Empress Auguste Viktoria House
The Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Säuglingsheim , actually Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus to combat infant mortality in the German Empire , was a hospital complex named after Empress Auguste Viktoria at Heubnerweg 6 in Berlin-Charlottenburg . It was built between 1907 and 1909 under the leadership of the Berlin architect and town planning officer Ludwig Hoffmann , the planning was largely carried out by Alfred Messel and Edmund May in the years 1906 to 1907. During the Nazi dictatorship, the Polyclinic for Hereditary and Racial Care was affiliated here . After relocating the University Children's Clinic of the FU Berlin to the campus of the Rudolf Virchow Clinic in Reinickendorfer Strasse, the former hospital houses the ESCP Europe Business School Berlin as well as the Resource Center for Genome Research (RZPD) and the Protein Structure Factory (PSF).
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The complex was largely designed by the architect Alfred Messel, assisted by Ludwig Hoffmann and Edmund May. Messel was seriously ill at this point and died before completion. The baroque building of the chamber court in Berlin's Lindenstrasse, which today houses the Jewish Museum , served as a model for the main building .
The hospital complex consists of four individual buildings and is designed in the neo-baroque style. The two transverse central buildings are connected by a large hall, the elongated buildings on both sides are connected to the central buildings by covered corridors. All four buildings have 2½ storeys and are covered with mansard hipped roofs.
The facades of the buildings are largely plain and plastered. The portals in particular are adorned with simple stone ornaments created by the sculptors Josef Rauch and Ernst Westphal . The entrance area of the reception building is highlighted in the front of the building by a risalit with a gable .
See also
literature
- Dörte Döhl: Ludwig Hoffmann - Buildings for Berlin 1896–1924 , Ernst Wasmuth 2004
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin: Berlin and its Buildings - Part VII, Volume A: Hospitals , Ernst & Son Berlin 1997
- Booklet accompanying the exhibition "The Reich Health Office under National Socialism"
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 27 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 21 ″ E