High bunker Pallasstrasse
The Pallasstrasse high bunker , also known as the Sportpalast bunker , is a four-storey high bunker on Pallasstrasse in the Schöneberg district of Berlin , the shell of which was completed in World War II . After its final expansion and modernization in the 1980s, it could be used as a civil defense system until 2010 and was used as a warehouse for emergency goods. Since May 2002, the bunker has been used as a “place of remembrance” by the art office Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the Berliner Unterwelten association as a venue for the advanced history course of the neighboring Sophie-Scholl-Schule ; the association takes care of the maintenance of the building on behalf of the Berlin Senate . The demedication as a civil defense facility was carried out in 2010, and has been a listed building since 2011.
The building is not far from Potsdamer Strasse and is covered with a wing of the Pallasseum, also known as the “Social Palace” .
history
The bunker not far from the Berlin Sports Palace was built in 1943–1945 by forced laborers , most of whom came from the areas of the Soviet Union occupied by the Wehrmacht . It was only completed in the shell and was to be expanded into a telecommunications bunker with telephone and telex switching for the remote office in Berlin (from 1958 telecommunications office 1) of the Reichspost located in the nearby Winterfeldtstrasse . The forced laborers, sometimes together with their families, were housed in the adjacent building complex of the Augusta-Gymnasium, which is now the Sophie-Scholl-Oberschule.
In 1945 and 1946 soldiers of the US Army made several attempts to blast them , but they did not cause any serious damage to the building. Major blasting work would have caused excessive damage to the surrounding area. The outer walls of the building, especially the side facing Potsdamer Straße , have been graffiti and murals applied several times since the 1970s .
The bunker was built over in 1977 with the part of the Pallasseum standing on stilts. At the request of the Western Allies , who until 1990 resided in the adjacent building of the Allied Control Council (today: Kammergericht ), the bunker was expanded from 1986 to 1989. In addition to four entrance locks, there were now two rooms on each of the five floors, each measuring 35 meters × 7 meters and one room measuring 41 meters × 7 meters. With a capacity of 4809 shelters, the bunker was the largest civil defense facility in Berlin.
The bunker was one of the locations of the 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders .
The former record label Aggro Berlin produced the video for the sampler Aggro Ansage Nr. 2 (2002). In the video for Aggro Part 2 , an air raid on Berlin is shown. Sido , Bushido , B-Tight and other people are in the further course in the bunker.
In 2009 an exhibition of an installation by Lilli Engel and Raffael Rheinsberg , organized by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg Art Office, took place in the bunker . The exhibition was supplemented by documentation on the history of the bunker.
literature
- Erika von Hören: The bunker in the schoolyard - history in concrete. In: Kiez-Schöneberg 1/2009, Berlin 2009.
Web links
- Andrea Jessen: Bunker art. How schools can keep memories of the past alive . Federal Agency for Civic Education
- High bunker Pallasstrasse . Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Formerly a bunker - today a place of remembrance . ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History / Art group of the Sophie-Scholl-Schule, May 31, 2008; Retrieved April 21, 2009.
- ^ Christian van Lessen: Enough stashed . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 23, 2007
- ^ Bunker Pallasstrasse . on the website of the district office, accessed on November 25, 2018
- ^ Public civil defense structures in Berlin. In: geschichtsspuren.de. Senate Department for Building, Housing and Transport, 1998, accessed on April 30, 2009 .
- ↑ Anna Pataczek: The war is never over . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 1, 2009.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 38.7 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 32.9" E