Broschek House
The Broschek house in Hamburg is a 1925-26 according to the plans of the architect Fritz Höger built office building , the 1980-81 by the architects von Gerkan, Marg und Partner was rebuilt and expanded and today as Renaissance Hamburg Hotel of the Marriott group is used .
The building on Heuberg / Große Bleichen in downtown Hamburg was the operating site of the Broschek & Co. publishing and rotogravure printing company , which also published the Hamburger Fremdblatt .
Fritz Höger's original plans for the extension of the printing and publishing house also provided for the construction of a 65-meter-high press tower with a viewing platform and a stepped gable on the Heuberg, the steps of which were to form the stepped storeys that ended there (along the Große Bleichen), which was what the then chief construction director Fritz Schumacher criticized. In the end, the building remained unfinished, not least because the building owner did not own the corner property on which an older commercial building stood until it was destroyed in the war.
After the end of the Second World War , the daily newspaper Die Welt was produced in the building on behalf of the British occupying forces .
At the same time as the complete redesign of the entire street block into the Hanse-Viertel shopping arcade (also by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners), the Broschek-Haus was converted into the Ramada Hotel in 1980-81. The facade of the corner of the building was closed according to the historical model of the wings on the two streets, ie "with a less dramatic solution" - and thus in the spirit of Schumacher. The building, adorned with gold-glazed ceramic pyramids, received a bronze figure in a small wall niche that represents Fritz Höger.
This extraordinary type of building, u. a. with bricks from the same brickworks, which suggests that it would have always been planned there, was described as a "corresponding reconstruction", as "reinsurance in the Hamburg architectural tradition" typical of the time.
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- ↑ a b c Gert Kähler : quotation, falsification, updating? Conversion of the Broschekhaus into a hotel, Hamburg 1980-81. In: Volkwin Marg (ed.): On old foundations. Building in a historical context - Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. Dölling and Galitz, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86218-039-4 , p. 205.
- ^ Hans-Peter Schwarz : Obituary for Christian Kracht , accessed on August 26, 2011
- ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg. Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart 1995, p. 47.
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 16 ″ E