Paul Bratring

Paul Bratring (born December 7, 1840 in Charlottenburg ; † December 1, 1913 there ; full name: Paul Friedrich Bratring ) was a German architect and construction officer . He created numerous municipal buildings as well as parts of industrial plants for the then still independent community of Charlottenburg .

Life

Paul Bratring studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and passed his 2nd state examination in 1874 . He then worked for five years as a site manager at the Royal Eastern Railway . From 1881 to 1905 he was a member of the magistrate and thus a town planner in Charlottenburg. During this time he received numerous orders for the design and construction of schools, fire stations , hospitals and a bathing establishment. Eleven buildings that are still preserved today are under monument protection (as of October 2009).

In addition to the implementation of his own construction plans, Bratring also acted as a judge in architectural competitions , for example in a competition to obtain sketches for a Kaiser Friedrich monument to be erected on Luisenplatz . The jury included other renowned architects such as Karl Hinckeldeyn (1847–1927), Hermann Ende (1830–1907) and Ernst Gustav Herter in Berlin, Hellmuth Maison (1872–1950) in Munich as well as the city councilor a. D. Reimarus in Charlottenburg. In December 1905 he received the honorary title of Privy Building Councilor and in 1907 became City Elder in Charlottenburg. From 1890 to 1900 Paul Bratring lived in Leibnizstrasse 74a, after which he moved to Ahornallee 10.

buildings

The following buildings in what is now the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district were designed by Paul Bratring (chronologically):

Former Alt-Lietzow fire station

• 1888–1889: Alt-Lietzow fire station 'Alt-Lietzow 33; For the fire brigade in Charlottenburg, Paul Bratring planned and built a four-storey service building, a large horse stable, a coach house, a caretaker's building, a car shed for street cleaning and a workshop on a 3000 m² site. The hall for the fire engines with ten separate shelters was on the ground floor of the main building. After numerous renovations and extensions by the architect Rudolf Walter in the following decades, the building was renovated in the 1980s. The Maltese relief service then took over the complex.

former reservoir tower of the Charlottenburg gasworks

• 1888–1889: 7th and 8th community school on Joachimsthaler Straße
• 1889–1891: Gasworks Charlottenburg, Gaußstrasse 1–11 / Lise-Meitner-Strasse 12–22 on the Charlottenburg connecting canal ; The following buildings were designed by Paul Bratring: retort house, condensation building I, cleaning building, gas tank I, boiler house, reservoir tower , storage building. With the exception of the listed reservoir water tower, the buildings were either destroyed during the war or replaced by new buildings.
• 1890–1892: Administration building and morgue for the Charlottenburg Municipal Hospital, built in 1867 , Gierkezeile 5–11; After renovation work, the administration building has been used by the district's health department since 2001 as a house for the baby for parent-child counseling.
• 1892–1893: Disinfection facility , Mollwitzstrasse 2
• 1893–1894: Administration building on Luisenfriedhof III , Fürstenbrunner Weg in Berlin-Westend , with offices for the administration of all three cemeteries of the Luisengemeinde as well as an apartment
• 1894–1895: 13th and 14th community school, Pestalozzistraße 40; The red brick building was used as a school building for several decades; a branch of the Froebelhaus was housed here in the 1970s . Thereafter, the district office of Charlottenburg found a new user for the location in the adult education center (VHS), for which the almost 100-year-old house was to be demolished and replaced by a suitable new building. Lack of funds and monument protection prevented the demolition, and the Volkshochschule Charlottenburg (today as the Volkshochschule City West merged with the VHS Wilmersdorf) moved in. The premises were gradually renovated and adapted to modern school requirements by 1996. The restoration of the auditorium and the head building of the registry office were particularly complex.
• 1896–1897: Ranke fire station , Rankestrasse 10–12; five-storey brick building in neo-Gothic style

Interior view of the Stadtbad Charlottenburg

Entrance area of ​​the Stadtbad

• 1898: Stadtbad Charlottenburg (today so-called Alte Halle ), Krumme Straße 9/10; The oldest public bath in Berlin is a three-storey building in Art Nouveau style . The richly decorated facade is designed with bricks and plastered surfaces. The bath has been a listed building since 1982. The building was extensively renovated between 2006 and 2009 and still houses a cleaning facility with bathtubs and showers.
• 1899–1900: 19th and 20th community school, Bleibtreustraße 43; Later the building complex became the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium . The four-storey house in the form of academic historicism with a two-storey gymnasium has been used for various purposes since then: at the end of the First World War it was a military hospital , in the 1930s the Schlüter high school for boys , in 1939 a hospital for the accommodation and care of polio patients , from 1945 to 1969 East Prussia secondary school . After modernization work, the Joan Miró primary school is located in the listed buildings.

Arts and crafts school shortly after completion

• 1899–1901: 17th and 18th community dual school for boys and girls, Nehringstraße 9/10; The four-storey symmetrical ensemble is also designed in the style of academic historicism. It is faced with red bricks and adorned with black shaped stones. During the National Socialist era , a department of the Westend hospital was relocated to the school building. Badly damaged in the 1940s, the damage could be repaired by 1952 and school operations resumed. In 1954, one half of the previously unnamed school was named Nehring School after the Charlottenburg master builder Johann Arnold Nering , the other half has since been called the Peter Jordan School after the printer and writer Peter Jordan . Between 1984 and 1989 the parts of the building - the gym on the ground floor (now used as a cafeteria ), the stairwells and classrooms - were completely renovated. The architects Dietmar Kloster and Dirk Kruse added a modern new building to the ensemble.
• 1899–1901: Städtisches Bürgerhaus , also called Bürgerhospital , Sophie-Charlotte-Straße
• 1900–1902: School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Charlottenburg and the City Public Library and Reading Room in Charlottenburg , Eosanderstraße 1 / Brauhofstraße (completely destroyed in 1943)
• 1903–1904: 21st and 22nd community dual school for boys and girls, Witzlebenstrasse 34/35, together with Rudolf Walter ; Today the Lietzensee primary school is located in the building

Web links

Commons : Paul Bratring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Bratring at luise-berlin.de, accessed October 26, 2009
2. ↑ (digitized) from: Kunstgewerbeblatt (around 1890), accessed on October 23, 2009
3. ^ Lexicon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z; Retrieved October 23, 2009
4. ↑ Architectural monument former fire station Alt-Lietzow
5. ↑ Architectural monument community schools in Joachimsthaler Strasse
6. ^ Sabine Röck, Hilmar Bärtel, Peter Güttler (arrangement): Stadttechnik. (= Berlin and its buildings , volume #.) Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-012-7 , p. 327 ff.
7. ↑ Water tower monument on the site of the Charlottenburg gasworks
8. ↑ Gierkezeile hospital monument
9. ↑ Brief information on the infant's house, accessed on October 24, 2009
10. ↑ Architectural monument formerly disinfection facility
11. ↑ Administrative building on the Luisenkirchhof
12. ↑ Architectural monument community schools Pestalozzistr.
13. ↑ Information from the BA Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on the Ranke fire station; Retrieved October 24, 2009
14. ↑ Image and information about the fire station on the BF website; Retrieved on October 24, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2009 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. 
15. ↑ Michael Bienert, Elke Linda Buchholz: Kaiserzeit und Moderne. A guide through Berlin. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 61. ( limited preview of Google books )
16. ↑ Database with digital images from Charlottenburg, accessed on October 23, 2009
17. ↑ Architectural monument Alte Halle Stadtbad Charlottenburg
18. ↑ Architectural monument of the former community dual school in Bleibtreustraße
19. ↑ History on the school homepage; accessed on October 24, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Architectural monument formerly community schools Nehringstr.
21. ↑ 6 sheets on the community center in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin; Retrieved October 24, 2009
22. ↑ Architectural monument Städtisches Bürgerhaus-Hospital and Max-Bürger-Hospital
23. ^ Info from the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on the Lietzensee elementary school; accessed on September 13, 2018