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General Information

Other name(s): Mossehaus
Beginning of works: 1900
Completion: 1903
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building
Architectural style: Streamline Moderne
New Objectivity

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: Schützenstraße 25 / Jerusalemer Straße 46/47
Coordinates: 52° 30' 31.19" N    13° 23' 47.83" E
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Excerpt from Wikipedia

Mossehaus is an office building on 18–25 Schützenstrasse in Berlin, renovated and with a corner designed by Erich Mendelsohn between 1921 and 1923.

The original Mosse building housed the printing press and offices of the newspapers owned by Rudolf Mosse, mainly liberal newspapers such as the Berliner Tageblatt. The sandstone-fronted historicist 1901 building by Cremer & Wolffenstein was badly damaged in 1919 during the Spartacist uprising; held by the insurrectionists, it was laid under siege by government troops.

In 1921, on the strength of his Einstein Tower, Mendelsohn was hired to add extra storeys and a new entrance to the building. The new frontage made prominent use of aluminum and modern typography, and the new upper floors were made from ferro-concrete. The experimental nature of the structure led to a disaster during construction in 1923, when one of the slabs of the new extension fell into the newspaper offices, which were still in use, killing 14 people.

Mossehaus in 2006, on the corner of Jerusalemerstraße and Schützenstraße

The use of strips and sculpted elements in the fenestration gave it a dynamic, futuristic form, emphasised by the contrast with the Wilhelmine style below. It was perhaps the first example of a streamlined building, and hence a great influence on Streamline Moderne. The effect on American architecture is perhaps unsurprising, as Mendelsohn's partner on the Mossehaus and the designer of the interiors was Richard Neutra.

The building was very close to the Berlin Wall, so it became dilapidated after World War II. Though Mossehaus was at one time the tallest non-church building in Berlin, it is now dwarfed by the nearby Fischerinsel tower blocks on the former East side and the Axel Springer AG buildings on the former West side. The building was restored in the 1990s.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Mossehaus" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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Initial construction (1900-1903)
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Reconfiguration (1921-1923)
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  • Structure-ID
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  • Published on:
    27/02/2010
  • Last updated on:
    10/11/2020
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