Steglitzer spinning top
| Steglitzer spinning top | |
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| Steglitzer spinning top, 2012 | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Berlin |
| Construction time : | 1968-1980 |
| Renovation: | 2015–2022 (expected) |
| Architectural style : | Modern |
| Architect : | Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Commercial, residential (future) |
| Owner : | CG Gruppe AG (complete since 2017, previously Becker & Kries and State of Berlin ) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 120 m |
| Floors : | 30th |
| Building-costs: | 323 million DM |
| Height comparison | |
| Berlin : | 3. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 41. ( list ) |
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| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | Germany |
The Steglitzer Kreisel is a building complex with a high-rise from the 1970s in the Berlin district of Steglitz in the southern area of Schloßstraße diagonally across from the Steglitz Town Hall .
The main part of the complex is a former administration building with a height of 120 meters with 30 floors, one of the tallest skyscrapers in Berlin , in which the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office was housed until the end of 2007 and which has been vacant since then. The base building is also home to another bus station of BVG with access to the underground station Rathaus Steglitz , a hotel and several shops; a parking garage follows. Since 2015 the building is being converted into a residential high-rise.
Planning and construction
The construction of the roundabout began in 1968 according to plans by the architect Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach . The estimated costs of 180 million marks were partly borne by the Berlin Senate and partly by the architect's AVALON developer . The construction work was stopped again in 1974 ( see below ).
After thinking about blowing up the ruins , the building was auctioned in 1977 by Becker & Kries , who completed the top for 95 million marks. After completion in September 1980, the construction costs for the roundabout amounted to 323 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 355.2 million euros). Until the base was sold in 2015, the Steglitzer Kreisel was owned by the Becker & Kries community (owner of the base) and the State of Berlin (owner of the tower).
Since no tenant could be found for the offices after completion of the high-rise, the Steglitz District Office finally moved in. The consortium (Arge) BV: Steglitzer Kreisel consisted of the companies Anton Schmittlein Bauunternehmung , Wiemer & Trachte , FC Trapp , Siemens-Bauunion , Heibus Bauunternehmung and Sager & Woerner (SAWOE).
Rumor is rumored that the parking garage Zivilschutzanlage for some of the members of the American armed forces was installed. The architect Kressmann-Zschach had created such a system in connection with her Ku'damm-Karree project .
History of the property
The current site of the Steglitz roundabout used to be the southern part of the Gutsdorf Stegelitz, which was in a remote peripheral location until the construction of the first paved road in Prussia in 1792. There were four houses here. In 1801 Carl Friedrich von Beyme bought the estate village and in 1806 lifted the inheritance of the farmers, so that the area became farmland.
In 1828 or 1831 Carl Stephani founded an inn on Albrechtstrasse . In June 1840, the Steglitz Railway Theater was opened on its premises . Comedy and singing games were performed on the stage set up in an octagonal wooden house , including the then famous Karl Unzelmann as a guest . The theater only existed for two years.
The inn was taken over from 1863 by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht and continued under the name Albrechtshof . According to one source, “a multi-purpose building with a hotel, restaurant and theater” is said to have been built this year, but the first construction measures were probably limited to the garden hall and orchestra stage. In 1871 Albrecht planted an oak that is still standing today. The Albrechtshof was not significantly expanded until 1904/1905 with the construction of the multi-storey house at Schloßstraße 82/83. The Albrechtshof-Lichtspiele cinema with 700 seats has also existed here since 1912 .
The remaining part of the property remained rural. A photo from 1904 shows the simple farmhouses of the Berlinickes on Schloßstraße, while there are already multi-storey houses behind the railway line in the Berlinickestraße area . In 1936, twelve pigs and 500–600 chickens were kept by the restaurant in the Albrechtshof, residents of the houses directly opposite Kuhlighofstrasse 3–5 complained about the noise and the “stench”. After severe damage in the war in 1948, the cinema was rebuilt in a simplified form with only 480 seats and existed until 1967. After that, all buildings were demolished.
The Steglitz roundabout was built on the block of the former properties at Schloßstraße 71-85, Albrechtstraße 1-6, Kuhligkshofstraße 1-25 and Birkbuschstraße 96-98, minus a southern section on which the western bypass was built. The Albrechtstrasse and the Kuhligkshofstrasse were widened and swiveled towards the block, so that there was space for an enlargement of the Hermann-Ehlers-Platz and the motorway. Schloßstraße was also widened. Only the oak that Albrecht planted in front of the Schloßstraße 81 property in 1871 remained and is still there today. The other house numbers currently used for the building complex, Schloßstraße 78-82, Albrechtstraße 1–3 and Kuhligkshofstraße 1–4, have been completely redistributed.
Kreisel affair
The project hit the headlines soon after construction began due to rising construction costs. In 1974 the developer had to file for bankruptcy, after which the construction work was stopped. Due to a guarantee of 42 million marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 60 million euros ), the Senate had to pay for the debts of the architect Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach . Finance Senator Heinz Striek ( SPD ) and Building Senator Rolf Schwedler (SPD) had carelessly trusted the construction project and signed the guarantee. In addition, 35 million marks had been promised for the traffic structures in the roundabout and funds had already flowed in.
The public prosecutor's office investigated the suspicion of fraud against the architect Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach, but had to stop the investigation in 1975 without any result. The parliamentary committee of inquiry , which was investigating Heinz Striek and Rolf Schwedler, had to stop its work, also without result . Striek had to resign in 1975. The Chief Finance President of the Berlin Regional Finance Directorate , Klaus Arlt, who helped Kressmann-Zschach professionally and was also close to her privately, was suspended from office.
Exposure to asbestos
In May 1990, the roundabout, now a landmark in Steglitz, hit the headlines again, as asbestos was discovered in the high-rise office building. However, these were only removed when damage occurred and thus only partially. As a result of this procedure, an expert opinion had to be drawn up by October 2004. The reviewers concluded that
- Parts of the high-rise would have to be closed by 2007 at the latest,
- partial use during the renovation is excluded due to the location of the technical center and the escape routes,
- the cost of a renovation would be between 82 and 84 million euros and
- a new building elsewhere would be possible for only 41.5 million euros.
By June 2005, two further reports were issued. They show that
- the office tower must be closed at the end of 2007 if no complete asbestos removal has taken place by then and
- the renovation costs should amount to 75 million euros.
The real estate company Becker & Kries offered to cover the costs and gradually carry out the renovation if the district office would continue to use the roundabout.
The vacancy of the Steglitzer Kreisel from 2007 cost the Berlin Senate (until it was sold in 2017) more than 700,000 euros a year (as of 2012).
In June 2013, the Senate Department for Finance announced that the costs of asbestos removal could be reduced from the originally estimated 31 million euros to an expected 20 million euros as a result of an EU-wide tender and the "well thought-out renovation concept". After the asbestos removal carried out on behalf of the State of Berlin ended in 2016, the actual costs were estimated at 18.5 million euros.
Usage plans until 2015
The Berlin Senate decided on June 27, 2006 to give up the high-rise office building and to move the employees of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office to other state-owned properties. The house was therefore vacated on November 23, 2007. The two-year renovation work should have started in 2009 after the Berlin tax authorities and the property fund tried again in vain to sell the building in an unrenovated condition. The further use remained unclear; In addition to the sale to private investors, a demolition could not be ruled out, but was very controversial among the public.
In 2010, together with the real estate company Becker & Kries, the Senate considered offering the Steglitzer Kreisel for sale in March 2010 at the international real estate fair MIPIM in Cannes. The costs for the previously necessary removal of the asbestos alone were estimated at 31.2 million euros at this point in time.
On November 11, 2010 it was announced that there were two prospective buyers: One wanted to buy the roundabout just refurbished, the other wanted to take over the refurbishment, but received a contribution from the State of Berlin.
The Berliner Zeitung reported on August 11, 2011 that the renovation of the Steglitzer roundabout should "begin next summer and be completed in the first half of 2015". In a first step, BIM Berliner Immobilienmanagement selected a general planner after a tender to manage the renovation. The consortium K5 Arge Generalplanung Steglitzer Kreisel , to which companies from the fields of building construction, building services, statics and pollution control belong, was then awarded the contract to plan the asbestos removal of the Steglitzer Kreisel. What should happen to the building after the renovation, however, remained open.
In February 2012, the architect Gert Eckel submitted a new proposal for the use of the asbestos-contaminated building to the Senator for Urban Development, in which the latter had “shown great interest”. Accordingly, the building was to be used for a limited period of 15 years as a small-scale warehouse, for studios for visual artists and as a meeting place for Jewish culture with a restaurant . The outer facade should be artistically designed in the evening with laser light and LED technology.
Redesign by the CG Group
In early 2015 it was announced that the Senate was planning to sell the tower to the CG Group . Initially there were problems because the CG Group had already acquired the base of the tower from the previous owner Becker & Kries for a purchase price of 45 million euros, and construction work would have been necessary on this as well if asbestos removal and an improvement in fire protection had taken place. If the tower had been sold, renovation would not have been possible. The CG Group came forward as a potential buyer, but initially rumors circulated that the company had no money to renovate the tower. That would have resulted in the tower remaining unused. However, the state of Berlin later agreed to the acquisition of the tower by the CG Group. On June 30, 2017, the state of Berlin handed the tower over to the new owner (purchase price: 21 million euros).
According to the planning of the CG Group, 330 condominiums are to be built in the former office tower and 180 million euros will be invested in the tower alone for this purpose. After a complete renovation, the conversion of the tower should be completed by the end of 2020. However, new plans assume completion in early 2022. The drafts and renovation plans come from the Leipzig architecture firm Fuchshuber Architekten , which has already planned and accompanied numerous other (large) construction projects in Berlin. The term “ÜBerlin Tower” was invented for marketing the high-rise.
The base buildings are also to be demolished and rebuilt. The new base will have an outer shell made of glass and stone. There should be space for retail, offices and a medical center. In addition, there is to be space for a new hotel. The new buildings should be completed in 2025.
The BVG bus station and Hermann-Ehlers-Platz are also to be redesigned together.
Others
The Friedenseiche , a Berlin natural monument, stands on Schloßstraße right next to the Steglitz roundabout .
Lookout point
Up until November 2, 2007, there was a canteen on the 24th floor of the roundabout , from which, on a clear day, you had a clear view to the north of Berlin's inner city with many sights up to the northern city limits; from the cafeteria one looked in the southwest to the high Fläming .
Use as a location
The office building was used in 1984 as an external backdrop in the movie Didi - The Doppelganger with Dieter Hallervorden for the fictional millionaire company 'Immer International'. The radiated in May 2018 ARD - reportage unequal country shows the Steglitzer gyro as an illustration of the Berlin housing construction and real estate market.
literature
- Sabine Weißler (Ed.): About Steglitz the roundabout. A story of high-rise buildings. New edition, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin 2012 (original edition 1998, Bildungswerk Berlin of the Heinrich Böll Foundation ).
Web links
- City Tower residential project: Steglitzer Kreisel on the CG Gruppe website
- History of the Steglitz roundabout
- 30 years of Kreisel-Tripper , on the Urbanophil website, November 13, 2010
- The Steglitz roundabout is to be rebuilt Video of the Berliner Morgenpost from July 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steglitzer roundabout at CTBUH
- ↑ Steglitzer Kreisel becomes ÜBerlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost . 19th February 2018.
- ^ A b c d Steglitzer Heimat, bulletin of the Heimatverein Steglitz e. V. Edition 2/2010 ( Memento of the original from January 19, 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.
- ↑ a b c d Christian Simon: From the largest village in Prussia - Steglitz in the course of history . Berlin 1997, pp. 58/59.
- ^ Klaus-Dieter Wille: Walks in Steglitz . Haude & Spener Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 20 f
- ↑ Albrechtstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ a b Albrechtshof-Lichtspiele on allekinos.de
- ↑ histomap Berlin - Historical and current maps in comparison ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2016 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.
- ↑ Werner van Bebber: Felt has a long tradition in Berlin. (No longer available online.) March 20, 2016, archived from the original on September 9, 2016 ; accessed on September 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Katrin Lange: The Steglitzer roundabout has to stay. In: The world . March 2, 2005.
- ↑ Katrin Lange, Brigitte Schmiemann: Steglitzer Kreisel costs more than 700,000 euros annually . In: Berliner Morgenpost. May 19, 2012, accessed March 11, 2019.
- ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Renovation of the Steglitzer roundabout is cheaper . In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 27, 2013, accessed March 11, 2019.
- ↑ "Steglitzer Kreisel": Asbestos out, people in: The roundabout is alive! In: Berliner Kurier . July 13, 2016, accessed March 11, 2019.
- ^ Asbestos removal of the 'Steglitzer Kreisel' high-rise office building ( Memento from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , press release No. 06-048, Senate Department for Finance , Berlin, June 27, 2006, at Archive.org.
- ↑ Nobody wants to buy the top. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 24, 2008.
- ↑ The top packed in 21,000 boxes. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 17, 2007.
- ↑ a b Berliner Abendschau , November 1, 2007.
- ↑ Steglitz roundabout on offer. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 28, 2010.
- ↑ Steglitzer Kreisel is only interested in two investors. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 11, 2010.
- ↑ Ulrich Paul: After the asbestos removal, there is a risk of demolition . In: Berliner Zeitung . August 10, 2011.
- ↑ Planning of asbestos removal begins. In: Berliner Morgenpost . August 11, 2011.
- ↑ Steglitzer Kreisel: A light work of art for 15 years. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 14, 2012.
- ↑ Steglitzer Kreisel: Entrepreneurs and Senate are fighting for the high-rise and the base . In: Der Tagesspiegel. 23rd January 2015.
- ↑ Steglitzer Kreisel: Apartments are to be built in the office tower . In: Berliner Zeitung. February 27, 2015.
- ↑ Katrin Lange: Apartments in the Steglitz roundabout with a view of Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost. June 29, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
- ^ Ralf Schönball: Berlin building sins: Steglitzer roundabout is to be a residential tower. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Katrin Lange: 600 steps: The new owner climbs the Steglitz roundabout . In: Berliner Morgenpost . July 11, 2017, accessed March 11, 2019.
- ↑ Katrin Lange: The construction crane at the roundabout in Steglitz has stopped. June 27, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Living in the Steglitz roundabout. In: BauNetz. Heinze GmbH, October 15, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Apartments in the ÜBerlin Tower | Steglitz roundabout I Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Retrieved on July 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ This is what the base of the Steglitzer roundabout should look like. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ^ Katrin Lange: Steglitzer Kreisel: Buildings at the foot are being torn down. May 13, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Everything new in the circle around the Steglitz roundabout. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Inequality: How wealth becomes power (video). In: DasErste.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 7, 2018, accessed on June 4, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ E