Reichsknappschaftshaus
The Reichsknappschafthaus was built in 1930 on Breitenbachplatz in Berlin-Wilmersdorf on behalf of the Reichsknappschaft (later Bundesknappschaft , now Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See ) in Berlin.
The architects Max Taut and Franz Hoffmann opted for a steel frame construction and a facade clad with Siegersdorf ceramic tiles. The skeleton was filled in with iron clinkers and built from stereometric structural parts in a three-meter grid. This construction method was new at the time. The middle part of the building with an open vestibule, main staircase and large conference room emerge as a special unit from the rest of the building. The rear is a semicircular, glazed staircase with a freely swinging staircase.
The building suffered damage during the Second World War , which was removed in 1950. However, the large conference room could no longer be equipped with its original oak paneling in bronze frames. Until 1970, the branch for scientific, social and artistic professions of the employment office was in the building complex. After that, the music archive of the German Library took up residence here for a short time . Today, the listed building houses the Latin America Institute (LAI) and parts of the administration of the Free University of Berlin .
literature
- "Dr. GL “: Reichsknappschaftsgebäude in Berlin. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 51st year 1931, issue 6 (from February 11, 1931) (online) , pp. 84–91.
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Individual evidence
- ^ The house of the Reichsknappschaft. In: Der Tagesspiegel from 13./14. May 1972.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 4.7 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 36 ″ E