Lesothic Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1979 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | Retselisitsoe Calvin Masenyetse (since December 15, 2017) |
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| Website | lesothoembassy.de | ||
The Lesotho Embassy in Berlin is Lesotho's diplomatic mission in Germany . The embassy building is located at Kurfürstenstraße 84 in the Berlin district of Tiergarten in the Mitte district . Retselisitsoe Calvin Masenyetse has been ambassador since December 2017 .
history
Two years after independence, Lesotho established bilateral relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968 . In March 1976 contacts were made with the German Democratic Republic . For both countries, the embassy was not originally on German territory. It was not until 1979 that Lesotho opened an embassy at Godesberger Allee 50 in Bonn . From 2000 the government of Lesotho rented premises on the second floor of the Dessauer Strasse 28-29 building in Berlin. Today the embassy has its headquarters at Kurfürstenstrasse 84.
Building history
The embassy is located in an office building that was built in 1964 and 1965 according to plans by Franz Heinrich Sobotka and Gustav Müller. It was created within the large residential complex on the corner of Burggrafenstrasse and Kurfürstenstrasse. At that time, the focus was not on the design, but rather on functionality, taking into account social and economic conditions. Between 1993 and 1996, the Berlin architects Kammann & Hummel remodeled the building .
architecture
The built-up plot is acute-angled. The two architects set up two office buildings so that they are at right angles to each other. A nine-storey disc house was fitted across the corner so that the six-storey component stands diagonally to Kurfürstenstrasse. The two components are connected to one another by a stair tower. This corner solution resulted in the creation of two triangular open spaces on Kurfürstenstrasse, which are used as green spaces. The office complex originally had a strictly flat design. The business areas on the ground floor are optically separated from the remaining floors by a circumferential canopy. On the other floors, ribbon windows alternate with clad facade elements. This results in a horizontal facade structure. The stair tower was originally completely clad with artificial stone slabs facing Kurfürstenstrasse. Only an oculi and vertical ribbon windows broke through the surfaces. During the redesign of the building, a glass part of the building with a spiral staircase was placed in front of it. The entrance area and one side of the facade were clad with slate panels. A glass extension was also added to the lower part. Its slats and narrow columns make it look very filigree. The slab houses were framed narrowly as part of the renovation.
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz: Embassies in Berlin. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7861-2472-8 , p. 228.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 17 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 39 ″ E