Ribbeck House

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The Ribbeck House
The Ribbeck House (center) in 1890; the Berlin City Palace in the street
The later head stable master Fedor von Rauch, portrait study by Anton von Werner, around 1870
The later head stable master Fedor von Rauch, portrait study by Anton von Werner , around 1870
20 Pfennig - special stamp of the GDR Post 1967 , Ribbeck House (Series: Significant Buildings I)

The Ribbeck-Haus is one of the oldest still existing residential buildings in Berlin and the oldest within the boundaries of the Prussian royal seat of Berlin from 1710. It is the only surviving building from the late Renaissance in Berlin, is located in the Breiten Strasse in Berlin-Mitte and is below Monument protection.

Building history

The house, built in 1624 for the electoral chamber councilor Hans Georg von Ribbeck, is directly adjacent to the also preserved old stables . The Marstall was rebuilt by Michael Mathias Smids between 1665 and 1670 on behalf of the Great Elector , and Smids integrated the Ribbeck House, which he had bought extra. The Ribbeck House, which is now a listed building, by no means corresponds to the original condition:

1804 instead of the four with volutes decorated gable a third floor mounted. On the order of the king, however, the old gables from the Renaissance period served again as a closure. In the 19th century some additions were made, which were removed in 1964.

The building was damaged in World War II and rebuilt until the early 1950s. The richly decorated arched portal from the 17th century had to give way to a copy in the 1960s. During the reconstruction of the house carried out in 1986, a cross vault was discovered in the cellar and restored.

use

The royal court held the first Berlin theater and opera performances in this building. From 1708 to the 1920s it served as the seat of authorities such as the Higher Appeal Court and the Chamber of Accounts; after that it housed parts of the city library. The Ribbeck house also included official apartments for the senior court officials, including the boss of the neighboring Marstall , for example for the chief stableman Fedor von Rauch and his family.

During the GDR era, club and library rooms and a restaurant were established in the Ribbeck House. It was also used by various professional and cultural associations. The Berlin Senate Library has been housed there since mid-2011 as part of the Berlin Central and Regional Library Foundation .

See also

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

literature

  • Markus Sebastian Braun (Editor): Berlin - The Architecture Guide . Econ Ullstein List publishing group, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88679-355-9 , p. 14.
  • Society of Berlin: Handbook and address book for the Society of Berlin, Charlottenburg and Potsdam . Berlin, 1889, p. 329.

Web links

Commons : Ribbeck-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 12.5 ″  E