Administration building Potsdamer Strasse 188–192

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The building at Potsdamer Strasse  188–192 in 2007

The administration building at Potsdamer Strasse 188–192 is located in the Schöneberg district of Berlin on the corner of Potsdamer Strasse and Grunewaldstrasse . The building was constructed from 1938 to 1939 according to a design by the architect Arthur Vogdt as an administration building for the construction management of the Reichsautobahn . The neighboring building at Potsdamer Strasse 192 was also built from 1938 to 1939 as the headquarters for the German dairy industry . Both buildings were built as part of the redesign of Berlin - planned during the time of National Socialism - to become a " World Capital Germania " and are now a listed building . From 1945 to 2008 the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) used the building as its head office.

Location and surroundings

Area map

The building is located at the southern end of Potsdamer Strasse just before its transition to Hauptstrasse . From the east, Großgörschenstrasse joins Potsdamer Strasse and forms a visual axis on the facade. To the north of the building, and set back a little in the building line, are the royal colonnades from 1780, which were only moved to their current location in 1910. Potsdamer / Hauptstrasse intersect with Grunewaldstrasse / Langenscheidtstrasse in the south of the building . The entrances to the Kleistpark underground station on the U7 line are also at this intersection . Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park is located at the rear of the building complex . On its western side is the building of the Kammergericht (Berlin Higher Regional Court ).

Usage history

From 1939 the construction management of the Reichsautobahn and the main association of the German dairy industry used the building.

After the Second World War , BVG moved into the building section Potsdamer Straße 188 in mid-May 1945 and used it as its head office, as the BVG building at Köthener Straße  12, formerly the headquarters of the Hochbahngesellschaft , was destroyed in an Allied air raid in November 1943. In September 1947, BVG acquired two more administrative buildings on Potsdamer Strasse: the Kathreinerhaus ( no.186 ) and the Franckhaus ( no.184 ).

The building section Potsdamer Strasse 192 was used by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics and Credit after the Second World War . This moved from there to the Olex house in February 1956 . The BVG then also moved into this part of the building. After more than 50 years of use, the BVG moved out of the Potsdamer Straße 188–192 building in August 2008 and has been using the Trias building near the Jannowitzbrücke station as the central administration ever since . The building on Potsdamer Strasse was sold together with the other buildings on Potsdamer Strasse and the building at Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse  2 (near Alexanderplatz ) for 36 million euros.

In December 2013 the University of Popular Arts (hdpk) moved into the building Potsdamer Straße 188. It is now used for academic education in music and media. Since 2015, myToys.de GmbH has had its headquarters in the Potsdamer Straße 192 part of the building and uses 11,000 m² of usable space for around 750 workplaces.

literature

Web links

Commons : Potsdamer Straße 188-192 (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiko Schützler: Dams in subway tunnels - The state of local public transport in 1945 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 10, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 36-44 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  2. ↑ The Olex House on the website of the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research
  3. ↑ We're moving to Mitte. In: BVG.de . August 7, 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2008 .
  4. ↑ BVG head office moves to Mitte . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 20, 2007
  5. ↑ Toy company moves into old BVG headquarters at Kleistpark . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 9, 2015

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 29 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 36.1 ″  E