Reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace - Berliner Stadtschloss
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Reconstruction of The Berlin City Palace.
The Berliner Stadtschloss was a Royal and imperial palace in the centre of Berlin. It was the winter residence of the Kings of Prussia and the German Emperors. In 2013 work commenced on reconstruction of the palace. The completion is expected in 2019.
The palace was originally built in the 15th century. It was the principal residence and winter residence of the Hohenzollern Kings of Prussia from 1701 to 1918. After the unification of Germany in 1871, it was also the central residence for the German Emperors. It became a museum following the fall of the German Empire in 1918.
The palace was heavily damaged by air raids in World War II. Although it could have been repaired, the palace was demolished in 1950 by the Communists, the GDR authorities.
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Wish modern architecture was like this
Samuel Baldwin there is time and place for each kind of art
Stasiu Gąska except for modern art. It’s disgusting.
Xavier Domenico I disagree
Stasiu Gąska Good. Now tell me why.
Ikr
This proves they can still do it but choose not to
Its great that Germany is rebuilding its destroyed buildings like this. Wish I could say the same about the Old Penn Station in New York.
That thing that's there now is hideous compared to what used to be there.
Or the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Alot are still being destroyed in Germany unfortunately... at a much faster rate than others are being rebuild. Bevause of coal mining for example...
@@whynotstayhonest4706 How many coal mines in Germany are surface mines? Where are they located?
One of my German professors, who was one of the people in Berlin who helped clear away rubble after the war, told us that Germany tore down more historic buildings after the war than were destroyed in the war. The communists tore down the cathedral in Leipzig, for example. And many less famous buildings are torn down even today for economic purposes or other reasons. Of course some old buildings have become decrepit and restoration would probably require dismantling a building and replacing much of the substance with new parts. And of course it costs more to restore than tear down and replace with modern buildings. Old buildings may also have poisonous components, like lead in paint, asbestos in the walls, poisonous mold. And they often have old plumbing and electrical wiring. So it is not easy. But some buildings that are totally ok are torn down to put up a commercial building that is not needed. So, there are probably more historic buildings being torn down today than are being restored and recreated. They do the same in America or most modern societies. When I look at the downtown of my city, so much of what was once there is gone now. Modernized. So what can one do.
Now THAT is a building befitting Germany!
Countless architecture has been lost over time and therefore it is refreshing to see the restoration of this magnificent building. Here in Canada, hardly any structures exist that are over 50 yrs old!! In Toronto, turn-of-the-century buildings are 95% gone and if Canada has one thing, it is SPACE! Space to build anew, without taking down the old. I am proud of this project and hope that other Nations take note.
Well they still haven't taken. I see 200 years old buildings still being demolished because they are "small and outdated".
Its not a restoration. the whole thing was built from scratch. It's quite incredible to see. Until the 1990s the (very ugly) East German parliament was here. its built to the architectural plans of the original palace.
I gazed on this restoration work in April/2019 - the progress seems slow and the structure isn't 100% accurate but, I give German/Berlin TWO thumbs up for undertaking this task. It drives me mad that so much art in the Louvre goes unseen due to lack of space and yet, France could rebuild the Tuileries Palace (which closes off the Louvre) and display so much more art.
Now THAT'S architecture, wow. I'd like to see the building when it is finished. I thought this kind of talent was lost to time.
It seems lost but there are some who make it. It is still a living tradition. It is just that modernists established themselves as only option. Even nowadays at architecture colleges you would get ridiculed if you draw anything that is not unadorned box.
After they've finished that flash new palace they'd better start on the sorry looking Berliner Dom across the street! Can't wait to get back to Berlin to see the Stadtschloss for myself.
The Berliner Dom is constantly at somewhere under renovation. The last job was the royal Hohenzollern crypt in the basement and the organ. If you take a closer look, you still see there a scaffolding at the Dom, so the are still at the facade working.
Rick2010100 The Hohenzollern crypt is quite something. Visited in the company of a Hohenzollern friend which enhanced the experience.
@@mscott3918 The DDR SED communists destroyed some of the tombs and the artwork on it unfortunately.
they should rebuild the Kaiser Wilhelm I memorial too.
They will not
nice
That would really complete the Palace environment
@@MK-rw1on why wouldnt they not?
@@hodor9851 Because it is Germany and they want to build another ugly reunification monument
There are provisions for more of the interior to be restored to the original conditions as budgets and time allows.
Actually, there are plans to re-construct parts of the palace's interior. The structure of its interior was built in a way to that if future generations want to re-create such interior, it would be possible.
But the current priority of the project is to recreate the three palace fascades, and of course the Schluterhof. Having said that, there were even recent talks of reconstructing the two clock towers on the West fascade.
It only looks old on the outside; it's modernist inside. Sad
Really?
All that handcrafted marble, etc. would cost more than the state budget of some states.
I agree, Andi S. Emit - it looks Disneyesque, unfortunately. It's a visual of what was there, but not a reconstruction. Dresden did so much better!!!
@@chrish.4686 Disneyesque? What a load of HS. Rebuilding an important building has nothing to do with Disney. This whole BS about the Berlin City Castle and Disney is rubbish and just a pseudo argument, used by most of the delusional critics and insane left + green politicans here in Germany. And you can't compare the Frauenkirche with the Berlin City Palace.
@@jigglediggle29 , oh yes I can compare the Frauenkirche and Dresden's other reconstructions with this project. This project should've achieved as high a result. This result is just a modern building on which has been hung some stone sheathing. It would've been better to have only rebuilt part of it and to have done that part correctly. It's just the surface of the old building that has been approximated, a shell. They didn't even use the correct window glass. It will look okay from a distance at night when it's lit up; just don't go there in the daytime or get too close, even at night. They should've asked the British team who restored Windsor Castle for help with the interiors. I would love to see Old Penn Station in NY rebuilt, but if this kind of result is what we're in for, forget it. It's better to just have the memory than an impostor.
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Now time to recuperate more stuff. The square next to the townhall seems to bleak, big and empty. More old town there like Dresden or Frankfurt.
Bravo.
They are actually doing this? No glass cuckshed?
I was surprised too that we didn't see the modern facade here
Khettan the eastern part is modern
Very nice. There was very much criticism around this recontruction but in my opinion it's a nice revenge for many decades of shitty "modern" architecture most of which (not all) looks like build with Lego and after a few decades the faccades made of raw concrete don't look nice at all, anymore.
Why don't we use faccades like this ne anymore? I mean, it doesn't need to be a copy of the old style, but any new architect seems to lear that plainness is the ultimate dogma when building when absoluteley the opposite is true. There is little room for cretivity if your goal is always for the building to look as plain as possible, so it is only rational to go back in time with the architecture and reconstruct until the philosophy behinf modern architecture finally changes...
¡Maravilloso! Ahora solo falta restaurar la monarquía.
The Prussian Eagle look again proud over Berlin O7
Maybe someday the Hohenzollerns will return to their doorstep. Maybe George Friedrich and his family will yet live there, in a restored version of traditional Germany and Prussia. Perhaps there will be a monarchy again, and the restoration of the beloved Stadtschloss is a forerunner... a great precursor.
Ivan Stinky, you fool - you'll have war all over again, or you won't be happy, huh?
It will probably be more like the British government than the old Kaiser's government
@@chrish.4686 Oh, so you say a monarchist resurrection will cause a war? Who's the fool in here?
@Robert Metzler Monarchies are generally more long lasting than republics.
There will be never aigan monarchy it was shity!
So good to see this
Amazing!
It was good to see that the beautiful buildings of baroque Dresden were authentically rebuilt -even under the communist regime including the Catholic court church and later on the lovely domed Protestant church(Frauenkirche) as well as the stunning Zwinger palace.
Hoffentlich auch mit Kreuz auf der Kuppel.
I hope the cross on the dome will be included.
It will
what are you scared of? :'D
Ja kommt
This is what should be built more. Not that soulless boring modern architecture. It should come back to USA.
Why Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyrie" for music? It's a reconstructed palace, not a reconstructed Siegfried Line ("Westwall" for the Germans).
