Friedrichshain fire station

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Friedrichshain fire station

The fire station Friedrichshain (1200) in Rüdersdorfer Straße 57 is one of the 35 professional fire stations of the Berlin fire brigade and care station for the volunteer fire brigade Friedrichshain (FF 1201). It belongs to the South Directorate. From 1908 until the destruction of Ludwig Hoffmann's building in World War II , it was located at Schönlanker Straße 13. After the war, it used the Weberwiese fire station at Marchlewskistraße 6, the remaining ground floor of the former fire station in Memel, which was badly damaged during the war . Since the completion of the new Rüdersdorfer Straße 57 fire station in 1955, the Friedrichshain fire station has been at its current location.

history

Friedrichshain fire station, Schönlanker Strasse 13, 1908 until the Second World War

From 1906 to 1908, a building designed by the architect and city planner Ludwig Hoffmann was built for the Friedrichshain fire station at Schönlanker Straße 13 in what would later be Prenzlauer Berg .

This fire station was responsible for the north of what would later become the Friedrichshain district .

The three-storey brick building with hipped roofs, four-storey at the corner tracts, the central tract of which receded, is assigned to the beginning modern age . “In the upper floors with their stepped pilaster strips and exaggerated window roofs, there were even early Expressionist details, ” says the section “Fire stations” of the book “Berlin and its buildings” from 1976.

Ludwig Hoffmann himself describes his building as follows: “The openings on the first floor at the front, which are different according to different needs, were simply cut into the wall and not further emphasized. In contrast, the upper storeys could be integrated into a uniform architectural system. In this way, although it was divided into a subassembly, the building could be brought back to a calm overall effect. ” As Hoffmann noted, the Municipal Building Councilors Matzdorff and Wollenhaupt as well as the architects Buchholz and Gerecke were involved in the processing of the design and its execution . The terracottas on the facade were designed by the sculptor Georg Wrba .

The administrative report of the magistrate from 1907 makes it clear that fire station 4 was not planned as an automobile station, but that the decision to equip it with an electric fire engine was made later. In the report, the purchases and costs are listed in detail and offset against the costs for the planned horse business. It is stated: “The total costs (11,018.82 M) are, as stated at the beginning, compared to 17,281 M ongoing annual maintenance costs for a hauled fire truck, so that despite the high investment capital caused by model and tool costs in the first fire truck Annual savings of 17,281.00 - 11,018.82 = 6,262.18M. "

When the Berlin fire brigade switched from horse-riding to automobilization under the chief fire director Maximilian Reichel (1856–1924), head of the Berlin fire brigade 1905–1922, the new fire station 4 in Schönlanker Strasse received the first electromobile fire engine, consisting of a gas syringe, tender, and steam spray and turntable ladder . The essentially identical chassis with Lohner-Porsche wheel hub motors came from Daimler-Motorengesellschaft in Marienfelde.

The architect Hermann Jansen describes the interior layout of the guard: “On the ground floor, the building contains the carriage space with four exit gates, on both sides of which are the bedrooms and washrooms for the fire fighters with a total of 29 beds and a day room for four drivers and one Connect the telegraph room. " .

The floor plan shows that a wheelwright and joinery, a blacksmith and locksmith's shop, an infirmary and other rooms were also planned on the ground floor, and “team gardens” and an arbor in the courtyard.

On the upper floors there were day rooms, management rooms and official apartments.

An important peculiarity was that there was a side driveway through which the wagons could drive on their return to the courtyard and through the rear gates could get back to their stands. Fire stations established later followed this principle.

At the same time there was the Memel fire station, which had been in existence since 1884 at Memeler Strasse 39 .

The buildings on Kniprodestrasse and Schönlanker Strasse were badly hit in air raids during World War II . The site at Kniprodestrasse 21 is now where the fire station and garden department were located. The remaining section of Schönlanker Strasse has been called Ernst-Fürstenberg-Strasse since 1974.

Weberwiese fire service base 1948–1955

The first floor of the former Memel fire station, Memeler Straße 39 (from 1950 Marchlewskistraße 6), which was repaired from war damage and provided with an emergency roof , was in operation as the Weberwiese fire brigade base until the new building in Rüdersdorfer Straße was completed. The old fire station , Marchlewskistraße 6, was converted from 1995-1998 into the old fire station Friedrichshain.

Friedrichshain fire station, Rüdersdorfer Straße 57, from 1955

The building at Rüdersdorfer Strasse 57 was erected between 1953 and 1955. The new Friedrichshain fire station was inaugurated on August 1, 1955, and the Friedrichshain volunteer fire service was founded there on October 5, 1955.

The four-storey building complex, which rises to five storeys on Wedekindstrasse, Wedekindstrasse 10 / Marchlewskistrasse 60 / Rüdersdorfer Strasse 57 with a police station and fire station is one of the building ensembles from the 1950s that were built in the vicinity of Karl-Marx-Allee (Stalinallee). It is a listed building monument.

The part of the facade above the 7 gates of the vehicle hall is architecturally highlighted. Behind it are the lounges and relaxation rooms on the first floor and above that a representative event hall with high windows, chandeliers, parquet flooring, a stage and cinema facility for 200 people, which is used as a changing room. The firefighters can quickly get from the 1st floor to the vehicle hall using two sliding poles. Sports rooms and a kitchen are also available.

The fire boat manned by the Friedrichshain fire station was stationed at the Elsenbrücke until June 1960. The Friedrichshain fire station was involved with crew and vehicles in the three plane crashes (1973, 1986 and 1989) as well as in the underground fires (1972 and 1986). On March 27, 1982, two colleagues from the Friedrichshain fire station were fatally injured in a barrack fire in Mitte. They are remembered in the traditional room of the fire station.

Current

The Friedrichshain fire station is manned by 12 during the day and 10 at night

The fire station has the following vehicles :

Another vehicle is an ambulance from Johanniter Unfallhilfe on site.

Two women and 18 men are active in the Friedrichshain volunteer fire brigade (1201). The volunteer fire brigade has the LHF and LF 16 Z vehicles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Friedrichshain. The archive images series. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-038-X , pp. 30–31
  2. ↑ Fire station in Schönlanker Strasse, Berlin. In: New Buildings of the City of Berlin, Vol. IX, 1910, 198
  3. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part X, Volume A Systems and buildings for supply, (1) Fire stations, Verlag von Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 20
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann: New buildings in the city of Berlin. 9th volume, Wasmuth, 1910, III
  5. ↑ Administrative report of the Berlin magistrate for the budget year 1907 No. 46. Report on the management of the fire brigade and the telegraph., P. 1
  6. ↑ Manfred Gihl: In the service of the fire brigade: Gottlieb Daimler, Carl, Benz and Ferdinand Porsche, Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-133-0
  7. ↑ Der Baumeister, VII. Jg., 1908/09, no. 1, p. 4 and 6, quoted in: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and his buildings. Part X, Volume A Systems and buildings for supply, (1) Fire stations, Verlag von Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 21
  8. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann: New buildings in the city of Berlin. 9th volume, Wasmuth, 1910, III
  9. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its buildings. Part X, Volume A Systems and structures for supply, (1) Fire stations, Verlag von Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf 1976, pp. 21-22
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. ↑ Dirk Moldt : “You never know what to expect.” In: Zeitzeiger Friedrichshain, June 2018
  12. ↑ Friedrichshain fire station. Berlin Fire Brigade - Staff Communication, accessed on February 12, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 42.7 "  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 40.3"  E