Markgrafenstrasse 46 (Berlin-Mitte)
The office and retail building Markgrafenstraße 46 in today's Berlin district of Mitte is a 1998 to 1999 for the Colonia-North Star Insurance (now Axa Colonia insurance ) erected new buildings, in which an under monument protection standing stairway has been integrated, which from a 1863- The previous building erected in 1865 for the Achard Foundation has been preserved.
history
In 1759, the senior consistorial councilor and preacher of the French community in Berlin, Antoine Achard († 1772), acquired today's property at Markgrafenstraße 46 in Berlin's Friedrichstadt district and had two houses built on it. His wife or widow Marie Achard decreed that all income from these houses after her death should benefit the poor of the French colony. From 1863 to 1865, the Berlin architect Adolf Hermann Lohse replaced the two houses with a four-storey new building that was richly decorated with figures and reliefs and was intended to increase rental income. The house was subsequently rented to various users, in 1912 it belonged to a real estate company and later to Dresdner Bank . After the Second World War , the war-damaged house was simply restored and used by the Central District Office and the Außenhandelsgesellschaft mbH for metal goods and sporting goods . Although already a listed building, the house was demolished in 1997 , but the architects integrated the late classical staircase into the new building. It contains a support system made up of two or four fluted Corinthian cast iron columns that stand on pedestals . The main staircase is three-way with a semicircular floor plan and runs from the ground floor to the third floor. Furthermore, the surrounding walls, the entrance area on the ground floor and the octagonal vestibules were reconstructed.
The stairwell is registered as a monument with the number 09075004 in the Berlin State Monument List.
See also
literature
- Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): District Mitte. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Berlin. ) Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-80-6 , p. 324.
- Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon - middle. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 , p. 75.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 54.7 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 33.3" E