Old Market 4 (Stralsund)

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House Alter Markt 4 (2008)

The house with the postal address Alter Markt 4 is a former bank building in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund on the Alter Markt on the corner of Knieperstrasse . It is still known today as the Pomeranian Provincial Bank and is a listed building .

Previous buildings

City Theater (1834)

Originally there were two gabled houses at this point, including the council pharmacy; both were demolished in 1833. From 1833–1834 the Stralsund Theater was built on the property , which in turn was demolished for today's construction.

history

In 1927 the Städtische Sparkasse wanted to purchase the city theater, which the city approved on March 8, 1927, but refused after complaints from the banking competition. The Pommern Provincial Bank , which until then had been located across from the Minervahaus , acquired the building and had a new building built in its place, which opened on September 23, 1930. The architect was Adolf Thesmacher from Stettin . The cubically closed, brick-faced building has four storeys . The third floor is set back a little and provided with wall pillars. A flight of stairs is in front of the wide portal niche .

The building was also used by the Barmer Ersatzkasse , the medical clearing house and the Gestapo as tenants .

After the Second World War, it was used by the Stralsund city bank and then by the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and the social security of the GDR . Popularly it is known as the Union House. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the local health insurance fund as well as the trade unions ver.di , IG Metall , German Trade Union Federation , IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt and others have been based there.

The house is located in the core area of the UNESCO as a World Heritage site of cultural property recognized urban area " Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar ". It is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Stralsund with the number 6.

literature

  • Friederike Thomas, Dietmar Volksdorf: The old town island Stralsund - Illustrated list of monuments. The architectural monuments of the old town in text and images. Edited by the building authority of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Self-published, Stralsund 1999, DNB 987697757 , p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Alter Markt 4 (Stralsund)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ^ Stralsund, 1930: Pommersche Provinzialbank on Bauwelt.de .

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '58.8 "  N , 13 ° 5' 25.7"  E