Brockess house

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Brockessches House
Brock's Palais
Brockessches House (2011, not renovated)

Brockessches House (2011, not renovated)

Data
place Potsdam
builder Carl von Gontard
Construction year 1771-1776
height 15 m
Coordinates 52 ° 23 '50.4 "  N , 13 ° 3' 19.3"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '50.4 "  N , 13 ° 3' 19.3"  E
particularities
Monument; renovated and massively rebuilt in the 21st century

The Brockessche Haus , also referred to as Brockessches or Brock'sches Palais in recent publications, is a listed residential and manufacturing building in downtown Potsdam. It was built in 1776 on the street Am Kanal (today Yorckstraße 19/20) based on a design by Carl von Gontard for the glass cutter Johann Christoph Brockes with grants from Friedrich II . After numerous changes of ownership and a long period of vacancy, the palace was completely restored in accordance with listed buildings by the end of 2016 and has served as a residential building ever since.

history

In 1722, Lieutenant von Kleist had a house built between the riding stables and the garrison church. Because of its prosperity ( Mammon ), today's Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße was called Mammonstraße . On the rear plot of land on the city ​​canal , he had soldiers' quarters built, which was popularly known as the “cartridge pocket” because of its low building depth .

Johann Christoph Brockes acquired the property on Yorckstrasse in 1770 and asked Friedrich II for financial support for the construction of a town house. It was not until 1776 that the king made the necessary funds available for the facade , which had been designed by Carl von Gontard. Brockes had to bear the remaining costs for the construction with around 1,700 square meters of floor space , for which the construction manager Friedrich Wilhelm Titel was responsible. In addition to the residential and business premises, the building also housed the warehouse, as well as billeting rooms.

After Brockes' death in 1804, the heirs sold the building to the Prussian state , which housed the accounting chamber in it . In the German Reich, from 1871, the Chamber of Accounts continued to function as the Court of Accounts. The Brockessche Haus survived the Second World War - apart from a few bullet holes - unscathed, while the outbuildings burned down.

After the end of the war, in 1945, the telecommunications construction office of Deutsche Post moved in and stayed there until the facility was closed as a result of reunification in 1990. It then became the property of Deutsche Telekom . During the vacancy since 1990, various possible uses as a hotel, authority or location for the Potsdam Museum were discussed. The building also served as a design object for architecture students at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences . The Baywobau Baubetreuung GmbH group did not acquire the property from Post until 2010 . After an architectural competition, the winning design by Stefan Höhne was selected for implementation. At the beginning of 2014, the gutting and renovation of the building began. The damp subsurface proved to be particularly difficult, so 329 reinforced concrete piles were sunk 40 meters deep into the subsoil for the actual palace and the planned wing structures . The topping-out ceremony took place in July 2015. The investor had 18 condominiums built in the old building under monument protection regulations, the largest with 324 square meters on the first floor while maintaining the suite of seven rooms. Together with the two new buildings along Yorckstrasse as well as the two south wings, a coach house and the west wing, the northern part of the former Long Stable, designed by Nöfer Architects , 103 apartments were built on the 5400 square meter property and were ready for occupancy from December 2016.

architecture

Potsdam, Brockessches Haus, etching by Andreas Ludwig Krüger , 1779

In his design for the facade of the three-story building with 19 axes, Carl von Gontard oriented himself on French palace architecture and was particularly inspired by Perrault's design for the east facade of the Louvre and French chalets. Is divided with stucco decorated sculptures and Baroque - facade by Attica as well as Central and corner projections . The corner projections are crowned by four ornamental vases made of sandstone . In the central risalit there is a loggia , which is made up of four full columns and crowned by a gable triangle. Above the gable, putti by the Wohler brothers, which had been stored for several years, refer to the profession of the first owner with symbols of glass production. According to Saskia Hüneke, curator at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, one of the putti should bend over the manual of glassmaking by the Potsdam alchemist and inventor of ruby ​​glass Johannes Kunckel . Three sandstone vases had to be reworked for the production of the historical figurative jewelry.

The façade with the eight-meter-wide house behind it with workshops in the courtyard is an example of the palace façades commanded by Friedrich II, which were known to the people as “Vorhemdchen”. Due to the low depth of the building but also the name of the previous building was Patronentasche received.

literature

  • Albrecht Ecke, Catrin During: Built! Architecture guide Potsdam. Lukas Verlag for Art and Intellectual History, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-936872-90-2 , p. 16.
  • Astrid Fick: Potsdam - Berlin - Bayreuth. Carl Philipp Christian von Gontard (1731–1791) and his bourgeois houses, immediate buildings and city palaces. Imhof, Petersberg 2000, ISBN 3-932526-42-2 .
  • Georg Hermann: Walk in Potsdam. Message from a sunken city. Verlag Christian Blöss, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-934378-04-8 , p. 123.
  • Christiane Petri: Potsdam and the surrounding area. Symbol of Prussia's splendor and glory. Dumont Reise Verlag, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 3-7701-6610-8 , p. 86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhart Hohenstein: A "cartridge pocket" as a house. Potsdam Latest News , July 7, 2016, accessed January 11, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Sander: The history of the Brockesschen Palais ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 16MB)
  3. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: concept study Brocksches Palais von Winkens Architekten, 2011 ) (pdf); Retrieved June 17, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bruckner-gruppe.de
  4. ↑ a b Marco Zschieck: Topping out ceremony for the Brockessche Palais. Potsdams Puttenstube. www.pnn.de, 2014, accessed on January 22, 2017 . .
  5. ^ Fürstlich Wohnen ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Guido Berg: New investor for Brocke's house. Potsdam Latest News , November 1, 2011, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  7. ^ Project Brockessches Palais. www.baywobau.de, accessed on May 7, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Return without causing a stir. Potsdam Latest News , July 6, 2016, accessed January 2017 .
  9. ↑ New building, first occupancy. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ from July 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ From Potsdam's most beautiful cartridge pouch. 2016, accessed in 2016 .
  12. ↑ Brockessches Palais in Potsdam. With putti and vases. Potsdam Latest News , April 29, 2015, accessed in 2016 .