Flensburg calibration office

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The calibration office in 2012

The Eichamt Flensburg is a 1912–1913 building in Flensburg - Jürgensby , which is a listed building and is therefore one of the district's cultural monuments . It was built as an office for the Royal Prussian Weights Office in Flensburg , whose successor facility was closed in 2010.

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Testimony of the Prussian period

Above the gate passage of the calibration office, the large apex stone with the Prussian coat of arms eagle and the writing “Kgl. Eichamt “particularly clearly on the Prussian period of Flensburg . After the German-Danish War (1864), Flensburg became part of the new Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1867 and had thus become a border town, which is why the Danish sales markets were lost. After initial adjustment difficulties, after the war Flensburg's economy had to compete with the more modern German industry, the urban economy finally recovered. Since then, the city began to grow extensively. The reparations payments made by France after the Franco-Prussian War enabled the German Empire to make extensive investments in infrastructure. In the province of Schleswig-Holstein and especially in Flensburg, new buildings were built that were heavily influenced by Prussia's building policy: new school buildings, barracks, public buildings such as courthouses or post offices. The progress made by the Prussian administration in Flensburg also included the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts , which are not far from the calibration office, as well as the introduction of standardized units of measurement and calibration procedures.

Establishment of the calibration office and construction by Paul Ziegler

Flensburg's calibration office came into being at a time when the calibration offices were generally nationalized. A plot of land in the Johannisviertel at Karlstrasse 6 was selected as the location . The designs for the building came from Paul Ziegler , who was responsible for many important buildings in the city. At the same time as the Eichamt, the Hebbel School was also built according to Ziegler's designs, which today serves as House B of the Auguste Viktoria School . He designed his buildings in the sense of homeland security architecture . Baroque style elements were also added during the construction of the calibration office . Some terracotta medallions on the facade of the building refer to the function of the calibration office.

The calibration office today

Shortly before the 100th anniversary of the building, the calibration office was closed in 2010. With the closure, the Flensburg employees basically became field service employees of the Weights and Measures Office Kiel, even if the Weights Office Flensburg still officially exists with its area of ​​responsibility. The Eichamts building is now used for residential purposes.

  • Gate passage of the calibration office

  • Crown stone of the gateway with Prussian coat of arms eagle and lettering “Kgl. Calibration office "

  • Terracotta medallion at the calibration office, which indicates the function of the building

  • Backyard of the calibration office

  • Neighboring civil engineering office from 1917, that looks like the calibration office in terms of design

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flensburg Online, Eichamt Flensburg , accessed on March 5, 2016
  2. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 290
  3. ↑ or more precisely: city in a border region
  4. ↑ a b 150 years of Flensburger Tageblatt. Flensburg under the Pickelhaube. In: Flensburger Tageblatt of January 29, 2015; accessed in March 2016
  5. ↑ The Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts in the Empire - Schleswig-Holstein and local identity, Flensburg culture and national awareness ( memento of July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 23, 2016
  6. ↑ In addition, there are still other buildings that are clearly reminiscent of the Prussian and imperial times of Flensburg: the city's court building (cf. Flensburg Regional Court and Flensburg District Court . A statue of Emperor Wilhelm I can still be found there today); then the old post office building , the imperial post office in the Mürwik district , the Junkerhohlweg barracks and the Mürwik naval school , the so-called “red castle”, which was built on the model of the Marienburg in West Prussia . - After the Second World War , many expellees from East Prussia found a new home in Flensburg. Many settled in Fruerlund , where the district "Refugeby" originated, which is also known as Klein Ostpreußen or Klein Königsberg . In this quarter stands the tower house on Nettelbeckplatz , on which the coats of arms of Silesia , East Prussia , Danzig , West Prussia , Pomerania and the Flensburg city coat of arms are affixed as sgraffito . So these coats of arms do not come from the imperial era. See Fruerlund, Urban Redevelopment in Flensburg, A quarter reinvents itself , Flensburg 2016, page 21
  7. ^ Information sheet “Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905-1939 - Paths to his buildings”, cf. Flensburger Tageblatt : Monuments: The Traces of Paul Ziegler , September 12, 2009, accessed on March 6, 2016
  8. ^ Information sheet “Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905-1939 - Paths to his buildings”, cf. Flensburger Tageblatt : Monuments: The Traces of Paul Ziegler , September 12, 2009, accessed on March 6, 2016
  9. ^ Lutz Wilde : Flensburg. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 2.) P. 290 and 394.
  10. ^ Lutz Wilde : Flensburg. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 2.) p. 290.
  11. ^ Information sheet “Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905-1939 - Paths to his buildings”, cf. Flensburger Tageblatt : Monuments: The Traces of Paul Ziegler , September 12, 2009, accessed on March 6, 2016
  12. ↑ Flensburg: Eichamt away - shortly before the anniversary , dated: January 12, 2011 and: Eichdirektion Nord , each accessed on March 6, 2016
  13. ↑ Eichamt Karlstraße , accessed on February 26, 2018

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '6.2 "  N , 9 ° 26" 22.8 "  E