Service building of the former Kurmark waterways directorate

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Service building of the former Kurmark waterways directorate

The office building of the former Kurmark waterway directorate is a listed administrative building in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam, Berliner Straße 98-101.

Building history and use

In the course of the redesign of the imperial capital by Albert Speer , the Kurmark Waterways Directorate (1935–1939 Kurmark Waterways Directorate) was moved from Berlin to Potsdam. In what was then Neue Königstrasse 74-77, an administration building with two side wings and a crossbar was built between 1938 and 1940 according to the design by the architect Werner March . The almost 70-meter-long facade on Berliner Straße has 21 axes. A balcony running over five window axes, keystone-like decorative elements on the bezels and a roof turret with a clock emphasize the central axis. An outside staircase leads to the main entrance and the entrance hall, which is lined with Solnhofen tiles . The two-storey four-wing building surrounds a green inner courtyard that March had designed with Georg Potente .

After the Second World War, the Soviet armed forces used the service building. Between 1950 and 1953, the four-wing building was extended by an H-shaped extension and in 1955 by a crossbar, so that two more inner courtyards were created. From 1955/56 the building complex housed the German Central Archives of the GDR, from 1973 the Central State Archives of the GDR and the State Archives Administration belonging to the Ministry of the Interior, and from 1990 until the move to Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1996 the Federal Archives , Potsdam Department. In 1993 the Federal Property Office , since 2005 Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks , Directorate Potsdam, moved into the premises. In addition, the main customs office in Potsdam (Tizianstrasse 13) has been housed in the complex since 1998.

In addition to the former presidential building of the DRK at Babelsberger August-Bebel-Straße 89, the former waterways directorate is the only administrative building in Potsdam that was built during the National Socialist era .

literature

  • Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen, Lucas Elmenhorst: Architectural Guide Potsdam . Reimer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-01325-7 , p. 90.
  • Federal Archives Koblenz (Ed.): The Federal Archives. Service provider for research, public relations and administration . Koblenz 2012, ISBN 978-3-89192-141-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigel, Dähmlow, et al .: Architectural Guide Potsdam . P. 90.
  2. ↑ The execution was carried out by Willi Baumann (garden design), Neubabelsberg , cf. Jörg Wacker: Georg Potente (1876–1945). The development from garden designer to garden monument curator between 1902 and 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci . Dissertation, University of Potsdam 2003, p. 22.
  3. ↑ a b Official Journal for the State Capital Potsdam, vol. 16, no. 10, Potsdam 2005, p. 21.

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 40.8 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 56.3"  E