Amber Manufactory Building (Königsberg)

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Building of the State Amber Factory in Königsberg (2016)

The building of the State Amber Manufactory in Königsberg on the corner of ul. Portowaja and ul. Serpuchowskaja (formerly Sattlergasse / Bone Street ) in Kaliningrad was built in 1899 in neo -Renaissance style. The unused building is to be converted into a branch of the Kaliningrad Amber Museum .

history

The Royal Amber Works in Königsberg i. Pr. Were founded in 1899 after the amber law reverted to the Kingdom of Prussia and produced works of art, jewelry and other objects made of amber. In 1912, 14 civil servants and 200 workers and supervisors as well as 400 homeworkers were employed at the amber works. After the First World War , the amber works came to Preussag , which the Königsberg company brought into the Königsberg state amber factory as a Königsberg branch in 1926 . In 1930 more than 1000 employees worked in all branches of the manufacture.

Since the Second World War , the building has belonged to the Soviet and Russian Ministry of Defense. It served as a military dormitory until 2009. In 2011 the military handed over the building to the Amber Museum. In 2013, plans were presented according to which the house would be used for exhibitions of the Kaliningrad Amber Museum. The installation of a replica of the Amber Room is also planned .

description

The three-storey corner house with the entrance portal was built in 1899 in the Italian neo-renaissance style. The facade facing the former Sattlergasse is six window axes wide. A heavy portal with gable and half-columns has been introduced to Sattlergasse. This elaborate decor is typical of a building from the late 19th century. The facade facing the former Knochengasse is ten window axes wide. The ground floor is decorated as a heavy base level with ashlar stones made of plaster. Other ashlar stones made of plaster decorate the corners and the weakly indicated risalites . The crowning of the windows on the first floor show architectural decorations in the forms of the Italian Renaissance. The crowning of the windows consist alternately of triangular gables or segmental arches . The windows on the top floor also show Renaissance forms. These are more reservedly decorated and are usually only covered with simple beams . On the two upper floors, the red bricks have been left visible as wall decorations between the windows. A console cornice forms the end of the roof over the top floors.

literature

  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , pp. 123 .
  • Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada: How Königsberg became Kaliningrad (=  materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe . Volume 1 ). Herder Institute, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87969-375-7 .
  • Willi Scharloff: Königsberg - then and now: Pictures from a forbidden city. Rautenberg, Leer 1982.
  • Fritz Gause : Königsberg - the way it was. Düsseldorf 1977, p. 47.
  • Georg Dehio / Ernst Gall / Michael Antoni : Dehio manual of the art monuments West and East Prussia. Munich; Berlin 1993, p. 245.

Web links

Commons : Amber Manufactory Building (Königsberg)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königsberger Express 1/2013, p. 12 f.
  2. ↑ Jurij Tschernyshev: Will Amber Room Save Manufactory? After Saint Petersburg, Königsberg is also to receive a reconstruction of the East Prussia portal from August 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , pp. 123 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 13 ″  E