Oranienburger Strasse 27

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Front building, 2009
Memorial plaque on the house at Oranienburger Strasse 27 in Berlin-Mitte

The Grade II listed building Oranienburgerstraße 27 is located in the Berlin district of Mitte near the New Synagogue . A small driveway leads into the residential and commercial complex, which was renewed from 1996 to 1999 and is now called Kunsthof Berlin .

Surroundings

Located between Hackescher Markt and Friedrichstrasse , the former Postfuhramt , the main telegraph office , the Kunsthaus Tacheles and the New Synagogue are located on Oranienburger Strasse next to Monbijoupark .

history

The building complex at Oranienburger Straße 27 was built between 1840 and 1866 in the classicistic architectural style of the Schinkel era. Until then, only the courtyard area that was used as a pub was built on. During the first construction phase, the merchant Ernst Wilhelm Müller and the cashier of the Royal General Post Office Weigel had the three-story front building and the side buildings adjoining to the east and west built. In addition, a belvedere , a tower-like extension, was added on the left side and transverse building. The factory owner and banker Joseph Tobias Goldberger (1825–1869) continued construction from 1855 onwards. He had the Belvedere extended, the western courtyard wing rebuilt and the entire building completed in 1866 with a new transverse building.

Today, the building is one of the few still preserved in Berlin that shows the late classicist canon of forms and the corresponding building structures. The front building, built in 1840, impresses with its clear rows of windows, the accentuated central axis through the striking balcony and the jam- windows with cast zinc rosettes. The Belvedere and the western complex show features of the Italian villa style.

The living rooms on the first floor were decorated with wall decorations and inlaid parquet by the Goldberger family. Both were corrected and supplemented during the renovation work and thus provide rare evidence of the interior design from the time of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. However, the partly heavily worn parquet on the first floor is now covered with a glass floor to protect the floor.

The renovation and reconstruction were completed in 1998 and supported by the town planning monument protection . Hans Barlach , grandson of the sculptor Ernst Barlach , had planned a sculpture park there.

Goldberger family

The building complex was built in the mid-19th century by Joseph Tobias Goldberger, whose son Ludwig Max Goldberger (1848–1913) was initially a banker and later an economic functionary in Berlin. The designation of the USA as the “land of unlimited possibilities” goes back to Ludwig Max Goldberger, who published a book under this title after a trip to America in 1903. In addition, he was one of the co-founders of Dresdner Bank and headed the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists . In this position he made a significant contribution to the establishment of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce . In 1896 he also organized the trade exhibition in Treptower Park near Berlin. The graves of the two bankers Goldberger are in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee .

Todays use

The rear part of the building is currently known as the Kunsthof Berlin. Tenants include galleries, artists, as well as restaurants, cafés and bars. Several service and consulting companies have settled in the offices in the front building.

literature

  • Ulrike Steglich, Peter Kratz: The wrong Scheunenviertel. A suburban seducer. Photos by Carsten Jost. Altberliner Bücherstube, Verlagbuchhandlung Oliver Seifert, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-930265-00-1 .
  • Thomas Raschke (Red.): The Scheunenviertel. Traces of a lost Berlin. Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7759-0377-1 .
  • Wolfgang Feyerabend: The Berlin Kunsthof. Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-931121-68-2 .

Movies

  • Faces of Berlin. The biscuit baker Beate Westphal. Portrait, Germany, 2006, 15 min., Script and director: Konstanze Hupe, production: RBB , first broadcast: May 12, 2008, table of contents with photos by RBB.

Web links

Commons : Oranienburger Straße 27  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ a b Kunsthof Oranienburger Strasse 27 . In: Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Urban monument protection: Kunsthof Oranienburger Straße 27 . Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  4. ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: No more shadowy existence. Hans Barlach wants to liven up the elegiac art courtyard on Oranienburger Straße with a sculpture museum . In: Berliner Zeitung . March 10, 2007.
  5. ^ Hans-Henning Zabel:  Goldberger, Ludwig Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '28.6 "  N , 13 ° 23' 42.2"  E