House of the electrical industry
| House of the electrical industry | |
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 View from the west over Alexanderstrasse, 2005 |
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| place | Berlin center |
| architect | Heinz Mehlan , Emil Leibold , Peter Skujin |
| Client | GDR Council of Ministers |
| Construction year | 1967-1969 |
| height | 38 m |
| Floor space | 5300 m² + east wing 1150 m² + ZBG 2500 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '25 " N , 13 ° 24' 55" E |
The Haus der Elektroindustrie (more rarely: Haus der Elektrotechnik ) (HdE) is a building on Berlin's Alexanderplatz with the addresses Alexanderstraße 1, 3 and 5. Until June 2006, the entire building had the address Alexanderplatz 6 . It housed the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR from 1969 to 1990 and other parts of affiliated companies. In the 1990s, the Treuhandanstalt had its headquarters here. From 1999 to 2011 the former HdE was the seat of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety , and from 1999 to 2009 it also housed the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs . Since the mid-2010s, only small parts of the ground floor have been used; demolition cannot be ruled out in the long term.
history
German Democratic Republic
construction
The 221 meter long, 38 meter high and 22 meter wide, ten-story house of the electrical industry was built from August 2, 1967 to 1969 according to plans by the Berlin architects Heinz Mehlan , Emil Leibold and Peter Skujin . The construction was carried out by Swedish specialists in a steel frame construction. Necessary walls were lined with bricks . The house received air conditioning and numerous open-plan offices that were common at the time .
use
Four publicly accessible retail facilities were housed on the ground floor: records from Eterna , Amiga and Litera , radio and television, clocks from Ruhla , Glashütte and Weimar , as well as photo-cinema optics ( Zeiss industrial shop ) (from left to right). On both sides of the roof there were advertising cubes that advertised the electronics industry in the GDR. Also belonging to the HdE was the central company restaurant (ZBG) on the north side of the courtyard with direct access from the first floor of the HdE as well as the extension on the right side to the Haus des Reisens , where some special services of the GDR MfS were housed.
After completion, the Ministry of Electrical Engineering / Electronics of the GDR (MEE), VVB Bauelemente und Vakuumtechnik (VVB BuV) and some specialist foreign trade companies moved into the complex and stayed here. In 1978 the VVB BuV was dissolved as a result of the establishment of the VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt (VEB KME) and the VEB Kombinat Electronic Components Teltow (VEB KEBT) and their departments moved out of the HdE.
After reunification
After German reunification , the building was managed by the Treuhandanstalt , which initially had its headquarters here. The reconstruction plans of Alexanderplatz by Hans Kollhoff and Helga Timmermann from 1993 called for the demolition of the house. Two high-rise towers were to be erected in its place . So far (status: 2018) there were neither investors nor users for this development plan, so the HdE remained standing and is used for other purposes. As the successor to the Treuhandanstalt, the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft (TLG) joined the administration in 1995 . She had the building renovated between 1998 and 2000 for 120 million marks .
On August 23, 1999, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety moved into the House of Electrical Engineering, initially with a three-year lease. Between 2000 and 2001, the facade of the building was renewed by the architect Sergei Tchoban and a large area was designed with a quote from the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin from 1929:
“A handful of people around Alex. At Alexanderplatz they tear open the embankment for the subway. You walk on boards. The electric ones drive across the square up Alexanderstraße through Münzstraße to Rosenthaler Tor. Right and left are streets. House by house stands in the streets. They're full of people from basement to floor. Downstairs are the shops. Distilleries, restorations, fruit and vegetable trade, colonial goods and delicatessen, trucking, decorative painting, production of women's clothing, flour and mill products, car garage, fire society. Goodbye on the Alex, dog cold. Next year, 1929, it will be even colder. "
Other tenants of the property are banks, insurance companies and small shops. The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs moved into a new building in Glinkastrasse in February 2010 , and the Federal Environment Ministry moved into a new building in June 2011 at Stresemannstrasse 128 at the corner of Erna-Berger-Strasse .
Even after the revision of the master plan for Alexanderplatz in 2015, the location is still intended for building with high-rise buildings. The private TLG Immobilien-AG, as the successor to TLG, continues to own the property and in October 2018 presented its intention for the first time to construct a building complex with three buildings, including two towers, in the Berlin building committee. An architectural competition is expected in summer 2019. The HdE with the neighboring Hofbräuhaus, which was developed from the previous company restaurant, would then have to give way for the intended new buildings.
literature
- Volker Wagner: Government buildings in Berlin - history, politics, architecture . be-bra Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-930863-94-5 .
Web links
- Information on the house of the electrical industry from the Senate Department for Urban Development
Individual evidence
- ↑ The House of the Electrical Industry with further detailed information
- ↑ Alexander Glintschert: The House of Traveling ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Federal Family Ministry is moving - new address will apply from February 22, 2010: Glinkastraße 24, 10117 Berlin ; Press release on the move of the ministry from February 15, 2010
- ↑ Stresemannstraße - Berlin office of the BMU from 2011 ( Memento from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Karin Krentz: Berlin: The skyscrapers are coming - 19 new buildings by 2018, says Pandion. ( Memento from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Immobilienbrief , Rohmert-Medien from June 3, 2016.
- ↑ TLG Immobilien AG: TLG Immobilien presents the project on Alexanderplatz in the Berlin building board. Konii, October 16, 2018, accessed November 29, 2018 .