E-Werk (Berlin)

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E-Werk, 2014

The E-Werk (original name: Buchhandlerhof substation ) is a former substation that has been a listed building since 1987 . It was built between 1924 and 1928 according to plans by the architect Hans Heinrich Müller and is located at Wilhelmstrasse 43 (back of Mauerstrasse) in the Berlin district of Mitte . From 1993 to 1997 it was one of the defining venues of the techno scene.

The first major exhibition devoted exclusively to techno art took place in 1994 for the first time in Chromapark in the E-Werk and from 1995 also in the Evidence Hall in the same complex.

The club was run by Hilke Saul, Andreas Rossmann, Ralf Regitz and Lee Waters.

Control room in the inner courtyard of the power station, 2008

Permanent resident DJs were DJ Disko , DJ Clé , Jonzon , Woody , Terry Belle and the English Hazel B. The world's DJ elite played at numerous events.

On Fridays, the dubmission parties were celebrated here with their residents Kid Paul and Paul van Dyk .

On July 24, 1997, the E-Werk closed as a techno club . In 2001, SPM Technology acquired the E-Werk from Bewag. The Berlin IT entrepreneur Holger Friedrich has been the owner of the E-Werk since 2004 .

In 2005, the E-Werk , which was completely renovated by the Berlin architects HSH Architektur, opened as a location for a wide variety of events. Several companies have now moved into offices there, for example (Anne) Will Media . Likewise, there has MyHammer / former. abacho has its headquarters.

Mauerstrasse power station

In March 1886, the second Berlin power plant went into operation on the property at Mauerstraße 80. It was built by Städtische Elektricitäts-Werke AG , which later became Bewag , which built the Markgrafenstrasse Central Station as early as 1884 . The second power plant was necessary to cover the increasing demand for electricity and, among other things, supplied the new electrical lighting system in the course of the Unter den Linden boulevard , which was equipped with the arc lamp candelabra designed by Ludwig Schupmann . The distribution networks of the two central stations were connected to one another in 1888.

Web links

Commons : Abspannwerk Buchhandlerhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The history of the Ewerk : 1881–1945 on https://ewerk.net/ , accessed on January 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c The history of the Ewerk : 1990–1999 on Ewerk.net
  3. ↑ Bewag sells E-Werk to SPM Technology. At: tarife.de
  4. ↑ Electricity works again. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 32 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 13 ″  E