Mauritanian Embassy in Berlin
The Mauritanian Embassy in Berlin is the official diplomatic representation of Mauritania in Germany. It is located together with the embassies of the Republics of Zambia , Zimbabwe and Uganda are in the former publisher of the textbook publishing people and knowledge in the Axel-Springer-Straße 54a corner Kommandantenstraße 80 in Berlin district center of the district of the same .
History of diplomatic relations
The Islamic Republic of Mauritania had had diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany since 1960 and had its embassy building at Bonner Strasse 48 in Bonn (→ entry in the embassy list ). Since 1973, the country's embassy in Moscow has also looked after relations with the GDR . When the German government moved to Berlin in 2001, the embassy and the republics of Zambia , Zimbabwe and Azerbaijan moved into the publishing house of the textbook publisher Volk und Wissen. The current ambassador is Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Brahim Khlil.
architecture
Construction of the Volk und Wissen publishing house began before the Second World War. The U-shaped floor plan of the building was due to its location on Kommandantenstrasse, what was then Lindenstrasse and Beuthstrasse. Six floors with a basement were planned, whereby the sixth floor with the attic was to be set back from the main facade, but the building was not completed due to the war. After the end of the Second World War , building was gradually continued. The building had been in the border area between East and West Berlin since 1961 , with the wing on Kommandantenstrasse even reaching into the border strip on the Berlin Wall . A remnant of the border signal fence has been preserved on the building.
The publishing house Volk und Wissen took over the building as owner in 1952 and continued the building in 1953 with the completion of the first and second floors. By 1958, the construction of the side wing on Beuthstrasse was completed up to the fourth floor. This wing was not completed until 1975 by the architect Werner Ebel .
After German reunification , the facade of the building was redesigned in 1994 by Waldemar Poreike (1927–2014), whereby the central five axes were slightly arched to emphasize the portal area. Above the fourth floor, a cornice was also drawn, which was made stronger in the central area.
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (ed.): Embassies in Berlin. 2nd Edition; Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2004; Pages 170-171. ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '31.3 " N , 13 ° 24' 3.7" E