Indian embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
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Embassy |
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| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1952 | ||
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 Berlin
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| Ambassador |
Mukta Dutta Tomar since April 2017 |
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| Website | www.indianembassy.de | ||
The Indian Embassy is the diplomatic representation of the Republic of India in the Federal Republic of Germany . The first ambassadors between the “old” Federal Republic and India were exchanged as early as 1952, after India was one of the first countries to recognize the then new Federal Republic in 1949. In 1951, both states signed the relevant treaty. Between 1971 and 1990 there was also a diplomatic mission from India to the GDR .
History of Mutual Diplomacy
Until the agreed government moved from Bonn to Berlin that had diplomatic mission of India based in Bonn .
Diplomatic relations also existed with the GDR , the Indian embassy was located at Clara-Zetkin-Strasse 89 (since 1995 Dorotheenstrasse again ). House number 89 was designed by the architect Roland Korn together with the neighboring houses 85, 87 and 91 and built in 1973/1974.
Between 1999 and 2001 was in the embassy district of Berlin district in Tiergarten ( district center ) of the new headquarters of the embassy in Germany built. The construction plans come from the Berlin architectural office Léon - Wohlhage - Wernik . The finished building is characterized by its unusual color design - the facade is made of Indian red sandstone .
In April 2017, Mukta Dutta Tomar was appointed Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Location, construction and architecture of the embassy building
The embassy is located at Tiergartenstrasse 16/17 on the southern edge of the Tiergarten in the embassy district between Hildebrandstrasse and Stauffenbergstrasse. There are currently four buildings in this block. Direct neighbors of the Indian embassy are to the west - on the right as seen from Tiergartenstrasse - the South African embassy (no. 18) and to the east - on the left as seen from Tiergartenstrasse - the Baden-Württemberg State Representation (no. 15). The Austrian embassy is the fourth building attached to the state representation on the corner of Stauffenbergstrasse . The approximately 3500 m² property of the Indian Embassy is almost 40 meters wide on the street front, a good 80 meters deep and slightly inclined to the street. Before the destruction of the Second World War , the office of the Reich Association of the German Press was located on the property at number 16 and the British consulate with the military attaché departments of the three branches of service at number 17 .
In Bonn , the Indian Embassy was at Adenauerallee 262–264 (see: Embassy of the Republic of India in Bonn ). After the capital city resolution of 1991 and the Berlin / Bonn Act of 1994, it was clear that the main German contacts for the highest diplomatic representatives of a state - the Federal Chancellery , Bundestag , Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Economic Affairs - would be based in Berlin from 1999 (2000 at the latest). Accordingly, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to move the Indian Embassy to Berlin as well. The Berlin Embassy of India was initially in Pankow in the building of the former Indian Embassy in the GDR . Since Pankow was not central enough and the building did not meet India's representational requirements, the Indian state acquired the property at Tiergartenstrasse 16/17 in 1996 and held a limited competition in which the Berlin office Leon Wohlhage Wernik won 1st place in March 1998. Prize won. India was thus one of the few states that did not outsource the design of their new embassy buildings in Berlin to architects from their own country. The designs for the embassy buildings in the immediate vicinity all come from architects from the countries of origin: mma architects from Cape Town for South Africa , Hans Hollein for Austria and Samir Rabie from Cairo for Egypt . India, on the other hand, deliberately opted for an “architectural translation” of the Indian architectural tradition by a German architecture firm.
Leon Wohlhage Wernik consisted of the Berlin architects Hilde Léon , Konrad Wohlhage and Siegfried Wernik , who also designed the nearby Bremen state office at Hiroshimastraße 24, which also has a red facade, but made of painted plaster . The Berlin architecture gallery Aedes presented both buildings in 2001 in comparison. The foundation stone was laid on September 9, 1998 , and the Indian Embassy was ceremoniously opened on January 18, 2001 in the presence of the then Foreign Ministers of Germany and India - Joschka Fischer and Jaswant Singh . The first Indian ambassador to move into the new building was Ronen Seng. The construction costs amounted to 26 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 34 million euros) with a gross floor area (GFA) of 18,200 m².
In the vicinity of the representations of South Africa and Baden-Wuerttemberg , the Indian Embassy is lined up with a closed facade that is cut into by the cylindrical atrium , which is visible as if through a narrow panel . On the outside, the building is designed as a cuboid that takes up almost the entire area of the property. Inside, however, the building is clearly divided into three sections: the first section, viewed from the street front, is a five-storey structure with a square floor plan, which is accessed from the inside through the atrium . The second section is a garden with an almost square plan, on two levels. The higher level of the garden is on a two-storey base building, which carries a tower with a circular floor plan offset to the side. The tower is the same height as the eaves height of the first section and contains the ambassador's work rooms. Tower and atrium have the same diameter and height; thus the tower looks like it has been punched out of the cuboid of the first section when viewed from above.
