Lichtenrade malt house
The Lichtenrade malthouse is an industrial building from 1898 in the Berlin district of Lichtenrade , Steinstraße 41. It was originally used to produce malt for brewing beer using a method that was modern at the time and has been a listed building since 1984 .
history
Due to the growing demand for beer at the end of the 19th century, when Berlin and the surrounding cities expanded strongly, the general director of the Schloßbrauerei Schöneberg AG , which was founded in 1867 and later a brand of Berliner Kindl , Max Fincke, was forced to move outside of the densely built-up areas to build a large malt house, which was then an independent town of Schöneberg . On the one hand, the plant was supposed to meet the increasing demand for malt and, on the other hand, not to bother the residents in the densely populated urban area of Schöneberg with the odor development. The government architect was commissioned to design Wilhelm Walther . 40 acres of agricultural land of the divided Bornhagen estate , located directly on the Dresden Railway , came into question as the construction site . In the years 1897/1898 the building ensemble , consisting of a building with a kiln tract , storage floors and germination plant, a boiler and machine house as well as ancillary buildings was built. The production process of malting was modern for the time and initiated the industrial production of beer in large quantities. The germination of barley on a threshing floor , which had been common since the Middle Ages, was replaced by a machine-assisted pneumatic process based on the method of the Lorraine brewer and inventor Josef Nikolaus Galland. In this process, moist, tempered air was blown through rotating drums filled with grain, which accelerated the germination process required for malting. The malt house was supplied by rail via an industrial connection from the Lichtenrade train station , and the transport to the breweries was carried out by horse-drawn vehicles. 28 freight wagons with brewing barley reached the malt house every day, and it produced 60,000 quintals of malt annually .
Immediately after the First World War , the grain was rationed due to the emergency, so that it was no longer worthwhile to continue operating the Lichtenrade malt house. After the machines had been expanded, the main building was rented to a warehouse. The outbuildings were demolished. In 1933, the German Wehrmacht confiscated the main building, which they eventually used as a food store until 1945. During the Cold War , part of the West Berlin Senate Reserve was stored here . The building, which has been a listed building since 1984, is still used as a warehouse today.
Building description
The architect Wilhelm Walther , known for his Wilhelmine -style buildings for insurance companies and commercial buildings, among other things, chose the style of the then popular historicizing architecture of a neo-renaissance modeled on North German for his design of the Lichtenrade malt house . This design language includes curved gables with edging made of light sandstone , red masonry bricks with plastered and coats of arms that structure the facades and richly decorated wrought iron for wall anchors and other iron elements. The brewery's company logo with the proverb hops and malt, God preserve it is on the west gable in a stone-carved coat of arms with figural decorations made of sandstone. The roofs are covered with slate , the western head building, the former five-storey kiln with a hipped roof running transversely to the main axis of the building , has two towering vapor chimneys that run through all floors and have a rain cover attached. The building looks monumental and towers above the entire development of the area around the Lichtenrader train station.
literature
- Wilfried Postier: Lichtenrade - a village in Berlin , Berlin 1983
- Hans-Jürgen Rach: The villages in Berlin , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00243-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weyermann Malzfabrik website
- ↑ Internet site Lichtenrade-berlin.de ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Monument database of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 16.4 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 49.8" E