Holtzendorff garage
The Holtzendorff garage in the Berlin district of Halensee was a large garage built by the well-known Berlin architects Walter and Johannes Krüger from 1928 to 1929 with a public gas station on the corner of Heilbronner Strasse and Holtzendorffstrasse (today's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ). Only the petrol station remained, the row of listed garages was dismantled in 2012 with the approval of the district administration and the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf monument authority.
history
The Holtzendorff garage, designed in the form of the New Building , was located on land leased by the Deutsche Reichsbahn directly on the embankment of the light rail . The client was the Deutsche Mineralöl-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH (Minex). Construction began on October 15, 1928, and the garage facility was opened on May 30, 1929. The Wilmersdorfer construction company Wittling & Güldner was commissioned with the construction .
As with all large garages from the interwar period, automobiles were parked, repaired and supplied with fuel here. The Holtzendorff garage originally had 47 individual garages that could be rented for around two Reichsmarks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 7 euros) a day. The repair shop was at the east end of the garage. The entrance and exit to the garage yard was through the public petrol station on the street corner. A second exit, owed to the fire protection regulations, was on Heilbronner Strasse.
Floor plan 1929 (before the second workshop was added next to the gas station)
Garage yard and gas station, 2008
Exit from the garage yard to Heilbronner Straße, 2008
Exit on Heilbronner Straße, 2008
Minex , founded by Hugo Schlemmer and Hans Schirmacher, operated the large garage until the end of 2002. At that time, the garages and the gas station were still largely preserved. After 2002 the property was sold by Deutsche Bahn AG . The use as a garage was initially continued by the new owner.
From 2010 onwards, the large garage, which was listed as a historical monument in December 2009, began to creep into decline - the garages were de-rented, the small repair shop abandoned and the area exposed to vandalism . In 2012, with the approval of the district administration and the monument authority, all steel garage doors from 1929 were removed and a large part of the listed garage was demolished. The initially remaining garages on the railway embankment were removed with the construction work for the planned new residential building by November 2017.
With the loss of substance since 2012 (garage facility and workshop), the monument lost a large part of its historical testimony value as a representative of the large garage building task. Only the striking architecture of the petrol station on the street corner was preserved as a testimony to the history of the automobile and the strong growth in individual traffic in Berlin in the 1920s.
Holtzendorff garage, September 2008
Holtzendorff Garage, April 2012
Holtzendorff Garage, November 2017
Holtzendorff Garage, November 2017
Garage door, September 2010
Holtzendorff garage, March 2012
Holtzendorff garage, August 2011
Holtzendorff Garage, April 2012
Holtzendorff Garage, November 2017
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See also
Other at least partially preserved large garages from the interwar period in Germany are z. B.
- the Ostend garage in Hanau,
- the central garage in Worms,
- the large garage south in Halle (Saale),
- the central garage in Saarbrücken and
- the Kant garages in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
literature
- N / A: Walter and Johannes Krüger, Berlin . In: Bauwelt , year 1929, issue 52, pp. 1301–1310 (= supplement pp. 1–10).
- Dietrich Worbs: The Holtzendorff garage . In: Elke Blauert (ed.): Walter Krüger, Johannes Krüger. Architects. Art Library of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88609-491-X , pp. 41–45.
- Thomas Katzke: The big city garage . Influence of automobiles on the Berlin architecture of the twenties. Unpublished thesis, Institute for History (supplementary course in the history of the Berlin-Brandenburg cultural landscape), Humboldt University of Berlin 2005, p. 42.
Web links
- Thomas Schmid: Stop kitsching up the industrial monuments of the past! In: Die Welt from November 21, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nadia Rouhani: The ATU billionaire and the Holtzendorff garages. Nadia Rouhani, District Councilor. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Green. Non-attached. October 4, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015 (description of the history of the monument's loss).
- ^ René Hartmann: Architecture for automobiles. Multi-storey car parks and multi-storey car parks in Germany. A car [mobile] vision in the 20th century. Dissertation, Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies, Technical University Berlin 2015.
- ↑ LDL Berlin: Holtzendorff garage
- ↑ Nadia Rouhani: The ATU billionaire and the Holtzendorff garages. Nadia Rouhani, District Councilor. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Green. Non-attached. October 4, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015 (description of the history of the monument's loss).
- ↑ Cay Dobberke: Living in a high-rise office building with a panoramic view. Berlin-Halensee. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 23, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 8.2 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 45.3 ″ E