Mossehaus

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Mossehaus
State in 2005

State in 2005

Data
place Berlin center
builder Wilhelm Cremer ,
Richard Wolffenstein
Renovation: Erich Mendelsohn
and Richard Neutra
Construction year 1901-1903; 1921-1923
height (Corner structure) around 20 m
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '31.3 "  N , 13 ° 23' 48.2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '31.3 "  N , 13 ° 23' 48.2"  E

The Mosse Building is a Grade II listed building in the Schützenstraße 25-32 in Berlin district of Mitte . It is named after Rudolf Mosse , the client and former editor of the Berliner Tageblatt . It is located in the heart of the historic newspaper district of Berlin.

History and function of the building

Mossehaus, 1923

The Mossehaus was built from 1900 to 1903 according to designs by the architects Wilhelm Cremer and Richard Wolffenstein as a sandstone building with echoes of Art Nouveau on behalf of the entrepreneur Rudolf Mosse. Mosse ran his advertising express service here and printed the Berliner Tageblatt after he had to give up his original publishing location in Neue Friedrichstrasse for reasons of space. The building was damaged in the Spartacus uprisings in January 1919 after the First World War and was rebuilt by Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra in the New Objectivity style between 1921 and 1923 . On behalf of Mosse's son-in-law and then owner, Hans Lachmann-Mosse, he renewed the destroyed entrance area of ​​the building, added a cornice and added two floors to the house. The corner facade was integrated into the old building with an “extremely horizontally accentuated component made of completely different materials (iron and ceramics)”, which gave “the building and especially the corner [...] a breathtaking dynamic”. Mendelsohn worked with Paul Rudolf Henning on the design of the house facade .

Six weeks after completing the ceiling renovation work, the top ceiling, which was too heavily covered with gravel, collapsed. 13 people were killed while eleven people were seriously injured.

During the National Socialist era , Mosse-Verlag, now run by the founder's son-in-law, had to file for bankruptcy and a holding company continued to run the printing company under the name Berliner Verlagsanstalt until 1945.

The building was badly damaged again in World War II . The entire wing along Jerusalemer Strasse was destroyed, as was the facade, elaborately constructed by Mendelsohn, on the corner of Schützenstrasse and Jerusalemer Strasse. It was only rebuilt in a simplified manner after the war.

As before, the building continued to be used by a number of printing companies, which merged in 1951 to form VEB Industriedruck , which later became the Berlin Printing Combine .

After the division of Berlin into four sectors, the publishing house was located in the American and Soviet sectors at the same time , the border went right through it. After the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961, those employed here could only enter with a separate permit.

After the political change , the entrepreneur Hans Röder acquired the Mossehaus on July 1, 1992 and developed it into the Mosse Center with additional building complexes designed by the architect Dieter Schneider . The inauguration of the first construction phase took place at the beginning of 1995 in the presence of Rudolf Mosse's grandson, George L. Mosse . The entire complex was completed and re-used in 2000, but the grandson attached particular importance to the fact that at least one printing plant in the building should continue to operate. However, with the move out of the Berlin-Mitte printing house in 2013, this no longer applies.

The Leibniz Center for General Linguistics and the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research have had their headquarters here since 2006. The representative corner part of the complex was the German headquarters of the French mineral oil company Total until October 2012 . Thales Deutschland has had its capital city representative office and one of its development centers for transport systems there since January 2014 . In April 2014, the Dussmann Group moved into additional floors of the Mossehaus.

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North view of the Mosse Center 2013; Axel Springer House in the background on the left

literature

  • Arnt Cobbers: Architecture Guide . The 100 most important Berlin buildings. 5th edition, Jaron, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89773-135-5 .
  • Bruno Zevi (Ed.): Erich Mendelsohn. The Complete Works . Birkhauser, Basel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7643-5975-7 (English language edition).

Web links

Commons : Mossehaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mosse-Zentrum and Mosse-Verlag on zeitungsviertel.de , accessed on September 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 235 f .
  3. ^ Mossehaus ( Memento of January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on berlin.de , accessed on September 17, 2011.
  4. ^ Paul Rudolf Henning: The loss of utopia in modern architecture , Pedagogical Service of the State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, 1991
  5. ^ The judgment in the Mossehaus trial . In: Vossische Zeitung , May 2, 1924.
  6. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Mendelssohn's Mosse house . In: Welt am Sonntag , March 14, 2004, accessed on September 17, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b History of the printing house in Berlin-Mitte . In: druckhaus-berlin-mitte.de , accessed on September 18, 2011.
  8. ^ Mosse center inaugurated in the old newspaper district . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 26, 1995.
  9. ↑ Mosse Center . ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , accessed on September 18, 2011.
  10. ↑ Thales moves into 9,000 square meters in the Mosse center in Berlin Mitte. In: bnpparibas.de. July 10, 2013, accessed January 2, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Dussmann Group rents around 7,200 square meters in the Mosse center in Berlin-Mitte. In: bnpparibas.de. September 24, 2013, accessed May 8, 2014 .