Helmholtzstrasse 5/7/9

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Street-side facade of the house at Helmholtzstrasse 9.

The building ensemble at Helmholtzstrasse 5/7/9 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , designed and executed by Max Stutterheim between 1903 and 1909, has been a cultural monument since the 1970s .

history

Development of Oberschöneweide

With the rapid increase in the population and the constant new industrial buildings towards the end of the 19th century, the area around Old Berlin experienced a tremendous economic boom. In addition to the ever new factories - such as the TRO , the AEG - Kabelwerk Oberspree , the Afa and others, of course, the numerous workers, employees and engineers also settled in the area. The result was intensive residential development, the construction of the road system with paved roads , the expansion of infrastructure such as power stations , pumping stations, official buildings and of course shopping and cultural facilities as well as cemeteries. This development was particularly true of the former municipality of Oberschöneweide . Young architects seized their chance, bought building land and realized their plans for comfortable and inexpensive living - larger apartment blocks and even housing estates were built.

Builder Max Stutterheim

The architect Max Johannes Alexander Stutterheim (born March 5, 1873 in Berlin ; † 1936 in Bad Freienwalde ) was one of those building contractors who designed and executed buildings in the up-and-coming district of Oberschöneweide in Berlin.
Max Stutterheim, son of the painter Carl Stutterheim, trained bricklayer and builder trained at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , married to Gertrud Zickert since 1900, moved directly to his future place of work. The couple first rented an apartment at Siemensstrasse (later Edisonstrasse) 21. At the same time, they began building an apartment building on Helmholtzstrasse in the same district and built an administrative building and a cemetery chapel for the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery . Wealthy families also commissioned him to build imposing tombs, including the König family.

After the completion of the three-piece apartment building, he lived with his family in house number 5.

In the years 1907 and 1908, the Berlin address book listed house numbers 16 to 18 (today these are numbers 9, 7 and 5) and 9, the architect M. Stutterheim as the owner, who was living in house number 18 at the time. In 1910 the name Stutterheim only appears for number 18, whose owner, however, is the building officer J. Th. Hamacher. From 1912, no “Stutterheim” appears under the names of the residents of this street. On the other hand, his address is now in Berlin W 50 ( Schöneberg ), Passauer Straße  34. After the completion of the buildings, the architect left Oberschöneweide, moved to a western suburb of Berlin and around 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , to Bad Freienwalde ( Or) to the single-family house in Weinbergstrasse 17 / 17a, which he had acquired there in 1905 and then converted. Although he lived here until his death, he did not work as an architect in this city.

Helmholtzstrasse

Sign on the front door of Helmholtzstrasse. 5 with reference to the Stutterheim studio

In his architectural drafts and executed structures, Stutterheim preferred designs in the then modern Art Nouveau and heritage architecture . He mainly used "down-to-earth" materials such as bricks , stone or sandstone , limestone blocks from Rüdersdorf near Berlin , wood and slate .

Description of the building complex at Helmholtzstrasse 5–9

These are three contiguous four-story rental houses built next to each other, which have been under monument protection since the 1970s and were designed one after the other by Stutterheim.
Many original details inside, such as ornate tiled stoves or paintings on the corridor walls and on the facade - including a cartridge over the entrance door of house number 5 with the insignia "MS" by Max Stutterheim - have been preserved. The garden courtyard of house number 5 is also part of the monument
ensemble. Stutterheim used the courtyard-side studio building with a very lively facade in the material mix to house number 5 for its planning and construction management activities. Because of its unusual design, the building was also given the name “Palais Stutterheim” in later years.

Web links

Commons : Helmholtzstraße5-9 (Berlin-Oberschöneweide)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register Jerusalemskirche Berlin, No. 214/1873
  2. ^ Death register StA Bad Freienwalde, No. 161/1936
  3. ↑ Marriage register StA Weißensee, No. 110/1900
  4. ^ Stutterheim, Max> architect and master mason . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1903, I, p. 1784.
  5. ↑ Cultural monument An der Wuhlheide 131A, Oberschöneweide forest cemetery, cemetery chapel and administration, König tomb
  6. ↑ Oberschöneweide> Helmholtzstrasse 18 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1908, V, p. 280.
  7. ↑ Oberschöneweide> Helmholtzstrasse 18 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, V, p. 319.
  8. ^ Stutterheim, Max> architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, I, p. 2962.
  9. ↑ Weinbergstraße monument in Bad Freienwalde at www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de; accessed on December 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ Information from the administrator of the Bad Freienwalde Museum to user: 44Pinguine : “In 1905 he (= Max Stutterheim) is registered as the owner, but did not live there. Not even his widow. Lt. Address book 1929/30, however, Max Stutterheim lived there and was also the owner, so his wife had died beforehand [...] His son also lived there. After that we unfortunately no longer have any address books. He did not work here as an architect. ”, December 23, 2016.
  11. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, p. 581.
  12. ↑ Builder for Berlin: Art Nouveau by Max Stutterheim . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 14, 2005, accessed on December 16, 2016.
  13. ↑ Monument Helmholtzstrasse 5/9, tenement houses and studio building
  14. ↑ Garden monument at Helmholtzstrasse 5, garden courtyard
  15. ↑ To the houses in Helmholtzstrasse 5, 7, 9 at www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de; accessed on December 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ From the homepage of a company that carried out material and color tests on the house in Helmholtzstrasse 5 in 2004 ( memento of the original from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 16, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buch-schudrowitz.de
  17. ↑ In the 2010s, a structural engineering report was also issued for the building ensemble: reference list from the expert office Grossmann & Coll. , accessed December 16, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 2.9 "  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 45.7"  E