Spruce (Magdeburg)
The spruce is an ensemble of several listed former factory buildings in the Magdeburg district of Sudenburg in Saxony-Anhalt . The renovated and converted buildings are currently being used as an office, service and fitness center.
location
It is located in the northern part of Fichtestrasse on its west side at the address Fichtestrasse 29a and is considered to be formative for the street scene. The name Fichte goes back to the name of the street, which in turn is named after the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte .
Architecture and history
The elongated machine halls that have been preserved were built in 1886, according to other information in 1895/96 according to a design by Max Behrendt as a machine factory and iron foundry E. Bendel. The two two-story, 120-meter-long halls are made of bricks and have three aisles. Some elements are made of stone . On the long sides, the facade is characterized by flat buttresses . The windows on the ground floor are designed as large segmented arched windows. On the upper floor there is a pair of small segmental arched windows above each such window. It is covered with a flat gable roof with riveted trusses.
The Magdeburg entrepreneur Eduard Bendel had gas engines developed and produced here. The four-stroke engines were based on an invention by Etienne Lenoir and were developed by Nikolaus Otto . The E.Bendel gas engine factory was later sold to Bendel's successor to the Ferdinand Roth suction gas engine factory , also located in Magdeburg , which, however, relocated the entire system and production to its own main factory.
On July 13, 1913, Hugo Junkers founded Junkers Motorenbau GmbH in the building . Otto engines were developed in collaboration with the American Charles Quast, although the collaboration ended in 1915 due to the First World War . In 1919 the plant was relocated to Dessau .
The next user from 1919 was the machine factory Georg Becker & Co. owned by the entrepreneur Georg Becker , who had transport and conveyor systems built here near the Sudenburg train station . In 1935, production was relocated to Sudenburger Wuhne, and today's FAM Magdeburg conveyor systems and construction machinery emerged from the company .
In 1935 the factory was taken over by the Polte-Werke and used to produce ammunition . It emerged cartridges in different calibers . During this period of use, a steam boiler house with a building for the construction and a turret for the flak was built. A gallery level for lathes was added to the workshop, and fire protection was improved. After the end of the Second World War , the production facilities were dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union.
From 1951, the factory then served as the headquarters of the VEB Brewery & Cellar Machines , which produced beverage filling systems that were delivered in particular to the West. A modern hall was built in 1981 with an area of 5000 m². The factory halls on Fichtestrasse were then closed in 1991 after the political change and fell into disrepair. However, it was designated as a cultural monument.
The building contractor and project developer from the Lower Rhine region, Robert W. Janssen, acquired the no longer used building as early as 1993. In the former eastern workshop along Fichtestrasse, a large, nationally known antique center quickly established itself. However, due to the heirs of the last registered owner Polte Werke, the purchase agreement was reversed. No further project developments took place until 2000.
After the claim to the transfer back to Polte Werke was rejected, Robert W. Janssen acquired the plant again in 2000. The maintenance backlog of the former western workshop was removed and at the same time the original central nave was restored and the original industrial character made visible. From 2004 this building was operated as KONGRESS & KULTURWERK- spruce . A total of more than five million euros was invested.
The Kulturwerk fichte quickly developed into a nationwide important venue for congress, conference, trade fair and cultural events. The automotive industry in particular regularly presented new vehicles to be launched here. In 2015, the world premiere of the first fully autonomous truck from DAIMLER AG took place in front of an international specialist audience. Cultural highlights were, in addition to the regularly held theme parties, concerts with CRO, Die Prinzen, Hermes House Band and DJ Antoine.
Federal politicians such as Sigmar Gabriel and Franz Müntefering also appeared at the SPD 's New Year's receptions, which were held here regularly . Other well-known guests at other political events and receptions from federal politics included Gerhard Schröder, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Guido Westerwelle, Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier, Thomas de Maizière and Andrea Nahles.
On June 30, 2017, the operator closed the KONGRESS & KULTURWERK-fichte due to reasons of age. The building was converted into a state-of-the-art fitness center with 5000 m² by mid-December 2017 and opened on December 15, 2017. The lease with the fitness chain FIT / ONE is initially planned for 15 years.
In the local register of monuments , the factory is listed as a monument under registration number 094 82678 .
The facility is considered a typical industrial building from the Wilhelminian era and an important testimony to Magdeburg's industrial history.
literature
- List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 194.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History on kulturwek-fichte.de
- ↑ Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 194
- ^ Rainer Schweingel, The "Fichte" will be a fitness center in the Magdeburger Volksstimme, published online on September 28, 2016
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 2755.
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 4 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 44" E