Charles II tried to impose a charter on Newcastle to give the king the right to appoint the mayor, sheriff, recorder and town clerk. Charles died before the charter came into effect. In 1685, James II tried to replace Corporation members with named Catholics. However, James' mandate was suspended in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution welcoming William of Orange. In 1689, after the fall of James II, the people of Newcastle tore down his bronze equestrian statue in Sandhill and tossed it into the Tyne. The bronze was later used to make bells for All Saints Church.
In 1689 the Lort Burn was covered over. At this time it was an open sewer. The channel followed by the Lort Burn became the present day Dean Street. At that time, the centre of Newcastle was still the Sandhill area, with many merchants living along the Close or on the Side. The path of the main road through Newcastle ran from the single Tyne bridge, through Sandhill to the Side, a narrow street which climbed steeply on the north-east side of the castle hill until it reached the higher ground alongside St Nicholas' Church. As Newcastle developed, the Side became lined with buildings with projecting upper stories, so that the main street through Newcastle was a narrow, congested, steep thoroughfare.
In 1701 the Keelmen's Hospital was built in the Sandgate area of the city, using funds provided by the keelmen. The building still stands today.
Eighteenth century
In the 18th century, Newcastle was the country's largest print centre after London, Oxford and Cambridge, and the Literary and Philosophical Society of 1793, with its erudite debates and large stock of books in several languages predated the London Library by half a century.
In 1715, during the Jacobite rising in favour of the Old Pretender, an army of Jacobite supporters marched on Newcastle. Many of the Northumbrian gentry joined the rebels. The citizens prepared for its arrival by arresting Jacobite supporters and accepting 700 extra recruits into the local militia. The gates of the city were closed against the rebels. This proved enough to delay an attack until reinforcements arrived forcing the rebel army to move across to the west coast. The rebels finally surrendered at Preston.
In 1745, during a second Jacobite rising in favour of the Young Pretender, a Scottish army crossed the border led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Once again Newcastle prepared by arresting Jacobite supporters and inducting 800 volunteers into the local militia. The town walls were strengthened, most of the gates were blocked up and some 200 cannon were deployed. 20,000 regulars were billeted on the Town Moor. These preparations were enough to force the rebel army to travel south via the west coast. They were eventually defeated at Culloden in 1746.
Newcastle's actions during the 1715 rising in resisting the rebels and declaring for George I, in contrast to the rest of the region, is the most likely source of the nickname 'Geordie', applied to people from Tyneside, or more accurately Newcastle. Another theory, however, is that the name 'Geordie' came from the inventor of the Geordie lamp, George Stephenson. It was a type of safety lamp used in mining, but was not invented until 1815. Apparently the term 'German Geordie' was in common use during the 18th century.
The city's first hospital, Newcastle Infirmary opened in 1753; it was funded by public subscription. A lying-in hospital was established in Newcastle in 1760. The city's first public hospital for mentally ill patients, Wardens Close Lunatic Hospital was opened in October 1767.
In 1771 a flood swept away much of the bridge at Newcastle. The bridge had been built in 1250 and repaired after a flood in 1339. The bridge supported various houses and three towers and an old chapel. A blue stone was placed in the middle of the bridge to mark the boundary between Newcastle and the Palatinate of Durham. A temporary wooden bridge had to be built, and this remained in use until 1781, when a new stone bridge was completed. The new bridge consisted of nine arches. In 1801, because of the pressure of traffic, the bridge had to be widened.
A permanent military presence was established in the city with the completion of Fenham Barracks in 1806. The facilities at the Castle for holding assizes, which had been condemned for their inconvenience and unhealthiness, were replaced when the Moot Hall opened in August 1812.
Victorian period
Present-day Newcastle owes much of its architecture to the work of the builder Richard Grainger, aided by architects John Dobson, Thomas Oliver, John and Benjamin Green and others. In 1834 Grainger won a competition to produce a new plan for central Newcastle. He put this plan into effect using the above architects as well as architects employed in his own office. Grainger and Oliver had already built Leazes Terrace, Leazes Crescent and Leazes Place between 1829 and 1834. Grainger and Dobson had also built the Royal Arcade at the foot of Pilgrim Street between 1830 and 1832. The most ambitious project covered 12 acres 12 acres (49,000 m2) in central Newcastle, on the site of Newe House (also called Anderson Place). Grainger built three new thoroughfares, Grey Street, Grainger Street and Clayton Street with many connecting streets, as well as the Central Exchange and the Grainger Market. John Wardle and George Walker, working in Grainger's office, designed Clayton Street, Grainger Street and most of Grey Street. Dobson designed the Grainger Market and much of the east side of Grey Street. John and Benjamin Green designed the Theatre Royal at the top of Grey Street, where Grainger placed the column of Grey's Monument as a focus for the whole scheme. Grey Street is considered to be one of the finest streets in the country, with its elegant curve. Unfortunately most of old Eldon Square was demolished in the 1960s in the name of progress. The Royal Arcade met a similar fate.
In 1849 a new bridge was built across the river at Newcastle. This was the High Level Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, and slightly up river from the existing bridge. The bridge was designed to carry road and rail traffic across the Tyne Gorge on two decks with rail traffic on the upper deck and road traffic on the lower. The new bridge meant that traffic could pass through Newcastle without having to negotiate the steep, narrow Side, as had been necessary for centuries. The bridge was opened by Queen Victoria, who one year later opened the new Central Station, designed by John Dobson. Trains were now able to cross the river, directly into the centre of Newcastle and carry on up to Scotland. The Army Riding School was also completed in 1849.
In 1854 a large fire started on the Gateshead quayside and an explosion caused it to spread across the river to the Newcastle quayside. A huge conflagration amongst the narrow alleys, or 'chares', destroyed the homes of 800 families as well as many business premises. The narrow alleys that had been destroyed were replaced by streets containing blocks of modern offices.
In 1863 the Town Hall in St Nicholas Square replaced the Guildhall as the meeting place of Newcastle Town Council.
In 1876 the low level bridge was replaced by a new bridge known as the Swing Bridge, so called because the bridge was able to swing horizontally on a central axis and allow ships to pass on either side. This meant that for the first time sizeable ships could pass up-river beyond Newcastle. The bridge was built and paid for by William Armstrong, a local arms manufacturer, who needed to have warships access his Elswick arms factory to fit armaments to them. The Swing Bridge's rotating mechanism is adapted from the cannon mounts developed in Armstrong's arms works. In 1882 the Elswick works began to build ships as well as to arm them. The Barrack Road drill hall was completed in 1890.
Industrialisation
In the 19th century, shipbuilding and heavy engineering were central to the city's prosperity; and the city was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. Newcastle's development as a major city owed most to its central role in the production and export of coal. The phrase "taking coals to Newcastle" was first recorded in 1538; it proverbially denotes bringing a particular commodity to a place that has more than enough of it already.
Innovation in Newcastle and surrounding areas included the following:
George Stephenson developed a miner's safety lamp at the same time that Humphry Davy developed a rival design. The lamp made possible the opening up of ever deeper mines to provide the coal that powered the industrial revolution.
George and his son Robert Stephenson were hugely influential figures in the development of the early railways. George developed Blücher, a locomotive working at Killingworth colliery in 1814, whilst Robert was instrumental in the design of Rocket, a revolutionary design that was the forerunner of modern locomotives. Both men were involved in planning and building railway lines, all over this country and abroad.
Joseph Swan demonstrated a working electric light bulb about a year before Thomas Edison did the same in the USA. This led to a dispute as to who had actually invented the light bulb. Eventually the two rivals agreed to form a mutual company between them, the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, known as Ediswan.
Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine, for marine use and for power generation. He used Turbinia, a small, turbine-powered ship, to demonstrate the speed that a steam turbine could generate. Turbinia literally ran rings around the British Fleet at a review at Spithead in 1897.
William Armstrong invented a hydraulic crane that was installed in dockyards up and down the country. He then began to design light, accurate field guns for the British army. These were a vast improvement on the existing guns that were then in use.
The following major industries developed in Newcastle or its surrounding area:
Glassmaking
A small glass industry existed in Newcastle from the mid-15th century. In 1615 restrictions were put on the use of wood for manufacturing glass. It was found that glass could be manufactured using the local coal, and so a glassmaking industry grew up on Tyneside. Huguenot glassmakers came over from France as refugees from persecution and set up glasshouses in the Skinnerburn area of Newcastle. Eventually, glass production moved to the Ouseburn area of Newcastle. In 1684 the Dagnia family, Sephardic Jewish emigrants from Altare, arrived in Newcastle from Stourbridge and established glasshouses along the Close, to manufacture high quality flint glass. The glass manufacturers used sand ballast from the boats arriving in the river as the main raw material. The glassware was then exported in collier brigs. The period from 1730 to 1785 was the highpoint of Newcastle glass manufacture, when the local glassmakers produced the 'Newcastle Light Baluster'. The glassmaking industry still exists in the west end of the city with local Artist and Glassmaker Jane Charles carrying on over four hundred years of hot glass blowing in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Locomotive manufacture
In 1823 George Stephenson and his son Robert established the world's first locomotive factory near Forth Street in Newcastle. Here they built locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as well as many others. It was here that the famous locomotive Rocket was designed and manufactured in preparation for the Rainhill Trials. Apart from building locomotives for the British market, the Newcastle works also produced locomotives for Europe and America. The Forth Street works continued to build locomotives until 1960.
Shipbuilding
In 1296 a wooden, 135 ft (41 m) long galley was constructed at the mouth of the Lort Burn in Newcastle, as part of a twenty-ship order from the king. The ship cost £205, and is the earliest record of shipbuilding in Newcastle. However the rise of the Tyne as a shipbuilding area was due to the need for collier brigs for the coal export trade. These wooden sailing ships were usually built locally, establishing local expertise in building ships. As ships changed from wood to steel, and from sail to steam, the local shipbuilding industry changed to build the new ships. Although shipbuilding was carried out up and down both sides of the river, the two main areas for building ships in Newcastle were Elswick, to the west, and Walker, to the east. By 1800 Tyneside was the third largest producer of ships in Britain. Unfortunately, after the Second World War, lack of modernisation and competition from abroad gradually caused the local industry to decline and die.
Armaments
In 1847 William Armstrong established a huge factory in Elswick, west of Newcastle. This was initially used to produce hydraulic cranes but subsequently began also to produce guns for both the army and the navy. After the Swing Bridge was built in 1876 allowing ships to pass up river, warships could have their armaments fitted alongside the Elswick works. Armstrong's company took over its industrial rival, Joseph Whitworth of Manchester in 1897.
Steam turbines
Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine and, in 1889, founded his own company C. A. Parsons and Company in Heaton, Newcastle to make steam turbines. Shortly after this, he realised that steam turbines could be used to propel ships and, in 1897, he founded a second company, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company in Wallsend. It is there that he designed and manufactured Turbinia. Parsons turbines were initially used in warships but soon came to be used in merchant and passenger vessels, including the liner Mauretania which held the blue riband for the Atlantic crossing until 1929. Parsons' company in Heaton began to make turbo-generators for power stations and supplied power stations all over the world. The Heaton works, reduced in size, remains as part of the Siemens AG industrial giant.
Pottery
In 1762 the Maling pottery was founded in Sunderland by French Huguenots, but transferred to Newcastle in 1817. A factory was built in the Ouseburn area of the city. The factory was rebuilt twice, finally occupying a 14-acre (57,000 m2) site that was claimed to be the biggest pottery in the world and which had its own railway station. The pottery pioneered use of machines in making potteries as opposed to hand production. In the 1890s the company went up-market and employed in-house designers. The period up to the Second World War was the most profitable with a constant stream of new designs being introduced. However, after the war, production gradually declined and the company closed in 1963.
Expansion of the city
Newcastle was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835: the reformed municipal borough included the parishes of Byker, Elswick, Heaton, Jesmond, Newcastle All Saints, Newcastle St Andrew, Newcastle St John, Newcastle St Nicholas, and Westgate. The urban districts of Benwell and Fenham and Walker were added in 1904. In 1935, Newcastle gained Kenton and parts of the parishes of West Brunton, East Denton, Fawdon, Longbenton. The most recent expansion in Newcastle's boundaries took place under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, when Newcastle became a metropolitan borough, also including the urban districts of Gosforth and Newburn, and the parishes of Brunswick, Dinnington, Hazlerigg, North Gosforth and Woolsington from the Castle Ward Rural District, and the village of Westerhope.
Meanwhile Northumberland County Council was formed under the Local Government Act 1888 and benefited from a dedicated meeting place when County Hall was completed in the Castle Garth area of Newcastle in 1910. Following the Local Government Act 1972 County Hall relocated to Morpeth in April 1981.
Twentieth century
In 1925 work began on a new high-level road bridge to span the Tyne Gorge between Newcastle and Gateshead. The capacity of the existing High-Level Bridge and Swing Bridge were being strained to the limit, and an additional bridge had been discussed for a long time. The contract was awarded to the Dorman Long Company and the bridge was finally opened by King George V in 1928. The road deck was 84 feet (26 m) above the river and was supported by a 531 feet (162 m) steel arch. The new Tyne Bridge quickly became a symbol for Newcastle and Tyneside, and remains so today.
During the Second World War, Newcastle was largely spared the horrors inflicted upon other British cities bombed during the Blitz. Although the armaments factories and shipyards along the River Tyne were targeted by the Luftwaffe, they largely escaped unscathed. Manors goods yard and railway terminal, to the east of the city centre, and the suburbs of Jesmond and Heaton suffered bombing during 1941. There were 141 deaths and 587 injuries, a relatively small figure compared to the casualties in other industrial centres of Britain.
In 1963 the city gained its own university, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, by act of parliament. A School of Medicine and Surgery had been established in Newcastle in 1834. This eventually developed into a college of medicine attached to Durham University. A college of physical science was also founded and became Armstrong College in 1904. In 1934 the two colleges merged to become King's College, Durham. This remained as part of Durham University until the new university was created in 1963. In 1992 the city gained its second university when Newcastle Polytechnic was granted university status as Northumbria University.
Newcastle City Council moved to the new Newcastle Civic Centre in 1968.
As heavy industries declined in the second half of the 20th century, large sections of the city centre were demolished along with many areas of slum housing. The leading political figure in the city during the 1960s was T. Dan Smith who oversaw a massive building programme of highrise housing estates and authorised the demolition of a quarter of the Georgian Grainger Town to make way for Eldon Square Shopping Centre. Smith's control in Newcastle collapsed when it was exposed that he had used public contracts to advantage himself and his business associates and for a time Newcastle became a byword for civic corruption as depicted in the films Get Carter and Stormy Monday and in the television series Our Friends in the North. However, much of the historic Grainger Town area survived and was, for the most part, fully restored in the late 1990s. Northumberland Street, initially the A1, was gradually closed to traffic from the 1970s and completely pedestrianised by 1998.
In 1978 a new rapid transport system, the Metro, was built, linking the Tyneside area. The system opened in August 1980. A new bridge was built to carry the Metro across the river between Gateshead and Newcastle. This was the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, commonly known as the Metro Bridge. Eventually the Metro system was extended to reach Newcastle Airport in 1991, and in 2002 the Metro system was extended to the nearby city of Sunderland.
As the 20th century progressed, trade on the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides gradually declined, until by the 1980s both sides of the river were looking rather derelict. Shipping company offices had closed along with offices of firms related to shipping. There were also derelict warehouses lining the riverbank. Local government produced a master plan to re-develop the Newcastle quayside and this was begun in the 1990s. New offices, restaurants, bars and residential accommodation were built and the area has changed in the space of a few years into a vibrant area, partially returning the focus of Newcastle to the riverside, where it was in medieval times.
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a foot and cycle bridge, 26 feet (7.9 m) wide and 413 feet (126 m) long, was completed in 2001. The road deck is in the form of a curve and is supported by a steel arch. To allow ships to pass, the whole structure, both arch and road-deck, rotates on huge bearings at either end so that the road deck is lifted. The bridge can be said to open and shut like a human eye. It is an important addition to the re-developed quayside area, providing a vital link between the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides.
Recent developments
Today the city is a vibrant centre for office and retail employment, but just a short distance away there are impoverished inner-city housing estates, in areas originally built to provide affordable housing for employees of the shipyards and other heavy industries that lined the River Tyne. In the 2010s Newcastle City Council began implementing plans to regenerate these depressed areas, such as those along the Ouseburn Valley.
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Nachruf auf den Dyke*March
Intro
Am 26. Juli 2024 startete ab 18 Uhr der in 2013 gegründete Berliner Dyke*March (Demo für lesbische Sichtbarkeit)1 unter „Yallah, Yallah Intifada“, „Stop the Genocide“ und „Free Free Palestine“ Rufen auf dem Karl-Marx-Platz in Berlin Neukölln und endete am Abend auf dem Kreuzberger Oranienplatz mit der Verdrängung des „proisraelischen“ Blocks der queeren East Pride Gruppe, die an diesem Tag unter besonderem Polizeischutz begleitet werden mussten.2
Das diesjährige Dyke*March Motto lautete: „Love Dykes – Fight Fascism!“, wovon an diesem Tag allerdings in zweierlei Maß nur wenig zu spüren war.
Einige Dykes und Freunde unterstützten das East Pride Team mit ihrem „pro israelischen“ Block und Aufruf: "Go create resistance! Come to Dyke*March Berlin“3; die „Lesben gegen Rechts“ organisierten an jenem Tag in Berlin-Schöneberg eine eigene Lesbendemo unter dem Motto: „Solidarität mit jüdischen Lesben! Jewish lesbians welcome!“ - als Alternative zum Dyke*March.4
Rund 9.000 Menschen beteiligten sich letztendlich am letzten Freitag an der Demonstration, die Mitorganisatorin des Dyke*March, Manuela Kay sprach am 27. Juli 2024 in einem Interview mit "Radio Eins im Queerformat" sogar von geschätzt über 10.000 Teilnehmenden.5 Die Polizei ging von ca. 7.500 Personen aus6, wobei solche Zahlen von Behörden meist immer niedriger angesetzt sind.
Vorgeschichte
Der Dyke*March wurde im Vorfeld von den Organisatoren optisch unter den Farben: grün, rot, weiß und schwarz angekündigt und vorgestellt, was nicht wenige Frauen als die Nationalfarben der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde definierten und ansahen. Ihre Vorahnung und Angst war, dass es –neben dem politischen Statement überhaupt- beim diesjährigen March einen antiisraelischen Block geben könnte, der dadurch einen nicht mehr sicheren Ort gewährleisten würde und aus Erfahrungen heraus: Ausschreitungen und Übergriffe seitens der israelfeindlichen Fraktion vorprogrammiert sind, was sich dann schlussendlich auch so bewahrheitete.
In der Community gab es über Wochen viele Fragen und Diskussionen. Und schlussendlich ebenso viele Absagen aus Angst bzw. Nichtunterstützen wollen der diesjährigen Agenda.
Weiter kam es im Vorfeld zu Auseinandersetzungen, wie u.a. auch der Tagesspiegel berichtete. Dort war nachzulesen, das auf dem offiziellen Instagram Account des Dyke*March Berlin in einem Beitrag ein Kommentar des Teams veröffentlicht wurde (und kurze Zeit darauf wieder gelöscht), in dem sich die Organisatoren zwar gegen Antisemitismus positionierten, aber gleichzeitig ankündigten, u.a. gegen "Genozid" und "Apartheid" einzustehen.
Ein weiterer Post kündigte eine vom Dyke*March initiierte Soli-Veranstaltung im Möbel Olfe in Kreuzberg an. Dort wurde das offizielle Logo vom Olfe mit zwei roten Dreiecken grafisch hinterlegt, die in real auf dem Kreuzberger Gebäude in gelb-grüner Farbe erscheinen.7 Auch das wurde kritisiert.
» Diese roten Dreiecke (mittlerweile in vielfach abgewandelter Form) sind Zeichen, mit denen die Hamas im Fadenkreuz ihre Terrorziele zur Tötung markieren. Sie wurden in Berlin ab Ende 2023 erstmals auffällig, als die "palästinensische Szene" auf Protesten damit begann, diese vor allem als Bekenntnis- aber eben auch als Markierungssymbol gegen „ihre Feinde" zu verwenden. Sie können jeden treffen, der gegen antiisraelische Positionen Haltung bezieht. Bevorzugt sind dabei Aktivisten und Medienvertreter. Aber auch in Form von Graffiti werden diese Hamas-Symboliken von Sympathisanten der Terrororganisation benutzt, um mögliche Anschlagsorte zu markieren.
Laut dem Onlinemagazin für Frauen: AVIVA8 ging zu der Soli-Veranstaltung im Olfe auch eine Gruppe jüdischer Queers samt Allies dorthin, um mit dem Orga-Team in Kontakt zu treten.
"Es ging ihnen darum, sich als jüdische queere Menschen sowie Allies sichtbar zu machen und zu zeigen, dass es sie gibt, dass sie außerdem gesprächsbereit sind, dass sie sich Sorgen um ihre Sicherheit in queeren Räumen machen und dass israelische sowie jüdische Queers nicht allein sein müssen." Die Lage eskalierte dort allerdings, wie der Tagesspiegel weiter festhielt:
"Sie beschimpften uns als Zionistenschweine und zionist rapists, also zionistische Vergewaltiger". Nur eine einzige andere Frau und Mitarbeiterin des Möbel Olfe habe sich schützend vor sie gestellt, hieß es aus der Gruppe, alle anderen hätten sie bedroht oder zum Gehen aufgefordert. Und weiter: "Immer mehr schreiende Gäste seien dazu gekommen und hätten unter „Free Palestine“- und „Kein Platz für Genozid“-Rufen den Ausschluss der Gruppe von der Party gefordert". Die Veranstaltung wurde dann seitens der Veranstalter abgebrochen.
Wie die Jüdische Allgemeine schrieb, habe sich vor dem Lokal eine „Horde Wütender“ versammelt, bis schließlich die Polizei eingetroffen sei. Der Staatsschutz des Landeskriminalamtes bearbeite derzeit eine Anzeige wegen Beleidigung.9, 10, 11
Videoaufnahmen, die diese Darstellung belegen, liegen z.B. der Tageszeitung Jungle World vor.
Einige Tage später verurteilte das Dyke*March -Team laut Tagesspiegel in einem weiteren Instagram-Post "die unangekündigte politische Aktion" der Gruppe, die neben einer Regenbogenfahne mit Davidstern auch ein Plakat mit Aufklebern (No Pride in Hamas, believe israeli woman) beinhaltete, auf dem auch ein kleiner Aufkleber vom diesjährigen East Pride March ersichtlich war, der eine winzige Flagge Israels zeigte. Auf dem Plakat stand: „Safe Table for Jews and Israelis“.
Man warf ihnen Provokation und Spaltung vor. Außerdem hieß es dort: "So verurteilen wir die derzeitigen Genozide in Palästina und anderen Teilen der Welt." 12
Ideologie über Safe Spaces
Der Dyke*March Berlin startete in diesem Jahr ab 18 Uhr auf dem Karl-Marx-Platz in Neukölln. Die eigentliche Route sollte ursprünglich über die Karl-Marx-Straße, Anzengruberstraße, Donaustraße, Erkstraße, Sonnenallee, Kottbusser Damm, Kottbusser Tor, Adalbertstraße, Oranienstraße bis hin zum Oranienplatz nach Kreuzberg führen.
Die Route über die Sonnenallee wurde noch während des Marches abgesagt. Die Stimmung war durch die dort anwesende israelfeindliche Lobby-Community von Anfang an sehr angespannt und aggressiv, was dadurch immer wieder zu Polizeieinsätzen und zum Stopp des Dyke*March führte.13
Als Reaktion auf den Vorfall im Möbel Olfe rief der East Pride -eine queere Gruppe unter Anette C. Detering14 und Wolfgang Beyer- im Vorfeld dazu auf, sich am Abend des Dyke*March am Startpunkt der Demonstration unter der großen Regenbogenflagge mit Davidstern zu treffen. Detering und Beyer –beide auch Initiatoren der GayChurch Berlin- formulierten in ihrer Ankündigung, den Dyke*March „nicht den Antisemiten und Israelhassern zu überlassen“. Sie luden dazu ein, auf dem March wortwörtlich „Flagge zu zeigen“.
Dem Aufruf schlossen sich mehrere Teilnehmer mit Flaggen wie der Regenbogenflagge - die für den Pride in Tel Aviv warb sowie der Regenbogenflagge mit Davidstern und Schildern wie: „Solidarität mit allen zivilen Opfern in Nahost + weltweit“, „Rape is not Resistance“, „Dykes against Antisemitism“, „Next Year in Tehran“, „Gegen Antisemitismus und Menschenfeindlichkeit“, „Lesben für Medienkompetenz & gegen Ideologien“, „Trans People für Israel“ oder aber auch: „Ich wähle die Freiheit, Dyke*March was wählst du?“ an; die Anzahl dürfte sich dabei im mittleren, zweistelligen Bereich bewegt haben. Dass auf dem March Israel-Fahnen gezeigt wurden, wie dies vereinzelt Medien im Nachgang durch die Aussage von Manuela Kay bei Radio eins ungeprüft wieder gaben, wurde nirgendwo und von niemanden belegt.15 Selbst habe ich keine gesehen. Der dort gezeigte Davidstern (auf Regenbogenflagge) ist mit dem Judentum verbunden.16
Der East Pride Block, bei dem auch Mario Röllig17 teilnahm, wurde im vorderen vierten Block des Marches angekündigt, also unmittelbar am mittleren Ende des Demonstrationszuges.
Direkt zu Beginn der Auftaktveranstaltung versammelten sich inmitten des Karl-Marx-Platz neben dem roten VW-Transporter des Dyke*March Organisationsteams -teils bekannte Aktivisten und auch einschlägig bekannte Männer- aus dem „Pro Palästina“ Spektrum und läuteten die Demo lautstark mit Sprechchören wie: „Free free Palestine“, „Stop the Genocide“ oder „Yallah, yallah Intifada“ ein.
Bevor der Dyke*March mit seiner Aufstellung startete, formierten sich in der Karl-Marx-Straße in Höhe Woolworth erst noch die Dykes on Bikes (Lesben auf Motorrädern), die allerdings wie im letzten Jahr eine andere und längere Route an diesem Tag einnahmen, als die der Laufgruppe.
Nach dem wiederholten Rufen von verbotenen Parolen, wie „From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!“, nahm die Polizei mehrere Personen in Gewahrsam, was zu ersten, heftigen Tumulten führte. Manuela Kay vom Organisationsteam musste nun als Auflage über Lautsprecher das Skandieren des Spruchs „From the river“ nochmals untersagen und ergänzte dies mit den Worten: „Das sind nicht unsere Regeln, das verlangt die Polizei“. Der genaue Wortlaut ist den Quellen zu entnehmen.18
Es reihte sich nun unter „Zionisten sind Faschisten“ Parolen der immer größer werdende, antiisraelische Block gleich hinter den beiden Dyke*March Bannern (Frontbanner und Mottobanner) ganz vorne ein. Wie auch an anderer Stelle bereits so dokumentiert, war dieser Block sowohl zahlenmäßig als auch in Sachen Sicht- und Hörbarkeit dem ersten Block weitaus überlegen und führte dadurch für Außenstehende optisch den Dyke*March an.19
Die antiisraelischen Aktivisten liefen mit einem ihrer Frontbanner „No pride in Genocide“ sowie mit Nationalflaggen der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde (Nationalflaggen waren ausdrücklich nicht erwünscht), Transparenten wie: „BI´s 4 Palestine“, „Queers 4 Palestine“, „Flintifada“ oder einem BDS-Plakat (als BDSM deklariert) direkt hinter und später auch neben dem Dyke*March Transporter, davor war das gelbe Banner mit dem diesjährigen Slogan „DYKES* united – against fascism“ zu lesen. 20, 21
Von Beginn an versuchte der antiisraelische Block einschüchternd und feindlich auf Medienvertreter u.a. mit persönlich-direkten Hamas-Markierungen und Beleidigungen einzuwirken.22 Dass dies ernst zu nehmen ist, zeigte auch die spätere Messerattacke auf den Journalisten Iman S., die zum Glück noch einmal glimpflich verlief. Der Täter aus dem linken und israelfeindlichem Spektrum wurde einen Tag später auf dem Internationalistischen Queer Pride festgenommen23 welcher in diesem Jahr unter dem Motto: „Queers for Palestine“ abgehalten wurde.24
Bereits an der Ecke Karl-Marx-Straße/Anzengruberstraße kam der Dyke*March ins Stocken. Eine Gruppe von radikalfeministischen Lesben wurde durch hunderte aggressive Dyke March Teilnehmer einschließlich „Palästina-Aktivisten“ blockiert, als Faschisten und Transfeinde beschimpft und mit Slogans wie: "Bildet Banden, macht sie platt xxx wie in jeder Stadt", "Haut ab Haut ab", „Widerstand“, "Terfs verpisst euch, keiner vermisst euch" nieder geschrien, kurzzeitig auch körperlich attackiert und schlussendlich eingekesselt, um sie vom Dyke*March abzuschirmen, weil diese in erster Linie sichtbar von ihrem Selbstbestimmungsrecht Gebrauch machten.
Diese Lesben mussten von der wenig vorhandenen Polizei vor dieser Masse geschützt werden. Schlussendlich gab es dort eine freiheitsentziehende Festsetzung aus dem Dyke*March Spektrum.
In einer Videodokumentation auf einem transfeindlichen und Fake-News verbreitenden Kanal auf X (ehemals Twitter) ist eine Teilnehmerin des Dyke*March zu sehen, die unter Applaus versuchte, ein zuvor von den radikalen Lesben entwendetes Schild mit der Aufschrift: „Lesbe gleichgeschlechtlich liebende Frau“ zu verbrennen, was ihr allerdings nicht gelang, da dieses sich nicht entzündete.25
Ein Transparent einer Person des Dyke*March, welches die Aufschrift: „TERFs Can Suck My Trans Dick“ („Terfs können meinen Trans-Schwanz lutschen“) welches bereits im letzten Jahr auf dem CSD Berlin mit geführt wurde, führte hingegen beim Dyke*March zu keiner Empörung.26 Auf dem Transparent wurde zwar die Inversion aufgemalt, dennoch ist es als übergriffig zu bewerten.
Nach dem Vorfall in der Anzengruber Straße wurden einige, vereinzelte Frauen im späteren Verlauf und bis Veranstaltungsende z.B. von einer Transfrau mit Springerstiefeln aus dem israelfeindlichen Spektrum nicht nur als „Fascholesben“ bezeichnet, sondern ihnen wurden immer wieder schreiend ihre sexuelle Identität abgesprochen. Die Lesben wurden in einer abgewandelten Form des Hamas-Dreieckes markiert und als „Höhepunkt“ dieser Aktion holte die Transaktvistin, die noch zu Beginn auf dem Dyke*March vermummt mit Maske und Kufiya auftrat: ihre Brust heraus und zeigte diese in die teilnehmende Dyke*March Menge. Es war schon sehr grotesk.
Sie versuchte immer wieder, durch ihre vermeintlich optischen Bedrohungsgebärden die Frauen von der Demonstration einschüchtern zu können, was ihr allerdings nicht gelang. Sie wurde ausgelacht.27
Diese Aktivistin mit rotem Dreieckstuch rief auch dem East Pride Team mit einem Sprechchor immer wieder „Fuck you Israel, Fuck antideutsch und shame on you“ zu und markierte auch dort die Teilnehmenden. Sie wurde immer wieder von der Polizei aus dem Geschehen heraus gebracht, die Queer-Beauftragte der Berliner Polizei: Anne von Knoblauch wirkte hier immer wieder ein.28
Während ein Großteil der Anwesenheit den Dyke*March feierte und sich auf diesem vergnügte, erhielt dieser vom Rand aus auch immer wieder auf Höhe des antiisraelischen Blocks Applaus von einer Klientel aus Männern (wenn sie denn nicht im March selbst mit liefen), die dem Inhalt des Protests und der Sichtbarmachung lesbischen Lebens eigentlich total abgeneigt ist. 29
Weiterhin kam es immer wieder zu Ausschreitungen und Ansammlungen zwischen antiisraelischen Akteuren und der Polizei, was den Dyke*March immer wieder stoppen ließ.
Das East Pride Team wurde auf der gesamten Strecke immer wieder beschimpft oder es mischten sich antiisraelische Aktivisten in diesen Block ein, die diesen abfotografierte. Es gab neben Nazi-Rufen auch immer wieder kleine und feindselige Nuancen aus dem Publikum des Dyke*March und umstehenden Passanten zu beobachten, die daraufhin deuteten, dass z.B. Losungen gegen Rechts eher dem East Pride-Block zugewandt waren.
Am Ende des diesjährigen Dyke*March wurde das East Pride Team in einem Schlagabtausch mit antiisraelischen Aktivisten und u.a. unter Intifada-Rufen sowie „Fascholesben raus aus der Demo“ der Veranstaltung verdrängt.30 Sie mussten schlussendlich unter Polizeischutz zu ihrem Nachhausweg begleitet werden. Nun konnte der Rest vom Dyke*March „endlich auch“ auf den Oranienplatz nachrücken und die Veranstalter konnten laut Quellen alsbald freudig den diesjährigen March unter dem Motto: „Love Dykes – Fight Fascism!“ für beendet(und vermutlich für gelungen) erklären.
Ich selbst habe den Dyke*March nach Verdrängung des East Pride Teams ebenfalls aus Sicherheitsgründen und über Umwege verlassen. Das hätte ich mir noch vor einem Jahr in meinen kühnsten Träumen nicht vorstellen können.
Beim Dyke*March gab es laut Deutsche Journalisten-Union (dju) mehrere Angriffe auf Journalisten, wie die Landesvorsitzende Renate Gensch mitteilte. Ein Journalist habe von einer Teilnehmerin einen Schlag in den Bauch erhalten, andere seien mit Flaschen beworfen, einer anderen Journalistin sei an den Haaren gezogen worden. Laut Polizei versuchten Teilnehmende mehrfach, Journalisten durch Versperren der Sicht bei ihrer Arbeit zu behindern oder diese einzuschüchtern.
Abgesehen von fast 30 Freiheitsbeschränkungen kam es an diesem Tag zu einer verhinderten Messerattacke auf einen Journalisten, der bis nach Hause verfolgt und dort aufgelauert wurde.
Die Polizei sprach ebenso viele Strafanzeigen, unter anderem wegen Beleidigung, tätlichen Angriffs, Verwendens verfassungswidriger Kennzeichen, Gefangenenbefreiung und Volksverhetzung aus.31
Ein kurzer Blick ins Jahr 2023 und das Haltungsproblem vieler Linker
Am 7. Oktober 2023 überfiel in einem terroristischen Akt die palästinensisch-sunnitisch-islamistische Organisation Hamas vor allem linke Kibbuzime in Süd-Israel, die für ihre friedensstiftenden Unterstützungen bekannt sind. Unter den Getöteten und verschleppten Geiseln waren viele Aktivisten, die sich für Frieden, eine Zweistaatenlösung und vor allem für Menschenrechte und für einen Ausgleich mit den Palästinensern eingesetzt hatten. Das sollte an dieser Stelle vielleicht noch einmal explizit hervorgehoben und kommuniziert werden.32
In der Charte der Hamas wird als zentrales Ziel die totale Zerstörung des Staates Israel propagiert. Die Charta fordert einen dschihadistischen Palästinenserstaat und ruft zur Erreichung dieses Ziels ganz offen zur Tötung von Juden auf.33
Der Hamas sind natürlich linke (politische) Ausrichtungen vollkommen egal. Gerade gelebte Vielfalt und auch homosexuelle Lebensweisen wären u.a. mit einer der ersten Zielscheiben der Hamas. Dies wird allerdings von sympathisierenden Linken stoisch ausgeblendet und/oder verleugnet.
Seit diesem barbarischen Massaker an über 1.200 Israelis, welches auch als das größte und brutalste Pogrom seit dem Holocaust im 2. Weltkrieg bezeichnet wird34, positionieren sich weltweit und auch in Deutschland dogmatisch angeführte antiisraelische Bewegungen samt unterstützenden linksextremen Strömungen aus dem zumeist antiimperialistischen Spektrum, die ebenfalls überwiegend eine Zweistaatenlösung ablehnen, sich in Sympathie mit der Hamas in einer „Widerstandsbewegung“ wähnen, die die Auslöschung des Staates Israels fordern und ihre Feinde ebenfalls mit dem Hamas-Symbol markieren, wie das viele Fotodokumentationen, Berichte der Presse und eigene Statements belegen und aufzeigen.
Der Staat Israel wird pauschal abgelehnt, es wird auch kein Unterschied zwischen Regierung und Zivilisten gemacht, was der Ablehnung des Existensrecht Israels gleich kommt. Inhaltliche Kritiken an die rechts-religiöse Regierung unter Benjamin Netanjahu hat es bisher auf Demonstrationen (auch die, die ich begleitet habe) nicht gegeben. Siehe dazu auch den Zwischenruf von Sebastian Leber im Tagesspiegel, siehe Quellen.35
Stattdessen werden -ebenfalls pauschal- alle israelsolidarischen Menschen, die sich für die Sicherheit von jüdischen Menschen und für das Existenzrecht Israels einsetzen oder die über israelfeindliche Proteste berichten: mit der rechten und tief religiösen Regierung Israels gleichgesetzt, zu Feinden markiert, angegriffen und „können somit - mit dem angeblich rechten Narrativ - ´mit dem vermeintlich linken Narrativ´ ausgegrenzt werden“.
Homosexuelle Menschen müssen im Gaza-Streifen wegen ihrer sexuellen Orientierung um ihr Leben fürchten; nicht wenigen Teilnehmern des Dyke* March war das aber scheinbar an diesem Tag egal. Auf Schildern und unter Flaggen der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde verkündeten sie ihre Unterstützung „für Palästina“ einschließlich Hamas-Symboliken- und Bedrohungen.
Das Orga-Team vom Dyke*March hatte sich trotz dieser Faktenlage dennoch in diesem Jahr dazu entschlossen, diese israel- und eigentlich auch homofeindliche Allianz für eine "lesbische Sichtbarkeit" (?) und in Solidarität mit laufen zu lassen. Den Verlauf dieser Demonstration kennt man.
Meinung zum Thema „TERF“
Aufgrund dessen, das es im Nachgang des Dyke*March doch schlecht recherchierte oder eben auch gekürzte Berichterstattungen zu diesem Tag gab, möchte ich hier ausführlicher auf das Thema „TERF“ eingehen. Dem möchte ich hinzufügen, dass queere Politik nicht wirklich zu meinen Themen gehört, wie man dies auf meiner Fotoplattform flickr nachlesen kann. Allerdings gehören zu meinem Metier auch: Quermilieus inklusive Verschwörungsmythen und Fake-News.
Vor wenigen Jahren habe ich mich mit dem „Phänomen TERF“ näher auseinander gesetzt und fand auf Twitter (heute X) einen harten Kern von diversen Profilen mit verbal hetzenden Protagonisten, teils mit einem Weg nach Rechtsaußen, die im Sinne der eigenen sexuellen Selbstbestimmung bis heute heftige transfeindliche Verschwörungsmythen, Fake-News und Verleumdungen verbreiten, Transpersonen z.B. ihre Identität absprechen bzw. diese nicht anerkennen (aktuell boomt Olympia) und sich dabei mit allerlei unseriösen Formaten vernetzen und entsprechende „Inhalte“ an Fake-News und Hetzkampagnen teilen, solange dies der eigenen Weltanschauung entspricht.
Dadurch, dass es diese öffentlichen Profile (nicht nur auf X) gibt, ist auch die Leugnung der „TERF-Aktivitäten“ zu wiederlegen. Immer wieder wird versucht, diese dort ausgeübte Transfeindlichkeit als Verleumdung zu deklarieren – statt sich klar gegen Hass und Hetze zu positionieren.
Hass und Hetze haben nichts mit Meinung und diskutierbaren Inhalten zu tun. Und schadet genau den Lesben, die ihre sexuelle Selbstbestimmung ohne Hass leben. Sie sind allerdings nicht mehr wirklich „sichtbar“, weil sie mittlerweile aus der queeren Community immer wieder mit der „TERF-Bewegung“36 gleichgesetzt werden, was natürlich ebenfalls ein ebenso großes Problem darstellt.
„TERF“, so wie diese Lesbengruppe in der Anzengruber Straße bezeichnet wurde, steht dabei als Akronym für „Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists“ („Trans-ausschließende Radikalfeministinnen“).
Ob an diesem Tag die eingekesselte Gruppe von Dykes mit ihren Bannern und Schildern (zumeist in der „Ich-Form“ formuliert) in politischer Ausrichtung zu den so genannten „TERF´s“ gehört haben - wie ihnen vorgeworfen wurde, kann ich nicht beurteilen. Was ich gesehen habe, dass sie ihre sexuelle Selbstbestimmung ausgedrückt haben, die u.a. wie folgt auf Schildern zu lesen waren:
„my vulva is a female only space“, „Wir Lesben sind überall“, Frauenzentriert, „unapologetically lesbian“, „Lesbe gleichgeschlechtlich liebende Frau“, „Bildet Banden“ oder „kompromisslos lesbisch“. Hervor stach eher das Schild: „Dyke XX March“ Die beiden XX spielen auf den Chromosomensatz an, der beim weiblichen Geschlecht doppelt liegt (XX).
Ich grübele allerdings bis heute darüber nach, warum das Plakat: „Lesbe gleichgeschlechtlich liebende Frau“ einmal A) transfeindlich sein soll – drückt es doch einfach nur die Liebe zwischen Frau und Frau aus und B) was daran so rechts sein soll, das man versuchte, dieses Schild auf dem Dyke*March zu verbrennen. Ich weiß es wirklich nicht.
Was ich allerdings vernommen habe, waren vereinzelt Äußerungen, die transfeindlich ausgerichtet waren. Sie kamen allerdings nicht aus dem Lesben-Block.
Seit jeher gibt es in der Lesbenbewegung Dykes, die in ihrer unerschütterlichen Identität als Lesbe auch nach 40 oder 60 Jahren es nach wie vor ablehnen, Sex mit einem männlichen Geschlechtsteil zu haben. Es stellt unter Lesben eine ganz normale sexuelle Selbstbestimmung dar (Definition Lesben), die bei den meisten nichts mit Ideologie (und dementsprechend politisch auch nichts mit „TERF“) zu tun hat. Sexuelle Selbstbestimmung ist etwas sehr privates und intimes, über das niemand anders als die Person selbst zu entscheiden hat. „My Body, my Choice“. Jeder kennt´s.
In Deutschland wird übrigens neben der Würde auch das Recht auf freie Entfaltung der eigenen Persönlichkeit durch Artikel 2 Absatz 1 im Grundgesetz geschützt.37
Ein Problem in der Rainbow Community scheint generell zu sein, dass privates mit politischem vermischt und gleichgesetzt wird. Das war auch an diesem Tag des Dyke*March ein gängiges Muster für viele aufgezeigte Bereiche. Mir fiel es an diesem Tag dadurch besonders intensiv auf.
Gruppierungen wie „TERF“, die auch den Begriff „queer“ ablehnen, machen es in dieser Debatte natürlich nicht besser – sondern bewirken eher das Gegenteil.
Letztendlich fühlen sich dadurch auch viele Köpfe aus der queeren Community in ihren Aktionen bestätigt, die allerdings ebenso pauschal vermischen, gleichsetzen und mit Hass reagieren und dabei sehr autoritär in ihrer politischen Auffassung auftreten, wie das der Dyke*March zeigte. Ob man sich da als kritische Lesbe noch Safe fühlen kann? Ich wage das zu bezweifeln.
Es ist weiterhin zu einem Unding pervertiert, das der Status und die Selbstbezeichnung der homosexuellen Ausrichtung (lesbisch, bi, schwul, queer etc.) mittlerweile nur noch als „politische Agenda und Etikette“ gehandhabt wird und somit gelebte Identitäten politisch bewertet werden, was etwas außerordentlich privates und absolut intimes ist. Da läuten bei mir alle Alarmglocken!
Man kann seine eigene, persönliche Identität ganz ohne Hass und Hetze ausdrücken, leben und ebenso auch Kritik am Selbstbestimmungsgesetz ausüben. Dazu braucht es keine „TERF-Community“.
Vielen „unsichtbaren“ Dykes geht es vorrangig um Safe Spaces (ihr im Grundgesetzt verankertes Recht auf persönliche Entfaltung - und nicht um Transpersonen als Affront) und sie wollen dazu (an)gehört – und nicht ausgegrenzt werden. Das neue Selbstbestimmungsgesetz ist wichtig und richtig, denn auch transgeschlechtliche Identität gehört einfach dazu.
Für nicht wenige Lesben wurde das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz nicht im Gleichgewicht für alle Betroffenen in Sachen Safe Spaces durchgesetzt. Diese Kritik geht allerdings durch Hass und Hetze von Transfeinden und scheinbaren Männerhassern unter. Noch ein sehr großes Problem.
Vielfalt bedeutet: unterschiedliche Meinungen und Lebensweisen nicht nur zu tolerieren, sondern vor allem auch: zu akzeptieren! Wer das nicht macht -und damit meine ich alle „Fraktionen“ - der lebt auch keine Vielfalt.
Transfeindlichkeit ist keine Meinung, sondern Hass und Hetze. Lesbenfeindlichkeit allerdings ebenso! Es ist beides zu verurteilen.
Beides hat es auf dem Dyke March gegeben.
