Brewery on the Brauhausberg
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 58 ″ E
The Brauerei am Brauhausberg was a brewery at the foot of the Brauhausberg in the Teltower suburb in Potsdam . It was built in several stages between 1884 and 1934 and parts of it are a listed building . After the business was closed in 1995, the buildings served, among other things, as studios and rehearsal rooms for artists. Since the renovation was completed in 2016, they have housed condominiums and town houses .
history
Operation as a brewery
The name of the Brauhausberg derives from the ice cellars that the Potsdam breweries drove into the mountain in the 19th century to store and ferment their beer there . In 1873 the Hoffmann brothers founded their own brewery, which can be traced back to 1884 at the foot of the Brauhausberg. By 1890, they expanded the business with a second brewery , a bar with beer garden and a cold store , which at the time had modern refrigeration technology .
In 1896 the Hoffmann brothers converted their successful company into a stock corporation and in the same year sold it to the Rixdorf brewery (from 1910 Berliner Kindl ). From 1897 to 1925 the new owner had warehouses with cooperage , a new cold store and a director's house with an entrance gate built according to plans by architect Hans Claus . An automatic cleaning and filling system was installed in the 1920s . From 1930 a new boiler house and a motor vehicle hall were added according to plans by Hans Claus and Richard Schepke ; the brewhouse was expanded and the facades standardized. The brewery suffered slight damage during the air raid on Potsdam in 1945.
After the war, the brewery was expropriated and from 1948 to 1990 it was run as a state- owned company under the name of Brauerei-Potsdam . The Berliner-Kindl-Brauerei bought the company back after the fall of the Wall , but gave up production in 1995. Several years of temporary use followed ; Among other things, artists rented studios and rehearsal rooms here .
Redevelopment
In 2011, the terraplan group from Nuremberg , represented by Erik Roßnagel, acquired the western part of the site. According to plans by the Potsdam office vangeistenmarfels.architekten , 50 condominiums and town houses were built in the motor vehicle hall (now called the Kutschenhalle ), the brewhouse, the boiler house and in the director's house . A new building was erected in the inner courtyard. The construction work was completed in early 2016.
Multi-storey residential buildings are to be built in place of the non- listed buildings on the eastern part of the property.
architecture
Urban significance
The complex of the former brewery is located at the northern foot of the Brauhausberg . The triangular property is framed by streets on two sides. The location was already significant in terms of urban development in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as one of Potsdam's main arterial roads (Heinrich-Mann-Allee) and the entrance to the war school (Albert-Einstein-Straße) crossed in front of the brewery . The part of the building that dominates from the street is the 18-meter-high brewhouse on Albert-Einstein-Straße.
architecture
Until the 1930s, the brewery was a collection of buildings of different times and styles with various extensions and conversions. During the extensions in 1925 and 1930 to 1934, attempts were made to give the buildings a uniform appearance. Their facades are made of dark red clinker . In the design, the architects Hans Claus and Richard Schepke used classic structural elements such as cornices and staggered door panels , the shapes of which they abstracted . In keeping with brick expressionism , the buildings are appropriately designed and reveal their function to the outside, but still appear monumental and representative. Large arched and rectangular windows let a lot of natural light flow into the office and work rooms. The various associations of the masonry bricks were used as ornament in some places , for example on the parapets of the arched windows of the brewhouse.
During the renovation , the listed buildings were freed from later additions. The damage in the brickwork was plastered and painted brick red so that the building history of the complex could be read. The courtyard facades were given balconies. The carriage house and boiler house were provided with an additional attic storey , the top storeys of the brewery and director's house were expanded and partially provided with incised roof terraces . A new three-story residential building was built in the inner courtyard.
Since the brewery had been rebuilt many times and a large part of the technical equipment had been removed since 1995, hardly any historical parts were preserved in the interior when the renovation began. When they were converted into apartments, they were largely redesigned; some historical cap covers have been preserved.
View from Albert-Einstein-Strasse before the renovation (2013).
Street facade of the brewhouse before the renovation (2013).
Director's house with gate before the renovation (2013).
Historic windows on the brewhouse and boiler house before the renovation (2013).
Historical portal at the director's house before the renovation (2013).
New courtyard development with garden after renovation (2016).
literature
- Berliner Kindl Brewery (Ed.): Berliner Kindl 100 years old. A contribution to Berlin's brewing history . Berlin 1972.
- Luise and Jörg Fröhlich: The Potsdam terrace restaurant “Minsk” and the Brauhausberg through the ages (1970–2015) . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 3-7386-4478-4 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ^ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg. In: ns.gis-bldam-brandenburg.de. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .
- ^ Frank P. Freudenberg: Beer Metropolis Berlin. Beer history, breweries and pubs in the capital . Hans Carl, Nuremberg 1996, ISBN 3-418-00378-8 , pp. 38 .
- ↑ Small communications . In: Bayerisches Brauer-Journal . tape 6 , no. 18 , 1896, p. 211 .
- ^ Franziska Maria Schade: Last bands and artists leave their domicile - Zapfenstreich in the old brewery. In: Märkische Allgemeine . Retrieved February 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Carola Hein: Project developer Terraplan wants to invest 15 million euros - living in an old brewery. In: Märkische Allgemeine . Retrieved February 24, 2016 .
- ^ Peer Straube: Living in the old brewery . In: Potsdam's latest news . April 10, 2013 ( pnn.de [accessed on February 22, 2016]).