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.
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.
The 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 Hentrich, Petschnigg and Partners (HPP). With its suspended structure, it is an outstanding example of postwar 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.
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 and were equipped with bathrooms, fitted kitchens and balconies.
GEHAG commissioned its chief architect Bruno Taut to build Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf 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 famous. 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 a modern, 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 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
In a wooded and sandy area between the lakes Wannsee and Krumme Lanke lies the student village of the Freie Universität Berlin, which 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 project 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.
It is a striking example of the architectural reconnection of post-war modernism to the Neues Bauen movement of the 1920s.
Each of the small single rooms has the same minimal furnishings: a table, a chair, a wardrobe, and a bed - although they are arranged individually in each room. The common areas and stairwells are spaciously designed.
Mitglieder Portraits 2024
Lernen Sie hier die Menschen kennen, die hinter dem Denkmalverein stehen: Unser Mitglied Kristian Panzer hat einigen Ehren- und Hauptamtlichen in diesem Kurzfilm anlässlich der Max-Brauer-Preisverleihung am 7. Oktober 2024 ein Gesicht gegeben und zeigt Ihnen so gleichzeitig, welche Möglichkeiten für konkretes Engagement bestehen.
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