Horse stairs

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Entrance to the horse stairs in the German Museum of Technology Berlin
Horse stairs in the Berlin Museum of Technology; steps on the left for the horse, on the right for the leading person

A horse staircase is a staircase with a special shape of the steps to enable them to be used by horses . In contrast to the riding staircase, it was used in densely populated and industrialized cities of the 19th and early 20th centuries (when horse-drawn carts were the main means of transport) to bring draft horses to the upper floors of multi-storey stables, in order to save space To enable the animals to be accommodated.

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The steps of the horse stairs are shallow and deep to prevent the horses from stumbling, especially when descending. The height / depth ratio of the steps is a maximum of 1 to 4. They are slightly inclined downwards and concreted. In addition to the actual horse staircase, there is another staircase in the inner arch for those who lead the horses.

In the old building of today's Berlin Museum of Technology , an industrial complex from 1908, such a stair tower is designed as a clockwise spiral staircase . In the residential, factory and administration building commissioned by Carl Linde , horse stables were set up on two floors by the Markt- und Kühlhallengesellschaft, as the available land was scarce and expensive at the time. The animals entered their tie-up stalls on the first and second floors of the building via platforms and double-leaf doors .

See also

literature

  • How does the horse get to the second floor? In: Volker Koesling, Florian Schülke: Mensch, Technik! A journey of discovery through the cultural history of technology (= New Berlin Contributions to the History of Technology and Industrial Culture . Volume 1). Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-7338-0395-7 , pp. 121–123 ( PDF ; 1.25 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Koesling, Florian Schülke: Mensch, Technik! A journey of discovery through the cultural history of technology. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-7338-0395-7 , p. 121.
  2. ↑ History of the museum: Roll, fly, swim [...] Horse stairs [...] There are also many treasures in the depots. tagesspiegel.de, accessed on October 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Volker Koesling, Florian Schülke: Mensch, Technik! A journey of discovery through the cultural history of technology. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-7338-0395-7 , p. 121 ff.