Dussmann cultural department store
| Dussmann the KulturKaufhaus | |
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 View of the building from the south, |
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| place | Berlin center |
| architect | Miroslav Wolf ( Saarbrücken ), Mario Campi and Franco Pessina (both Lugano ) |
| Client | Peter Dussmann |
| Construction year | 1996/1997 |
| Floor space | 3700 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '6.1 " N , 13 ° 23' 20.9" E |
The Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann (spelling: Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus ) is a characteristic commercial building completed in 1997 in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse and Dorotheenstrasse in the Mitte district . It got its name after the builder and first main user, the entrepreneur Peter Dussmann .
history
Until it was destroyed in World War II, there were rows of buildings in the Wilhelminian style on the site . In the late 1940s, all of the war ruins were cleared . Individual houses and a fallow land remained at this point , which was largely left to its own devices for decades. After the Wall came down, the service company Dussmann had re-established itself in East Berlin and the management was looking for a location for a new office building. In 1997 the new building was opened in the center of Berlin. The plan was to rent the lower floors to a bookseller or a fashion chain. However, there was no interested party, which is why the client decided to use the sales floor himself. The building was named Dussmann-Haus, later the more effective “Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus”. Initially, 4,700 m² were equipped with a media mix, with the classic department being the largest of its kind in Europe. In the first year Dussmann had two million customers, made 28 million DM in sales and unexpectedly had the black zero within reach. In the meantime (as of the 2010s) books including audio books and sheet music, CDs , DVDs and other office materials (called papétrie) are offered on a sales area of over 7,000 m² on five floors in seven different departments . The department store's turnover in 2010, 2011 and 2015 was 35 million euros each.
There are regular reading evenings, book signing sessions and music events. The department store has around 130 employees, many of whom have the status of " managerial staff ", which means that the legally restricted shop opening hours can be extended to 12-14 hours a day and also to Sundays.
In 2004 the converted third floor was opened to visitors, which had previously housed offices of the Dussmann Group. The special department for music in the side building of the Dussmann House was significantly enlarged in 2008. In 2010, foreign language materials began to be offered in a concentrated manner. Initially, the management set up an English-speaking department in a side wing.
Building description and equipment
The building complex was developed and built by the architects Miroslav Wolf ( Saarbrücken ), Mario Campi and Franco Pessina (both Lugano ). It was created in a modern design language based on the historical tradition of building close to the street from modern building materials and with arcades .
The office building has eight floors, of which the five lower floors are used for sales. The floors above serve the headquarters of the German Dussmann Group and a location of the Dussmann Office division, which provides office services. Other tenants are Vodafone , two innkeepers, a coffee house operator and, since 2008, Care Germany . Strictly speaking, there is a KulturKaufhaus of several components - the striking arcaded in Friedrichstrasse, which is preferred as far as the edge of the road and returns the facade from the seventh floor, thus the requirements of the Berliner eaves are formally fulfilled - and on both sides east subsequent historical sandstone - facades of four floors (in Dorotheenstrasse as well as in Mittelstrasse). To the east, the multi-part structure is completed by a modern component with delivery entrances.
The two lower shop areas are generously designed with a central aisle that is open to the top and into which daylight falls through a pyramid-shaped glass roof. In addition, escalators lead to the offers and reading corners on the second floor. On a vertical wall next to the escalators is a vertical garden , which was redesigned in 2012 by the French botanist Patrick Blanc . The green and sprinkled tropical landscape is 270 square meters in size, consists of over 6600 plants and is referred to by the artist as a "vegetal wall" (Mur Végétal) . An original sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut (1475 BC), a permanent loan from the Egyptian Museum Berlin, in the entrance area is also an eye-catcher for visitors to the house. The light work of art Lunatique neonly No. 8. (1999) installed by French artist François Morellet . Carpeting, furniture made of light beech wood, leather-covered armchairs and modern-style lights complete the ambience .
Location and area
The building is located on the east side of Friedrichstrasse (at the height of house number 90) with an arcade that extends over the entire sidewalk with a customer entrance. It is bounded to the north by Dorotheenstrasse, where there are two further customer entrances, and to the south by Mittelstrasse, where there is also a customer entrance. Further new buildings from other companies are directly connected to its eastern building structure, which runs in a north-south direction. The built-up area of the Dussmann House is around 3,700 m². To Friedrichstrasse station and the boulevard Unter den Linden is just a few steps.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The name "Dussmann-Haus" is embedded in the facade at the corner of Dorotheenstrasse and Friedrichstrasse above the arcade .
- ↑ ba / nr [nr = Norbert Rüdell]: One year of KulturKaufhaus Dussmann. The Berliners accept the media mix . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 47/1998 , November 16, 1998, Handel, p. 18 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2015 , Annual Report 2010 (PDF) Annual Report 2011
- ↑ Experience reports on KulturKaufhaus Dussmann. ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ciao.de; Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ↑ Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann bigger - Another floor is opened . In: Der Tagesspiegel
- ↑ Dussmann expands sheet music offer .
- ↑ More space for international literature. The Berlin cultural department store Dussmann is rearranging: Foreign-language books should have twice as much space - a total of 300 square meters . boersenblatt.net, June 11, 2010; Retrieved August 24, 2012
- ↑ Dussmann-Haus ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Stadtentwicklung.berlin.de; Retrieved August 24, 2012
- ^ Capital letter I / 2009 ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 328 kB) accessed on August 24, 2012; Enter "Dussmann" in the search window
- ↑ The green miracle: The vertical garden in the Dussmann house. Archived from the original on April 11, 2018 ; accessed on January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ With sphinx and cake
- ↑ New art walks
