Reich Railway Directorate Building (Königsberg)

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Former Reich Railway Directorate Königsberg (2017)

The former Reichsbahn headquarters building on Lenin Prospect 111–117 (formerly Suburban Long Lane 117/121 ) in Kaliningrad is now used as a residential building.

Location and surroundings

The building is a "dominant part" on the east side of Lenin Prospect.

history

The building was built as a residential building. It was not until 1895 that the Prussian State Railways acquired the building and completed it as an office building. The Königliche Eisenbahndirection Königsberg (Ostpr) was an administrative district of the Prussian State Railways, which was responsible for the railway lines in East Prussia. When the Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded in 1920, the administrative center, which was then renamed Reichsbahndirektion, was also assigned the West Prussian area around Elbing .

In 1945 the house was damaged. It was faithfully restored for residential purposes by the port workers of the commercial port from 1950. From 1949 to 1960, only the ruins of the former Reichsbahndirektion and the St. Georgen Hospital stood in the area of ​​the former suburban Langgasse.

description

The building with its decoration of the 21-axis stucco facade is in the style of the neo-renaissance . The stucco work on the ground floor and at the corners show large cuboids. The central risalit, which is five window axes wide, is slightly preferred. On the raised cornice of the risalit there are two seated stone figures as an allegory for traffic. They hold a wheel in their midst. The figure on the left used to hold a telegraph pole with wires in its hand.

literature

  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .
  • Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada: How Königsberg became Kaliningrad (=  materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe . Volume 1 ). Herder Institute, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87969-375-7 .
  • Willi Scharloff: Königsberg - then and now: Pictures from a forbidden city . Rautenberg, Leer 1982.
  • Georg Dehio / Ernst Gall / Michael Antoni : Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler West- and East Prussia , Munich; Berlin 1993, p. 317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era. Husum 2000, p. 122.
  2. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg Sculptures and their Masters 1255-1945 , Würzburg 1970, pp. 259f.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 15.9 ″  E