Bellevue Tower

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Bellevue Tower
place Eichhornstrasse 10785 Tiergarten
Construction year 1971
demolition 9-11 October 1993
height 44 m
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '27 "  N , 13 ° 22' 21.9"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '27 "  N , 13 ° 22' 21.9"  E

The Bellevue Tower was a fourteen-story high-rise on the building site at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Tiergarten .

history

The building was built as a hotel in 1971. Most recently, the building was used as a student residence. In 1991 Daimler-Benz bought the building. It was blown up from October 9-11, 1993. It was to give way for the planned new buildings of the Daimler-Benz subsidiary debis on Potsdamer Platz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. New Germany editorial office: Bellevue Tower blown up (new Germany). Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Rolf R. Lautenschläger: Ugly beautiful monument . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 9, 1992, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 28 ( taz.de [accessed April 23, 2020]).
  3. ^ Explosion of the Bellevue Tower - Halter Spreng- und Umwelttechnik GmbH. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  4. Bellevue Tower | Berlin, Potsdamer Platz | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  5. Berliner Zeitung: Bellevue Tower crushed to concrete rubble. Accessed April 23, 2020 (German).
  6. Review - Bellevue Tower blown up. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .