Raspberry Palace
| Raspberry Palace | |
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| Raspberry Palace from the south, Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse in the foreground | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | gain |
| Construction time : | 1948-1953 |
| Architect : | Hans Hertlein , site manager at Siemens-Schuckertwerke |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Jobs : | originally 3500, today 850 |
| Owner : | Free State of Bavaria |
| Client : | Siemens-Schuckertwerke |
| Technical specifications | |
| Floors : | 5-7 |
| Floor area : | 46,000 m² |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete |
| address | |
| City: | Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse 50, 91052 Erlangen |
| Country: | Germany |
The Himbeerpalast in Erlangen is an administrative building of Siemens AG built between 1948 and 1953 on Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse at the corner of Sieboldstrasse. It has been Siemens' headquarters in Erlangen since it settled in the immediate post-war period . The building complex was designed by the architect Hans Hertlein and the company's own construction department at Siemens-Schuckertwerke . Because of its size and the reddish color of the facade , it was given the unconventional name Raspberry Palace as a joke .
History and description
It was not a matter of course that Siemens settled in Erlangen immediately after the Second World War . Originally, alongside Berlin and Munich, Hof was the company's third main German location. Instead, investments were made in the largely undestroyed university town of Erlangen and made the location next to Berlin the second headquarters of Siemens-Schuckertwerke.
From 1948 to 1953, the building complex, which has largely remained unchanged to this day, was built in five construction phases. In 1949, one of the first components to be completed was the lecture hall in the fifth and sixth corridors (third and fourth floors) of the south wing. It holds 386 people and has since been used not only for corporate purposes, but also for theater performances, musical performances and university events.
The rest of the building encloses a depot in the north and a smaller courtyard with green spaces in the south. To the north and west, i.e. towards the city center, there are five-story office wings with hipped roofs , and to the east (to Werner-von-Siemens-Straße) there is a six-story, flat-roofed wing. The entire building is structured by four towers at the "joints" in the southeast, east, northeast and northwest; these take on stairwells and elevators . The flat outer walls of the Raspberry Palace are effectively structured by regularly arranged lattice windows with light frames. Inside, the building is largely functional and functional. The construction would also have allowed the installation of manufacturing machines inside. This generosity of the building is particularly evident in the stairwells.
At the entrance and through portals, the building complex was artistically designed with building sculptures . So who created the Munich sculptor Joseph Wackerle the pillars of the west entrance zodiac signs on the porch of a former factory building a relief of Prometheus , including the inscription that a remark of Goethe ajar Quote WE CONFESS TO US THE SEX BY DARK IN THE LIGHT GOES from a poem by Heinrich Lersch , on the round bay window of the board area a relief band of the four elements grouped around the sun and on the north and south wing Mercurius and Vulcanus .
By and large, the architecture of the Raspberry Palace is still based on the building tradition of the 1920s and is very similar to the buildings in Siemensstadt in Berlin . Nevertheless, some stylistic features identify it as a 1950s building . These include the glass entrance halls in the southeast and east as well as the semicircular exhibition pavilion as the entrance situation and the penthouse as the crowning of the south wing.
In 1991 the Raspberry Palace was the first post-war building in Erlangen to be included in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments . Instead of the original 3,500 jobs, today (as of 2015) only around 850 of the 24,000 Siemens employees in Erlangen work in the Raspberry Palace.
Transfer to the Free State of Bavaria
In the near future, Siemens is to move out of the Raspberry Palace (and later also from the surrounding buildings at the Erlangen-Mitte location) in favor of the Siemens Campus Erlangen in the south of the city. After a renovation, the Raspberry Palace will be used by large parts of the philosophy faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the affiliated department of theology from 2023 . Most of these facilities have so far been located in Kochstrasse, Bismarckstrasse, Hindenburgstrasse and Glückstrasse in northern Erlangen. At a meeting in Nuremberg on July 3, 2018, the Bavarian cabinet finally decided on an investment package totaling 1.5 billion euros for the University of Erlangen, spread over 30 years, according to Prime Minister Markus Söder. Among other things, the raspberry palace was to be purchased from this money and rebuilt for the purposes of the proposed humanities center. In addition to the renovation of the existing building, the construction of a central humanities library in the inner courtyard and another new building in the immediate vicinity of the Raspberry Palace are required. The Free State of Bavaria completed the purchase on September 13, 2018 at the latest. According to current plans, renovation and conversion of the building for the purposes of the Philosophical Faculty are to take place from 2019 [out of date] ; the move is scheduled for 2023 .
literature
- Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Andreas Jakob: Raspberry Palace. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
- ↑ a b The "Raspberry Palace" symbolizes Siemens like no other building in Erlangen (PDF; 202 kB). Online at www.siemens.com ; accessed on March 25, 2018.
- ↑ The sex that strives from the dark to the light , Erich Trunz , zeit.de of August 4, 1949, accessed on May 2, 2018
- ↑ List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the BLfD , requires JavaScript)
- ^ Siemens AG: Siemens Campus Erlangen . Online at www.siemens.com ; accessed on March 30, 2018.
- ↑ FAU on September 13, 2018: Expansion of FAU initiated . Online at www.fau.de ; accessed on September 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 43 ″ E