On the east side of the second section, a wide flight of stairs leads over the depth of the garden to the roof garden on the first section. The design and angle of inclination of the single flight of stairs is intended to be reminiscent of the historic Jantar Mantar open-air observatory . The lower level of the garden is at ground level. The third section is a five-storey block that contains apartments for embassy employees. However, the ambassador and his family live in a residence on Podbielskiallee in Dahlem . The outer facade of the building is clad with red Barauli sandstone (trade name Ruby Red ) from the Dholpur region in Rajasthan , the surface of which is lively thanks to the rough cracked surface of the stone and the irregular grouting of the cuboids. The Red Fort in Agra was also built from sandstone from this region of origin . Other natural stones used in the construction of the embassy are greenish limestone from Kota , black natural stone from Jhansi and black limestone from Kadapa . The inscription “Truth alone wins” is carved in Sanskrit under the Indian national coat of arms at the entrance .
All publicly accessible rooms can be reached from the atrium. The consulate is also accessed separately from the west side. A two-storey hall is connected to the atrium, from which visitors can access the large event hall on the ground floor, which opens onto the garden in the inner courtyard. The public area also includes an exhibition hall with a library and a business center. The exterior and interior design of the building is uncompromisingly modern, but the choice of colors and materials makes reference to the building tradition and craftsmanship of India. Filigree stone jalis made in India are used as partition walls .
See also
literature
- Nils Ballhausen: A piece of India - Embassy of the Republic of India with consulate and residential building . In: Bauwelt , No. 14/2001, pp. 18–23.
- Lucas Elmenhorst: Can you build nationally? The architecture of the embassies of India, Switzerland and Great Britain in Berlin . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2623-2 . (At the same time dissertation at Humboldt University 2009).
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (Hrsg.): Messages in Berlin , 2nd revised. Edition. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 .
- Katharina Fleischmann: Messages with messages? State representation by architecture using the example of the Indian embassy in Berlin . In: Wolkenkuckucksheim , International Journal for Theory and Science of Architecture, Technical University Cottbus, ZDB -ID 1424039-7 , No. 12/2007. (Contribution to Heaven and Earth - Festschrift for Karsten Harries.)
- Katharina Fleischmann: Messages with messages - of spatial images and a new geography . BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8142-2108-3 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 715-oops-9533 . (Volume 24 of the series Perceptual Geographic Studies , also a dissertation at the FU Berlin 2005. The focus is on the South African and Indian embassies in Berlin.)
- Sabine Quenot: From Rajasthan to the diplomatic quarter ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . In: The Parliament , No. 48/2005, November 28, 2005.
- Bernhard Schulz: Just arrived, India and Bremen in Berlin / Léon Wohlhage Wernik . Aedes, Berlin 2001. (exhibition catalog)
- Wolfgang Toepfer: Modern interpretation of traditional Indian arts and crafts . The Indian Embassy in Berlin . In: Stein, Keramik & Sanitär , No. 6/2002, ZDB -ID 1306914-7 , pp. 8-11.
Web links
- Official website of the Indian Embassy in Germany
- Indian Embassy in Berlin with Leon Wohlhage Wernik (Architects)
- Embassy of the Republic of India in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development (maps, photos of models, Black plans )
- Indian embassy at BauNetz (construction description, photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin. Book plan , VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin, 1988, p. 53.
- ↑ bundespraesident.de ( Memento from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ indianembassy.de ( Memento from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Indian sandstone in Berlin - laying of the foundation stone at the Indian embassy . Report to BauNetz , September 9, 1998.
- ↑ Tiergartenstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, part 4, p. 866.
- ^ Embassies: Republic of India . In: BauNetz Magazin . Retrieved January 17, 2010
- ↑ a b Katharina Fleischmann: Messages with messages? ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) . In: Wolkenkuckucksheim , No. 12/2007.
- ↑ Konrad Wohlhage died in 2007 at the age of 53.
- ↑ just arrived: India and Bremen in Berlin - Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architects, Berlin . Exhibition in the “Aedes West” gallery in Charlottenburg from May 28th to July 1st 2001.
- ^ Elisabeth Binder: New Indian Embassy: Classical expressive dance and a roof with a view . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 18, 2001.
- ↑ Indian Embassy in Berlin ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to the tender at the Berlin Chamber of Architects.
- ↑ Information on GFA from Leon Wohlhage Wernik , accessed on January 19, 2010.
- ↑ Embassy of India Berlin ( Memento from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The same design language of the round tower top and cylindrical atrium as a complementary negative body can be found in the design presented to the public in 1996, with which Moore Ruble Yudell won the competition for the new building of the American Embassy in Berlin ; Photo. (PDF) In: Newsweek , 2008
- ↑ a b Dilek Güngör: Six lights for the embassy of India . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 19, 2001.
- ↑ mines.rajasthan.gov.in ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Friedrich Müller: INSK compact . Ebner Verlag, Ulm, sheet 90.21
- ^ Wolfgang Toepfer: Modern interpretation of traditional Indian art and craft . In: Stein, Keramik & Sanitär , No. 6/2002 , pp. 8–11 (but with the wrong place name).
- ↑ Details on the embassy building at www.embassy.de, accessed on October 8, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 34 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 43.6" E