Hardenberg House (Berlin)

The Hardenberg House, 2013 ...

... and 1957

The Hardenberg house is one of the most important office and commercial buildings of West Berlin's post-war modernism and was built in 1955/1956 by the architect Paul Schwebes . The seven-storey building consists of two legally and economically independent building parts, the Knesebeckstrasse 1/2 building and the Hardenbergstrasse 4 and 5 building, which architecturally form a unit. In 1973/1974 it was rebuilt inside by Günther Wehde. It became known as the Kiepert House , as the main business of this bookstore was located here until its bankruptcy in September 2002.

In 2003 and 2004, the listed building was renovated by the Berlin project developer Hühne Immobilien GmbH . Hühne Immobilien received a special prize for the renovation within the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation . The executing glass construction company received a federal award in the glass trade. The architectural office Winkens Architekten was responsible for planning the renovation and the associated alterations.

Manufactum has been renting sales rooms for a department store and brot & butter there since November 2003 . The Lehmanns bookstore closed its 1,600 m² branch in the Hardenberghaus, which it opened there after the renovation of the building, on August 15, 2013. In March 2016, Tausendkind GmbH moved to the first floor.

literature

Dirk Dorsemagen: Office and commercial building facades from the 1950s. Conservation problems using the example of West Berlin , 2004 ( PDF version )

Berlin and its buildings IX, 1971, p. 214.

Berlin and its buildings VIII A, 1978, pp. 209, 239, fig. 258, 273.

DBZ - German construction magazine , 6th year 1958, issue 10, p. 1104 f.

Otto Hagemann: The New Face of Berlin , Berlin 1957, Fig. 26.