Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House

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Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House
View from the west

View from the west

Data
place Berlin center
architect Stephan Braunfels
Client German Bundestag
Construction year 1998-2003
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '13 "  N , 13 ° 22' 40"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '13 "  N , 13 ° 22' 40"  E

The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (MELH) is located in the government district of Berlin between Adele-Schreiber-Krieger-Straße and Schiffbauerdamm . After a five-year construction period, it was inaugurated on December 10, 2003 as the third new parliament building on the Spree . The architect was Stephan Braunfels . An extension of this house has been under construction since 2010, and due to various construction problems, it will not be completed until 2021 (as of May 2020).

history

Naming

The building bears his name in honor of the liberal social politician and representative of the women's movement in Germany, Marie-Elisabeth Lüders . For the construction work from 1998 onwards, the Parliament of Trees memorial site had to be reduced in size. A publicly accessible installation made of segments of the Berlin Wall such as in the Parliament of Trees was erected in the building. The segments stand on the former course of the Berlin Wall. The key handover took place in December 2003.

Extension building with tower

General

On November 9, 2010, the groundbreaking ceremony for an extension of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus took place. The building with the working name Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus II is intended to complete the existing structure, especially the bond of the federal government at its eastern end and continue to Luisenstrasse . This creates a further 44,000 m² of usable space . Initial plans provided for the new building to be completed by 2012 at an estimated cost of 190 million euros. The architect is - as was the case with the original building completed in 2003 - Stephan Braunfels. The supplementary building contains a large round plenary hall and art installations are contained in two atriums (some of them already finished).

Construction delays and additional costs for the extension

When the first major construction errors were discovered in 2012, it was planned to rectify them by mid-2015. Due to further construction defects, this time on the floor slab, the opening was postponed again, now it was said: “not before 2017”. And there was internal dispute as to whether planning errors or execution errors were the cause. In September 2016 it was said once again that the use and handover of the extension building to the administration of the German Bundestag would not be possible before 2020. According to the responsible building authority, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning , reliable information about the additional costs is not currently possible (as of September 2016). The latest news from November 2018 indicated that a possible demolition threatens due to a leaky floor slab. However, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning rejected this report and issued a notice in the same month that the renovation of the floor slab should be completed by autumn 2021. New bad news in February 2020: Now part of the house still has to be demolished, because after the many postponements, the already installed combined heat and power unit no longer meets the stricter environmental protection requirements . The three modules have to be replaced and additional filters have to be added, but these changes should not affect the end date. In contrast, the construction costs have meanwhile increased to 247 million euros.

function

With the large hearing room , which is mainly used by committees of inquiry , the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus has the second largest hall in the German Bundestag after the plenary hall in the Reichstag building . It also houses the Scientific Service Center of the German Bundestag in the western rotunda .

The following facilities are located in the scientific service center:

The library has the task of collecting and making accessible "national and international literature in printed and electronic form that is relevant for parliamentary work". The focus of the collection is on the areas of parliament, politics, law, economics, social affairs and modern history. Although the historical holdings were largely destroyed in the Second World War in May 1945 , the library bought up books from the 16th to the 19th centuries in the following years.

The headquarters of the German Bundestag's transport service is also located in the building.

architecture

general description

  • View from the balcony of the existing library of the Reichstag building

  • View from the southeast, from the Marschallbrücke

  • Partial view of the facade

The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, the Federal Chancellery , the Kanzlerpark and the Paul-Löbe-Haus form the bond of the federal government  - an arrangement of buildings on the Spreebogen in Berlin-Mitte .

The architecture of the Paul-Löbe-Haus and the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus form a unit, for example the roof edges that fit together towards the Spree - one curved outwards and the other inwards - and the bridge that connects the building standing on both sides of the Spree and is called Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Steg . The architect of both houses describes the bridge as a "jump over the Spree". The connection of the buildings from east to west symbolizes the togetherness of East and West Germany and is an antithesis to the National Socialists' vision of what will later become the “ world capital Germania ” , characterized by a north-south axis .

The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus stands to the right and left of the former course of the Berlin Wall . This process is shown in the house and symbolized as a publicly accessible memorial for the victims of the Wall .

The government district supply tunnel connects the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders- with the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus , the Reichstag building and the Paul-Löbe-Haus .

Large screen projection on the exterior facade
Miracolo - L'idea di un'immagine
by Marino Marini, 1970
("The Idea of ​​an Image")

architectural art

An art installation by the Italian concept and light artist Maurizio Nannucci is located on the top floor of the parliamentary library . His work with the title Blauer Ring was inspired by Hannah Arendt : The two sentences "Freedom is conceivable as a possibility of trade among equals / equality is conceivable as a possibility of trade for freedom" point to "the tension between the democratic principles of freedom and Equality ”.

At the end of June 2020, a biomorphic sculpture by British artist Tony Cragg was installed on the city ​​loggia of the MEL House . The bronze representation bears the title Becoming and was commissioned by the Art Advisory Council of the Bundestag in 2018. The loosely layered tower-like elements of the sculpture are intended to symbolize the end of the 900 m long ribbon of the federal government .

literature

  • Hagen Eyink, Alexander Kluy, Gina Siegel (editor): Democracy as a client. Federal buildings in Berlin from 1991 to 2000 . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing. 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88506-290-9 , p. 84-93 .

Web links

Commons : Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus. German Bundestag, accessed on September 8, 2016 .
  2. ^ Up to Luisenstrasse - groundbreaking for the Bundestag building in Berlin. At: baunetz.de , accessed on February 14, 2011
  3. ^ Architecture of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House. From: bundestag.de, accessed on August 18, 2013
  4. ^ A b Dispute about Elisabeth Lüders House Government architect Braunfels: "I had to sell my house". In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 8, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The extension of the Lüders-Haus needs to be renovated . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ Extension of the Bundestag - Lüders-Haus will be finished much later. In: Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg. September 7, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Architecture underground - scandal about government building: the architect Stephan Braunfels argues with the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning about allegedly outstanding fees. It's about the expansion of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in Berlin. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 8, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  8. ^ Expansion of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in numbers. Federal Office of Building and Regional Planning, accessed on September 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Extension of the Bundestag - Lüders-Haus will be finished much later. In: Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg. September 7, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ The new Bundestag building is threatened with demolition . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 10, 2018
  11. ^ Olaf Kanter: Serious construction defects - the new Bundestag building is threatened with demolition. In: Der Spiegel . November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Federal Building Office: Demolition of the Lüders house "was and is not planned". In: rbb24.de. November 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Environmental protection requirements in the government district - parts of the Lüders-Haus extension must be dismantled on www.rbb24.de, February 3, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  14. ↑ Secret Service
  15. ↑ German Bundestag (ed.): The German Bundestag presents old books from its library , Flyer, August 2015, p. 4
  16. ^ Andreas Kaernbach: Art in the German Bundestag: Maurizio Nanucci , flyer, without date, Kuratorium of the art collection of the German Bundestag
  17. ↑ New sculpture at the Bundestag . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 1, 2020, p. 13.