Pharus plan
Pharus-Plan was the brand name under which the Pharus Verlag, founded in Berlin in 1902 by Cornelius Löwe, Eberhard Löwe and Ernst Knaudt , published clear city maps . In 2002, in the year of its centenary, Rolf Bernstengel took over the entire publishing house and continues the company.
history
Naming
The name of the publisher has its origins in the Pharos of Alexandria on the island of Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the world . The lighthouse on the island of Pharos showed the seafarers the way, similar to how a city map should show the uninitiated the way. Scattered perspective drawings of sights in the plans were a special feature and resulted in better orientation.
1902: foundation
The first publishing house was located at Königin-Augusta-Straße 3 (since 1947 Reichpietschufer ) in Berlin-Mitte .
Pharus plans were drawn up for cities in Germany and other European countries. They were also posted as maps of the area on Berlin's S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations . At the German City Exhibition in Dresden (1903) the publishing house received a silver medal for its technically excellent city maps and was awarded the bronze medal in 1911 when it took part in the World Exhibition in Brussels .
1923: Plans for all major German cities
The publishing house had moved to Kreuzberg in the meantime . In the Lindenstraße 3, near the Belle Alliance Square , he had his headquarters. The director was still Cornelius Löwe, one of the three company founders.
Around 800 different city maps were now part of the program, including all major German cities, many medium-sized and numerous small towns and many large and medium-sized cities in other European countries. In addition, hiking, surrounding, provincial and city maps, special plans of an official nature (e.g. court and building police plans), industry and branch plans with address supplements (from August Scherl Verlag ) were issued.
A special feature were special plans for companies for posting and shipping. B. for the Berliner Morgenpost ( Ullstein-Verlag ), Siemens and the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd .
The owner of the Gutenberg printing house, Wilhelm Möller, took over the publishing house in several steps from 1932 and has since printed all Pharus plans and directories.
1939–1956: Second World War and difficult work in the GDR
The publishing business was in full swing in the first few years after the beginning of Nazi rule . In 1940 the headquarters of the publishing house was at Schwedter Straße 263. In 1942, Wilhelm Möller handed over management of the publishing house and the printing company to his son Heinrich.
At the end of the Second World War , all means of production were destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1945; Part of the printing documents and the cartography as well as part of the archive have been preserved. After repairs after the end of the war, production began again under Soviet occupation. In 1953 the Pharus-Plan publishing house was placed under the East Berlin trust administration. In 1956 the Treuhand gave the company back to the old shareholders, but paper allocation and printing permits were refused. Heinrich Möller then brought all the documents that had survived to West Berlin and moved the publishing house to Berlin-Charlottenburg . Here the publishing house was registered again in 1956, but the publishing activity was initially suspended.
1972: Resumption of publishing activities
Publishing activities were resumed in 1972, initially with specialist book illustrations and cartographic commissioned work. For the 750th anniversary of Berlin , a reprint of the first Pharus plan of Greater Berlin from 1905 was published. Further reprints from the publisher's archive followed.
After 1989
After the political change in 1989, the publishing house returned to one of its previous production facilities in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg . At this time, Rolf Bernstengel joined the publishing house, modernized production and expanded cartography. The first publishing product was the Brandenburg Historical City Calendar , immediately followed by a current Pharus map of Potsdam with a comprehensive booklet. Since then, the publishing range has been systematically expanded. In cooperation with the Wall Museum , the city center map where the wall was was created in 1996 in a German and an English edition.
For the centenary of the publishing house in 2002, the partner Rolf Bernstengel took over the entire company. The publishing house has been based in Rubensstrasse 107 in Berlin-Schöneberg since July 1, 2013 , and the location in Prenzlauer Berg has been given up.
Web links
- www.pharus.eu Website of the publisher
- History of the Pharus plans on the publisher's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Queen-Augusta-Strasse 3> Pharus Verlag, Gesellschaft mbH In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, III.
- ^ Pharus Verlag GmbH . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1923, II, p. 2385.
- ↑ Advertisement from Pharus-Verlag under “Industry Directory” . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, II, p. 274.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 54.8 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ E