Blauer Bock (Magdeburg)
The Blue Bock was a building in the city center of Magdeburg .
location
The building was in the old town of Magdeburg south of Karstadt (formerly: Centrum Warenhaus ) on Breiten Weg (formerly: Karl-Marx-Straße) on the corner of Ernst-Reuter-Allee (formerly: Wilhelm-Pieck-Allee). The old market and the main train station are nearby .
building
The Blaue Bock was a prefabricated building with 321 apartments, spread over 7 floors. The building was about 90 meters wide and about 27 meters high. There were various shops on the ground floor, as well as a connecting passage to the Karstadt department store (formerly: Centrum Warenhaus).
The facade consisted mostly of blue tiles. At the beginning, the building was considered modern, as there were intercoms in the apartments and garbage chutes on every floor . A shelter was also set up underground.
history
At the place where the Blue Bock stood, there was once the company headquarters of the textile wholesaler Heinrich Mittag. The Blaue Bock was built in 1967 and was originally intended to serve as a construction workers' hotel. Instead it was used as a nurses' home for the nearby women's clinic. After the fall of the Wall there were several changes of ownership. The last residents moved out in 1992, so that the building, with the exception of the shops on the ground floor, was empty.
In the same year, the state of construction was checked by the building construction department because the city administration was to be housed in the renovated building. However, the project was dropped for cost reasons. Instead, the building was due to be sold in 1993. The banker Günter Follmer was awarded the contract for the house, which is under municipal control. At the same time, the OHG Heinrich Mittag raised an objection because they had been trying to get the lucrative property back since the fall of the Wall; however, the opposition was dismissed in 1994. But Follmer died in the summer of 1995 before the legally binding purchase and his heirs did not claim the right to purchase. Thereupon the city negotiated with the OHG Heinrich Mittag, which wanted to build a "representative building that was exemplary for Magdeburg".
Between 1992 and 1996 it was quiet around the Blauer Bock, apart from the move in of the Löbbecke & Co. bank , for which the first floor on the right-hand side was converted and renovated over the length of nine one-room apartments. The retail space below was converted into a counter hall.
Since then, the Blue Bock has also been used for some art projects. In the summer of 1996, for example, the artist Sabrina Hohmann presented a project in which 280 chairs from Magdeburg residents were hung on steel cables on the facade for 14 days. It should symbolize taking possession, sitting down or coming to terms with things.
At the end of the 1990s there were also plans for a major project that was to be developed together with Karstadt. The car park behind the department store was to be included and the two buildings connected. However, Karstadt withdrew from the project at the beginning of 1999.
In 1999 Büll & Dr. Liedtke (B&L Immobilien AG) and the Stadtsparkasse owned the Blauer Bock. B&L Immobilien AG was renamed DGAG Deutsche Grundbesitz AG. At the end of 2004, the members of the “Magdeburger Club e. V. “into the building. Just in time for St. Nicholas' Day, he started his first campaign and put a huge Advent calendar on the facade. The respective date was shown by lighting various windows in the evening hours. From December 2006 to June 2007, the “ Bluebox ” project also illuminated the Blauer Bock from the inside with dimmable construction lamps. In 2010 a huge whale, turtle and jellyfish were painted on the window panes by the urban pirates. The blue whale should symbolize the size and age of the blue buck.
Between 2011 and 2012 there were several negotiations between Prelios and various investors about the purchase, demolition and reconstruction of the Blauer Bock and a subsequent marketing and development for retailers. In 2014 Prelios was able to sell the Blauer Bock to SWM , which wants to build its new company headquarters there. The first gutting work began in the same year.
In 2015, interested citizens were able to visit the Blauer Bock again.
The building was demolished in 2016. Around 15,000 tons of concrete and building rubble were produced when the Blauer Bock was demolished in Magdeburg. Much of it was recycled and reused as a leveling layer on construction sites. In addition, a segment with four windows and tiles was saved from demolition. It will find its place in the new SWM administration building.
Naming
How the Blauer Bock got its name is not clear. However, there are several explanations for how it got its name.
- One explanation is that the building was called the Blue Block because of its blue tiles when it was inaugurated. However, since this was difficult to pronounce for some and at that time the program from West German television " Zum Blauen Bock " with Heinz Schenk was also popular in Magdeburg, the L was left out more and more often.
- The second explanation arose from the fact that initially many young, single women and men lived in the Blauer Bock, enjoying their youth - mostly without the curtains closed. Many Magdeburg residents were able to witness the joy of life of the residents from outside and subsequently spoke of the goat in the Blue Block.
- A third explanation relates to the architecture of the building. In the eastern area of the building, the pillars of the arcade area are said to have been reminiscent of the walks of a billy goat. In combination with the color of the tiles, this resulted in the name Blauer Bock .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ mdr.de: Tschüss, Blauer Bock - The end of the cult record | MDR.DE. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 .
- ↑ mdr.de: MDR time travel: The "blue goat" in Magdeburg. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
- ↑ http://bluebox.blinkenarea.org/downloads/bilder/glasbox/bluebox.glasbox-blauer.bock-1.1.pdf
- ↑ Matthias Callehn: Concert, exhibition and film: Urbanpiraten open blue goat. (No longer available online.) In: www.stadtfeld-magdeburg.de. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 .
- ^ Rainer Schweingel: Lower Saxony investors want to buy Blauen Bock this year. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ^ Peter Ließmann .: Blauer Bock: Purchase contracts shortly before the signing. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ^ Karl-Heinz Kaiser: Two investors are interested in the Blauer Bock. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ^ Rainer Schweingel: Magdeburg's Blauer Bock is sold. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Stefan Harter: Blauer Bock is already gutted. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: One last time in the Blauer Bock. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Dan Tebel: Recycling of concrete giants. In: www.volksstimme.de. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
- ↑ How the Blue Goat got its name | Blue buck. In: www.blauer-bock-magdeburg.de. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .