Representation of the Saarland at the federal level
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Representation of the Saarland at the federal level |
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| State level | Saarland |
| position | State representation |
| Supervisory authority | Saarland State Chancellery |
| founding | 1969 Representation of the Saarland in Bonn |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Authority management | Henrik Eitel (State Secretary) |
| Servants | 20 (as of July 2015) |
| Web presence | Homepage of the representation |
The representation of the Saarland in the Federal Government has its seat in the street in the Ministergärten 4 in Berlin district of Mitte .
The state representation represents Saarland's interests at the federal level, serves as an event forum for politicians, business representatives, cultural workers and trade unions, and sees itself as the “shop window of the Saarland in Berlin”. As part of a Franco-German cooperation, it is also the representation of the French department of Moselle in the German capital.
authority
The Saarland's representative at the federal government has been Henrik Eitel since October 30, 2019 , who was also appointed as head of the State Chancellery with the rank of State Secretary . State Secretary Monika Beck was the first authorized representative of the Saarland in Berlin from 1999 to October 2005 . Her successor Jürgen Lennartz held office until October 2019.
building
The building is located in the northeast of the Ministergärten and was designed by the Saarbrücken architects Alt + Britz , which won a regionally limited competition in April 1997. The construction time was around a year, the construction costs around 20.45 million euros. In December, the building was handed over to State Secretary Monika Beck.
The outer walls of the six-storey house are made of large-format prefabricated concrete parts in a sandwich construction, which look similar in structure and color to sand-lime brick. The facade design is a reminiscence of the “stone Berlin” and is somewhat reminiscent of the Liebermann House at the Brandenburg Gate .
A concrete frame construction with built-in glass elements forms the vertical and horizontal space closure of the central building-high hall and provides a generous view of the building's entrance. The free-hanging sculpture by the Icelandic-Saarland artist Sigrún Olafsdóttir defines the air space of the foyer and breaks the hard architecture of the surrounding balconies.
The rationalistically disciplined floor plan is axially directed and arranged in a clear square module order. The inner air space of the front square structure, which extends to below the glass roof, is pushed out at the rear - a solid inner structure with an airy outer space is created there, which is closed off by a pergola-like, house-high beam structure.
Floor-to-ceiling French windows give the office and meeting rooms a certain nobility. With the exception of the red-brown oak parquet in the ballroom as well as the office and meeting rooms, all walls, stone and tile floors, railings and doors are kept in a light beige - unusual for the rationalist architecture of the two Ungers students, but this consistently has a pleasant atmosphere .
The representation shares central facilities, the underground car park and the outdoor facilities with the state representations of Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate , which are also located in the north of the ministerial gardens and all border on the back of the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe .
The state representative office operates the Saarland Gallery near Checkpoint Charlie in Kreuzberg .
history
As early as 1969, Saarland had its own regional representative in the former federal capital of Bonn . When the Federal Council moved from Bonn to Berlin, the state representations also moved. In the autumn of 1999, the Saarland representative first moved into rented rooms in Friedrichstrasse and on January 25, 2001, into the current building in In den Ministergärten 4 in Berlin.
With the settlement of the state representatives, the historically polluted soil of the ministerial gardens has received a new, democratic function. The area between Wilhelmstrasse , Vossstrasse , Ebertstrasse and Pariser Platz was originally referred to as the Minister Gardens . The name goes back to the aristocratic palaces built on Wilhelmstrasse in the 18th century, which later housed ministries of Prussia, the Empire, the Weimar Republic and also the Third Reich. These magnificent city palaces included extensive gardens and green spaces, which, however, were never open to the public. Today only the street name "In den Ministergärten" reminds of the original use of the site.
During the foundation work for the new building of the state representation , remnants of the extensive bunker complex that belonged to the Reich Chancellery of the National Socialists were found. From 1961 to 1989, the site was in the immediate border area. The Berlin Wall and the death strip ran here .
Today - in addition to the six other state representations - in the immediate vicinity, to the north of the representation of the Saarland, is the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe . The memorial for the more than six million Jewish victims of the Nazi regime, with its underground information center, has documentation on this section of German history.
Saarland Gallery
For the presentation of Saarland art, the non-profit association Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken e. V. found a partner. The exhibition began in September 2004 in both Saarland and Berlin. The institutional cooperation with the Saarland Künstlerhaus was discontinued at the end of 2005 after it became clear that a separate, registered association should be founded to support the Saarland Gallery.
On the initiative of the former State Secretary Monika Beck, at the time Saarland representative at the federal government and herself a gallery owner, cultural workers came together to form the Saarland Gallery - European Art Forum e. V. to found.
Since the beginning of the exhibition, artists from the Czech Republic , France , Luxembourg , Belgian Wallonia, Saarland and Berlin have been shown.
literature
- Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (Hrsg.): Buildings of the countries. The state representations in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , 2013, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, pp. 130–135. ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 .
Web links
- Homepage of the representation
- State Representation Saarland In the Ministergärten 4 on the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on November 18, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation of the representation
- ^ Saarland state representation in Berlin before the opening. Thinking federally. BauNetz , January 24, 2001, accessed on November 18, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 45.4 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 45" E