Ordenspalais
The Ordenspalais was a building in Berlin that was located on the corner of Wilhelmplatz and Wilhelmstrasse in the Mitte district. The building owes its name to the fact that it had served as the seat of the Berlin legation of the Order of St. John since 1738 . However, it was best known as the seat of the Reich Press Office during the Weimar Republic and the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
The palace was built from 1737 as the residence of the Prussian Major General Karl Ludwig Truchsess von Waldburg on the northwest corner of Wilhelmsplatz (No. 7/8). After Truchsess von Waldburg died in 1738, the construction was completed by the Order of St. John according to plans by Carl Friedrich Richter, by order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I.
From 1738 the palace served as the seat of the Berlin legation of the Order of St. John. After the order was dissolved in 1811, the building became the property of the Prussian state. Since 1829 it was used as the residence of Prince Karl of Prussia , rebuilt in neoclassical style and called the Prince Karl Palais . He also had the building extended by an extension designed by Friedrich August Stüler . In 1853 the building was the scene of the re-establishment of the Order of St. John with Prince Karl as the new Grand Master. After Karl's death in 1883, the building served as the residence of his descendants, Prince Friedrich Karl and Friedrich Leopold .
After the First World War , the Ordenspalais was the subject of a protracted legal dispute between the House of Hohenzollern and the Free State of Prussia . After the dispute was settled, the United Press Department of the Reich Government and the Foreign Office was housed in the building.
In March 1933 the Ordenspalais became the seat of the newly formed Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda by Joseph Goebbels . In order to create additional work space, an extensive extension in the style of National Socialist architecture was built between 1936 and 1940 according to a design by the architect Karl Reichle . This reached as far as Mauerstraße, where the main entrance of the ministry was located.
The palace was destroyed by an air raid in the last weeks of the Second World War and its ruins were cleared in 1949. The extension, now known as Wilhelmstrasse 49, survived the war and has served as the headquarters of the National Front since 1947 . Since 1999 it has been the seat of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs .
literature
- Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , p. 497
- Heinrich Wagener: The former order palace in Berlin . In: Publications of the Association for the History of Berlin , 1888. Mixed writings in connection with the Berlin Chronicle and the Document Book . diegeschichteberlins.de
- Laurenz Demps : Berlin-Wilhelmstrasse. A topography of Prussian-German power. 3rd revised edition. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-228-X .
- Ulf Meyer: New spirit in old houses. All disasters outlasted. The Federal Minister of Labor moves into the building of the ex-Propaganda Ministry of Goebbels . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 28, 1997
Web links
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 1 ″ E