Minolhaus
The Minolhaus on Alexanderplatz in Berlin 's Mitte district was an office and commercial building built in the New Objectivity style at the end of the 1920s . Its name goes back to its last user, the East German oil distributor Minol . It was demolished in late 1968.
history
In the course of the underground construction on Alexanderplatz in the 1920s, the block of houses between Georgenkirchplatz in the north and Alexanderplatz in the south, the so-called "Hahn-Jürgens-Block" - was named after the textile department store Friedrich Hahn and the company's office building L. Juergens paper supply , also known as the house with the 99 sheep's heads - completely demolished. The pharmacy zum Schwarzen Adler , where Theodor Fontane worked in 1848, was located on its northwest side at Neue Königstrasse 50 . As a replacement for the old pharmacy building demolished in 1929, Günther Nentwich had erected a six-storey steel frame building with a consistently horizontal facade structure and surrounding ribbon windows on the next north-facing double plot of land at Neue Königstraße 52-54 (now Bernhard-Weiß-Straße, south-east side) . The house, also called “Bürohaus Alex” in the building files, had a facade made of travertine panels similar to the Berolina house .
After the Second World War , the building initially housed the Soviet International Library ("Meshdunarodnaja Kniga", see photo from 1951) and later the headquarters of the East German oil distributor Minol .
In the absence of final development on the Hahn-Jürgens block, the building, together with the Georgenkirche to the north, formed the visual end of Alexanderplatz until the 1960s . It was demolished in late 1968. Today the straight, extended route of Karl-Marx-Allee runs over the former location of the house , which has been called Alexanderstraße in this section since June 2006 .
literature
- Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives. Berlin 2006.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '22.6 " N , 13 ° 24' 59.5" E