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View of the Herkulesbrücke (right) with the complex of residential and storage buildings of the Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft (middle and left). Painting by Eduard Gaertner, 1846.
The six-storey share store (left) and the residential building (right) on Kleine Praesidentstrasse in Berlin, 1840. Front: the northern end of Burgstrasse. Contemporary engraving by an unknown artist.
The share store was conveniently located on the east bank of the Spree. Detail from Selter's Berlin map, 1846.

The so-called " Aktienspeicher " was a storage building in Berlin that belonged to the Berliner Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft and existed from 1836/37 to 1884.

Business center Berlin

The role of Berlin as the capital of Prussia and later of the German Empire also led to an economic upturn in the city, which was reflected in a steadily increasing movement of goods. For this, in turn, storage buildings were required to store the goods. In the 19th century some of these buildings were built by associations of private merchants, this included a flour warehouse of the Berlin bakers' guild on the Museum Island , the so-called island of memory on the "island" in the river Spree and share memory called storehouse of memory-Aktiengesellschaft (in the Goods of all kinds were stored).

The Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft

Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft was founded at the end of 1835 under the leadership of Joseph Mendelssohn with the aim of providing the growing trade with urgently needed storage space. Not far from the royal New Packhof on Museum Island, where the former fortress moat branched off from the Spree, there was a largely undeveloped area at that time, which was intended for further commercial development, a former ravelin of the fortress. A calico factory was established there after 1750. The Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft acquired this site at Kleine Praesidentstrasse 7 because it was conveniently located for the planned storage facility. The widening of the Spree at this point enabled loading operations without affecting shipping on the river.

The share store at the Herkulesbrücke

The painting by Eduard Gaertner shows (seen from the Spree) a view into the former fortress moat . The fortress moat (also called "Königsgraben") was spanned near its confluence with the Spree by the Simson or Hercules Bridge built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1787/88 . The Hercules Bridge can be seen in the center right of the painting by Gärtner. The Speicher-Aktiengesellschaft's residential and administrative building rises to the left. On the left edge of the picture you can see part of the actual storage building.

Building description

The architect of the facility, the construction of which began in 1836/37, was Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans , who had already built the island storage facility in 1824–1827. The facility consisted of two complexes. Three-story residential buildings with a front length of about 70 meters with associated wing, farm and stable buildings were built on the fortress moat. These buildings enclosed a courtyard and formed a separate complex that had no direct contact with the actual storage complex. There were ten larger and smaller apartments in the residential buildings. Rooms for shops were planned on the ground floor.

The greater part of the property remained for the construction of the storage building, which received its own courtyard. The storage building stood directly on the Spree. Goods could be wound directly up to the higher floors from the barges using pulley blocks.

Demolished in 1884

In 1879 the moat was filled in and the Berlin light rail system ran through the city. On October 31, 1883, the General Assembly authorized the Supervisory Board to sell their properties across from Museum Island to the Ministry of Culture. In 1884 the storage facilities were torn down and the storage company went into liquidation.

literature

  • Sybille Gramlich: Royal Spree Athens. Berlin in Biedermeier. In: Rolf Bothe ao: Cityscapes. Berlin in painting from the 17th century to the present. Publishers: Willmuth Arenhövel, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung. Berlin 1987. pp. 95-172. ISBN 3-87584-212-X .
  • Friedrich W. Holtze: History of the fortification of Berlin. In: Writings of the Association for the History of the City of Berlin, Book X, Berlin 1874, pp. 3–24. Also in: Märkische Forschungen., Heft VII, Berlin 1861, pp. 1–101. Edited by the Association for the History of the Mark Brandenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The presentation follows: Sybille Gramlich: Königliches Spree-Athen. Berlin in Biedermeier. In: Rolf Bothe ao: Cityscapes. Berlin in painting from the 17th century to the present. Publishers: Willmuth Arenhövel, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung. Berlin 1987. p. 162.
  2. ↑ cf. Holtze: History of the fortification of Berlin. In: Märk. Research, Vol. 7, p. 94.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the royal. Capital and residence city of Berlin for the year 1837. Berlin 1840. pp. 209–213.
  4. ↑ purchase by the Cultusministerium , the Central Journal of the building administration , no. 44, November 3, 1883 pp 401, accessed December 21, 2012

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