House of Officers (Brandenburg an der Havel)

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The officers' house on Magdeburger Strasse

The House of Officers ( BTE ) is a culture, event and concert hall in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . As the officers' mess of the former cuirassier barracks, the building is a monument . The user is the Jugendkulturfabrik (Jukufa), a non-profit cultural association. The building is opposite the Technical University of Brandenburg at Magdeburger Straße 15.

history

In the course of an army expansion, a government resolution was passed in 1874 to build several barracks in Brandenburg an der Havel. In this context, numerous barracks ( cuirassier , infantry and artillery barracks and ancillary buildings) were built outside the old town of Brandenburg along Magdeburger Straße. In the buildings south of the Tangente that have been in use since the 1990s, the cuirassier regiment "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia" (Brandenburg) No. 6 was located. The new buildings were financed with 2,275,000 marks from the French reparations payments of 5 billion gold francs after the Franco-German War . Opposite the cuirassier barracks, a few decades later, in 1903/04, an officers' mess was opened for the officers of the cuirassier regiment at Magdeburger Strasse. It is a historic , neo-baroque, partly plastered brick building. A second officers' mess was built next to this for the artillery officers. The officers' messes were lounges, dining rooms and cultural venues for the higher ranks.

After the First World War , the Cuirassier Regiment was disbanded. In 1919 and 1920, respectively, the Brandenburg entrepreneur Carl Reichstein founded the Carl Reichstein Foundation with a sum of one million marks. Through this foundation, a so-called municipal cripple welfare office was set up in the former officers' mess, which was under medical care. In the 1920s there was also an office of the Reichsunfallversicherung and the Northeastern Iron and Steel Trade Association. An orthopedic mechanic was also located. In the Great Depression , the Reichstein Foundation went bankrupt . The property went to the city, which initially operated a cripple welfare facility here. After the National Socialists came to power , they began to build up the Wehrmacht and expand the military again. Brandenburg became a garrison location again. The former officers' mess was also used again as such.

After the Second World War , Red Army troops moved into a large part of the barracks, part of which was later also used by the NVA . The officers' mess was used by the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany and renamed the House of Officers.

After the Russian armed forces withdrew from Brandenburg, the building was initially empty. On September 23, 1992, the youth culture factory was founded as an association in Brandenburg by alternative youths and young adults. The association's roots go back to the organizers of a left-wing school newspaper Die Säge and an alternative cultural event or disinfected series . The newly founded association initially tried to make the premises of the officers' house usable under the name Hothaus in the course of a squatting . This occupation failed. Instead, the association initially and temporarily established itself in cooperation with the youth radio station Fritz in premises in the northern district , the so-called container . At the same time, negotiations continued with the city about the renovation and use of the BTE. After the approval and provision of financial resources, members and sympathizers of the Jukufa started building in 1995.

After years of renovation, which was always delayed, the BTE was opened as a socio-cultural center in 2000. The building has a large concert hall, several dance floors, two bars and various rooms for project work. Over the years, numerous well-known artists and bands have performed in the Officers' House. Concerts, dance events, poetry slams , workshops and the like take place regularly .

Building

The former officers' mess is a two-story, partially white plastered building. In addition, red clinkers dominate . It stands on the eaves facing the street. The covered portal is located in a central projection and can be reached via a three-step stone staircase. Above the portal, a large ox-eye is incorporated as a window opening . The central risalit ends with a tail gable under which there is another round window. Decorative elements in the facade are cornices and pilaster strips . The windows, in the street-side facade in the basement, are rectangular windows , otherwise mostly segmented arched windows , are partly incorporated into larger, two-storey panels . The windows are often arranged in pairs or in groups of three. An eaves cornice is supported by simple consoles . There is a one-story canyon on the western outer wall . The building is extended to the north on a single story. The roof is a mansard roof . Window openings on the top floor are the street as a round dormer windows to the sides as Towing dormers designed. The roof is covered with red beaver tails .

Artist (selection)

Artists who performed in the BTE:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - City of Brandenburg an der Havel . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09145591, December 31, 2018, p. 20 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kusior: On the history of the cuirassier barracks and their troops in Brandenburg (Havel) . In: Rainer Janisch (Ed.): 15 years of the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. 2007, p. 25.
  3. ^ Marie-Luise Buchinger: City of Brandenburg an der Havel , Part 2: Outer districts and incorporated places, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-115-7 .
  4. ↑ 101 years of BTE .
  5. ^ Ralf-Stephan Rabe: The youth group Neues Forum during the fall of 1989/90 in the city of Brandenburg (Havel) . Aftertaste . P. 17.
  6. ↑ BTE - House of Officers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allmusic.de
  7. ↑ Benno Rougk: That was fine cream fish fillet in the officers' house. November 10, 2018, accessed March 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 44.6 ″  N , 12 ° 32 ′ 21.5 ″  E