Pfefferberg (Berlin)
The Pfefferberg is a former brewery site that is located in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the Pankow district of Berlin . The area is located in the building block between Schönhauser Allee , Fehrbelliner Straße, Christinenstraße and Schwedter Straße on the Barnimkante and has a few meters of terrain difference. It is named after the Bavarian master brewer Joseph Pfeffer, who founded the brewery named after him here in 1841, which also had a beer garden .
The Pfefferberg is an industrial monument and location of cultural, service and educational offers of non-profit and non-profit companies, including those of the Pfefferwerk group.
Furthermore, Pfefferberg is the name or part of the name of companies related to the Pfefferberg site:
- Pfefferberg Grundstücks GmbH, registered in the district court of Charlottenburg under the commercial register extract 76280,
- Pfefferberg Entwicklungs GmbH & Co. KG, registered in the district court of Charlottenburg under the commercial register extract 31342
- VIA Schankhalle Pfefferberg gGmbH.
history
In the early phase of industrialization , Berlin developed rapidly into an important industrial city in Europe in the 18th century. From the middle of the 19th century, the later district of Prenzlauer Berg, at that time an area in the northeast of the city, became a home for breweries. Benefiting from the low land prices and the relatively high terrain, entrepreneurs bought land there and built breweries and beer gardens. The first bottom-fermented brewery in this area was built on the site, also known as Pfefferberg from around 1872, from 1841 . After several changes of ownership, Schneider & Hillig took over the brewery in 1861, which ensured industrialization and thus expansion of production with new capital. The products were now marketed under the name Schneider & Hillig Brauerei Pfefferberg , which in 1887 became the Aktiengesellschaft Brauerei Pfefferberg, vorm. Schneider & Hillig , was converted. As a result of increasing demand, the brewery owners had several new production buildings built on the site during these decades. Because the city of Berlin was also growing rapidly, new residential buildings were built in the vicinity of the brewery during the same period, which soon limited the possibilities for expanding the brewery area. The expansion of the Pfefferberg brewery therefore ended in 1913. At that time their area was about 1.35 hectares .
After the end of the First World War , the brewery on the Pfefferberg was bought by the Schultheiss brewery , but beer production was discontinued soon afterwards. Until the Second World War , various owners and users such as a chocolate and bread factory were located on the site. In Pfefferberg garden folk music events took place. During the GDR era, the printers and publishers Neues Deutschland first used the building on the site, later it was administered by the municipal housing administration (KWV). As the former owner of Pfefferberg compensation in November 1949 expropriated and the Pfefferberg later in national property had been transferred, the property rights were after German reunification in accordance with the Unification Treaty in equal parts in the State of Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since 1990
Starting in 1990, an initiative by residents and socially committed people advocated cultural and social use. To this end, she founded an association, the Pfefferwerk-Verein zur Förder von Stadtkultur e. V. In the years that followed, the association established extensive events in some of the houses, which made Pfefferberg known as a cultural location throughout Berlin. In 1999, Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH , a subsidiary of the association, acquired the brewery premises with financial support from the then Senate Department for Labor, Vocational Training and Women of the State of Berlin and private sponsors and contributed it to the Pfefferwerk Foundation as endowment capital . They leased it to Pfefferberg Entwicklungs GmbH & Co. KG for renovation and development , which split the leasehold on the area into partial owners in 2002 and later gradually sold it.
With the income from the ground rent, the Pfefferwerk Foundation supports non-profit projects in the state of Berlin.
The renovation began in 2000, but the cultural business continued for a long time under the direction of Pfefferwerk organizations. The first commercial space, a gallery, was handed over in November 2001. In 2006 the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry started its work, the AEDES Architecture Forum opened its exhibition rooms on the site. Further extensive construction work in various buildings followed. In May 2008 u. a. a restaurant and a hostel on the premises, in November 2009 another restaurant.
In June / July 2012, had by the Guggenheim Foundation with the automaker BMW developed Guggenheim Lab , a "research laboratory", to be discussed in the world in different cities issues of modern urban life, after its rejection in Berlin-Kreuzberg his Berlin office on the Pfefferberg.
