City café Ottensen
The design of the Stadtcafé Ottensen in Hamburg 's Ottensen district was based on ideas by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser .
The city café, housed in a former fire station on Behringstrasse in Ottensen, was designed by the Hamburg designer Jule Beck based on models and with the creative advice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser in his typical style. There were no straight lines and no right angles on the facades and the interior furnishings of the guest room, the structures followed organic shapes and were colorfully decorated with ceramic shards.
The café was closed in 2009 because it was in disrepair, and in 2013 the building was largely demolished with the plan to build a new, multi-storey residential building at this point. After a protest by a citizens' initiative, a compromise was made to preserve the facade and integrate it into the new building, and to reinstall the café true to the original on the ground floor. The new opening took place in July 2015. In May 2018 the café was renamed and has since been called Behrings. On January 1, 2019, the Behrings in Ottensen was closed.
Web links
- Website of the city cafe before it was closed in 2009 ( memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Hamburger Abendblatt December 14, 2011: Compromise solution for Hundertwasser Café decided
- Elbe-Wochenblatt Finally: something is happening at the Hundertwasser Café
- Hundertwasser Café reopened after the new building
Individual evidence
- ^ The-Hundertwasser-Cafe-in-Ottensen-is-demolished Hamburger Abendblatt from March 14, 2013
- ^ Message from the operator on January 7, 2019 on Facebook. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 14.9 " N , 9 ° 55 ′ 10.7" E