Sugar factory (Berlin)
The former sugar confectionery factory on Konrad-Wolf-Strasse in Berlin's Lichtenberg district is a listed factory building from the beginning of the 20th century. After the turnaround and the shutdown of production, it was sold to an investor who had the brick complex converted into a residential building in compliance with monument protection requirements.
Location and building description
The historic factory building is located on a plot of around 9,000 square meters, with its main front parallel to the street. The originally five-storey brick building was increased to six storeys by the renovation at the beginning of the 2000s. The facade, which is provided with large window openings, has only minor decoration. The defining elements are the clearly visible pillars and the central risalit with the main gate, behind which the main staircase is located inside. The main house has a mansard roof , the extension wings added on both sides in 1928 have flat roofs.
Building history
In 1908 the building was built according to plans by the Friedenau master builder Karl Eitner on behalf of the confectionery manufacturer Georg Lembke. It had the address Berliner Straße 83/84. Until 1928 the factory owner had extensions built several times because the demand for the sugar products had risen steadily. The additions came from the architects Otto Besse , Joseph Fränkel and Karl Stodieck and included farm buildings . At that time the factory was called Deutsch-Amerikanische Zuckerwarenfabrik GmbH . Lembke lived in a neighboring house (number 85), which also offered space for other roommates.
After the Second World War , the manufacturer was expropriated and the property was transferred to the administration of the city of Berlin. The magistrate established the VEB Pralina chocolate products there during the GDR times until 1963 .
From the mid-1960s onwards, there was a complete change in production, and the plant became a manufacturer of railway signaling technology (until the plant was closed in 1992). Since then, the factory, which at that time was owned by a US community of heirs, has been empty. Although several investors wanted to locate primarily businesses there, none of these plans was implemented for 18 years. Reasons for this were, in addition to differing price expectations from owners and investors, also concerns of the responsible district office, which feared too great competition for existing companies from retail branches and a perspective for the in many concepts, which should only use the outdoor area of the originally around two hectare property Missing old building. The long vacancy in connection with vandalism led to considerable damage. The roof structure became almost completely rotten. However, the building structure of the base walls and ceilings remained largely stable.
In 2009 the project developers Arndt Ulrich and Lutz Lakomski, who in this case acted as investors themselves and commissioned another project developer with the Berlin Moritz Group, bought the site for around three million euros from equity. Between October 2010 and 2011, they had 70 high-priced apartment buildings set up in the historic factory building for investors and owner-occupiers, with floor areas between 41 and 135 square meters , under the direction of the specially founded company Wohnen in der former Zuckerwarenfabrik Berlin GmbH .
The main changes visible from the outside were the construction of a stacked storey on the roof and the installation of balconies on the street front of the side wings. The format of the window openings was retained in the living rooms, but full-surface instead of the original lattice windows were installed. However, the rung structure can be found on the windows of the stairwells. A historic outer wall was renewed in one section and a fence was added. Inside, the building was largely gutted and the room was redesigned using drywall. Plaster work partially exposed previously plastered brick walls inside, while plaster was newly applied in other places. In addition to building services and supply lines, four elevators were installed. The project development of the entire area and the renovation of the old building cost around 25 million euros.
In the vicinity of the factory building
The new owners sold the rest of the spacious area to several other investors. From autumn 2010 onwards, 15 town houses were built on the back (on Mittelstrasse) , based on a design by the architect Bernd Faskel and on behalf of Concepta GmbH. The townhouses are divided into four different house types, the living space of which varies between 134 and 177 m²; they form a row house complex. A green inner courtyard will be laid out towards the factory building. The rest of the former factory site is occupied by a passive house with eleven (Ticoncept) and another residential building with 16 storey apartments. In addition, the developer Townscape One built five buildings by 2016, which he sold to the municipal construction company Howoge . These three city villas and two block developments along Konrad-Wolf-Straße were created according to plans by the Berlin architects ioo Elwardt + Lattermann and contain 157 residential units. In total, the former factory site is to include around 270 residential units, which will be marketed under the name "Schokostücke".
literature
- Converting Non-Residential Buildings to Residential Real Estate - Documentation of the case studies . (PDF) Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eitner, Karl . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, part 1, p. 541. “Baumeister; Friedenau ”(as early as 1915).
- ↑ Berliner Strasse 82–84 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1928, IV, Hohenschönhausen, p. 2065.
- ↑ VEB Pralina . In: Fernsprechbuch für Gross-Berlin (GDR), 1959, p. 203. "All sweets and chocolate items are quality products from VEB Pralina".
- ↑ The "Wannsee of the North" lures with new pearls . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 23, 2011.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: From the industrial wasteland to the residential park. The old chocolate factory becomes a modern residential area. ) (PDF; 8.1 MB) In: Berliner Woche , June 30, 2010, p. 5.
- ↑ Monument complex Konrad-Wolf-Straße, sugar goods factory with factory building, machine and boiler house, 1908 by Karl Eitner, extension in 1913 by Otto Besse, 1926 by Joseph Fraenkel, 1928 by Karl Stodieck
- ↑ Konrad-Wolf-Straße: 70 apartments in an old factory . In: Berliner Morgenpost , 12./13. November 2011, weekend extra, Lichtenberg edition
- ↑ Chic property: town houses in Alt-Hohenschönhausen . Information from the building owner Concepta Haus. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 6, 2011, p. 9
- ↑ Konrad-Wolf-Strasse. Informing the architect about the housing project at the sugar factory.