Wilhelmshallen

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Wilhelmshallen (left) and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (right)

The Wilhelmshallen on Hardenbergstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg was a neo-Romanesque building named after Kaiser Wilhelm I and built by the architect Carl Gause in 1905–1906. Gauss's design took into account all of Kaiser Wilhelm II's specifications. During World War II , the building was damaged in an air raid in 1943 and demolished in 1955. In its place is now the Zoo Palast , built in 1956/1957 according to plans by the architects Paul Schwebes , Hans Schoszberger and Gerhard Fritsche .

Location and surroundings

In the immediate vicinity was the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church of Franz Schwechten . Several buildings in the immediate vicinity were also built in the neo-Romanesque style with a conscious reference to the church and formed the so-called "Roman Forum" on Berlin's Auguste-Viktoria-Platz (today: Breitscheidplatz ). Examples of this were the Romanesque House I and Romanesque House II , also by Franz Schwechten, the Rolandbrunnen, which was demolished in 1928 for traffic reasons, the Wilhelmshallen and the office and commercial building "Haus Kaisereck" and "Haus Kurfürsteneck" by Emil Schaudt , which was built between 1914 and 1915 , which, however, was reminiscent of (neo-) Romance forms in only a few details.

use

Café Wilhelmshallen (left), Willy Pragher, 1926

The Berlin address book for 1907 does not yet give a house number for the building - between the Park Hotel Hardenbergstrasse 29 opposite and the Zoologischer Garten Hardenbergstrasse 30 train station - it also gives information about the building exhibition hall and the owner exhibition hall GmbH (singular) it does not deliver on a catering business.

A few years later, the exhibition halls at the zoo (in the plural) are mentioned in connection with various events . At the beginning of 1912, the House and Apartment Building exhibition planned for May / June 1912 was announced as the last event in the exhibition halls. In the same year, a renovation took place, and the western part has since served as a variety theater and cinema, in which films were shown as early as 1915 and which was originally called the Palace Theater at the Zoo . In 1925 the building was taken over by the UFA and then housed the Ufa Palace at the zoo . A photo by Willy Pragher from the summer of 1926 shows that the Café Wilhelmshallen was also housed in the building by then at the latest .

literature

  • Günther Nelles (Ed.): Berlin and Potsdam (Explore the world). Nelles Verlag, Munich 2006, p. 61. books.google.de
  • Edgard Haider: Lost splendor. Stories of destroyed buildings . Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, p. 163.

Web links

Commons : Exhibition halls at the zoo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b berlin.de Lexicon: Romanisches Forum accessed on February 10, 2013
  2. ^ Romanesque houses, Berlin
  3. ^ Peer Zietz: Franz Heinrich Schwechten. An architect between historicism and modernity. Edition Menges, Stuttgart a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-930698-72-2 , p. 60.
  4. ↑ Berlin address book 1907 (street section)
  5. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 46, 1912, No. 1 (from January 3, 1912), p. 12.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 22 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E