Heart house
The Herzhaus is a listed commercial building at Axel-Springer-Strasse 42 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It was designed by architects Hans Bernoulli and Louis Rinkel in 1913 and built in 1914 and 1915.
History and function of the building
The building was commissioned by the merchants Siegmund Oppenheimer and Gustav Eisenstein on the site of the former F. C. Souchay wine wholesaler. As well as the building only a few meters away Bernoulli and Rinkel with the house numbers 44 and 47 (the office building place of remembrance ) is a bright this building sandstone facade in Werkbund style dressed. Pilasters divide the simple facade up to the fourth floor. The ground floor has a modern facade and is optically separated from the other floors by a cornice . On the first floor there is a holder for a flagpole between the windows. The Berlin Wall ran right in front of the sidewalk and branched off at the building in the direction of Zimmerstrasse.
The building was initially rented from a manufacturer of artificial flowers, then from clothing manufacturers of Jewish descent. In the years 1930 to 1933, the economic and welfare facility of the General German Association of Civil Servants rented the building, then the Hartmannbund acquired the building, which leased it to the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians , the German Association of Sports Physicians and the Reich Medical Association . Until January 2011, there was a center for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation here .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herzhaus on luise-berlin.de , accessed on October 17, 2011.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '28.7 " N , 13 ° 23' 57" E