Weißensee town hall
| Bürgeramt Weißensee former town hall Weißensee |
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 State in 2005 |
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| Data | |
| place |
Berlin , Berliner Allee 252–260 at the corner of Liebermannstrasse |
| builder | Richard Schubert |
| Construction year | 1939/1940 |
| Floor space | 2375 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '36.5 " N , 13 ° 28' 3.6" E |
| particularities | |
| Multiple changes of use, has been a cultural monument since the 1990s | |
The Weißensee Town Hall is the official building of the Berlin-Weißensee district formed in 1920 . After the district reform in 2001, Weißensee became a part of the Pankow district and the town hall has served as a citizens' office ever since . The official building had several previous buildings in other locations. The structure shown here was built as the administrative headquarters of a factory in 1912, after which it was constantly being used for new purposes.
history
First town hall
The administrative district of Weißensee came into being with the formation of the Greater Berlin municipality. From 1905 to 1920 it was a large community that was formed from the merger of the village of Weißensee and the manor district (renamed Neu-Weißensee in 1879). Carl Woelck was elected their community leader on November 14, 1905. Woelck campaigned vehemently for the urban expansion of Weißensee and brought the architect Carl Bühring to Weißensee as an urban planner.
The municipal council used a town hall at Albertinenstrasse 6, which was completed in 1903, and neither the architect nor the builder are (so far) known. But because the population had risen from 37,500 to 46,400 within 10 years, a civil servants' residence at Pistoriusstrasse 24, which was occupied in 1909, served as administration building II and the district court of Weißensee was located at Parkstrasse 71 . (The local court was planned by the architects Paul Thoemer and Rudolf Mönnich and directed its construction.)
The following administrative units were housed in the first town hall in the 1920s: the mayor's office, the financial bureau, the district treasury, a police prison, and the district police station. In addition, the office building had a larger garden facing the courtyard, which belongs to the parcels Albertinenstrasse 7 to 9.
After 1945, the town hall on Albertinenstraße and other surrounding buildings became a police station. The district administration therefore moved to the Askanierhaus on the corner of Berliner Allee and Liebermannstrasse for some time in autumn 1945 . This building complex belonged to the Askania works , it was built in 1939 at the instigation of the Reich Aviation Ministry . - The police stayed in Albertinenstrasse until around 1990. After the fall of the Wall, new residential buildings were built right next to the house, and the former town hall was also converted into living space. The neat Art Nouveau facade on the courtyard side was preserved.
Second town hall
During the Second World War , parts of the council assembly had moved from Albertinenstrasse “around the corner” to part of the Israelitische Taubstummenanstalt in Parkstrasse 22/23. The district administration bought the property in 1941 and used the property until 1955. Later, several educational institutions settled here.
Third town hall
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From 1955 the council of the city district used a wing of the building ensemble Amalienstraße 6-8 / Parkstraße 82 as the administrative center. The multi-part building was designed by the architect Reinhold Mettmann in 1930/1931 as a secular school with a principal's residence. Another official seat of the district administration was still in the former Askaniahaus (Berliner Allee 252/260 corner Liebermannstraße 45/65). The manufacturer Karl Otto Raspe had it built as an "apparatus factory" by the architect Richard Schubert in 1939/1941.
Fourth town hall
After the turnaround and the reunification of the city of Berlin, all administrative buildings of the district office continued to exist, but a new council team moved in there.
The office building in the school complex became a school complex again, the entire district administration now moved into the Askania house.
Between the 1960s and the end of 1990, the main user of the Askania house was the State Security with the areas of personal and property protection. After this facility was dissolved, the building complex was then renovated and the new Weißensee council members moved in. Gold letters above the entrance provided information about the purpose of the building: Weißensee Town Hall .
With the administrative reform of 2001, the former city district received the status of a district and the town hall has served as the town hall of Pankow since then . The writing above the main entrance was preserved. This is where the building files archive responsible for the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district and the district's youth welfare office and, since August 2013, the Pankow district's environmental and nature protection office are housed.
architecture
- The building ensemble of the third town hall at Amalienstraße 6–8 is a complex of unplastered clinker buildings in the New Objectivity style . It consists of two angled wings. A lower auditorium building is attached to this at the corner and a building with two gymnasiums arranged one above the other along Blechenstrasse, which is provided with a gymnastics terrace. The main school building is four stories high and has a flat roof. The stairwell is arranged in the corner building and towers over both building wings. Two vertical ribbon windows run here on the courtyard side.
- The windows are regularly lined up horizontally, separated by nub-like window pillars and grouped into ribbons with layers of stone. Between the third and fourth floors, capital letters on the corner of Amalienstraße announced: RATHAUS .
- The building, completed in 1940 as the administrative headquarters for the Askania-Werke , also follows the New Objectivity style. It is a multi-storey clinker brick building that is arranged in two sections at a slightly acute angle along Berliner Allee and Liebermannstrasse and ends with flat roofs. The wing buildings have four floors, the corner building was raised by three floors in 1970, the top two were stepped, so that a watchtower was created. The top floors are decorated at regular intervals with bricked clinker bricks underneath their roofs.
- The main entrance is accessible via a one-step wide platform. Between the three doors, four rectangular half-columns in front of the entrance area extend vertically up to the second floor. These protruding structural elements are then combined horizontally with a ledge that has a clinker cross band at the top.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 124 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Askaniahaus monument, former apparatus factory Liebermannstr. Corner of Berliner Allee
- ↑ Sandra Klaus: Urban development and architecture in the northeastern Berlin outskirts of Weißensee and Pankow between 1870 and 1970 with a special focus on residential construction (dissertation), submitted to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald , p. 47.
- ↑ a b Bernd Wähner: The forgotten town hall , Berliner Woche , 2018; accessed on April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Weißensee> Albertinenstrasse 6> authorities, institutions, associations etc. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, III (under Albertinenstrasse 6 there is a reference to the administrative building II ).
- ↑ Weißensee> Albertinenstrasse 6 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, III, p. 1955.
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 124 ff .
- ^ Schubert, Richard, architect; Charlottenburg, Kantstrasse 68 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1942, I, p. 2802 (There is another architect Richard Schubert in Charlottenburg with the address Schillerstrasse. Perhaps one was his studio, the other his residence?).
- ^ A b c Soviet joint-stock company in the Askania House.
- ^ Postcard of the Weißensee town hall, 1955 , accessed on April 19, 2020.