Army Bakery
An army bakery (also called Kommissbrot bakery ) was used for the stationary production of baked goods . She was part of the Provision Office, which, in addition to the administration, also included a warehouse or provisions magazine . These forms of supply resulted in an industrial architecture that shaped the cityscape of the respective armies .
Remnants of the architecturally valuable buildings can be found in many regions of Germany and are mostly under monument protection .
Production process
The grain was usually transported by ship or train and stored in the grain store. As required, it was ground into grist , steam , semolina and flour in the mill . These basics were baked into bread and rusks in the army bakery . The latter can be stored well.
The storage and baking rooms were housed in the building of the army bakery.
In official German at that time, the task of the provision office was described as "baking bread, meat and field rusks" .
Army Bakery Berlin
The Heeresbäckerei Berlin was part of the Royal Prussian Provision Office in what was then Luisenstadt , today Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 1805 the Heeresbäckerei was built on the property northeast of the intersection of Köpenicker Straße / Brommystraße on the Spree ( location ) and was therefore easily accessible by ships, the main means of transport at the time. In 1850, the Berlin Proviantamt was connected to the so-called connecting railway with the army bakery , which established the first connection between the Berlin terminal stations. For this purpose, a bridge over the Spree had to be built right next to the provisions office.
Extensive expansions and construction work were carried out on this site around 1890. The building group of the Proviantamt included the army bakery with storage (1890-1893), a large and a small civil servants' residence (1889-1891 and 1890-1891), a farm building (1888-1891) and a mill . Except for the mill, these buildings are still preserved today and are now under monument protection.
The army bakery has a representative facade , the exposed brickwork is made of yellowish clinker, similar to the Greppin clinker . Ovens were needed for the baking rooms, the four flues and chimneys of which can still be seen in parts on the east side of the bakery building. Therefore, one can assume four ovens.
The built-up area comprises a total of approx. 9,300 m² and is designed in the area of the army bakery with Prussian cap ceilings and cast iron supports.
From 2007 to 2009 the filming of the award-winning ZDF crime series KDD - Criminal Continuous Service took place at and in the Heeresbäckerei . Since 2012, the Craft Spirits Festival Destille Berlin has taken place every year in April in the Berlin Heeresbäckerei as well as events from Slow Food , the Weinbund and others. Otherwise, the Heeresbäckerei Berlin is used as a warehouse for various companies, an expanded office and loft , model office and cultural facility. There are other port warehouses in the area that use the location on the Spree .
More army bakeries
There are other army bakeries in Dresden's Albertstadt , Göttingen , Frankfurt (Oder) , Minden and Wünsdorf, among others .
See also
Web links
- Berlin Army Bakery:
- Commons : Heeresbäckerei Berlin - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- http://www.heeresbaeckerei.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.destilleberlin.de/
- ↑ The settlement of the company enables the former army bakery to develop. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, January 9, 2008, accessed on January 9, 2017 (press release).
- ^ UNI Munster: City history: Heeresverpflegungsamt , accessed on June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Minden as a garrison town Heeresbäcerei ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ), project work at the Kurt Tucholsky Comprehensive School in Minden
- ^ Former army bakery Zossen, OT Wünsdorf Waldstadt , state development company for urban development, housing and transport of the state of Brandenburg