Sprinkenhof

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Sprinkenhof (right) and the Chilehaus (left)
West side of the building on Burchardplatz
Facade details at the Sprinkenhof
patio

The Sprinkenhof is a nine-storey office building in the style of brick expressionism and part of the Hamburg office building district , which occupies the entire complex between Altstädter, Burchardstraße and Johanniswall. The Twiete Springel runs in two parallel tours through the inner courtyard between Burchardstrasse and Altstädter Strasse . The office building was built in three construction phases from 1927 to 1943 by Hans and Oskar Gerson and Fritz Höger and is the namesake of the urban real estate company Sprinkenhof GmbH .

History of the building

Kontorhausviertel with Chilehaus (red), Sprinkenhof (green), Meßberghof (blue)

With the work on the Sprinkenhof, the Gersons and Höger began another monumental building in 1925 in the Kontorhausviertel, immediately northeast of the Chilehaus - only separated by Burchardstrasse. The cooperation between the two offices took place on the basis of a tender to obtain the cheapest offer from the investor, also with regard to your buildings in the immediate vicinity ( Messberghof and Chilehaus). The design initially envisaged 122 apartments with 10,600 m², but these were not implemented. Hamburg's first underground car park was planned for the basement. During the Weimar Republic, the building also housed a department (city district) of the "barracked order police" with several hundreds.

Hamburg's largest office complex at the time with shops, living quarters and storage rooms surrounds three inner courtyards. The middle courtyard is shared by two streets that lead to an underground car park. From 1999 to 2002 a renovation with extensive renovation took place.

The central basic form for building over the Springeltwiete was a nine-story cube. The facade is covered with a diamond-shaped clinker pattern, emphasizing the block character. Regular ornaments by Ludwig Kunstmann with symbols of trade and craft adorn the facade. Clinker bricks and terracottas are used for the facade decoration . Next to the south entrance in the central building, a huge fist with a gold-plated hammer protrudes from the facade, which was also made by Ludwig Kunstmann.

Hans and Oskar Gerson referred to elements of the Doge's Palace in Venice and the Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca . A further, slightly detached grand piano was later added on Burchardplatz based on a concept by Fritz Schumacher . In the east, on Johanniswall, another wing was built, which Fritz Höger carried out alone, as Hans Gerson had died in 1931 and Oskar Gerson was no longer allowed to practice his profession.

The interior authority is located in the eastern wing . This wing has a large "round corner" at the corner of Niedernstrasse and Johanniswall.

In addition to the architectural jewelry by Ludwig Kunstmann, another sculptor worked for the Sprinkenhof: Hans Wagner created four large sandstone sculptures. Two of them were destroyed by a bombing in 1943, two have survived: a man with a strange hammer over his shoulder and a woman who has set foot on a fish.

History of the company: Sprinkenhof GmbH

The two construction companies, Philipp Holzmann AG and Friedrich Holst , founded the Altstadt AG business house to manage the new office building during construction . In 1935 this became the property of the city of Hamburg and was renamed Sprinkenhof AG a few years later . From 1950, the city transferred all of its commercially rented properties to Sprinkenhof AG for management. In 2014 the company form was changed from AG to GmbH . Today the Hanseatic city uses the management company integrated in the city's own holding company, HGV , for almost all real estate transactions.

At the end of 2007 Sprinkenhof managed a total of 1,874 mostly urban properties with a total of 5,618 rental contracts and 4,312 parking spaces, including buildings such as the Hamburg State Opera , the Schmidt Theater and the travel pavilion on Jungfernstieg .

See also

literature

  • Hans and Oskar Gerson: The Sprinkenhof in Hamburg . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture . 13th year (1929), No. 6, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-8744 , pp. 225–230.

Web links

Commons : Sprinkenhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Turtenwald (Ed.): Fritz Höger (1877-1949). Modern monuments. - Catalog for the exhibition “Fritz Höger - Architect of the Chilehaus. Modern monuments. “Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-935549-56-3 , p. 172
  2. ↑ Sprinkenhof AG, Annual Report 2007, p. 26

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 13 ″  E