Paul Wunderlich House
The Paul-Wunderlich-Haus is the service and administration center of Eberswalde in Brandenburg . It houses one of the world's largest exhibitions by the painter, draftsman, sculptor and graphic artist Paul Wunderlich . The complex was officially opened on July 1, 2007 by Chancellor Angela Merkel .
The building
The Paul Wunderlich House, one of the most modern ecological administrative buildings in Germany , was built in 2007 on the Eberswalder Marktplatz according to plans by GAP Gesellschaft für Architektur & Projektmanagement mbH . It is the seat of the district administration and the district administrator and the workplace for around 500 employees. The administration has 19,000 square meters of gross floor area available. Restaurants, service providers and shops are housed in an area of 2500 square meters.
The so-called zero - emission house uses geothermal energy , has vacuum insulation and includes the greening of the inner courtyard in the ventilation concept . An internal weather station measures temperature, precipitation and wind conditions and sends the corresponding commands to the building services. In hot spells, some windows open automatically at night and cool down.
The heat required for the building is drawn from the underground at a depth of ten meters. 600 of the 800 foundation piles that were drilled into the ground for structural reasons serve as ladders. The piles are connected to heat pumps . During the cold season, the ground water is used for heating at a constant temperature of ten degrees Celsius. In summer the system is reversed and the water is used for cooling. The complex only needs about a third of the energy otherwise required.
On January 9, 2008, the Paul-Wunderlich-Haus was awarded the “PROM of the Year 2008” prize by the energy company RWE Energy as one of the three most energy-efficient commercial properties in Germany. Prize winner Thomas Winkelbauer from GAP Gesellschaft für Architektur & Projektmanagement mbH took third place out of more than 50 applicants. In first place came architect Dietmar Riecks from Banz + Riecks Architects BDA with the SOLVIS zero emissions factory in Braunschweig and in second place was Prof. Dr. Claus Kahlert from ebök Planning & Development GmbH with the ebök office building in Tübingen . Project partners are the German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning, the Center for Environmentally Conscious Building, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics and the Technical University of Munich . Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel presented the awards .
The exhibition
Two large bronze sculptures by Paul Wunderlich can be seen in the courtyard of the cloverleaf-like ensemble of buildings. The interior of the district house houses a permanent exhibition with more than 300 originals by the painter and sculptor who was born in Eberswalde and is presented on three floors of the district office. You can see pictures, lithographs , filigree porcelain work, jewelry and furniture. The plaster models are shown for the first time worldwide. The exhibition areas include the Paul Wunderlich showroom on the first floor with its fully glazed front and the Paul Wunderlich cabinet on the second floor in the dome of the plenary hall .
The collection also includes one of only five existing graphic cycles "Qui s'explique". These lithographs with erotic motifs, which were presented to the public for the first time in 1960, were confiscated by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office for immoral depictions and the artist fined. It was returned in 1985 by the public prosecutor's office. The exhibition was made possible in particular by Ernst Römer, who donated his collection of works by the artist to the Paul-Wunderlich-Haus. On November 14, 2005, Römer established the foundation for the Paul-Wunderlich-Haus, thereby laying the foundation for the permanent exhibition. The collection is supplemented by loans from Wunderlich.
Paul Wunderlich's bronze sculpture “Bird of Prey”, a gift from the Hamburg-based artist to his hometown Eberswalde, has stood not far from the house in the park on Weidendamm since 1998.
literature
- Falk Jaeger (Ed.): GAP Architects. Paul Wunderlich House. The service and administration center Barnim in Eberswalde. Jovis, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-9396-3318-6 .
Web links
- Foundation for the Paul-Wunderlich-Haus: Homepage.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architekten24.de
- ↑ Research for Energy-Optimized Building (EnOB) ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prom of the year - an initiative of RWE Energy AG ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Heinz Spielmann : Catalog raisonné of the sculptures and objects II . Here: Dancing Woman II , 1998 (Wkvz. 336) and Sitting Man II , 1998 (Wkvz. 337), p. 306/306.
Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 59.6 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 10.7 ″ E