3 MINUTEN DENKMAL
In this format, lesser-known aspects of Hamburg's buildings are presented in three minutes each, together with owners and associations - from the legendary Schellfischtunnel to the newly renovated Brandshofer Deich. // presented by Denkmalverein Hamburg e.V.
This time, art and technology historian Robin Augenstein, using the example of the paternoster in the listed Laeiszhof, tells the story of the mechanical elevator and why Hamburg became the paternoster capital of the world so early on. Robin is a doctoral student in art history at the University of Hamburg and, among other things, discovered and helped to uncover what is probably the oldest surviving paternoster in the world in Hamburg's Flüggerhaus.
Do you know the high-rise that was built from the top down? The surrounding Esplanade was built in the early 19th century as a neoclassical boulevard. Parts of it were demolished and redesigned in the postwar period under Chief Building Director Werner Hebebrand. This included the construction of the Finnlandhaus in 1965, designed by the architectural firm HPP. With its suspended structure, it is an outstanding example of post-war modernist engineering. Renovated in 2016/17 by owner Dieter Becken and HPP in accordance with its listed status, it has since served as the headquarters of the Becken Group.
Berlin's Sixth Borough: Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Located in the southwest of Berlin, up to half of this borough consists of lakes and forests. Between them lie wealthy villa districts as well as modern residential complexes, while the Freie Universität Berlin has also transformed the area into a research landscape populated by numerous students. As centers of urban development, Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf and Studentendorf Schlachtensee showcase the modern architecture of the district.
Schiffsanlegestelle Wannsee, 1984
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, 1972-1974
Kleingartenverein Lankwitz, 1970
Volksschule Schlachtensee, 1926-1927
Einzelwohnhaus Schorlemerallee, 1935, nach Zerstörung im Zweiten Weltkrieg verändert wieder aufgebaut
Zu den heiligen Zwölf Aposteln, 1953/54
Neues Bauen //
U-Bahnhof & Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
In the 1920s, many large housing estates were built in Berlin due to the immense shortage following the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 and the associated influx of people, which necessitated a rapid and modern response. These new estates were part of an urban planning reform movement called "Neues Bauen" and were intended to replace the existing, often dark and unhygienic tenement blocks by being equipped with bathrooms, fitted kitchens and balconies.
GEHAG commissioned its chief architect Bruno Taut to build Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf (Onkel Toms Hütte) under the site management of Ludmilla Herzenstein in seven construction phases between 1926 and 1931. Together with Hugo Häring and Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, they planned 1100 apartments and 800 single-family homes on the edge of the Grunewald. As an architect and urban planner, Bruno Taut was one of the leading proponents of the Neues Bauen movement in the 1920s. He first became known for individual Expressionist buildings such as the "Kristallhaus", the "Monument des Eisens" and his "Taut Kiosk", but his large-scale social housing projects in Berlin (Hufeisensiedlung, Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Siedlung Schillerpark, Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf) made him internationally recognized. In the following years, with its modern flat roofs, colorful facades and unpretentious functionality, Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf became a thorn in the side of the Nazis, who disparagingly dubbed it the "Parrot Settlement". In 1933, Bruno Taut fled the Nazi regime, which considered his work degenerate, into exile in Switzerland, Japan and finally Turkey, where he died in 1938 as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul.
The connecting subway line, including this station, opened on December 22, 1929. Otto Rudolf Salvisberg complemented the station, designed by Alfred Grenander, with single-story shopping arcades along its long sides. To complement a subway station with an urban shopping street was an absolute novelty for that time. It was primarily intended to serve the surrounding housing estate. The official name "Siedlung Onkel Toms Hütte", after which the subway station was also named, dates back to a near by pub that existed until 1979. In the beer garden of the restaurant, built in 1885, the proprietor, Thomas, built several huts as weather protection. They quickly became known locally as "Tom's Huts," and the proprietor, in turn, named his restaurant after the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published a few years earlier.
Post-War Modernism //
Studentendorf Schlachtensee
The Schlachtensee Student Village of the Free University of Berlin is situated on the site of a former farmstead in a wooded and sandy area between the lakes Wannsee and Krumme Lanke. It consists of 28 organically embedded houses around a village green. The complex was built in three expansion phases between 1957 and 1978 by the Berlin architectural firm of Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel and Peter Pfankuch and later by Kraemer, Pfennig, Sieverts & Partner. In post-war Berlin, the Studentendorf Schlachtensee was the first newly built academic housing. The financing of the construction by the Americans represented a crucial contribution to the desired "re-education" of the Germans and was intended to bring the people back to democracy, which was to be reflected in the village-like structure of the residential complex with its own town hall, grocery store and even theater hall. It is a striking example of the architectural reconnection of post-war modernism to the Neues Bauen movement of the 1920s.
The small living cabins are each minimally furnished: with a table, chair, wardrobe, and bed - however, the furnishings are always arranged individually in each room. In contrast, the common areas and stairwells are spaciously designed.
WORKING GROUPS @ DENKMALVEREIN HAMBURG
Get to know the people behind the association - this video portraits some of the honorary and full-time staff for the occasion of the Max Brauer Prize ceremony on October 7, 2024, and at the same time shows you what opportunities for concrete involvement exist.
BERLIN HANSAVIERTEL:
HANSEATIC FLAIR ON THE SPREE RIVER?
Hansa-Viertel is the original name of the residential area between the Spree and Tiergarten, which was founded in 1874. The name commemorates the fact that the district was developed by the Berlin and Hamburg real estate company "Hansa," whose members were predominantly Hamburg entrepreneurs. It also alludes to the area's connection to Hamburg via the nearby Hamburger Bahnhof and the Spree River.
Backstein-Wohnturm, Benedict Tonon, 2001
Holsteiner Ufer
Schifferbrunnen, Hermann Hosaeus, 1914
The Schifferbrunnen (Sailors' Fountain) on the Schleswig shore marks the outer entrance to the Hansaviertel district and greets ships entering from Charlottenburg via the Spree River with a romantic touch: a fairytale-like sailor boy sits with his legs spread wide on a harbor bollard, playing the accordion. The fountain's design is modeled on the medieval stock fountains of the Hanseatic cities and was created in 1914 by Hermann Hosaeus, who had grown up in Buxtehude, recalling Berlin's membership in the Hanseatic League during the 14th and 15th centuries. Next to it, Altonaer Straße crosses the river to the opposite bank, thus connecting the Hansaviertel with the neighboring Moabit. Hosaeus' many stone memorials made him famous after the First World War and also resonated with the spirit of the following years of the Nazi regime, making him a respected Berlin university professor until its end, when the pogrom and Second World War had already destroyed the houses around his old monuments. His ideological entanglements turned his works, which had remained intact after the war, into sources of controversy.
Altbaubestand Flotowstraße, Gründerzeit
Trümmerberge Ecke Lessingstraße/Händelallee, 1945, Landesarchiv Berlin
Interbau 1957, Landesarchiv Berlin
After the district was mostly destroyed by bombing, the now encapsulated area inside West-Berlin underwent radical modernization through architecture from the 50's onwards: The International Building Exhibition of 1957 commissioned architects such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Max Taut and Wassili Luckhardt to design groundbreaking high-rise complexes as a demonstration of modern Western architecture and as a counterpoint to the architectural style of East Berlin's Stalinallee. The former headquarters of the West Berlin Academy established itself as a cultural center in a Brutalist building designed by Werner Düttmann in 1960, situated in the shadow of the high-rises.
Altbaubestand Holsteiner Ufer, Gründerzeit
Altbaubestand Holsteiner Ufer, Gründerzeit
Focus Teleport, Joachim Ganz u. Walter Rolfes, 1990
Approximately 90% of the original buildings in Hansa-Viertel were destroyed by bombs during World War II. Nevertheless, the last remaining courtyards still offer a glimpse through their characteristic arched doorways to the opposite riverbank, which has also been taken over by modern buildings. The view extends from the Holsteiner Ufer across to Focus Teleport, an industrial park for technology companies built in the late 1980s on the former site of the Kampffmeyer mills. Kampffmeyer-Mühlen GmbH, based in Hamburg, was one of Germany's largest grain suppliers to the food and bakery industries.
Focus Teleport, Joachim Ganz u. Walter Rolfes, 1990
Kampffmeyer-Mühlen-Emblem
Bär auf der Moabiter Brücke, Günter Anlauf, 1981
Alte Meierei mit Hotelanbau (u. Spree-Bogen), Wolf-Rüdiger Borchardt, 1993–1995
Spree-Bogen, ehemalig. Bundesinnenministerium, Kühn Bergander Bley, 1992–1994
Bellevue Palace and its S-Bahn station mark the boundary of the Hansa Quarter towards the city center. The Moabit Bridge leads from the Holsteiner Ufer to the other side, where we finally find ourselves in the heart of 1990s postmodern architecture in Alt-Moabit's Spreebogen and continue towards Berlin Central Station.
ABRISS DER KÖHLBRANDBRÜCKE ?
Ausgewählte Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger erläutern hier aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, warum die Köhlbrandbrücke erhalten werden soll. Die Kurzvideos werden seit Januar 2024 produziert und laufend ergänzt, um Werbung für die aktuelle Online-Petition des Vereins zu machen. Verantwortlich für die Produktion ist Kristian Panzer, Filmstudent und Vereinsmitglied, in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der „AG Kommunikation“ des Denkmalvereins:
Trucker Kalli
Wir durften im LKW von Trucker Kalli einsteigen und mit ihm einmal über die Köhlbrandbrücke und zurück fahren. Kalli ist in Billstedt großgeworden und schon als kleiner Junge oft mit seinen Geschwistern an den Hafen gefahren. Und er hat den Köhlbrand regelmäßig überquert, bevor es überhaupt die Brücke gab, nämlich mit der Fähre, die dort früher fuhr. Davon hat er bei unserer Fahrt erzählt - und warum die Brücke unbedingt bleiben muss. Danke auch an die Spedition Heinrich Zoder.
Kamera & Schnitt: Kristian Panzer
Tulga Beyerle
Die Direktorin des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe erläutert in ihrem Statement, warum so ein einzigartiges und elegantes Ingenieurbauwerk wie die Köhlbrandbrücke nicht einfach abgerissen werden darf.
Kamera & Schnitt: Kristian Panzer
Dieter Läpple
Der emeritierte Professor für Stadtforschung an der HafenCity Universität Hamburg und Fahrzeugbauingenieur hat sich mit der Verkehrsbelastung auf und um die Köhlbrandbrücke beschäftigt und gibt vom Altona Balkon aus mit Blick auf die Brücke einen Überblick der Faktenlage.
Kamera & Schnitt: Kristian Panzer
Maria Lehmann
Wissen Sie, wer die Köhlbrandbrücke geplant hat? Nein? Kein Wunder! Der Architekt wurde nicht einmal bei der Eröffnung 1974 erwähnt. In diesem Interview spricht die Witwe des mittlerweile verstorbenen Architekten Oskar Lehmann über den Bau dieses ikonischen Hamburger Wahrzeichens. Entdecken Sie darüber hinaus kaum bekannte, bauzeitliche Modelle aus der Geschichtswerkstatt Wilhelmsburg und Originalfotografien aus dem Staatsarchiv.
Kamera & Schnitt: Kristian Panzer