House of Tourism
| House of Tourism | |
|---|---|
 The building in 1960 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| architect | Theodor Dierksmeier |
| Construction year | 1938-1942 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '27 " N , 13 ° 22' 14.5" E |
The House of Tourism in the Tiergarten district of Berlin was an unfinished building from the Nazi era . As part of the “ World Capital Germania ”, it was one of the few buildings that had been started on the planned 120 meter wide north-south axis . The building, which was only slightly damaged during the war, was demolished in 1962.
The house was the only building that was started on Runden Platz , where the north-south axis was to cross Potsdamer Strasse .
The draft for the House of Tourism comes from the government master builder Theodor Dierksmeier , who won the first prize for building the house in 1936. Hugo Röttcher also took part. On June 14, 1938 , the foundation stone for the building on the west side of the square was laid in the presence of Adolf Hitler , Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer , General Building Inspector for the Reich capital .
The Second World War, withstood the shell to a bombing on the southern side nearly unscathed. After 1945, the unfinished building was preserved for several years and was used as a playground and outdoor pool until, at the end of the 1950s, Hans Scharoun and the landscape architect Hermann Mattern prevailed on a redesign that brought Nazi architecture in favor of urban modernism of the 20th century. Century-oriented planning should replace.
In the film Eins, Zwei, Drei , the building can be seen as the background of a scene shortly before the demolition.
The ruin was demolished in 1962. The round square was also abandoned in favor of an urban reorganization. Instead of development, the urban planning plans of the 1950s provided for Potsdamer Strasse to be pivoted. Today there is the Potsdamer Strasse building of the Berlin State Library and Potsdamer Strasse, which is pivoted to the north.
See also
Web links
- City maps from different years on the website of the Berlin Senate Administration.