Spreedreieck
Spreedreieck refers to a 4,200-square-foot area at the Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin's district of Mitte and the standing on office building ( Friedrichstrasse 140). The sale of the approximately 2100 m² building site and the subsequent construction are the subject of political and legal disputes.
history
The Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education (Friedrichstrasse 139–141) and a commercial building (Friedrichstrasse 138 / Reichstagufer 19) were located on the site . After the Academy had moved to the new building on Invalidenstrasse in 1910 , the building was demolished in 1913/1914. In 1915/1916 the office building was also acquired and demolished by the state. Plans for a subsequent development came to a standstill as a result of the First World War . From now on, the site lay fallow until the temporary temporary development in GDR times. In 1921 the first competition for the construction of a high-rise building was announced, in which, among others, Hugo Häring , Bruno Möhring , Hans Poelzig and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took part. Heinrich Mendelssohn and Hugo Stinnes were among the leading people in the group of investors around Turmhaus-Aktiengesellschaft (TAG) . In a second competition in 1929, Erich Mendelsohn , among others, submitted a design. In 1962, the GDR erected the terminal building for the Friedrichstrasse railway station border crossing point ( colloquially known as the Tränenpalast ) in the western part of the triangle , and in the following years several barracks in the eastern part.
In 1992 Fritz Neumeyer led a panel discussion on the subject of "Skyscraper at Friedrichstrasse Station Berlin 1921/22 - Berlin 1992"; The participants included Oswald Mathias Ungers , Hans Kollhoff , Josef Paul Kleihues and Rem Koolhaas .
Land sale and building permit scandal
There are public entrances to the north-south tunnel of the Berlin S-Bahn on the site . After the sale of the site by the State of Berlin in 2000, it turned out that part of it belonged to Deutsche Bahn , i.e., contrary to what had been promised, it was not free of encumbrances. Thereupon the state reimbursed the Hamburg investor Harm Müller-Spreer as damages 8.7 million of the 17.2 million euro purchase price, transferred additional areas to him and approved an increase in the development plan . Due to the new height of the office building, in turn, a hotel on the opposite side of Friedrichstrasse is more shaded, so that the State of Berlin also paid its investor compensation in the amount of four million euros. The financial policy spokesman for the Berlin Greens criticized the events with the words:
"At first the administration could not read the land register , then it was not able to observe its own building law ."
The original design by Mark Braun († 2008) even included 40 floors, which would have made the building 208 meters high.
The most important tenant of the office building, which was completed in 2009, is the auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young .
Architectural criticism
The design of the Spreedreieck - in particular the handling of the listed Tränenpalast - was often discussed in public. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) published a polemic by the architecture critic Dieter Bartetzko ; under the heading The late revenge of the GDR he criticized the building with the words "building aesthetic [s] and urban [s] disaster, clumsiness, ignorant meanness, gray and rusty".
Another architectural criticism in the FAS compared the vertical structure of the facade of the Spreedreieck with that of the Swissôtel built by GMP .
Web links
- Homepage of the project developer with webcam of the construction site
- Postcard with a picture of the building plot from 1965
- Opposition requests investigation of the Spreedreieck scandal . In: the daily newspaper , April 17, 2008
- Spreedreieck could cost Berlin 100 million euros . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 14, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Hochhaus Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, competition draft
- ↑ Bernd Weber: After whom was Georgenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte named? In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins ( Memento des Originals from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Issue 1/2005
- ^ Draft for a high-rise building in Berlin ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Competition entry "Wabe" ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fritz Neumeyer (ed.): Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Skyscraper at Friedrichstrasse station. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag , Tübingen / Berlin 1993.
- ↑ http://www.lvz-online.de/kultur-ausstellung-ungebautes-berlin-2/r-fotodetail-galerie-3456-256540.html
- ↑ Shock from the clouds
- ↑ Chronology of the Spreedreieck Affair . In: Die Welt , April 4, 2008
- ↑ Gereon Asmuth: Skyscraper falls back on Berlin . In: the daily newspaper , January 25, 2008
- ↑ Spreedreieck
- ↑ Matthias Oloew: Spreedreieck architect gives up. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 5, 2008
- ↑ Ernst & Young: Location Berlin ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: The late revenge of the GDR. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 8, 2009, accessed May 20, 2015 .
- ^ Johanna Adorján: Architecture in Berlin-Mitte: The house that nobody wanted. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . January 10, 2011, accessed April 21, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '14.6 " N , 13 ° 23' 15.7" E