Faber skyscraper
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The Faber high-rise is a historic office and commercial building in Magdeburg , Bahnhofstrasse 17, which was built between 1930 and 1932 and has been a listed building since 2008 .
building
The thirteen-story, 45-meter-high publishing house was built in 1930–1932 based on a design by the architect Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge as the first high-rise building in Magdeburg for the Faber newspaper publisher. The building had architectural elements typical of the period from classical modernism : natural stone cladding with travertine , grid-like perforated facades on all four sides and a central stair tower that extends one storey high above the flat roof on the outer facade. A semicircular glazed, lantern-like weather station formed the roof of the house.
A filigree, tubular escape stair tower in a transparent steel-and-glass construction is integrated into the main facade of the building on the city side, followed by tongue-like balconies. With later additions at the base of the tower from the 1950s, the building shapes the Magdeburg city silhouette and, together with the observation tower in the Rotehorn city park designed by Albin Müller , represents the only modern height dominant from the 1920s of Magdeburg's “New Building Will”.
history
Construction of the high-rise, which was to serve as the commercial building of the newspaper publisher Faber, began in 1930. The building was completed in 1932.
In April 1933 the newspaper Volksstimme was banned by the Nazi regime . In 1944 the Magdeburgische Zeitung was merged with the newspaper “Der Mitteldeutsche - Neues Magdeburger Tageblatt”. During the air raid on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945 , the building suffered slight damage from the bombing.
After the Volksstimme had been re-established by the SED in 1947 , the high-rise served as the editorial and printing facility for this newspaper. Because the original Volksstimme publishing house was destroyed on the night of the bombing on January 16, 1945, a five-storey flat-roof wing with neoclassical shapes was built in 1953 and 1954 . The historic travertine cladding was also removed after 1990 .
In January 1992, the Volksstimme was transferred to Heinrich Bauer Verlag , which in January 2001 applied for the building to be demolished due to the high maintenance costs. The State Administration Office opposed this application in 2004; it only allowed the demolition of additions or auxiliary buildings. The publisher appealed, which was rejected by the Higher Administrative Court on December 15, 2011.
In 2008 the building was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Magdeburg.
Web links
literature
- Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge u. a .: Magdeburg's first high-rise . Faber Verlag, Magdeburg 1930. ( online as PDF )
- Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge: A newspaper high-rise in Magdeburg . In: Moderne Baufformen , born 1931, issue 7.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 120 years of the Volksstimme ( memento of the original dated December 16, 2013 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.
- ↑ Heavenly house demolished in: Die Zeit
- ↑ Landesverwaltungsamt - Press release no .: 153/11 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 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.
- ^ Entry in the list of monuments of the city of Magdeburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 41 ″ E