Havestadt & Contag
The engineering office Havestadt & Contag in Berlin was founded on October 8, 1882 by the civil engineers Max Contag and Christian Havestadt .
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The office stood out above all with traffic structures such as the Teltow Canal , making the upper nets and the Werra navigable , expanding the Rhine between Wesel and Lake Constance and building the Klodnitz Canal , the Bonn horse-drawn railway and the Vorgebirgsbahn . In 1904 it won the highest award, the Grand Prix and the gold medal at the world exhibition in St. Louis ( Louisiana Purchase Exposition ).
In the competition for a basic plan for the structural development of Greater Berlin between 1908 and 1910, the office won fourth prize in a joint venture with the architect Bruno Schmitz and the transport scientist Otto Blum .
Although the Havestadt & Contag office was occasionally referred to as an “architecture office” at the time, this designation is highly misleading with regard to the usual delimitation of the professional fields of architect and engineer and does not do justice to the broad field of activity of this office. It is possible that there were individual departments within the office for the areas of civil engineering , hydraulic engineering , railway construction and building construction , whereby the latter could then have been misunderstood as "architecture office".
In her dissertation, the author Margit Heinker names Havestadt & Contag as one of the various “construction companies” that (at least in the 1890s) was entrusted with the construction of the more important Reichsbank new buildings. However , it is not clear whether Havestadt & Contag actually also acted as a construction company (or, for example, in the function of a current general contractor ).
On behalf of the district, the Havestadt & Contag partnership was not only responsible for the construction management of the Teltow Canal, which was built between 1901 and 1906, but also for numerous canal-related auxiliary structures such as the Teltow shipyard and the Schönow power station .
Buildings and designs
- 1883: Ester Prize for the design of an iron bridge elevator in Frankfurt an der Oder
- 1890: Horse tram in Bonn
- 1892: Reichsbank branch in Mainz (architectural design by Max Hasak )
- 1892–1893: Reichsbank -stelle Karlsruhe (architectural design by Max Hasak)
- 1892–1893: Reichsbank -stelle Münster (architectural design by Max Hasak)
- 1893–1894: Reichsbank -stelle Lübeck (architectural design by Max Hasak)
- 1893–1894: Reichsbank office in Grünberg
- 1894: Vorgebirgsbahn ( Cologne-Bonn Railways )
- 1894–1896: Reichsbank headquarters in Hanover (architectural design by Max Hasak)
- 1897–1898: Residential building with post office in the Grunewald villa colony (later Grunewald 1 post office) in Berlin-Grunewald
- 1901: Reichsbank branch Schleswig (architectural design by government and building councilors C. Mühlke and Franz von Gerlach?)
- 1901–1908: Storage facility in the Tempelhof harbor on the Teltow Canal in Berlin-Tempelhof ( "with the assistance of chief engineer Wiig and architect Schmidt" )
- 1902–1906: Overall management for the construction of the Teltow Canal with locks (architectural design of the Kleinmachnow lock by Friedrich Lahrs )
- 1908: Railway connection of a potash mine in the Rhön (with bridge construction)
literature
- The 25th anniversary of the Haveltadt & Contag engineering office in Berlin. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 41, No. 83 (October 16, 1907), p. 588.
- A. Reich: A German engineering company. (Reprint from the magazine for communal economy and communal politics ) Berlin 1913.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Berliner Architekturwelt , 11th year 1908/1909, p. 93/94.
- ↑ Margit Heinker: The architecture of the German Reichsbank from 1876 to 1918. Dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 1994 (1998), ISBN 3-00-003732-2 .
- ^ Eisener Brückenaufzug , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 21, 1883, p. 266, accessed on December 19, 2012
- ^ Concrete and iron , 9th year 1910, ...