Messberghof
The Meßberghof - until 1938 Ballinhaus - is an office building built in 1924 in Hamburg . The listed building is located on the Meßberg between the pumps and Willy-Brandt-Straße (until 2005 Ost-West-Straße ) and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel .
history
The building was constructed from 1922 to 1924 according to designs by the architects Hans and Oskar Gerson for the stock corporation for domestic and foreign companies and named after the Hamburg shipowner Albert Ballin , who died in 1918 . Under Ballin's leadership, HAPAG had become the world's largest shipping company by 1914. In National Socialist Hamburg , Ballin, as the bearer of the Kontorhaus, was no longer viable because of his Jewish descent, so the Kontorhaus was renamed Meßberghof in 1938 on the instructions of the Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann after the adjacent street .
After the leasehold house relapsed to the property in the mid- 1970s , consideration was given to demolishing it. In 1983 the house was listed as a historical monument .
The former owner, a Deutsche Bank company , declared his intention in 1997 to give the building its old name back, but this has not happened to this day. Instead, the HAPAG main building on Ballindamm has been called Ballinhaus since 1997.
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The company Tesch & Stabenow , which delivered the highly toxic Zyklon B to concentration camps and whose owner Bruno Tesch was executed in 1946, was one of the numerous tenants in the Meßberghof since 1928 . In 1992, the Hamburg cultural authority planned to put an information board on the building about the history of the building, on which the Zyklon B supplier should be clearly highlighted. The owner declined this suggestion, however, as "the information board would likely impede a quick rental ..." For a while, consideration was given to setting up an information board on public property. The owner then offered to put a chronicle board in the stairwell. In 1997, after a long dispute over the text and possible locations, a memorial plaque clearly visible from the outside was installed.
Architecture and building sculpture
The ten-storey building has a pronounced front end to the west and two wings that run parallel to Pumpen and Willy-Brandt-Straße. The eight upper floors above the ground floor have the same layout of the load-bearing walls and pillars, only the ninth floor is a little retracted. The house is made of reinforced concrete with a brick facade. The rather flat hipped roof is covered with titanium sheet.
On the facade there are eight figures with the Enigma Variations , which were created by Lothar Fischer between 1996 and 1997.
See also
List of office buildings in Hamburg
literature
- The Ballinhaus in Hamburg . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture . Vol. 8 (1924), no. 3/4, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-9179 , pp. 118-124. (Nine illustrations)
- The "Ballinhaus" in Hamburg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Vol. 44 (1924), no. 32, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-57393 , pp. 267-269. (Ten pictures)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Allenstein: 39th station, Meßberg 1: Ballin-Haus / Meßberghof . In: Rita Bake, Hamburg State Center for Political Education (ed.): Different worlds: 45 historical stations through the Kontorhausviertel . Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-929728-27-9 , pp. 86-87.
- ↑ Monument Protection Office in the Authority for Culture, Sport and Media (Ed.): List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (Pdf; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 915 kB ) , As of April 13, 2010. Hamburg 2010, p. 119, list of monuments no. 684.
- ↑ Hapag-Lloyd's Ballinhaus on Ballindamm. In: hamburgbilder.de. June 19, 2016. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Jürgen Kalthoff, Martin Werner: The dealers of the Zyklon B. Tesch & Stabenow. A company history between Hamburg and Auschwitz. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87975-713-5 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 53 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 13 ″ E