New town house (Berlin)
The New Town House is the name of a Berlin administration building on Parochialstrasse in the Mitte district . It was built as a commercial building in the 1930s. From 1945 it is used as a town house. At that time, during the Allied occupation , it was given the name Neues Stadthaus instead of the neighboring tower building on Molkenmarkt , which the Magistrate of Greater Berlin had previously used as a town house .
history
The building was originally designed by Kurt Starck and Franz Arnous as a commercial building. The urban planning of the Berlin Building Department provided for a representative administrative forum for Berlin based on a design by Richard Ermisch from 1933. However, these building plans were only at the beginning of a National Socialist architectural development, which was not implemented until a few years later, in 1937 with the “Law on the Redesign of German Cities” and led to the idea of a so-called “ World Capital Germania ” for Berlin . Rather, this planning of the administrative forum was not new, but built on proposals for the development around the whey market, which had been around since the 1910s. The insurance company, which was first used by the insurance company Städtische Feuersozietät , is one of the few structures that were built according to this plan. Among the buildings on Parochialstrasse and Jüdenstrasse that were demolished for this purpose was house number 27, which until 1933 housed the anti-war museum founded by the writer and war opponent Ernst Friedrich in the early 1920s .
Use after 1945
Since the end of the Second World War , the building has served as an administrative building for the Magistrate of Greater Berlin and, since 1990, for the Berlin Senate .
At first it was the meeting place of the city council of Greater Berlin , because in this insurance building on Parochialstrasse there was an undamaged meeting room in the center of Berlin. The two nearby townhouses, the Rotes Rathaus, and the neighboring New Townhouse on Molkenmarkt, were no longer suitable as a conference venue due to significant war damage. Today one of the largest registry offices in Germany is located in the building with the registry office in Mitte .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ New town house . Published on Luise-Berlin.de.Retrieved on November 6, 2013
- ↑ Michael Wildt and Christoph Kreutzmüller Urban Planning In: Berlin 1933 - 1945: City and Society in National Socialism. Siedlerverlag, Munich. 2013 eISBN 978-3-641-08903-0
- ↑ Register Office Mitte von Berlin , accessed on January 15, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 2 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 41.1" E