Kaiserbahnhof Halbe

Royal reception building

The Kaiserbahnhof Halbe (official name in the list of monuments: Bahnhof Halbe, consisting of the station reception building and the “royal reception building” ) is a listed building ensemble in Halbe , a municipality in the Dahme-Spreewald district in the state of Brandenburg . It lies on the Berlin – Görlitz railway line .

location

The railway line runs from the north-west in a south-easterly direction through the town. The buildings are located on the northeast side of the tracks facing away from the town center on Bahnhofstrasse , which connects to Landstrasse 74. The building ensemble stands on a property that is not fenced in .

history

The railway line between Berlin and Cottbus was built between 1865 and 1866 and extended to Görlitz until 1867 . The station building in Halbe was also built in 1865. The executing architect was August Orth , who also designed the Görlitzer Bahnhof in Berlin . He had an ensemble built consisting of the publicly accessible station reception building in the north and another building further south - the royal reception building. It was exclusively for the German Kaiser Wilhelm I , or his successor Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II determined. The emperors use the building as a starting point for extensive and representative court hunts, which went from the nearby Hammer Forest District to the Schenkenländchen and the Dubrow .

In 1912 the building was rededicated as a residential complex for civilian use. Craftsmen put in partition walls and false ceilings and expanded the southern structure to include a one-story veranda . In the north, additional storage space was created in a goods shed.

In the 1990s the buildings fell into disrepair. In 2010 an investor began to reconstruct the Royal Reception Building. The partition walls and ceilings were removed, the roof re-covered and the facade renovated. The work was originally supposed to be completed in July 2019, but has been delayed due to rising construction costs. The plans provide for a restaurant and a café to be set up in the building next to a holiday apartment. A meeting place with lecture and seminar rooms is to be set up in the station reception building.

Building description

Station reception building

The station building was essentially built from reddish bricks . The result was a two-storey building with an essentially rectangular floor plan. The facade, covered with pilasters , is also decorated with yellowish bricks that form horizontal lines. To the southeast is a rectangular porch with a veranda above. The windows are predominantly designed in the form of a pressed segment arch and only rectangular in the gable of the gable roof . There is a frieze that opens downwards . To the north is a single-storey tool shed.

Royal reception building

The second building was also made of reddish bricks, but was designed much more elaborately. Although it also has a rectangular floor plan, Orth had four square towers added to the corners. On both floors there are two narrow and tall rectangular windows on each side. The entrance in the southeast was through a large and roofed arcade hall. Their arches are triple profiled and accented with a fighter . A rich frieze is also attached to the transition to the gable roof.

After the renovation, there are three large rooms in the interior that correspond to the original state of construction. They were used as the imperial hall, the suite hall and the entrance hall. The now uncovered wall paintings from the period around 1865 are described by the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) as "lavishly vaulted" and in some cases "magnificent".

literature

Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .

Web links

Commons : Kaiserbahnhof Halbe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Frank Pawlowski: Delays at the Kaiserbahnhof . In: Märkische Allgemeine , June 28, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2019.
↑ Kaiserbahnhof in Halbe , website of the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, accessed on August 19, 2019.

52.108888 13.701388Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 32 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 5 ″ E

[1] Frank Pawlowski: Delays at the Kaiserbahnhof . In: Märkische Allgemeine , June 28, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2019.

[2] Kaiserbahnhof in Halbe , website of the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, accessed on August 19, 2019.