Glaspalast (Erlangen)
| Glass palace | |
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| Glass Palace from the west, in the foreground the so-called "Red Square" | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | gain |
| Construction time : | 1959-1962 |
| Architect : | Hans Maurer , Construction Department at Siemens-Schuckertwerke |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Jobs : | 1600 |
| Owner : | Sontowski and Partner |
| Client : | Siemens-Schuckertwerke |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 60 m |
| Floors : | 17th |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete , aluminum |
| address | |
| City: | Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse 67, 91052 Erlangen |
| Country: | Germany |
The Glass Palace (also Siemens high-rise ) in Erlangen is a 1959 to 1962 built high-rise building at the crossroads Werner-von-Siemens-Straße corner Mozart Street. The building was designed by the architect Hans Maurer and the company's own construction department as an administration building for Siemens-Schuckertwerke . The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments lists the complex used today by Siemens AG as a monument under monument number D-5-62-000-1032.
Origin, conception and history
After the Second World War , the undestroyed Erlangen became the second headquarters of Siemens-Schuckertwerke alongside Berlin . In the course of the currency reform and the economic miracle , the company built numerous production facilities, housing estates and administrative buildings in Erlangen from 1948, which permanently changed the cityscape. The Raspberry Palace , designed by Hans Hertlein and built between 1948 and 1953, was still based on the buildings of the 1920s in Berlin-Siemensstadt . In contrast, the company's architecture, developed by Hans Maurer since the 1950s, was clearly shaped by North American models.
The 17-storey glass palace is a reinforced concrete skeleton structure with an aluminum- glass curtain wall that is not joined at the corners . This is divided into a square grid with horizontal lines, which are alternately equipped with window glass and blue laminated glass . The interior of the building consists of an access and functional core around which open- plan and cell offices for around 1,600 employees are arranged. In the basement, which is extended to the north by a flat extension, there is a canteen , which was renovated in 2008 by the architects Babler + Lodde based on the original design by Hans Maurer.
At the time it was built, the design of the Glass Palace was extraordinarily modern and part of the Siemens corporate identity . The building, which is 60 meters high, wide and 25 meters deep, was the tallest office tower in Bavaria when it was completed.
In 2010 Siemens AG sold the entire building complex to the Erlangen investor and project developer Sontowski und Partner and leased it back for 12 years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( online ).
- ↑ Andreas Jakob : Raspberry Palace .
- ↑ Andreas Jakob : Glass Palace .
- Other sources
- ↑ a b c List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the BLfD , requires JavaScript)
- ^ A b Rudolf Förster: Erlangen becomes the headquarters . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 351 kB) In: Erlanger Nachrichten , July 5, 1995. Retrieved on August 30, 2012.
- ↑ staff restaurant, Siemens AG ( Memento of 4 March 2016 Internet Archive ) at german-architects.com
- ^ Abendzeitung Germany: Local: Siemens sells three high-rise buildings in Erlangen - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 51.1 ″ E