Austrian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs | ||
| Consist | since July 5, 2001 | ||
| Headquarters |
 Berlin
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| ambassador |
Peter Huber (since 2017) |
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| Website | www.bmeia.gv.at | ||
The Austrian Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the Austrian diplomatic mission in Germany . It is located at Stauffenbergstrasse 1 in the Berlin district of Tiergarten in the Mitte district .
history
Until 1890 the representation of the k. u. k. -Monarchy Austria-Hungary under the German Empire in Moltkestrasse 3 (today: Willy-Brandt-Strasse) in the Spreebogen . In 1890 the Austro-Hungarian embassy moved into its own new building at Kronprinzenufer 14 in the Alsenviertel (today: Bettina-von-Arnim-Ufer). After Austria-Hungary lost the First World War on Germany's side , the Treaty of Saint-Germain regulated the dissolution of the Austrian half of the empire . The message of the k. u. K. Empire greatly reduced First Republic moved into a new home in the Bendlerstrasse 15 (now Stauffenbergstraße). The building was destroyed in World War II. Up until the 1950s, a rebuilding of the almost completely destroyed embassy district at West Berlin's Tiergarten was discussed in its pre-war use. With the intensification of the Cold War and the cementing of the division of Germany , this project became increasingly unrealistic. From 1958, the Berlin Senate entered into purchase negotiations with a number of states in order to remove the ruins of the embassy and to reorganize the quarter. Austria sold its property at Stauffenbergstrasse 15 in the 1980s.
The Austrian embassy in Bonn was most recently located in a specially constructed chancellery building at Johanniterstraße 2 in the parliamentary and government district . In 1972 Austria established diplomatic relations with the GDR . Until it closed in 1990, the headquarters of the embassy was at Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse 5 (today: Wilhelmstrasse 65) in Berlin-Mitte .
After German reunification and the capital city resolution of 1991, it was clear that the main German contacts for the highest diplomatic representatives of a state - the Federal Chancellery , Bundestag and Foreign Ministry - would be based in Berlin by 2000 at the latest. Accordingly, the Republic of Austria acquired new property on the corner of Stauffenbergstrasse and Tiergartenstrasse . From the prewar period until the end of the state independence in 1937, the representation of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck to the German Reich was located on the property . The Austrian architect Hans Hollein won the architecture competition from 1996 to 1997 . Construction began in March 1999 and the foundation stone was laid on June 9, 1999. The construction costs amounted to around 14.9 million euros . The building was inaugurated on July 5, 2001 in the presence of the Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil as well as the Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner and her German counterpart Joschka Fischer . Christian Prosl was the ambassador from 2003 to 2009 until he was replaced by Ralph Scheide in 2009. In January 2015 Nikolaus Marschik took over this office, who was previously head of the cabinet of the Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (BMEIA).
The consular district of the embassy covers the entire federal territory except for the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria , for which the Austrian Consulate General in Munich is responsible.
Location and building
The embassy is located on a corner lot at the confluence of Stauffenbergstrasse and Tiergartenstrasse, directly on the southern edge of the Great Zoo . The direct neighbors of the Austrian Embassy to the west - on the right as seen from Tiergartenstrasse - are the Baden-Württemberg State Representation . To the south - on the left as seen from Stauffenbergstrasse - the embassy is followed by an empty plot of land, which is the closest neighbor to the Egyptian embassy .
The property has the shape of a trapezoid : the front to Stauffenbergstrasse is around 80 meters wide, the property is around 55 meters deep when viewed from Stauffenbergstrasse, and at the rear facing the neighboring Baden-Württemberg state representative office is only around 55 meters wide. The land area is almost 3700 m². The development plan prescribes a development with free-standing city villas for the area , which may be at least ten meters apart and a maximum of 16 meters high. With its dimensions, the design of the embassy as a solitaire just goes to the limits of these specifications in order to accommodate the volumes required in the construction project, which add up to a gross floor area of over 7,300 m².
The building consists of three interconnected structures. In the south of the property, a building with a U-shaped floor plan is aligned parallel to Stauffenbergstrasse. The two wings of the building have an anthracite-colored facade and house office space in the wing facing the street, while the ambassador's residence is located in the rear wing. Consulate rooms are located in the base of the “U”; this part of the building has a reddish facade design. At the joint of the building there is an organically shaped building, which is clad with a scale-shaped copper facade and protrudes into the top of the property on the corner of Stauffenbergstrasse and Tiergartenstrasse. The plan of the copper building is in the shape of a fin. In this building there are event rooms on the ground floor.
The AußenwirtschaftsCenter Berlin as the office of Foreign Trade Austria is located in the building. This is the internationalization and innovation agency of the Austrian economy
Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
The Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin is the official cultural representation of Austria in Germany. The institution is part of the international network of Austrian cultural forums of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs . Since 1991 this work has been carried out by the cultural department of the Austrian Embassy in Berlin. In 2001 it was converted into the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin.
In the embassy building, the Kulturforum uses event rooms for readings, symposia , concerts and exhibitions. The Kulturforum carries out its own projects and supports the initiation and intensification of contacts between Austrian cultural workers and scientists with partners and partner organizations in Germany.
See also
literature
- Rudolf Agstner: 130 years of the Austrian Embassy in Berlin: From Moltkestrasse to Stauffenbergstrasse . Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003, ISBN 978-3-86572-335-2 .
- Falk Jaeger: Your Excellency would like to have a little tan in the private apartments. The Austrian Embassy in Berlin by Hans Hollein . In: Baumeister , vol. 98, No. 8 (August 2001), p. 12, ISSN 0005-674X .
- Lars Klaaßen: Austrian Embassy Berlin. Die Neue Architekturführer single volumes, Volume 041, Stadtwandel Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-933743-86-2 .
- Hans Kröger: All under one roof. The Austrian embassy in Berlin has been in operation for one year. In: Der Facility Manager , Vol. 9, No. 7/8 (July / August 2002), pp. 32–34.
- Klaus Dieter Weiß: In fragments. Hans Hollein's stylish message for a new Austria . In: Deutsche BauZeitschrift , Vol. 49, No. 8 (August 2001), p. 15, ISSN 0011-4782 .
- Austrian Embassy in Berlin by Hans Hollein. Cube and curve . In: Architektur Aktuell , No. 204 (1997), pp. 4–5, ISSN 0570-6602 .
Web links
- Official website of the embassy
- Official website of the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
- Austrian embassy at nextroom
- Embassy of the Republic of Austria on BauNetz
Individual evidence
- ↑ authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1913, part 2, p. 15.
- ↑ Kronprinzenufer . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Bendlerstrasse 15 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1937, part 4, p. 61.
- ↑ Bendlerstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Katharina Fleischmann: Messages with messages - of spatial images and a new geography . BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8142-2108-3 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 715-oops-9533 , pp. 43-44.
- ^ Diplomatic and other representations . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1989, p. 100.
- ↑ Tiergartenstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, part 4, p. 866 (Bendlerstrasse 1 belongs to Tiergartenstrasse 12/13).
- ↑ Silvia Meixner: Two hearts in three-four time: Joschka and Benita practice the political kiss on the hand . In: Die Welt , July 6, 2001.
- ↑ Representations in Austria , Foreign Office
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 34.5 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 50.1 ″ E