Bottle tower
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| Place: | Berlin-Friedrichshain |
| Construction time : | 1929-1930 |
| Renovation: | 2009 |
| Status : | monument |
| Architect : | Bruno book |
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| Usage : | Residential buildings |
| Apartments : | 99 |
| Client : | Licon Housing , Leipzig |
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| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | Germany |
The bottle tower of the former Engelhardt brewery in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain is one of the last industrial monuments on the Stralau peninsula with the remains of the glassworks and the palm kernel oil store nearby .
Location and short history of the tower
The building is located at Krachtstrasse 9/10 and was built between 1929 and 1930 as a bottle filling building based on designs by the Berlin architect Bruno Buch . The red clinker building consists of three structures. The reinforced concrete - skeleton is considered as a specific example of the Berlin industrial buildings from the 1920s. It is the only surviving structure of the Engelhardt brewery founded in Stralau .
Around 300,000 beer bottles were filled in the bottle tower every day. From 1948 to 1959 it also served as a distillery for spirits such as grain brandy and the production of fine coffee liqueurs .
The brewery in Stralau
In 1887 the Schaarschuh'sche brewery opened on the Stralau industrial site . This was taken over by the Viktoria Brewery in 1897 . The Engelhardt brewery's location there was created in 1917 through a merger of the Engelhardt group with the Viktoria brewery .
A malt house and a bottle tower expanded the production facilities after a fire in 1926. The brewery developed into one of the world's largest malt beer producers in the 1920s and 1930s .
The founder, majority shareholder and general director of the Engelhardt brewery, Ignatz Nacher, who came from a Jewish family, was forced in 1933 by the National Socialist state commissioner Julius Lippert and the Berlin National Socialist Party to resign from his position as general director and to sell his majority stake in Dresdner Bank . In 1934 the " Aryanization " of the brewery was completed. During the division of Germany , the company was called VEB Engelhardt . From 1951 to 1990 it was the training brewery in East Berlin and, along with the glassworks, the largest employer in Stralau. The brewery is the birthplace of the alcohol-free motorist beer AUBI , which was developed by master brewer Ulrich Wappler and presented in 1972 at the Leipzig trade fair . Production stopped in 1990 and the factory closed. The company was transferred to Brau und Brunnen AG in 1992 as Engelhardt-Brauerei Vertriebs-AG .
Later use
In 1997, various shops were supposed to move into the ground floor, but no one was found.
For the Expo 2000 the exhibition Water in the City - Perspectives of a New Urbanity was created as an external project in the empty workshop building of the brewery . This was opened on May 31 by the then Senator for Urban Development, Peter Strieder , the board member of Berliner Wasserbetriebe , Ludwig Pawlowski, and the managing director of Wasserstadt GmbH, Uli Hellweg. It showed the history of the Stralau peninsula as well as its private and commercial use. The listed bottle tower remained unused after the Engelhardt brewery closed in 1990.
The Leipzig project developer LICON acquired the bottle tower following a tender by the Liegenschaftsfonds . He had it renovated taking into account the monument regulations and converted into a residential complex with 99 residential units in 2009–2012. In the course of the renovation, pollutants (tar cork / PAH ) were also disposed of from the property. The bottle tower was also expanded to include a new building. The spacious basement is now used as an underground car park for the residents of the complex thanks to the favorable support grid. The renovation was planned by the Leipzig architect Peter Homuth.
A special feature of the property is the south facade in the direction of fishing. Here you can find a step-shaped plastered facade below the brick facade. This is intended to commemorate the subsequent development there, which fell victim to the bombs of World War II .
literature
Dieter Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank and the German Jews . With the collaboration of Maren Janetzko, Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-57781-6 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Engelhardt brewery (bottle tower) . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Engelhardt-Brauerei AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The revolver was already on the table. In: Die Zeit , April 21, 1989, No. 17, accessed on August 4, 2015.
- ↑ Alcohol-free beer ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Service providers move into the bottle tower . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 29, 1997
- ^ Exhibition opening Water in the City - Perspectives on a New Urbanity . Senate Department for Urban Development . Project ideas were the establishment of a residential park and a meeting place with restaurants and various shops.
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: "Final spurt" for the Stralau peninsula . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 30, 2000
- ↑ Monument jewels bottle tower ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 10.9 ″ E