GASAG office building

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GASAG commercial building, view from the Littenstraße from

The GASAG commercial building in the Littenstraße in Berlin district of Mitte in 1910 by the municipal gas works in Berlin (now GASAG AG related) as the headquarters of the administration. The building designed by Ludwig Hoffmann in the neo-renaissance style is now a listed building , but is no longer used by GASAG.

Location and building description

First floor plan

The property of the GASAG office building at Littenstrasse 109 in the Stralauer Vorstadt is slightly trapezoidal , with the portal of the building at the narrower end of the trapezium facing Littenstrasse to the east . In the south, the Rolandufer separates the property from the Spree , and in the north, Stralauer Strasse borders the property. In the west, the building borders on a built-up plot. When the GASAG office building was being built, Littenstrasse (then Neue Friedrichstrasse ) led over the Waisenbrücke to Kreuzberg. The orphan bridge, which was destroyed in 1945, was demolished in 1960. Therefore, the Jannowitzbrücke is the closest Spree crossing today . The GASAG office building is now on a street with less traffic.

Before the construction of the GASAG office building, there was Martin Grünberg's baroque orphanage , which was demolished in 1906. The new building, built between 1906 and 1909, has four storeys and is clad with shell limestone . The facade of the ground floor is highlighted with rustication . There are architectural decorations by the sculptor Josef Rauch above the windows and doors . The main facade facing Littenstrasse has strong pillars and a main portal . Inside the building is designed with two large courtyards, an intermediate wing connects the southern and northern main wings. The roof is designed as a mansard hipped roof.

Usage history

The municipal gas works had developed into the largest gas supplier in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. GASAG built its new office building in order to be able to carry out the increasingly extensive administrative work (e.g. issuing invoices) more efficiently. During the GDR era it was the administration building of the VEB Energiekombinat . The building remained owned and used by the GASAG Group until 2002. After an interim use by the WMF Club , the private higher commercial school , technical vocational school and technical college for economics of the BEST-Sabel group have been located there since 2005 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maren Krauzick: Temporary use as the initiator of a new Berlin identity? Univerlag TU Berlin, ISBN 3-7983-2068-3 , p. 44.
  2. ↑ Uwe Aulich: Best Sabel School introduces itself . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 27, 2005.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 55.5 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 52.1"  E