Old Port Authority Hamburg
The old port office in Hamburg was the seat of the office for “electricity and port construction” in the former Dalmannstraße 1 until 2005. The building has been a listed building since 2001 and is now the hotel “old port office” in the newly created Überseequartier of HafenCity .
history
The building at Dalmannstrasse 1 was erected in 1885/1886 on Grasbrook in the emerging free port for Section II of the building deputation as the seat of the electricity and port construction department. The neo-Gothic building with its dark red brick and the ornamentation of pointed arch depressions, wall reliefs and green colored terracotta bricks is still impressive today. In the years up to 1937, further extensions and buildings were gradually built around the building, which were connected to one another on the upper floor with closed bridges, some of them across streets. Most recently, in 1992/1993, a modern extension was built north of the old buildings at Dalmannstrasse 2 (architects Dinse, Feest and Zurl).
Dalmannstrasse was named after the Hamburg hydraulic engineering director Johannes Dalmann (1823 - 1875), during whose tenure the modern port system with the Tiedenhafen was developed.
Old usage
The building complex was used from 1886 to 2005 as the head office of the “Office for Electricity and Harbor Construction” . The Office for Electricity and Port Construction , which is part of the Hamburg Economic Authority , was merged with other port authorities to form the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) and in 2006 moved into Speicher P in the Speicherstadt . The buildings have been empty since that time.
The new beginning
For the construction of the Überseequartier, all buildings in the area were demolished between 2006 and 2008. Including the water police at Sandtorkai and all other buildings on the former Dalmannstrasse except for the listed building. Built in 1885/86, the "Old Port Authority" is one of the oldest buildings in HafenCity. And it is one of the deepest: the new buildings are being built on terps, piled areas for flood protection at a height of eight to nine meters above sea level . The brick Wilhelminian style building, on the other hand, is at a height of 5.3 m and seems to sink into the ground. In order to keep the proportions of the facade visible, the terrain had to be specially modeled. The construction of the underground car park under the port authority and the Überseeboulevard had cracked the brickwork. The security measures began in August 2013. The foundations had to be stabilized using the high pressure injection process.
For the safety of the building in the event of storm surges, which most recently reached and exceeded the 6 m mark, numerous proofs of safety had to be provided in terms of water technology. Not least because the Elbe with the Magdeburg harbor is not quite 30 m away.
New use
The name "Old Port Authority" only came up with the plans for its conversion. Initially, it was planned to be used as a market hall. Due to disagreement among investors and the monument protection requirements, which prevented the historic building from being cored, it was sold to a private consortium of hotel developers. Since mid-2016, the building has housed the “25 hours Altes Hafenamt” hotel along with a restaurant, bar and fitness center. The original architecture was also retained inside and adapted to the new requirements.
Imagery
past
present
Web links
- Pictures in the picture archive Hamburg around the old port authority
- Überseequartier
- Document of the port history ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Hamburger Abendblatt from May 2, 2001
- Hamburger Abendblatt: Page 12 of the issue, section interjection: Protest against planned demolition. February 20, 2003, accessed August 22, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument Protection Office of the City of Hamburg: Hamburg Monument List PDF: Page 3676, No. 11813, Osakaallee 12, Altes Hafenamt. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Hamburg State Archives: Department 326-2 I Electricity and Harbor Construction I, construction of the administration building. In: Finding aid of the Hamburg State Archives (p. 7, no. 20). Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ^ City of Hamburg: Storm surge information sheet of the city of Hamburg. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ^ City of Hamburg: Storm surges in Hamburg, an overview. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ District magazine No. 27 ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '32.2 " N , 9 ° 59" 54.5 " E