Palais Beauvryé

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French Embassy, ​​1937

The Palais Beauvryé stood at the location of today's French Embassy in Berlin , Pariser Platz No. 5 until 1960. It was named after the family of the client, the Prussian Major General Bernhard von Beauvryé .

The palace was built by Bernhard von Beauvryé from 1735 to 1737, on an area donated by his employer, Friedrich Wilhelm I , between “Quarré” (former name for Pariser Platz) and the Spree. However, the Beauvryé family never lived in this palace, as it was sold again in 1737. In 1741 it was bought by the Prussian court banker David Splitgerber . The condition during the time when the palace was inhabited by various respected families in Berlin is documented in the "Lindenrolle" from 1820 , which is kept in the Berlin City Museum .

In 1835 the French embassy rented the house. It remained the seat of the diplomatic mission of France in Prussia, in the North German Confederation and from 1871 in the German Empire until the end of the Second World War . In 1860 the property was acquired by the French government, which had it completely rebuilt and renovated in 1879 in the style of the time. Between 1928 and 1930, the facade of the embassy was completely redesigned once more and decorated with Louis XVI style facade decorations.

On the night of November 22nd to 23rd, 1943, the palace burned down as a result of an Allied bombing raid . The masonry with the facade decoration was preserved. The ruin had been in the eastern sector of Berlin since 1945 . In 1960 they were eliminated. With that, the development on the edge of Pariser Platz, apart from the Brandenburg Gate , was completely cleared. The imminent demolition was announced by the authorities in September 1959 together with the ruins of the Palais Arnim .

Since 2002 , the new building of the French Embassy designed by Christian de Portzamparc has been located at Pariser Platz 5 .

literature

  • Melanie Mertens: Berlin Baroque Palaces . Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2003, pp. 372–373, illus. P. 189, ISBN 3-7861-2366-7 .

Web links

Commons : French Embassy, ​​Berlin  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Eckardt (ed.): Fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. A documentation of the damage and total losses in the area of ​​the German Democratic Republic. Volume 1, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 36, with illustration
  2. ↑ Laurenz Demps : The Pariser Platz. Berlin's reception salon. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-215-2 , p. 121.
  3. ↑ Senate of Berlin (ed.): Berlin Chronicle of the years 1959–1960. Edited by Hans J. Reichardt, Joachim Dogmann, Hans U. Treutler. State Archives Berlin. Contemporary history department, Heinz Spitzing Verlag, Berlin 1978, p. 371.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 45 ″  E