Heckmann Höfe
The Heckmann yards in Berlin district center are an architectural ensemble consisting of three farms , wherein the front and rear yard are framed by residential buildings. There is commercial space on the ground floor of the residential buildings and in the middle courtyard . Most of the buildings are listed .
location
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The Heckmann-Höfe are located in the Spandau suburb between the Postfuhramt and the New Synagogue . You have entrances on Oranienburger Strasse and Auguststrasse . The courtyards extend from Oranienburger Straße 32 to Auguststraße 9 and Tucholskystraße 34.
Usage concept
After two changes, a Berlin private investor acquired the courtyard in 2014. The operator has been Places Prime GmbH - Property Consulting Concepts since July 2014 . The area is to be developed into a creative quarter . In addition, the commercial space is rented to original retailers who value creative products. The two-storey Werkhaus serves as an event location for receptions, exhibitions and presentations. Since the summer of 2015 the horse head remise with its red brick facade has been managed as a restaurant with fine cuisine. The Heckmann-Höfe also houses the Galli Theater and an Italian restaurant. The Heckmann courtyards have been visually upgraded by adding dynamic colored lights to the courtyards in 2016.
history
The origin of the Heckmann Höfe goes back to the 17th century. In 1691, construction began on what was then the Berlin Feldmark, which was in front of the Spandauer Tor . The land was awarded at the behest of Electress Sophie Charlotte and the area soon became known as the 'Spandauer Vorstadt'.
After the streets of the Spandau suburb and thus the property boundaries had been marked out on the orders of King Friedrich Wilhelm I in the years before , the former Feldmark developed more and more into an urban area. The demolition of the Spandauer Tor in 1750, which previously separated the district from the rest of the city, promoted this process.
The verifiable beginning of the area, which was still unnamed in the 18th century and later became known as 'Heckmann-Höfe', is the names of the properties along Oranienburger Straße between Großer Hamburger Straße and Wassergasse with garden, stables and Thorweg in the first Berlin address book of the year 1799 and the fire society's insurance files . The property was owned by the carpenter Heinrich Franz Carl Koehne. At the beginning of the 19th century, the area facing Oranienburger Strasse was built on with a two-story house with three side buildings, one of which was also reserved for residential purposes. In the courtyard there was a barn and a woodshed as well as a deep well . This was an important factor at the time, as it made residents independent of the public utilities, which often spread disease.
Parallel to these urban developments, Carl Justus Heckmann , whose son later bought the Heckmann-Höfe (after which they were later named), opened a coppersmith's workshop in Berlin .
The company of the first owner, Tischler Koehne, flourished and was converted into a timber business in 1858. Horses and wagons were purchased for the procurement and delivery of materials, and a coach house was built in the yard , decorated with a horse's head, which has been preserved. In the same year, the Auguststrasse residential building was built, which initially formed the rear border of the ensemble at that time.
In 1871, the parents of timber merchant Koehne bought the neighboring corner lot Auguststraße 9 / Artilleriestraße 27 (today: Tucholskystraße 34), which with the area of Oranienburger Straße 32 marks the current layout of the Heckmann-Höfe. A year later, the new front building was built at Tucholskystraße 34 / Auguststraße 9, which now formed another courtyard with Auguststraße 9 and still represents the final boundary between the ensemble and Tucholsky- / Auguststraße.
In 1887, Koehne ordered the demolition of the two-storey residential building with its three side wings and the construction of the front building at Oranienburger Straße 32. This redesigned the first courtyard facing Oranienburger Straße. As a result of these renovations and new water and gas pipes as well as an electric telegraph in 1888, the value of the property had increased forty- fold since the beginning of the century to 634,500 Reichstaler .
The son of the industrialist Carl Justus Heckmann, Friedrich Wilhelm, bought the existing ensemble in 1905, which has since been called the 'Heckmann-Höfe'. However, the buildings were only intended to be used for leasing and as the headquarters of the company's own engineering and construction office, as well as for the commercial and technical administration of the company empire. In particular, senior employees of the Heckmann companies and some members of the Heckmann family found their place of residence here. The buildings of the former timber trade were demolished and replaced by garages on the right side of the second courtyard. After the renovations and alterations at the end of the 20th century, they are home to shops and restaurants.
In April 1933, the Heckmann family's engineering office moved from Brückenstrasse 6b to Oranienburger Strasse 32. In the same year, Friedrich Heckmann had to file for bankruptcy in Berlin and Breslau, and Thyssen rejected favorable settlement proposals during negotiations. The real estate property did not fall under the bankruptcy estate, so that the Friedrich Heckmann heirs kept the property at Oranienburger Strasse 32, Auguststrasse 9 and Artilleriestrasse 27.
On December 12, 1950, the Heckmann-Höfe property was converted into the property of the people by ordinance of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin to transfer corporations and other commercial enterprises . At the time of the Berlin Wall , the Heckmann-Höfe lay in a long "deep sleep". The municipal housing administration was responsible for managing the buildings .
The still preserved but battered former suburb of Spandau was discovered and revived after the political change, first by artists and then by trade, which meant that many buildings were preserved. In the early 1990s, fashion labels , clubs and artists settled in the then relatively deserted courtyards . There were "squatting". Dieter Heckmann, together with his brother and around 40 other heirs, has re-privatized the property . Everyone soon agreed to renovate and rent out the remaining substance. 15 Heckmann heirs carried out the renovation, the rest were paid out.
Since the management of the farms by the 15 heirs was impractical, a buyer was sought in 2004. A Danish investor took over Heckmann-Höfe in 2006/2007.
According to a building application, the Heckmann-Höfe building ensemble has been completely converted into apartments and townhouses since 2014 ; the passage is to be closed. The inner courtyard including its commercial units, the Werkhaus and the horse-headed retreat was sold to a private Berlin entrepreneur in July 2014, who canceled this planning, withdrew the building application and continued the previous use as commercial units in the passage from Oranienburger Strasse to Auguststrasse.
Transport links
Thanks to their central location, the Heckmann-Höfe can be easily reached by public transport: S-Bahn ( Hackescher Markt station ), U-Bahn ( Oranienburger Tor station ) and three metro tram lines .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heckmann-Höfe near Luise-Berlin
- ↑ Heckmann-Höfe restart . In: Berliner Abendblatt , August 5, 2014.
- ↑ Court wanted . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 14, 2014.
- ↑ Digital light in the monument . In: Licht , June 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wolfgang Feyerabend: Die Heckmann Höfe , Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2000.
- ^ Oranienburger Strasse 9-25 . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative tables , 1799, p. 133 (Garden of the War Council [s] Theerbusch).
- ↑ Bernd Braumüller: Two Berlin families - and their descendants , self-published by Ingrid Braumüller, Rotenburg (Wümme) 2000.
- ↑ Courtly way of life in Mitte. In: Merian .
- ↑ A piece of old Berlin is emerging. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 1, 1999.