Office building of the Basel fire insurance company

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Office building of the Basel fire insurance company at Friedrichstrasse 31 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg

The office building of the Baseler Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft is a listed building at Friedrichstrasse 31 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg .

History and function of the building

The building was designed by Gustav Knoblauch in the neo-renaissance style between 1891 and 1893 . The builder was the Basel fire insurance company. Shops were located on the ground floor of the facade clad in natural stone , above it was a level with an office and three further floors with director's apartments. The entrance is decorated with a comparatively small central projection, above which the bird Gryff , one of the three heraldic figures of Kleinbasel (the part of the Swiss city of Basel on the right bank of the Rhine ), is enthroned. An elongated balcony between the first and second floors incorporates the functional separation of the individual levels in the facade design. It connects two bay windows at the same time , which create a connection between the third and fourth floors. They are optically extended to the top floor by two small towers and finished off by two round arches with attached tips. In the gateway there is an alpine panorama and a view of Basel.

Vogel Gryff above the central projection of the building

Between 2000 and 2003 the building was converted by Max Dudler into today's Hotel Angleterre and a new commercial building was built to the south. The client was FVG Familienverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , which was represented by BerlinHaus GmbH . During the renovation, a gross floor area of 10,500 m² for the hotel and 9,700 m² for the new commercial building was converted. The new building in reinforced concrete frame construction was also clad with natural stone on the ground floor and the first floor. A total of around 20 million marks were built .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office building of the Baseler Feuerversicherungs-Gesellschaft on luise-berlin.de , accessed on November 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: How the Alps came to Friedrichstrasse In: Berliner Morgenpost . dated October 3, 2010. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Hotel and office building Friedrichstrasse on maxdudler.com , accessed on November 23, 2011.
  4. ^ Project office and commercial building at Friedrichstrasse 30 on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , accessed on November 23, 2011.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 27.7 ″  E