Building relocation

Relocation of the old Villa Haux in Ebingen in 1907

When moving a building , the location of an entire structure is changed by moving it. A building relocation can serve to preserve monuments (transport to an open-air museum or rescue from an endangered location), or the economic continued use at a more favorable location as part of urban renewal or according to the needs of the owner.

Different procedures

There are two methods:

Relocation : The building is dismantled, transported in the largest possible individual parts and rebuilt at the new location. In this way, distinctive parts such as presentation or plastering can be shown in the (restored) original at the new location.
Building relocation in the narrower sense: The building is detached from the subsurface and moved as a whole, by rolling or sliding on appropriate surfaces.

Both procedures are a form of reconstruction elsewhere , in which part of the building as a whole is lost (original foundation, structural context of the original location, archaeological relics and reference to previous buildings).

Known building relocations

Transport of the Heuersdorf Emmaus Church to Borna in Saxony (2007)

In 1851 the Marble Arch was moved to London .

In 1907 the old Villa Haux in Ebingen was moved to the opposite side of the street.

In 1964 and 1968, the two Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel , located on the Nile , were moved 180 meters to a 64-meter higher elevation in order to save them from being flooded by the Aswan Dam .

In 1975 the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Brüx was the only building in the historic town to be saved.

1977–1980, the Egyptian temple complex Philae , located on an island in the Nile, was relocated together with the island in order to protect it from being overflowed by the Aswan Dam.

In 1996 the Kaisersaal of the Hotel Esplanade ruins in Berlin was moved 75 meters. The cost was 1 million Deutschmarks (= 510,000 euros) per meter.

In 1997, a theater in Detroit was moved 563 meters.

In 1999, lighthouses were moved inland from the eroded coast at Beachy Head and Cape Hatteras .

In 2003, an entrepreneur's villa in Bad Oeynhausen was moved 30 meters.

In 2006 the historic portico of the Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig was moved 30 meters to the east for construction work and moved back to its old location in October 2009 after the work was completed.

Moving a house in Bad Oeynhausen by 30 meters

In 2007 the Emmaus Church was moved from Heuersdorf to Borna , as the place Heuersdorf was supposed to give way to an open-cast brown coal mine.

In 2012, the former administration building of the Oerlikon machine factory in Zurich-Oerlikon was moved 60 meters to make room for the Altstetten-Zurich HB-Oerlikon diameter line .

The historic stave church on the grounds of the Albrechtshaus is to be relocated to a local location in Stiege by 2024 .

Relocation of other structures

It was not that rare that free-standing or guyed transmission towers (not made of concrete) were dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere. In some cases they were rebuilt close (only a few meters), in other cases far away from the original location. In the first case, almost all of the towers were part of a directional antenna for long or medium wave and after a new frequency allocation plan came into force with a new arrangement of the towers, they were best able to comply with the required directional beam diagram. In addition to building a new tower, it was often advisable to dismantle one of the system's towers and rebuild it at the new location. It also happened that parts of dismantled towers were used for the upper parts of new higher transmission towers. Examples of this are the transmission masts in Donebach and the now demolished wooden tower of the Ismaning radio station . After the Second World War, some transmission towers in the Soviet occupation zone were dismantled by the Soviet Army and rebuilt in what was then the Soviet Union . An example of this is the Goliath transmitter. Overhead line masts have also already been dismantled and re-erected in a new location. Smaller steel observation towers were also dismantled for the purpose of restoration and then rebuilt.

Illustration from 1900

literature

Adolph Douai : An upturned city . In: The Gazebo . Issue 27, 1866, pp. 428-431 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Egon Bruckmann: The displacement of massive buildings . 1970, ISBN 3-205-08167-6 .
Fred Kaspar (arr.): Buildings in motion . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3856-1

Web links

Commons : Relocated Buildings - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ A house on the move - moving a house in Bad Oeynhausen
↑ Frank Eritt: Homepage of Frank Eritt. July 19, 2015, accessed September 23, 2018 .
^ Church on the move. In: 20min.ch . October 24, 2007, accessed January 10, 2018.
^ Cosima Sophia Hofmann: Stave Church Staircase: Another stage accomplished . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).

[1] A house on the move - moving a house in Bad Oeynhausen

[2] Frank Eritt: Homepage of Frank Eritt. July 19, 2015, accessed September 23, 2018 .

[3] Church on the move. In: 20min.ch . October 24, 2007, accessed January 10, 2018.

[4] Cosima Sophia Hofmann: Stave Church Staircase: Another stage accomplished . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).