Gymnasium for the Gray Monastery Berlin (building)

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The Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin was located at Klosterstrasse 73 in Berlin and was destroyed in the Second World War. It was inaugurated on July 13, 1574, a new school building was added in 1770 and a "warehouse" added in 1819. In 1900 there was a neo-Gothic extension based on designs by the architects Matzdorff and Emil Högg. The building complex was destroyed in 1945.

history

Around 1474 the origin of the building was built by a master Bernhard as a two-story chapter house. In 1516-18 the west wing and in 1519 the north wing of what was then the Gray Monastery in Berlin were added, the Franciscan branch in the monastery street named after them, which existed here from around 1245 until the Reformation. The name "Gray Monastery" is derived from the tradition of the Brandenburg chronicler Andreas Angelus from the color of the Franciscan habit . These extensions enclosed the courtyards surrounded by cloisters and a forecourt led out to the street.

After the monastery was secularized in 1539 , the brothers were granted the right to live for life. The last, Brother Peter, died in 1571. Three years later, the building was converted into a school by the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg , because the Latin school he had set up needed space. On July 13, 1574, the Berlin high school "Zum Grauen Kloster" was inaugurated in today's Klosterstrasse by the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg. Around 1770, the then rector Anton Friedrich Büsching had the new school building built to the left of the Franciscan monastery church . In 1819, Friedrich Wilhelm III. the “warehouse” of the grammar school, which housed the auditorium, library and science classrooms.

  • Buildings from 1770 and 1819

  • The new school building, the "warehouse" cut on the left

  • The storehouse"

  • The school building (center) and the “warehouse” (left) on a plaque.

From 1900 to 1901 a historicizing extension was built according to the designs of the architects Matzdorff and Emil Högg , which contained the director's apartment and alumni . The building contained apartments for the director and two professors of the institute in the front and transept, and the alumnate for 12 students in the rear. The school building was supposed to fit harmoniously into the old group of the Gray Monastery, which is why Brandenburg brick of a Gothic character with some later-style motifs such as bay windows, front door and ironwork was used. The bricks used for the cultivation were not shaped stones, but hand-made stones in the so-called "monastery format" (10 layers = 1 m). The profiled stones were also not shaped stones. The profile stones were cut with the wire according to an old custom. The masks and the models for the bay window were cut directly into clay by the sculptor Hans Latt in the brickworks. The total cost was 283,000 marks.

  • Extension according to designs by architects Matzdorff and Högg 1900/1901

  • Gable front on Klosterstrasse

  • Layout

  • Interior of the grammar school of the Gray Monastery

  • court

  • Work by the sculptor Hans Latt 1900/1901

  • Seven mask heads under a canopy above the main entrance

  • Sculpture work, mask heads

  • Sculpture on the gable of the gymnasium, group of bears (around 1900), photo from 1930

  • Bay window at Klosterstrasse 73

The high school building and the adjacent church were largely destroyed by bombs from the Allied bombings at the end of the Second World War in 1945. It was planned to rebuild the ruin in the 1950s. The ruin was demolished in 1968 as part of road construction work for the redesign of Alexanderplatz .

literature

  • Wilhelm Kick (Hrsg.): Modern new buildings , 4th year, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1902, plate 44 and description.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What the monks left behind in Berlin's gray robes ( Memento from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Berlin and Berlin Stories ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The “sorcerer” from the Gray Monastery  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.am
  3. ↑ after Wilhelm Kick

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 44.4 ″  E