Karl Bröger House

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The Karl-Bröger-Haus on Karl-Prölß-Platz.
The Karl-Bröger-Haus at night with the striking exterior lighting that was reinstalled in 2007/08.

The Karl-Bröger-Haus (formerly the House of Labor ) is a listed office and commercial building in Nuremberg , which was originally built as a publishing house for the Franconian Daily Mail and today serves as the headquarters of the Nuremberg SPD . With its seven floors and a height of 26.5 meters, it is considered the city's first high-rise . The name of the house is reminiscent of the working-class poet Karl Bröger (1886–1944).

history

draft

At the end of the 1920s, the architecture office of the Nuremberg City Councilor Hans Müller received the order from the Franconian Publishing House and Book Printing Company GmbH (FVA) to build a new publishing building for the social democratic daily newspaper Fränkische Tagespost (FT). Karl Kröck , who has meanwhile entered the office, was given the opportunity to design a first representative building in the New Objectivity style , which was to serve not only as a publishing house, but also as the headquarters of trade unions and the political secretariats of the SPD .

opening

In October 1930 the opening of what was then the tallest and most modern building in Nuremberg took place with a three-day ceremony. In addition to the publishing house and individual party functions, the Falken , the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Germany , the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the workers sports movement and various singing and theater groups also moved into rooms in what was then called the House of Labor . At the end of the first official opening day on October 11th, the outside lighting with the also illuminated FRÄNKISCHE TAGESPOST lettering was put into operation between the fifth and sixth floors and presented to the public. A group of selected personalities, including some journalists, were able to tour the premises two days earlier. The following day, October 12, the opening ceremonies for the people of Nuremberg took place in the Phoebus Palace , the most modern cinema in the city at the time, and then in the Luitpoldhalle . Instead of the sick SPD party chairman Otto Wels , the then Chancellor Hermann Müller gave a speech and praised the “huge, magnificent building [about which] only one opinion, one praise [can]” with the words: “It is the most expedient and the most beautiful building that the German workforce has. "

time of the nationalsocialism

Just two years and five months after the opening of the building, the Franconian Daily Mail was temporarily suspended until March 3, and finally from March 9, 1933 as a result of the Reichstag fire on February 28, 1933. On this day, under the leadership of the Franconian Gauleiter Julius Streicher , SA and SS units stormed the building, coming through today's Karl-Bröger-Tunnel, and dismantled the printing machines and the inventory. The National Socialists raged for a total of four days in the so-called House of Labor , arrested the editors present and then burned books, newspaper volumes and typewriters that they had previously thrown from the sixth floor in the courtyard. Among the arrested, some of whom were sent to the Dachau concentration camp for several years , included the long-time city councilor and later publishing director August Meier , the working-class poet and today's namesake of the building, Karl Bröger, and the Reichstag member Josef Simon . After the destruction, the building first became the property of the Free State of Bavaria and, after its restoration, was used by Julius Streicher between 1939 and 1942/43 as the publisher of the Nuremberg Nazi party organ Fränkische Tageszeitung and the vulgar anti- Semitic political pornographic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer .

post war period

The building survived the air raids on Nuremberg , apart from a destroyed roof structure and missing windows and doors, largely unscathed. Since there was an urgent need for premises to accommodate authorities and companies in the heavily destroyed city, reconstruction progressed rapidly. In addition to the previously established institutions, such as the Falken or the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, the local editorial office of the Nürnberger Nachrichten , the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court , the state labor office and the office of the ruling chamber for denazification have now also been accommodated here . With the help of the rental income, the building was repaired piece by piece and the side wing was extended by a fifth floor in 1949/50. Since the Allied Forces initially gave preference to independent newspapers over party papers and there were no printing presses, it took until November 6, 1948 for the Franconian Daily Mail to be published again. The financial backlog to other publishers as well as the social circumstances, in which party papers were less and less popular, finally resulted in the publication of the newspaper on November 30, 1971.

Event center

The building experienced a renaissance from 1997, when Horst Schmidbauer, the chairman of the SPD Nuremberg at the time, commissioned the Nuremberg architect Dieter Fritsch to convert the former publishing house into an event center that was to serve as a general place for discussions, debates, exchanges and encounters. In 2007/08, the exterior lighting that was removed at the time of National Socialism was reinstalled based on the historical model and the former illuminated lettering FRÄNKISCHE TAGESPOST was adapted with the new name KARL-BRÖGER-HAUS . At the same time, the parliamentary offices moved into the former business premises on the ground floor and have since served as an open access point. The concept of the event location Karl-Bröger-Zentrum was successfully implemented with the former press room, which now offers space for 250 people. Today around 16,000 people visit the building every year for around 200 events. A memorial stele with the names of the Social Democrats persecuted during National Socialism was also placed in front of the entrance .

architecture

As a shaping model which served Brussels Maison du Peuple of Victor Horta .

The new publishing house of the Franconian Daily Mail , with five storeys on the sides and seven storeys in the middle and 26.5 meters high , was built in 1929–1930 by the Nuremberg architects Hans Müller and Karl Kröck as the first high-rise building in Nuremberg and has around 6,000 square meters of floor space. In terms of design, it takes up the concave shape of the headquarters of the Belgian workers' party Maison du Peuple by Victor Horta in Brussels , but has architectural elements of classic modernism typical of the time , in particular the New Objectivity . The reddish painted plaster facade is divided horizontally by cornices on the side three-storey round core , as in the middle part vertically by pilaster strips . At night, the pilaster strips are also underlined by outside lighting, which is interrupted by horizontal lettering between the fifth and sixth floors. In terms of construction, it is also one of the first pure steel-framed buildings in Nuremberg and thus enabled flexible use of the premises.

Web links

Commons : Karl-Bröger-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Fränkische Verlagsanstalt und Buchdruckerei GmbH: The Karl Bröger House - A booklet accompanying the exhibition . Nuremberg, CityDruck, 2015 (updated 2016). ( available as PDF )
  • Fränkische Verlagsanstalt und Buchdruckerei GmbH: The Karl Bröger House - An accompanying booklet with pictures . Nuremberg, CityDruck, 2015. ( available as PDF )
  • Fränkische Verlagsanstalt und Buchdruckerei GmbH: The Karl Bröger House - A booklet with personal stories about the house . Nuremberg, CityDruck, 2015 (updated 2016). ( available as PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  2. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019
  3. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  4. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019
  5. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  6. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019
  7. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  8. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019
  9. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  10. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019
  11. ^ Fränkische Verlagsanstalt: Real estate on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, accessed on September 17, 2019
  12. ^ The Karl-Bröger-Haus - A booklet accompanying the exhibition on fraenkische-verlagsanstalt.de, from October 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019
  13. ^ SPD Nuremberg: The Karl-Bröger-House in Nuremberg. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity. on spd-nuernberg.de, March 16, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 37.1 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 43.1 ″  E