Feilner's house
| Feilner's house | |
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 The light building on the right edge of the picture is house number 4, which was built around 1970 instead of the Feilnerhaus. |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| builder | Karl Friedrich Schinkel (drafts) |
| Construction year | 1829/1830 |
| height | around 12 m m |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '19.6 " N , 13 ° 23' 57.4" E |
| particularities | |
| destroyed in the war, then cleared away | |
The Feilnerhaus or Feilnersches Wohnhaus was a late Classicist three-storey house in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It was built in 1829 at Hasenhegerstraße 4 (from 1848 Feilnerstraße) on the site of the furnace factory of Tobias Feilner and C. F. W. Zimmermann according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel .
history
The plan for a simple town house with a plastered facade, designed by a Berlin master mason and a master carpenter, was substantially revised by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. He envisaged a brick-faced facade with windows arranged in a grid, whereby the structure was to be realized by glazed brick layers and the ornamentation by relief window parapet panels in different motifs. For cost reasons, the factory owner Tobias Feilner limited himself to a single motif for the terracotta tiles he produced , which was modeled by the sculptor Ludwig Wichmann . Schinkel also influenced the interior of the house by trying to create a connection between the front building and the side wing through diagonal spaces - a project that Feilner only had a simplified implementation.
The house, including the two side wings and a portico leading to the garden, was completed by the beginning of 1830. It is one of the few bourgeois residential buildings by Schinkel and is considered the forerunner of the Bauakademie . Schinkel included parts of the drafts for this house in his collection of architectural drafts as sheets 113 and 114.
Tobias Feilner did not live in the building himself, but rented the six apartments in it, including a. to the family of his son-in-law Ludwig Wichmann. After Feilner's death in 1845, Wichmann added a sculptor's workshop to the western side wing. In 1860 the oriental painter Wilhelm Gentz bought the property. Several changes of ownership led to small commercial use and increasing neglect of the building fabric. The building burned down during World War II . The ruin was torn down in 1962 and new quarters were built on the property. When designing the facade at Feilnerstrasse 4, the architect Rob Krier based on the historical model of the Feilnerhaus, but a complete reconstruction was not planned. The residential area forms a completely new building district called Block Ritterstraße Nord , in the creation of which numerous architects were involved. The building ensemble, which was completed by 1988, was placed under monument protection by the Berlin Senate .
Parts of the original architectural ornamentation are in the Stadtmuseum Berlin and in the Kreuzberg Museum .
A company ( Dornows Baukunst ) is planning a structural reconstruction of the beautiful building elsewhere in cooperation with Berlin project developers. The replica should then contain several apartments.
Web links
- luise-berlin.de
- kreuzberger-chronik.de
- Fragments and details of the Feilnerhaus on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Zimmermann, CFW In: General Housing Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and Surroundings , 1842, I, p. 501. “Kaufmann & Ofenfabrikant and T. Ch. Feilner; Hasenhegerstr. 4 “(Feilner is listed here as '& Comp.').
- ↑ Jan Mende: The Tobias Chr. Feilner pottery factory in Berlin. Art and Industry in Schinkel's Age . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07207-7 , pp. 239-244, 416-419 .
- ^ Digital copies at Heidelberg University Library , sheet 113 , sheet 114 ; Images of the house are digitized at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , see p. Project page Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Feilner House, Berlin-Kreuzberg ; accessed May 16, 2016.
- ↑ Description of the residential complex Ritterstraße Nord with photos , accessed on June 1, 2018.
- ↑ Listed entire complex at Ritterstrasse 55, 56, 59, 60; Alte Jakobstrasse 120a, 121; Feilnerstrasse 1, 2, 3, 4A; Lindenstrasse 30, 31, 34-37; Oranienstrasse 99-105
- ↑ Feilnerhaus , accessed on June 1, 2018.