Funkhaus am Raderberggürtel
| Funkhaus am Raderberggürtel | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | Cologne |
| Construction time : | 1974-1980 |
| Opening: | 1980 |
| Abort : | 2019-2021 |
| Status : | Demolition work |
| Architects : | Stieldorf planning group |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | former Deutsche Welle radio house |
| Client : | German wave |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 138.0 m |
| Floors : | 34 |
| Building material : | Concrete, glass, asbestos |
| Height comparison | |
| Cologne : | 3. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 27. ( list ) |
| address | |
| City: | Cologne |
| Country: | Germany |
The radio house on the Raderberggürtel was a high-rise in the Marienburg district of Cologne and was located on the Raderberggürtel (house number 50). The Deutschlandfunk building was in the immediate vicinity .
Typology
At 138 meters, the building is one of the tallest skyscrapers in Cologne .
history
The Funkhaus Köln had been the headquarters of Deutsche Welle in Cologne since the early 1980s . In 1974, construction began on the new radio station Am Raderberggürtel designed by the Stieldorf planning group for DW and DLF; the topping-out ceremony took place on May 24, 1977. The official inauguration took place in 1980. On the occasion of the station's 50th anniversary in 2003, Deutsche Welle moved from Cologne to Bonn to the Schürmann building in the federal district . One reason was the exposure to asbestos in the rooms of the old broadcasting house.
In July 2013 it became known that the radio house on the Raderberggürtel was to be demolished and that a new residential complex with 500 residential units should be built on the site by 2019. The building was about to be blown up. Because of the amount of asbestos , the building would have had to be gutted extensively beforehand. The demolition originally planned for spring 2017 was postponed to 2018 in autumn 2016.
According to the Kölnischer Rundschau of September 12, 2018, however, one refrains from blasting (even partially). Instead, a conventional “top-down” dismantling principle will take place. The work began in 2019 with the help of cranes and is expected to be completed in March 2021.
literature
- Wilfried Täubner : Stieldorf planning group. Buildings and projects . Cologne 1974, pp. 20-25. [not yet evaluated for this article]
See also
- List of high-rise buildings in Cologne
- List of tallest buildings in Germany
- List of tallest no longer existing buildings
Web links
- Uta Winterhager: Everything is so colorful here! - The radio house of Deutsche Welle on the Raderberggürtel. koelnarchitektur.de, May 11, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ History - 1975 to 1979 , Deutsche Welle
- ↑ Striking building disappears In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 12, 2013. Online at ksta.de.
- ↑ The Deutsche Welle skyscraper is blown up . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
- ↑ Deutsche Welle high-rise - This is how the world record demolition in Cologne is supposed to happen in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 6, 2016
- ↑ Construction site of superlatives This is how the former Deutsche Welle radio station is being dismantled . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , December 13, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '9.9 " N , 6 ° 57' 39.9" E