Hardenberg Palace

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Hardenberg Palace, 1868

The Palais Hardenberg was a building in Berlin's Friedrichstadt , which was located on Dönhoffplatz at Leipziger Strasse  75 (today: Leipziger Strasse 55 in Berlin-Mitte ). The building was named because the Prussian State Chancellor Prince von Hardenberg lived and worked there. In the more than 100 years of its existence it has had an eventful history.

It was built from 1774 to 1776 by Georg Christian Unger as an immediate building, i.e. at royal expense, for the Count of Schwerin. In 1800 it was acquired by Baron von Eckardstein and sold in 1804 to the Privy Council of State (later State Chancellor) von Hardenberg, who had it increased and modernized. The building had already been taken over by the Prussian Sea Trade in 1809 , and in 1819 it was taken over by the tax authorities . Hardenberg was able to live there until his death in 1822.

In the years 1848/1849, the building was converted for use by the Prussian state parliament according to plans by the Prussian building councilor Georg Heinrich Bürde . Since it only consisted of a front building on the street and a shed facing the garden, the assembly room was created in the garden. The plenary hall was rectangular with the lectern in the center. The deputies sat across from each other. After a fire in the first chamber, it met four times there. On February 26, 1849, the first session of the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament took place. This chamber was then renamed the House of Representatives on March 30, 1855 . Since the building was soon too small, an extension was carried out by Hermann Blankenstein in 1867 . The customs parliament also met there from April 1868 to May 1870 . After the establishment of the German Empire , the building also served as a meeting place for the new German Reichstag from March 21 to June 12, 1871, which shortly afterwards set up a provisional meeting place at Leipziger Strasse 4 - for 23 years. In the years 1872 and 1874/1875 the meeting room was renovated. From 1899 the House of Representatives met in the new Landtag building on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse . The mansion stayed in the building until it moved to the new section completed at Leipziger Strasse 3/4 in 1904.

On the site of the palace sold by the tax authorities in 1905 , a commercial building was built that did not survive the Second World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The session building of the Customs Parliament . In: The Gazebo . Issue 20, 1868, pp. 309 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - woodcut).
  2. ^ Berlin archive . Archiv-Verlag, Braunschweig, 1980–1990, collection sheets 05049 and 05136.
  3. ^ Gernot Ernst, Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in the graphic arts . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9 .
  4. ↑ Hans Peter Schneider, Wolfgang Zeh: Parliamentary Law and Parliamentary Practice in the Federal Republic of Germany. ISBN 3-11-011077-6 , p. 1852.
  5. ↑ A short Berlin story. P. 116.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 56.4"  E