Viel zu viele Probleme, die unter „lesbischer Sichtbarkeit“ laufen, aber eigentlich unsichtbar sind und auch weiterhin unsichtbar bleiben, wenn wie in diesem Jahr: immer weitere Probleme in den Dyke*March inkludiert werden, statt die eigentlichen und vorhandenen Probleme zu „bearbeiten“ und die gesamte Pride Community zu stärken und zu vereinen.
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relevant, hinzugezogene Quellen
2 x.com/DominikLenze/status/1816871597799534780 sowie www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DP91-CQ6c
4 lesbengegenrechts.jimdofree.com/
5 www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/sondersendung/csd-202... (Archiv: archive.fo/LUHrW)
6 jungle.world/artikel/2024/31/dyke-march-berliner-lesben-b...
7 www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspeziale/diversity/dyke-march-b... (Archiv: archive.fo/uxUDR)
8 www.aviva-berlin.de/aviva/content_Public%20Affairs_Diskri...
9, 10, 11 tagesspiegel.de/berlin/sie-beschimpften-uns-als-zionisten...
jungle.world/artikel/2024/29/dyke-march-berlin-moebel-olf...
www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/kein-safe-space/
12 www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspeziale/diversity/dyke-march-b... (Archiv: archive.fo/uxUDR)
13 www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53887184684/in/alb...
14 www.evangelische-zeitung.de/east-pride-in-berlin-queere-k...
15 www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/sondersendung/csd-202... (Archiv: archive.fo/LUHrW)
16 www.zentralratderjuden.de/judentum/symbole/
17 meinviertel.berlin/gesellschaft/freiheitsdrang-unterdruec...
18 x.com/ISefati/status/1816891993852936604, x.com/EndPutinsWars/status/1816897423194648598 sowie jungle.world/artikel/2024/31/dyke-march-berliner-lesben-b...
19 queernations.de/dyke-march-berlin-2024-spalten-was-gespal...
20, 21
x.com/DominikLenze/status/1816874447930118521
x.com/DominikLenze/status/1816879765615149084
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DP91-CQ6c
x.com/EndPutinsWars/status/1816880634314514543
22 www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53887199239/in/alb... und www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53885952397/in/alb...
23 www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/er-zog-ein-messer-journalist-n... (Archiv: archive.fo/yqbxZ)
24 www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-polizei-zieht-bilanz-... (Archiv: archive.fo/Oilqs)
25 x.com/ReduxxMag/status/1817584260582154736 (Archiv: archive.ph/AmNy2)
26 www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53886857746/in/alb...
27 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DP91-CQ6c und www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53887188004/in/alb...
28 www.flickr.com/photos/sozialfotografie/53887181029/in/alb...
29 x.com/DominikLenze/status/1816922326492922050 und x.com/ISefati/status/1816885813952868726
30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DP91-CQ6c
31 www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/staatsschutz-ermittelt-journal... (Archiv: archive.fo/hzdo3), x.com/ISefati/status/1816898348252823823, www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/dyke-march-berlin-israel-hass
und dju-berlinbb.verdi.de/aktuell/nachrichten/++co++c1788cfc-...
32 www.hessenschau.de/politik/von-hamas-ermordet-friedensakt...
33 www.bpb.de/themen/islamismus/dossier-islamismus/36358/ant...
34 taz.de/Moshe-Zimmermann-ueber-den-Nahost-Krieg/!5966884/
35 www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/fehlende-abgrenzung-von-... (Archiv: archive.fo/SzefJ)
36 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/transpersonen-desinformation...
37 www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_2.html
weitere Quellen in Bezug auf den Dyke*March
www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/dyke-march-berlin-israel-hass
www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/antisemitische-parolen-auf-d...
www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspeziale/diversity/dyke-march-b...
www.bild.de/regional/berlin/vor-csd-in-berlin-israel-hass...
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/rbb-rund-9-000-t...
www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/07/dyke-march-vor-chri...
www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/dyke-march-berlin-israel-hass
www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/nahostkonflikt-i...
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/spaltungen-in-der-community-ma...
www.bz-berlin.de/ticker/israel-hass-bei-dyke-march-in-berlin
taz.de/Nahost-Konflikt-in-Queer-Community/!6022855/
taz.de/Lesbischer-Dyke-March-in-Berlin/!6026229/
www.juedische-allgemeine.de/israel/dann-zog-er-ein-messer...
www.mz.de/panorama/nahostkonflikt-auch-beim-dyke-march-38...
www.siegessaeule.de/magazin/dyke-march-2024/
www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/antisemitismus-beim-dyke-march...
www.instagram.com/p/C9zo6SQoHvk/
www.instagram.com/p/C9zpM9yoDFu/
www.instagram.com/lesben.demo.berlin/p/C995qyCqw_O/?img_i...
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Before you completely get rid of a Microsoft account, there might be a few loose ends that need tying up.
1. Cancel subscriptions: If you're subscribing to other services using your Microsoft account ID, cancel those subscriptions now. If not, you won't be able to access those services following deletion.
2. Set up an automated email forward: If you use an email address that ends in hotmail.com, outlook.com, live.com, or msn.com, your emails will no longer be available following the 60-day waiting period for final account deletion. You can manually send out messages, letting people know the account will be deleted, or you can set automated vacation replies.
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3. Spend money: Once your Microsoft account is gone, so is all the money associated with it. Before deleting your account, spend any remaining moola on items you can keep after account deletion. Money that will disappear also includes any Skype credit.
4. Save your stuff: While using a Microsoft account, you might have been tempted to store data, like pictures in OneDrive or emails in Outlook. Following account deletion, that data will no longer be accessible if you don't back it up somewhere else that isn't associated with your account. Also, keep in mind that games you've purchased through the Microsoft account will remain playable, but you will lose saved game progress, your Gamerscore, and your Gamertag. If you use an Xbox Music Pass, that music will no longer be accessible.
5. Deal with sub accounts: Child accounts remain open even when you delete your account, but they will need another parent account to give them consent when attempting to log into a PC running Windows 8 or later, a Windows phone, or an Xbox.
6. Turn off reset protection: If you have reset protection enabled on any of your devices, be sure to disable it before deleting your account. If you don't, you might not be able to use the device once the account is deleted.
Remember, if you delete your Microsoft account and realize that something is no longer working, there is a 60-day grace period where you can retrieve your Microsoft account before it is deleted forever.
Graduate and undergraduate students interested in the Finance, Accounting and Business industries met with top national and international companies. The event was open to all majors and class levels, especially Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Business Economics, Pre-Business, MBA, Master of Public Accountancy, and Master of Finance. The job fair was co-hosted by UCR School of Business and the UCR Career Center (event sponsor).
The Accounting Carnival Networking Event is an opportunity for students to meet with professionals from large and mid-size accounting firms and businesses seeking to hire accounting students for full time, internship, and other opportunities and to learn about the application requirements.
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