Steglitz town hall

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Steglitz town hall
Rathaus Steglitz on the corner of Schloßstraße and Grunewaldstraße

Rathaus Steglitz on the corner of Schloßstraße and Grunewaldstraße

Data
place Berlin-Steglitz
architect Reinhardt and Süßenguth
Client Rural community of Steglitz
Architectural style Neo-Gothic
Construction year 1896-1897
Coordinates 52 ° 27 '26 "  N , 13 ° 19' 14"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '26 "  N , 13 ° 19' 14"  E
particularities
The historic building was integrated into the Das Schloss shopping center, which was built in 2005 .

The Steglitz town hall is located in the Steglitz district of Berlin on the corner of Schloßstraße and Grunewaldstraße and was built in 1898 as the town hall of the rural community of Steglitz. For the former Steglitz district , which existed from 1920 to 2000, it was the seat of the central administration. The house was then rebuilt for administrative tasks in the then newly created Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . Parts of the district administration and a citizens' office are located there today .

construction

The town hall was built in 1897/1898 by the architects Reinhardt and Süßenguth in the neo-Gothic style. The architectural competition had Emil Seydel won. The foundation stone was laid on September 13, 1896; It was inaugurated on March 22, 1898, the birthday of Emperor Wilhelm I , who died in 1888 . In the style of brick Gothic , the facade consists of red bricks . In 1901 Karl Fischer founded the youth movement Wandervogel in the Ratskeller . At the corner of Grunewaldstrasse there is a memorial plaque that also shows the migratory bird of prey.

Integration into the shopping center

The historic building was integrated into the Das Schloss shopping center , which was built in 2005 , for which extensions were demolished on both sides. The inner courtyard has been covered since then and is used as a restaurant area. The subway entrance below the town hall has been expanded to provide direct access to the shopping center.

The city ​​library of the Steglitz district was integrated into the new shopping center and expanded to become the district central library on over 5000 m². The castle investor took over the costs . In return, the investor received a discount on the property of the former city library, which covered the investment costs 1: 1.

Transport links

In diagonally opposite skyscraper Steglitzer gyro is a bus terminal of the BVG and below the subway station Hall Steglitz , end point of the subway line U9 . In the immediate vicinity there are several stops for numerous bus lines and the S-Bahn station on the S1 line. In the immediate vicinity, the federal motorway 103 runs parallel to the Wannseebahn route .

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Steglitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bürgeramt Steglitz ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  2. Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 32 of May 21, 1898, p. 264; Digital version can be downloaded as a PDF from the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg
  3. ↑ The shell of the castle gallery is complete . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 20, 2005
  4. Das Schloss shopping center in Steglitz
  5. https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/schlossstrasse-2000er-2016/
  6. ^ Ingeborg Drewitz Library