Egg house
| Egg house excursion restaurant |
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 View around 1896 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| builder | Karl Frobenius |
| Construction year | 1837–1869 Replacement building 1876–1890 second new building 1890–1892 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 '53 " N , 13 ° 29' 39" E |
| particularities | |
| burned down twice | |
The Eierhäuschen is a 19th century Berlin restaurant on the edge of the Plänterwald directly on the banks of the Spree . In his novel Der Stechlin , Theodor Fontane made Melusine cheer over this palazzo at the sight of the egg shed.
history
Old egg house
Remains of a Slavic settlement in the immediate vicinity of the egg house show that this region on the Spree was settled early on, but the story of the actual excursion restaurant begins with the establishment of a shelf around 1820, which was joined by a boatman's pub in 1837 . There are two theories about the origin of the name of the restaurant: Either because the guard of the depository was also selling eggs to the Spree boatmen, or because the prize at a local rowing competition consisted of a shock of eggs, the Spree beauty was "named as oddly as it was." at Fontane means.
In 1869 the restaurant burned down. The tenant had it rebuilt as a half-timbered building. The building became the property of the city of Berlin in 1876 and was now called the Old Egg House . In 1890 the building, now in the administration of the innkeeper Lammers, burned down again.
New egg house
In the Berlin address book of the 1880s, next to the old egg house, the new egg house is mentioned, which did not belong to the city of Berlin, but to the innkeeper Franz Jachmann. The new egg house still existed and was continued in the 1890s by the son Julius Jachmann. In 1900 the old and the new egg house exist side by side again. The new (which is actually the older after the new building) is owned and managed by the innkeeper F. Müller at the beginning of the 20th century.
At the end of the 19th century the (third) egg house was built
Based on designs by Karl Frobenius , the third inn with the same name was built in 1890–1892 on the site of the old egg house. The half-timbered elements and the tower with a helmet are typical of the country house style . In 1902 the operator had a veranda and a large hall added.
Around the turn of the century until after the end of the First World War , Wilhelm Andrée was the tenant of the always well-frequented restaurant. The owner was and is the city of Berlin. In 1936 the old egg house , which is assigned to the boathouse (tenant innkeeper Arthur Bieler) as well as the small egg house and the big egg house, are listed in the address book on Kiehnwerderallee , whose leaseholder is innkeeper Alfred Werdermann.
Between 1945 and 2014
In the GDR period up to the early 1970s, the Eierhäuschen was one of the most popular excursion restaurants in the north of the Treptow district . Parts of the house also served as a prop room for television broadcasters . 1970–1973 the council of the Treptow district had the building reconstructed and partially rebuilt.
After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the restaurant was closed together with the liquidation of the Plänterwald cultural park . The showman Norbert Witte from Hamburg then bought the entire property and was guilty of drug smuggling after his company went bankrupt and then fled to Peru . So the park area remained fallow and the egg house was not renovated and left to decay. The assignment of the restaurant to the Spreepark property from the times of the Kulturpark , although it is outside its fencing, has so far (as of 2014) proved to be an obstacle to reactivation. A decision by the Berlin House of Representatives to separate the property from the Spreepark, which has been insolvent since the end of 2001, was not implemented by the Berlin Senate, as greater marketing opportunities are expected for the Spreepark area.
From 2014: renovation and reopening planned
In 2014, the State of Berlin and the Treptow-Köpenick district were supposed to find a joint usage concept with the state's own Spreepark for the listed building, which was in great need of renovation . So far, only marginally secured from further deterioration, the Berlin Senate made available ten million euros from 2015 “for investments on the Spreepark site and here in particular for the renovation of the so-called egg house”. At the end of 2015, the Senate subsidiary Grün Berlin began with specific planning and initial work. According to the will of the Berlin Senator for Finance Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen, seven million of the total will go to the former excursion restaurant, which is getting its original shape back. The structural renovation / restoration should be completed in the 2nd quarter of 2018. After reopening, the building will serve as a residence for artists ("Artists in Residence" on the upper floors), who will also create temporary works of art for the park here. These schedules were too ambitious. The framework plan from spring 2018 now provides for the egg house with restaurants and a beer garden as well as the artist accommodation to be completed in 2021. The planned "use-neutral and listed building renovation" made difficulties, however, because the state of the building was worse than previously determined and because the changes made by the operator (from the former state-owned real estate company BIM auf Grün Berlin GmbH) caused higher building requirements. A profitability audit should take place before the plans are implemented .
The redevelopment in accordance with the listed buildings is carried out under the responsibility of DHL architects (Detlev Höink-Langguth from Berlin).
architecture
The building has a multi-segmented rectangular floor plan and its middle section is two-story . The facade consists of unplastered bricks , regularly structured by longitudinally emphasized double strips of black glazed stone layers. The two-sash windows are framed in white or in color and their top is slightly rounded. The saddle roof rests on half-timbered roof constructions, at the top of the gable a framed round window is incorporated with white ornaments on one side, on the other side the Berlin coat of arms was placed instead of the window . Above the windows, the facade has rectangular white ornamental stripes, in the middle of the water side is the lettering Zum Eierhäuschen . The decorative tower with a square base is asymmetrically inserted into the building, about 8 m high and provided with a pyramid roof. On the outside, some facade elements below the symmetrically arranged double windows are also designed like half-timbering. Semicircular bay windows divide rooms towards the interior.
literature
- Where Fontane had his scrambled eggs. In: Volkmar Draeger: How's the old house doing? Verlag Neues Deutschland, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-9807073-7-7 , pp. 30–34.
- Dana Schultze, Karin Manke: Forays through Treptow. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87776-932-2 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Pictures of the egg house
- Numerous photos of the condition of the egg house 2009-2014
Individual evidence
- ^ About Stralow, its area and its folk festival, in historical terms . In: George Gropius: Contributions to the history of Berlin . An earlier settlement of the area is mentioned here (p. 9 at the bottom).
- ^ Treptow> On the Spree . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1885, I, p. 99 (owner Magistrat; operator Buchholz, Restaur.).
- ^ Treptow> Population register . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1887, appendix, address book, N, p. 109 (Buchholz, Oscar; Jachmann, Franz).
- ^ Treptow> Jachmann, Julius . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1893, V, p. 172.
- ^ Treptow> On the Spree . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, V, p. 239.
- ^ A b Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 382 f .
- ^ Andrée, Wilhelm . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1918, I, p. 36. “Gastwirt in Treptow; Old egg house ”.
- ↑ Kiehnwerderallee . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, Part 4, p. 1981.
- ↑ Old tenant clears Spreepark in Plänterwald in due time In: Berliner Morgenpost . May 1, 2014.
- ↑ Ten million euros for the renovation of the "egg house" . Berlin Week , February 12, 2015.
- ↑ Regina Köhler: The renovation of the Spreepark and Eierhäuschen begins in 2015 , In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 20, 2015, accessed on October 29, 2016.
- ↑ Hope for the egg house , In: Berliner Woche , online, accessed on October 29, 2016.
- ↑ Plänterwald - what a Spreepark . In: Berliner Kurier, December 12, 2017.
- ↑ Philipp Hartmann: Framework plan for the future of the Spreepark presented at www.berliner-woche.de, May 30, 2018. Accessed December 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b Gerhard Lehrke: The egg house will remain a construction site until 2021 . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 26, 2019, p. 13 (print edition).
- ↑ Egg house project. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Photo: Egg house from the back , accessed on August 26, 2019.