Springer high-rise (Hamburg)

Springer high-rise on Axel-Springer-Platz

The Springer high-rise in Hamburg served as the headquarters of Axel Springer Verlag from 1956 to 1967.

Location and architecture

The building is located in the Hamburg-Neustadt district at Axel-Springer-Platz 1 and has 14 floors at a height of 50 meters. The building was designed by Ferdinand Streb . The base of the facade is characterized by cladding with rough marble stripes. Wilhelm Haerlin created a “monumental two-part mosaic picture” for the foyer , which is considered to be his most important work.

history

At the place where the Springer tower house was built, which opened in 1853 ballroom and concert hall has Conventgarten confessed. This was destroyed by Allied bombs on July 24, 1943 and the area was leveled in 1948. On November 28, 1950, Axel Springer laid the foundation stone for the 50 meter high publishing house . After around five years of construction, the inauguration was celebrated in the spring of 1956. On May 15, 1972, the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) carried out a bomb attack on the building . 17 people were injured. The high-rise has been a listed building since 1997.

On January 1, 2016, the Hamburg-based Momeni Immobilien Holding GmbH and joint venture partner Black Horse Investments , the family office of the Düsseldorf Schwarz-Schütte family , acquired two of the three parts of the entire Springer site from Axel Springer , including the Springer high-rise belongs. The eastern part in the area of the Springer-Passage opened in 1997 is not part of the overall project and was sold by the publisher to the Hamburg-Mitte district. The "new district office" Hamburg-Mitte is to move in from the City-Hof .

In January 2017, the investor consortium sold their area, including the Springer high-rise, to a consortium of the medical pension funds of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Lower Saxony veterinary supply and the Lower Saxony tax consultant supply . As a long-term anchor tenant alongside other companies in the high-rise, Axel Springer SE will have its Hamburg branch there .