Iduna high-rise (Hamburg)

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Iduna high-rise
Millerntor high-rise
place Hamburg-St. Pauli
architect Carl-Friedrich Fischer
Architectural style Modern
Construction year 1964-1966
demolition February 19, 1995
height 89 m
Coordinates 53 ° 33 '2.1 "  N , 9 ° 58' 6.8"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '2.1 "  N , 9 ° 58' 6.8"  E
particularities
Demolition due to the first vertical blast in Germany

The Iduna high-rise in Hamburg, also known as the Millerntor high-rise , was an office building in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg that was completed in 1966 and shaped the cityscape . It was blown up in 1995.

location

The building was located at Millerntorplatz 1 in the St. Pauli district belonging to the Hamburg-Mitte district . The high-rise, which towers above all of the surrounding structures, dominated the field of vision of the road users who were driving along the western part of Ost-West-Strasse (today Willy-Brandt-Strasse and Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse) and Millerntordamm in a westerly direction, and marked them out At the Millerntor the fork of this street into the Reeperbahn continuing to the left and the Budapester Straße continuing to the right .

History, building description, use

The Millerntor high-rise was designed by the architect Carl-Friedrich Fischer (1909–2001). Construction began in 1964; In 1966 the building was completed. It had 23 stories and was 89 meters high. It was roughly the shape of a square column; the façade, dominated by steel and glass, was simple and smooth.

The building housed commercial office space. The users included engineering offices, shipping companies and the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court .

The high-rise had been empty since 1987 due to asbestos contamination. Renovations were unsuccessful. In 1993 the demolition was approved. On February 19, 1995 at 1:01 p.m. the building was blown up . It was the first vertical blast in Germany, i. H. the building slumped instead of tipping over. 80,000 onlookers attended the event. The Axel Springer Verlag then brought out a 44-page booklet with the title Rrumms! that out as a flip book showed a series of photographs of the blasting process.

At the site of the Iduna high-rise, a 40 m lower building was then erected, which was completed in 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry about the Iduna high-rise near Emporis
  2. ↑ a b Simone Pauls: Vanished buildings in Hamburg: Do you still remember these striking buildings? In: mopo.de . March 4, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 (with a picture of the Iduna skyscraper).
  3. ^ Norbert Baues: Carl-Friedrich Fischer. Hamburg Architecture Archive , accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Georg Baur: The Millerntor high-rise. (JPEG; 1200 × 1580 pixels) Hamburg Architecture Archive , accessed on July 10, 2020 (photo).
  5. ↑ a b Rüdiger Gärtner: 25 years ago today: So we blew up the Kiez high-rise. In: mopo.de . February 20, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Rumble! The flip book. In: booklooker.de. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Entry on Millerntorplatz 1 at Emporis