Nordic embassies
The Nordic embassies in Berlin are located on the southern edge of the Großer Tiergarten in the Tiergarten triangle on Rauchstrasse . These are five national embassy offices from Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden with a common public building connected by a circumferential copper band. The building symbolizes the close cooperation between the Nordic countries .
history
The Nordic countries have a long history of diverse associations and political alliances. More recently, the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as the republics of Iceland and Finland, have jointly represented their interests in the Nordic Council (since 1952) and in the Nordic Council of Ministers (since 1971).
At first, external cooperation with the two German states consisted of different activities: after the state of war with Germany was ended by an official declaration by the Norwegian government in 1951, cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany began in various areas from 1953 . It began with a customs agreement, followed by agreements on cultural, military, sporting and social cooperation. Until the late 1980s, the entire area of life was "covered" with individual agreements. The Norwegian government agreed to the worldwide wave of recognition of the GDR in 1973 the exchange of diplomats and taught in the East Berlin Otto-Grotewohl-Straße 5 (now Wilhelmstrasse 65) in Berlin-Mitte a message one. Denmark also signed an agreement on diplomatic cooperation and opened its own embassy on 41 Unter den Linden in East Berlin (between Glinkastrasse and Friedrichstrasse ). Diplomatic relations between Iceland and Germany began in 1952 . An Icelandic embassy was opened in Hamburg and moved to Bonn in 1955 ( Kronprinzenstrasse 6 in Bonn ).
The idea of a joint embassy system for the Nordic countries had often been considered. After the decision of the German Bundestag to declare Berlin the capital again and to move the government from Bonn there, the concept could be realized for the first time. In Berlin, a plot of 7290 m² was available in the embassy district .
The decision in an architecture competition advertised across Europe was made in 1996. The winner was the Austrian- Finnish architectural office of Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen in Vienna . They designed the overall concept as well as one of the individual buildings, the Felleshus (community house). The participating countries then organized national competitions for the five independent embassy buildings in order to underline the national sovereignty of the individual states. Construction began in May 1997, and the embassies were opened together in October 1999. The construction costs amounted to 49.5 million euros .
building
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Materials that are typical and widespread in the respective home country were preferred for the buildings in the individual countries. The Danish embassy has an open glass facade, Finland uses larch lamellas over glass, Sweden uses large areas of glass and Gotland limestone . The facade of the Icelandic representation is made of red rhyolite (a type of porphyry ). A 15 meter high, 120 tonne and 900 million year old granite slab from the Iddefjord near Halden is mounted on the facade of the Norwegian embassy.
The materials of the community house are maple wood , exposed concrete, glass and Swedish marble . It contains, among other things, a spacious exhibition area, a lecture hall, conference rooms and a Nordic restaurant - all accessible to the public, in keeping with the purpose of this building, which is intended as a house for everyone and a meeting place.
The architect of the Swedish embassy is Gert Wingårdh , the Norwegian embassy was designed by the architectural firm Snøhetta , the Danish embassy from Nielsen, Nielsen and Nielsen (today: 3XN ), the Icelandic embassy from PK Hönnun (Pálmar Kristmundsson) and the design for the Finnish one from Viiva Arkkitehtuuri Oy office. Some furniture by local designers was used to furnish the houses, such as Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chairs or the Swan armchair in the Danish embassy.
The outstanding feature of the Nordic embassies is a 15-meter-high, turquoise- patinated copper band that surrounds the individual buildings in wave-like curves. It consists of around 4000 pre-patinated lamellas, is almost 230 meters long and is intended to symbolize the feeling of togetherness of the various countries involved. The Austrian embassy , not far from the Nordic embassies in Stauffenbergstrasse , also has a copper facade.
Residences of the ambassadors
- Due to the spatial concept of the Nordic embassies, the ambassadors' residences are not located in the building complex. The residence of an ambassador requires more living space due to the representative living spaces and the need for rooms for smaller receptions. The shielding of the residential buildings with green areas for recreation and security could not be realized on the property of the Nordic embassies themselves.
- The residence of the Danish ambassador is located in the listed Landhaus Sternberg in Dahlem , and was converted into a residence between 1999 and 2001. A garden shed was added for banquets .
- The Finnish ambassador resides in a penthouse on Leipziger Platz .
- For the Norwegian ambassador was in the district of Grunewald an atrium house built, designed from 1997 to 1999 by the Norwegian architectural firm Stein Halvorsen AS.
- The Swedish ambassador resides on Pücklerstrasse in Dahlem in the villa built for Günther Werner-Ehrenfeucht in 1936 . The garden was designed by Herta Hammerbacher and is now a listed building.
- The Icelandic ambassador's residence is located on Trabener Straße in the Grunewald district . It was designed by the Icelandic architects Hjördis and Dennis, Hjördis Sigurgisladottir and Dennis David Johannesson and completed in 2006. The building in the most modern architecture consists of three parts, which are fluidly connected by a glass-covered corridor, and offers a good view of the Halensee .
See also
- List of diplomatic missions in Berlin
- List of Danish diplomatic missions abroad
- List of Icelandic diplomatic missions abroad
- List of Swedish diplomatic missions abroad
- List of Danish ambassadors in Germany
- List of Finnish ambassadors in Germany
- List of Icelandic ambassadors in Germany
- List of the Swedish ambassadors in Germany
Web links
- Nordic Embassies website
- Kgl. Danish Embassy
- Embassy of Finland
- Icelandic Embassy
- Kgl. Norwegian Embassy
- Kgl. Swedish Embassy
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle of the German Embassy in Oslo. ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of the German Embassy
- ^ Diplomatic and other representations . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1989, p. 100.
- ↑ In: Neue Berliner Illustrierte , No. 40, 1974, p. 39
- ↑ Kirsten Baumann, Natascha Meuser: Salons of Diplomacy - Visiting Berlin Excellencies . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938666-38-8 . Thorsten Dörting: Ambassador Residences - In the living room of power . Spiegel Online , January 6, 2009.
- ^ History of the Finnish Embassy in Berlin ( memento from November 23, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the Finnish Embassy in Berlin
- ↑ The Norwegian Residence ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and on the website of the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin
- ↑ Ambassadors Residence at Stein Halvorsen AS.
- ↑ A new, old residence . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 13, 1999.
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List for the house Pücklerstrasse 42–44 in Berlin-Dahlem
- ↑ The residence of the Icelandic ambassador in Berlin ( memento from November 23, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the Icelandic embassy in Berlin
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 2 ″ E