House of German Business
| House of German Business | |
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| place | Berlin center) |
| architect | Schweger + Partner |
| Construction year | 1997-1999 |
| height | 32 m |
| Floor space | 6,585 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '54 " N , 13 ° 24' 19.7" E |
The House of German Business has been the seat of the three leading organizations of German business, the BDA , the BDI and the DIHK since 1999 . The building is located in Berlin-Mitte at Breiten Straße 29.
history
From a historical point of view, the Breite Strasse belongs to the city of Cölln , which in turn merged into the twin cities of Berlin-Cölln in the late Middle Ages. This is where today's Berlin emerged . At the site of the building there was a customs office in the 12th century that was visited by merchants when they wanted to transport goods from here on the Spree . Until the 18th century, the Breite Strasse was a preferred residential area for aristocrats and state officials, when it was gradually replaced by the boulevard Unter den Linden . In 1805 the brother of the famous Gustav Kühn from Neuruppin , Karl Kühn, founded a printing company on the property of the current building . He gradually expanded this to include a shop, a paper shop and additional premises on plots 24, 26 and 28.
The development of the Breiten Straße, which was damaged in the Second World War , fell victim to the design of the center of Berlin as a government district of the GDR in the 1960s, regardless of its monument value . Only houses 30–37 on the eastern side of the street, the building complex of the Old and New Marstall, were spared . Up until the demolition after 1971, house number 28, which was only externally neglected and was listed because of its baroque staircase , was located on the site of today's building. Up until the end of 1965 the restaurant "Schlossklause" was located there. The cleared area has been used as a parking lot since the 1970s and only came back into the public eye after the fall of the Wall .
Initially, it was planned that the DIHK would erect a building here together with the owner of the property, the Berlin group Groth + Graafs. However, after BDA, BDI and DIHK agreed to move into a joint building in Berlin, the group of companies abandoned their plans. Instead, she was commissioned as the general contractor to build the building. The construction work was delayed because the remains of old settlements were found during the civil engineering work. An analysis of the wooden beams showed that Berlin was older than previously assumed. The timbers used to demarcate the house floor plans were processed around 1171. Previously it was assumed that the margrave brothers Johann I (1220–1266) and Otto III. (1220–1267) promoted the expansion of the city in this area and Cölln was correspondingly more recent.
architecture
The Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft was designed by the architect and professor Peter P. Schweger . Other well-known buildings are z. B. the Main Tower of the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen or the art museum in Wolfsburg.
The building is a classic Berlin perimeter block development , which is interrupted by a 32 m high conference tower on the Spree and an entrance passage on Breite Straße. It consists of six floors with an overlying penthouse level , where there are several living rooms.
The part of the building between the main entrance and Mühlendamm up to the Spree side was clad with gray-green Brenna sandstone . The flooring in the atrium is made of Italian marble. The facade between the Berlin City Library and the main entrance is made of light-colored Rackwitz sandstone. The BDI's art window is also located here - a glass surface on the second and third floors through which visitors to the building, but especially passers-by, can view the contemporary art on display from outside. Artists such as Daniel Pflumm , Heidi Specker and Candida Höfer have already exhibited here. Since March 2011, a work by Michael Sailstorfer entitled “Hangover” has been on view. On January 13, 2012 the work will be replaced by Astrid Nippoldt's “Cape Coral” exhibition. The inner courtyard is shielded from the elements by a large glass construction.
When BDA and BDI moved in, the building's security concept was changed: Originally, it was planned to make the inner courtyard accessible and to lure visitors into the building via a public promenade on the Spree side. A jetty that was also planned was refused by the authorities.
The building was erected between August 1997 and September 1999. The land area is 6,585 m², the built-up area 3,900 m². The BDA use a total of 6,800 m² of gross floor space , the BDI 8,000 m² and the DIHK 12,200 m². A total of around 92 million euros (180 million DM ) were invested.
Property damage
The building is occasionally the target of politically motivated property damage. In June 2009, a total of 14 windows were damaged. During this time, left-wing extremists had called for protest actions. In April 2010, a "left group" installed a hangman on the facade.
traffic
The Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft can be reached by public transport: the M48 metro bus ( Zehlendorf , Busseallee - Alexanderplatz ) or the N42 night bus ( Theodor-Heuss-Platz - Alexanderplatz) stops at the intersection of Mühlendamm or Gertraudenstrasse and Breiten Strasse .
The bus line 147 ( Hauptbahnhof - Ostbahnhof ) stops in front of the Berlin City Library (in the direction of the main station) or the Fischerinsel (in the direction of the Ostbahnhof ). Line 248 ( Breitenbachplatz - Ostbahnhof) and line 265 ( Stadtmitte - Schöneweide ) also stop at Fischerinsel
The underground line U2 with the Märkisches Museum underground station or the Spittelmarkt underground station can be reached within a few hundred meters by foot .
literature
- House of German Business (= The New Architecture Guide, No. 61). 1st edition. Stadtwandel Verlag Daniel Fuhrhop, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937123-26-1 .
Web links
- Website of the Federation of German Employers' Associations. Accessed November 9, 2010.
- Website of the Federal Association of German Industry e. V. Accessed May 6, 2015.
- Website of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Retrieved November 9, 2010.
- Website of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. Accessed November 9, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A historical stroll through Breite Strasse in the center of Berlin . Brochure of the DIHT, Bonn 1999.
- ↑ Laurenz Demps , Jonas Geist, Heidi Rausch-Ambach: From Mühlendamm to Schlossplatz. The Breite Strasse in Berlin-Mitte. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 116, with illustration from 1971 p. 117
- ↑ Uwe Michas: Slavs and Teutons in the Berlin area . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 1, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 4–10 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
- ↑ BDI culture group on the work "Hangover". ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ Art window in the BDI. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kulturkreis.eu; Retrieved December 23, 2011.
- ^ Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft (= The New Architecture Guide, No. 61). 1st edition. Stadtwandel Verlag Daniel Fuhrhop, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937123-26-1 , pp. 18 and 19
- ^ House of Associations at the Berlin Senate Administration; Retrieved November 9, 2010.
- ↑ Article on property damage. In: Berliner Morgenpost ; Retrieved November 9, 2010.
- ↑ Article on property damage. In: Der Tagesspiegel ; Retrieved November 9, 2010.
