Casino building (Flensburg-Mürwik)

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The casino building in 2015 (with the later towers Luv and Lee in the background on the left).

The casino building in Flensburg - Mürwik , in the Sonwik district , was built in the 1940s. Today it is one of the city's cultural monuments .

background

The casino building was not completed until the end of the Second World War , in 1944, at the same time as the neighboring Bonte barracks . It was to serve as a non-commissioned officer and team mess. So it wasn't a casino like the casino at Flensburg's ZOB . It also served as a farm building .

Like the adjoining northern buildings of the naval port, the building was made of red brick in the usual basic shape of the other buildings there. Architecturally, however, in contrast to these buildings in the representational style preferred during the National Socialist era. In particular , the ashlar walls , which emphasize the arcades on the side elevations , represent an element of the National Socialist representative architecture. In 2007, the architecture critic Manfred Sack linked the building clearly, completely with National Socialism . In contrast to the neighboring buildings, he stated with regard to the casino building: “[...] unmistakably a National Socialist architectural creation . You can recognize it by the base, especially by the stone surrounds on the ground floor. "

At the end of the Second World War , the building was part of the Mürwik special area , in which the last imperial government under Karl Dönitz had settled. Near the casino building is the Alte Blücherbrücke , where the Patria ship and the Allied Monitoring Commission were moored in May 1945 . After the war, the buildings at the naval port were used by the British occupying forces and industrial companies. At the end of the 1950s, the German Navy moved into the building, as did most of the other buildings in the area of ​​the Flensburg-Mürwik base . After the Navy gave up its naval port at the end of the Cold War , the casino building also became part of the subsequent conversion .

The building was placed under monument protection in 1998 for historical, artistic and urban planning reasons. By 2007 the building was renovated and converted into a residential and commercial building. Parts of the building were dismantled in the sense of monument protection. An access stair tower was also added on the eastern rear.

The casino building now has the address Am Fördeufer 2–6. It also bears the addition of building 8 . The neighboring buildings also have a building number that probably dates from the time of military use. Today there are commercial operations on the upper floor and condominiums on the upper floor.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments in Flensburg. Structural systems , accessed on: November 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  3. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  4. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  5. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  6. ↑ A single-storey kitchen wing was set up on the inner courtyard side. See Lutz Wilde: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  7. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  8. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 132 f.
  9. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  10. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 550
  11. ↑ List of monuments in Flensburg. Structural structures , accessed on: November 5, 2017
  12. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 132 f.
  13. ↑ Conversion and renovation of the casino building into a residential and commercial building, Am Fördeufer 1–4, Flensburg , accessed on: November 20, 2017
  14. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  15. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 132 f.
  16. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  17. ↑ Manfred Sack and Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard : Sonwik, Flensburg, Opus 61. Stuttgart / London 2007, p. 12
  18. ↑ Conversion and renovation of the casino building into a residential and commercial building, Am Fördeufer 1–4, Flensburg , accessed on: November 20, 2017

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 '27 .6 "  N , 9 ° 27' 14.3"  E