Old Finance Directorate (Hamburg)
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '55 " N , 9 ° 59' 10.7" E
The building of the former Oberfinanzdirektion is located at the address Rödingsmarkt 2 in a prominent location in downtown Hamburg in the immediate vicinity of the ring line of the Hamburger Hochbahn and the central traffic axis Willy-Brandt-Strasse / Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse (formerly Ost-West-Strasse ).
Construction and design
The Heiligengeisthospital had been located on the site since the early 13th century , and it housed the Hamburg tax administration from 1884 until it was demolished in 1906. The current building was built between 1907 and 1910 based on designs by Albert Erbe . It has a considerable building volume with around 15,000 m² of floor space, which has been cleverly divided up by the convex curved main front and the varied hipped mansard roof. The entire facade is made of red brick with rich and detailed sandstone decor. Behind the entrance portal, which at first glance seems to be the right size for a building of this size, opens up a surprisingly large two-story entrance hall with lots of neo-baroque decorative elements. The lavish decoration of the facade and entrance area is unusual for Hamburg office buildings.
The building has four floors with the high ceiling heights customary at the time of construction. It is roughly triangular in shape around an inner courtyard. This inner courtyard is completely filled by a room with a glass roof that is used as a library and event room. The vast majority of offices have windows facing the outside of the building; the hallways and stairwells have windows facing the inner courtyard. On the second floor there is a meeting room that is unusual due to its oval floor plan and the permanently installed table that is adapted to it.
The building survived the air raids on Hamburg in World War II with comparatively minor damage. As a result, not only is the facade largely true to the original, but there are also many design elements typical of the time inside. In addition to the entrance hall, this mainly applies to stairwells, doors, lamps and floor coverings.
Details of the facade to the Rödingsmarkt
Figures above the entrance portal
Inner courtyard with rear staircase
Entrance hall
Coffered ceiling in the entrance hall
Boardroom
State of the building in 1945
Use after completion
The building has been used as an office building by various Hamburg-based tax authorities since 1910. Until it was dissolved in 2009, the Hamburg Regional Finance Directorate was housed here. Since 2009, the building has housed parts of the Federal Finance Directorate North and the Hamburg finance authority .
In 2011 the federal and state governments jointly decided not to let the building be used by the authorities in the future and offered it for sale. A real estate consortium from Munich was awarded the contract for the sale in October 2012, and at the end of 2014 they sold the building to the Frasers Hospitality group, which had converted it into a hotel by 2018. The opening with 154 guest rooms took place in 2019.
See also
literature
- Jürgen Tietz :: From the Oberfinanzdirektion to the Fraser Suites: Gatsby's Grandezza , in: "Architecture in Hamburg: Yearbook 2019/20", publisher: Hamburgische Architektenkammer, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96060-512-6 , p. 66-71,
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 19th f .
- Chronicle of the Oberfinanzdirektion Hamburg 1919-2007 in 5 volumes . Oberfinanzdirektion Hamburg, Hamburg 2007.
Web links
- List of conversion objects ( memento of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 13.4 MB) for Northern Germany on the BIMA website .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulrich Gassdorf: Luxury hotel costs 50 million euros . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 10, 2012.
- ↑ message to the sale announcement for 2012 ( Memento of 23 December 2014 Internet Archive ) in the archive of the website of the TV station Hamburg 1 . Retrieved May 8, 2012.
- ↑ Article for sale in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 8, 2014. Accessed December 23, 2014.
- ^ Project presentation by Frasers Hospitality. Retrieved June 17, 2015.