The Pfefferberg Theater opened in the former bar by the beer garden in autumn 2013 , and Pfefferbräu is now produced and offered here. The renovation work on the historic buildings has been completed, two of the three planned new buildings have been completed.
In 2017 the Pfefferberg was included in the European Route of Industrial Culture (ERIH).
use
The Pfefferberg is a location for the presentation and production of art, but also for learning, teaching and research. You can eat well and spend the night cheaply.
The museum for architectural drawings by the German architect of Russian descent Sergei Tchoban is located at the entrance to the site at Christinenstrasse 18A . Right next to it, in houses 2 to 4, the artist Olafur Eliasson and his staff are working on designing and producing works of art. On the opposite side of the south courtyard, in house 6, the Pfefferbett Hostel Berlin , one of the integration companies of the VIA network, accommodates young guests from all over the world.
Ai Wei Wei has had his studio in Pfefferberg since 2015 .
The art and studio house MEINBLAU has been located in House 5, also on the Südhof, for more than 20 years. Here the studios of 12 Berlin artists are grouped around a multifunctional project and exhibition space. The ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry is located on the upper floors of the building complex formed by houses 8 / 8a / 9. The Aedes Architecture Forum offers regularly changing exhibitions on international building culture and architecture in its exhibition rooms on the ground floor of houses 8 and 8a. Connected to this are seminar and event rooms in building 10/11.
The Educational School of WeTeK Berlin gGmbH moved into House 12, which was completed in 2016, on the Nordhof. Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH uses other rooms for training purposes.
House 13 has served as an event location for many years, since 2008 as well as the restaurant "das pfeffer" in the adjoining house 14 operated by the training department of Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH.
In 2013, VIA gGmbH opened a small in-house brewery and restaurant in building 15/16. The newly established Pfefferberg Theater is also located here; Seminar rooms have been created on the first floor, which was once destroyed by the war and now rebuilt. The Bassy Cowboy Club offers concerts on the street level of building 16 on Schönhauser Allee.
The Tauro restaurant was located in the building complex, which comprises houses 17b to 21, from 2009 to 2019. This was followed by the Kink restaurant in early 2020.
In the summer of 2019, Christinenstr. 19a a studio house was completed, which includes a Danish bakery, an advertising agency and an architecture office. The house on the left of the entrance (driveway) to Pfefferberg forms the opposite of the above-mentioned Museum for Architectural Drawings on the right of the entrance.
Web links
- pfefferberg.de Pfefferberg Entwicklungs GmbH
- Pfefferwerk Foundation
- Pfefferberg Brewery . Berlin underworlds
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List:
- Site plan ( Figure Ground Plan ) of the Pfefferberg site and many pictures. nps-tchoban-voss.de, Museum for Architectural Drawings, Berlin-Mitte, accessed on July 3, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 54 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 41.5" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ pfefferbraeu.de
- ↑ Breweries: Bavarian beer . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1886, part 3, p. 491. "Schneider & Hillig, Schönhauser Allee 176".
- ↑ Breweries: Bavarian beer . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1888, part 3, p. 518. “Brauerei Pfefferberg, vorm. Schneider & Hillig ”.
- ↑ Georg Fink: Children of Sorrows . Zurich 1937, pages 30, 91
- ↑ It is dawn on the mountain . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 28, 2001
- ↑ A baroque minimalist . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 29, 2001
- ↑ A small village in the city . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 26, 2008
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ Guggenheim Lab gets new location in Berlin. Prenzlauer Berg instead of Kreuzberg: The Guggenheim Open-Air-Lab cultural project is moving to Pfefferberg. However, the start of the project has been delayed . Time online , accessed April 24, 2012
- ^ Website of the Pfefferberg Theater
- ↑ pfefferbraeu.de
- ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Chinese artist in Berlin: Ai Weiwei is finally in Berlin - and what now? In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
- ↑ Trendy, upscale, fantastically beautiful - that's how Berlin eats. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Home | Kink. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .