Kathreiner house

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathreiner-Haus, Potsdamer Straße 186
(until 1937 No. 75d)

The Kathreiner-Haus in Berlin (also: Kathreiner-Hochhaus ), named after the builder, Kathreiner Malzkaffee-Fabrik GmbH, is a listed building in the Schöneberg district ( Tempelhof-Schöneberg district ) at Potsdamer Straße  186.

history

In November 1928, the Minister for People's Welfare in Prussia , Heinrich Hirtsiefer , gave his approval for the construction of the Kathreiner House in a decree. The condition for the approval was that the owner of the property undertook to erect a high-rise south of the entrance to Kleistpark .

The building, designed by Bruno Paul in the New Objectivity style, was occupied by the Kathreiner company in March 1930. It consists of three wings: the two wings parallel to Potsdamer Straße are six storeys high and are based on the eaves height of the surrounding buildings. They are connected by a wing running across the street, which in turn consists of twelve floors, giving the building its distinctive H-shape. The facade is clad with Thuringian travertine , the reveals of the horizontal rows of windows are clad with Roman travertine in a slightly contrasting color. The built-up area is 1225 m², the height to the roof is 46 meters and the usable area is 9500 m².

With the administration building Potsdamer Straße 188–192 ( Arthur Vogdt , 1938/1939) it forms a contrasting frame for the baroque royal colonnades , which, moved here in 1910, represent an entrance to Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park .

Since its completion, it has served the eponymous client as an administration building. After the Second World War it was taken over by the BVG , later u. a. used by the Berlin Senate . In the future, the Berlin Administrative Court will be housed there.

Web links

Commons : Kathreiner-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article: Two skyscrapers at Kleistpark . In: Vossische Zeitung , No. 556, November 24, 1928
  2. ↑ Article: The skyscrapers of Berlin . In: Vossische Zeitung , No. 514, October 31, 1931
  3. ↑ Berlin administrative court moves to Schöneberg. rbb24.de, accessed on September 16, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 34.9 "  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 37.8"  E