Institute for Teacher Education Potsdam

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The building of the institute for teacher training on the old market

The institute for teacher training "Rosa Luxemburg" (IfL) in Potsdam was from 1952 to 1988 a training center for lower school teachers in the GDR district of Potsdam .

The IfL first started teaching in the area of ​​the military orphanage . The building was built from 1970 to 1974 by Sepp Weber in an architects' collective next to the district's general scientific library. At the opening of the institute on September 5, 1977, GDR minister of education, Margot Honecker, gave the institute the "honorary name" " Rosa Luxemburg ". In 1988 the institute was incorporated into the Potsdam University of Education .

The building on Potsdamer Friedrich-Ebert-Straße was a three-story, elongated assembly building with three inner courtyards and housed classrooms for several hundred students, a gymnastics hall and a cafeteria. Service facilities and a representative sales point of the Exquisit sales chain were located on the ground floor . The building had characteristic concrete pilaster strips on a recessed ground floor. The architecture was apparently based on motifs of the modern architecture (built bank building 1962) iconographic Home Federal Savings and Loan Building in Des Moines , Iowa , from der Rohe Mies van designed. In contrast to the original, the Potsdam building was not made of steel and marble, but of concrete.

In 1991 the building was used by two departments of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences . After long disputes, the striking building was demolished in autumn 2017 to make way for a new city quarter with almost 40 individual plots on a historic floor plan. Facing the old market , the facades of the historical palazzi from the construction time of Frederick the Great are to be reconstructed. The departments of the FH have moved to Potsdamer Kiepenheuerallee in order to form a common campus there together with all other areas of the university .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wernicke (Ed.), Potsdam-Lexikon, Berlin 2010, p. 210.
  2. ^ Architecture Guide GDR, Potsdam District, Berlin 1982, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Hans Joachim Giersberg, Hartmut Knitter, Potsdam City Guide, Berlin / Leipzig (VEB Tourist-Verlag) 1978.
  4. ↑ Niklas Maak and Claudius Seidl: Make Potsdam Schön again , in: FAZ from April 10, 2017, last accessed at http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/stadtplanung-make-potsdam-schoen-again-14953237. html on January 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Valerie Barsig: A piece of FH for everyone , in: Potsdamer Latest News (PNN) of August 25, 2017, last accessed on January 22, 2018 at http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/1211480/ .
  6. ↑ Figure under https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/d0/ae/f1d0aea96975594a5d7c4d08ca98bd2c.jpg , last accessed on January 22, 2018.
  7. ↑ http://www.potsdamermitte.de/index.php?id=98