Alfandary house
The Alfandary-Haus is a listed office and commercial building in Zimmerstrasse 79/80 in the Berlin district of Mitte of the district of the same name , in the middle of the former Berlin newspaper district .
The house was built between 1913 and 1914 according to a design by the architects John Martens and Arthur Vogdt with five full storeys and an attic. The builders were the Sephardic Alfandary brothers who immigrated from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century . The facade is completely clinkered . A characteristic of the house is the asymmetrical arrangement of the windows on the ground floor and first floor in contrast to the other upper floors. About the four asymmetric window axes is on the first floor, a terracotta - Fries , among other allegories of prosperity and abundance. From the second floor onwards, the supporting pillars are offset.
The use of the house was originally indicated by an inscription Alfandary Frères Perser Carpets on the second floor, framed to the right and left by the crescent moon and star .
After the Second World War , the house was the seat of the daily newspaper Neue Zeit , which belonged to the Eastern CDU . Up until the year 2000, there was a noticeable advertisement for the newspaper on the left firewall of the Alfandary House.
In the years from 1999 to 2001, the new owner DEFO (today: Union Investment Institutional GmbH ) renovated and modernized the house inside and out, and added two attic floors. The architect was Manuel Álvarez. The terracottas were removed, where necessary supplemented, repaired and reassembled. The two new floors in the roof are glazed on the street side and covered with glass slats. These are automatically regulated by servomotors depending on the position of the sun.
Fate of the Alfandary family
The carpet business was given up during the National Socialist era and the family was scattered all over the world. Some members of the family were murdered in Auschwitz . Their fate and that of the other Sephardi in Berlin was commemorated in 2010 in the Centrum Judaicum in the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse in the exhibition “From the Bospurus to the Spree - Turkish Jews in Berlin”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the Kochstrasse underground station through the newspaper district. In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 25, 2011, page 19.
- ↑ Restoration work on the Alfandary house ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 982 kB)
- ↑ Entry at the Berlin Chamber of Architects ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Exhibition "From the Bospurus to the Spree - Turkish Jews in Berlin" ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 28.8 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ E