Mexican Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
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Embassy |
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| Consist | since before 1880 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | Rogelio Granguillhome Morfin (since April 24, 2017) | ||
| Website | embamex.sre.gob.mx | ||
The Mexican embassy in the Berlin district of Tiergarten is the diplomatic representation of Mexico in Germany . The first exchanges of ambassadors took place between Mexico and the German Empire in the 19th century. Relationships continued after the wars and multiple social changes. The headquarters of the Mexican Embassy has been located in Berlin's Tiergarten district , Klingelhöferstrasse 3 , since 2000. The ambassador since April 2017 has been Rogelio Granguillhome Morfin, replacing Patricia Espinosa Cantellano in office.
History of diplomatic relations with Germany
Since the conclusion of mutual diplomatic contracts around 1869, the Mexican diplomats initially had their place of work at their place of residence in the capital of Berlin. Around 1889 Consul General Samelson and his Vice Consul were able to move into an embassy building in Berlin at 33 Unter den Linden . The German envoy in the city of Mexico was A. de Chapeaurouge (1880) and later Baron von Zedtwitz (1890). In total, Germany had appointed up to 20 consuls for the consulates in the major cities there. Before the Second World War , the Mexican embassy was located at Landgrafenstrasse 13 (Berlin-Tiergarten W 62), south of the Landwehr Canal and not far from today's location. There is not a single preserved old building on the entire Landgrafenstrasse .
Diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken off in December 1941, and in 1942 Mexico even entered the war against Germany.
After the end of the Second World War and the formation of two German states, foreign missions were again maintained in Germany, from 1952 initially with the old Federal Republic based in Bonn , and most recently at Adenauerallee 100.
Since the diplomatic recognition of the GDR in 1973, there was also an embassy of Mexico in East Berlin , which was located at Homeyerstrasse 40 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen until it was closed in 1990 .
The move of the German government to Berlin also prompted the representatives of Mexico to rebuild their embassy in the German capital. With the support of the Berlin Senate, they acquired land in the Klingelhöfer triangle on the southwest corner of Klingelhöferstrasse and Rauchstrasse, opposite the Nordic Embassies building complex . The main entrance to the Mexican Embassy is at Klingelhöferstraße 3, the official name is Embajada de México en Alemania . The Berlin diplomats are responsible for the German federal territory, the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. The Consul General , based in Frankfurt am Main, is the point of contact for the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Honorary consuls work in Bremen , Düsseldorf , Hamburg and Hanover .
The Berlin embassy building was designed by the Mexican architects Francisco Serrano and Teodoro González de León and built in 1999/2000. It is known for its unusual facade design with vertically fanned concrete struts.
Location, construction and architecture
To the south of the Mexican Embassy in Klingelhöferstrasse are the buildings of the Association of Private Building Societies e. V. (No. 4), the Senegalese Embassy (No. 5), the Embassy of Malaysia (No. 6) and the embassies of Malta , Monaco and Luxembourg (together in No. 7). The southernmost neighboring building of the embassies is the party headquarters of the CDU .
In the prewar period, the Czechoslovak embassy was located on the corner property at Klingelhöferstrasse / Rauchstrasse . The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out the tender for the design of the new building for the embassy and the Mexican cultural institute in a restricted competition , to which eight architectural firms were invited. The international jury chose the design by Teodoro González de León and Francisco Serrano .
The basic shape of the building is formed by a five-storey cuboid with a base length of approximately 45 meters × 30 meters. The narrower side of the building faces north-south towards Rauchstrasse or the neighboring building of the building societies, the longer side faces Klingelhöferstrasse and backwards to the neighboring building in Rauchstrasse. Since Rauchstrasse does not join Klingelhöferstrasse at right angles, the building floor plan is not rectangular either: the northeast corner of the cube is set back, which reduces the width of the facade to Klingelhöferstrasse to around 41 meters and the width of the facade to Rauchstrasse to around 23 meters. The outer layer of the 18 meter high main façade facing Klingelhöferstrasse and Rauchstrasse consists of 40 vertical or slightly inclined concrete steles , which act like a lamellae curtain . No two concrete pillars are alike, the cross-section of the facade elements constantly changes from one pillar to the next. The concrete contains admixtures of marble stones and ground marble , and thus glows white. The surface of the concrete on the steles and inside the building was handcrafted with pointed chisels and pneumatic hammers to achieve a contrasting surface. The building is completely glazed behind the lamellar curtain.
The inner structure of the building is determined by a house-high atrium with a circular floor plan, which the visitor enters directly behind the main entrance. The foyer and staff rooms are located on the ground floor, the consular section is on the first floor. The ambassador and his direct employees reside on the top two floors. On top of the building there is a stepped roof garden, which is reminiscent of the Central American flora through the choice of plants and gardens . The entrance hall is decorated with small sculptures made of bronze by Juan Soriano . The new Mexican embassy building was inaugurated in November 2000, the construction price was 20 million marks .
The design language of the building is in the tradition of Le Corbusier with clear geometric shapes , and uses sun and shadow as design elements. This creates the ideal image of a modern style typical of Mexico that does without folklore.
See also
literature
- Dominic Giesel: A Mexican Roof Landscape - The New Building of the Mexican Embassy in Berlin . In: Stadt + Grün . April 2002, ISSN 0948-9770 , p. 40–42 ( PDF; 5.1 MB - registration required for download).
- Vera Hertlein: Garden Messages - Fenced Culture Signals . In: Chamber of Architects Berlin (Ed.): Architecture in Berlin - Yearbook 2001 . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-88506-510-X .
- Falk Jaeger: Mexican Embassy (Teodoro González de León, Francisco Serrano) . In: Baumeister - Zeitschrift für Architektur , Issue III / 2001, March 2001, ISSN 0005-674X , p. 66 f.
- Mexican Embassy in Berlin . In: Detail - Journal for Architecture and Concept , Issue 1/2001, p. 43, ISSN 0011-9571 .
- Sabine Quenot: Marble for that Mexico feeling. In: The Parliament , No. 45/2005, November 7, 2005.
Web links
- Official website of the Mexican Embassy in Germany ( Spanish , partly German)
- Embassy of Mexico in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development (maps, photos of models, Black plans )
- Mexican Embassy on BauNetz (description of construction, photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ bundespraesident.de: http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Termine/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/2017/04/170424-Botschafter-Akkreditierungen.html?nn=9042548 ( Memento from April 26, 2017 in Internet Archive )
- ^ Foreign Consulates General . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1890, IV, p. 18.
- ^ Imperial embassies> Mexico . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1890, IV, p. 11.
- ↑ Directory of authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1938, III, p. 11.
- ^ Diplomatic and other representations . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1989, p. 100.
- ↑ Information from the German Foreign Office on the Mexican Embassy , accessed on October 9, 2016.
- ^ Embassies - new and restored buildings: Mexico ( Memento of July 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at the Senate Department for Urban Development, Senate of Berlin . Retrieved November 5, 2009.
- ↑ Teodoro Gonzales De Leon in an interview - Tagesspiegel , November 21, 2000.
- ↑ Michael Nungesser : The Dream of Mexico . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 22, 2002.
- ↑ Christian van Lessen: Mexico's new message: white columns serve as eye-catchers . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 21, 2000, ZDB -ID 125917-9 .
- ↑ Dirk Meyhöfer: Sun in the building - messages from the south . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 9, 2001.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 29.2 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 4.1" E