If modern architects got a hold of this they would just put corrugated iron to patch it up and call it "modern".
Edit: The other side is ugly.
@@fynnoleianson8802 inside
Unfortunately the interior is mostly modern and doesn't have that playful statuary in it like it had before. But this project is a huge step nonetheless.
What fun this was to watch! And the great music made it even more enjoyable!---Thank-you very much for the effort of putting this out there for us to experience!
💚❤️🇵🇹👍wunderbar
In Newport Town , South Wales the mindless council members actually decide to pull down the grand old buildings, like the magnificent town hall to name a few?. The Germans are far more intelligent.
in wales, UK... post 1945 councils and governments have commited cultural vandalism, instead of reparing historic buildings and places, just tearing down and rebuilding with eyesores and plain buildings.
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the germans, not only specialists in disguising historic from new built(pseudo historic buildings**, in the rebuilding of this long forgotten or ruined city palace of the kaiser*german emperor winter residence**, even if this is only the outer facade...its a step in the right direction...., berlin is debating its communist east berlin heritage too...that is right...too preserve as much as neccessary...
Well done!
Georg Friedrich should move in, after all, he is the rightful heir.
Germany is a republic, George Friedrich has nothing to do there
cool
prachtig
This building was destroy during the WWII? as much of Berlin or even before?
This building was damaged during world war II but was able to be fixed but instead of being fixed, the Communist East Germans tore it down and replaced it with that orange glass building
Wenn es fertig ist, hätte ein Kaiser eine würdige Behausung!
A real beauty
Are the finished statues made from sandstone or some sort of fibre glass .
In Berlin and sorounding areas is a lot of sand, thats why
natural sandstone
Bravo !
Wonderful
It's great, but so sad that it will never be opened to the public.
cut that music off
Exactly. I think it's supposed to symbolize invincibility. It would be far more appealing if Germans had humility about the complete destruction rather than arrogance at rebuilding.
this is Wagners Walkürenritt ! Cut yourself off envious bias
@@ted1091 I believe that Germany was modest enough until 1990. They can not demand that young Germans always tear their shirts and strew ashes on their heads to repent. There are no more people living in Germany who are to blame for the Nazi madness. Richard Wagner lived from 1813 to 1883 and has just as little to do with the Nazis. He could not know the fact that later an Austrian man with name Adolf loved his music. If you wish to be we ashamed, then please have ashamed of what your forefathers did to this castle and tens of thousands of other historical buildings in Germany. If you think we are arrogant, please grab your own nose. The arrogance of the descendants of the allied victors is sometimes unbearable. They should rejoice that we are rebuilding beautiful buildings so you to enjoy it themselves as a tourist. And if you have not noticed yet, the war has end for 73 years and our countries are friends with each other.... ;-)
Great
All they need now is a king on the palace to rule their nation.
we prefer an emperor, a Kaiser.
Savonarola721 is
@@courtneymcbride2001 True, but constitutional monarchy is the best of both worlds in my opinion
No
Now to bring back the German Monarchies.
Palace or castle?
It depends a lot on the language, where the lines go between (somewhat) similar words like "castle", "palace" etc. but the appropriate English word, is most likely "palace". In German it is called "Schloss", which I believe is closer to the word "castle".
Nostalgia por el Káiser..... La reconstrucción selectiva de una narrativa blanqueda, maquillada del pasado. Ni Walt Disney hubiese hecho tan buen trabajo.
José Muñoz Es simplemente recuperar una minima parte del alma perdida del país. Disney construye desde la imaginación. Recuperar edificios perdidos se llama reconstrucción. De todas formas, adoro Disney.
@@FranciscoCamino Sí, que vuelva la dignidad a Alemania.
The balcony on the EMST will be moved
really?
From the historical and architetonical point of view, it makes sense rebuilt a palace at the beginning of the XXI century exactly how it was 2 or 3 centuries ago? Just asking!
That is like saying you can't use your grandmother's cooking book because it is 2023
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I would not have used Wagner music it implies a neo Nazi connection. The Kaiser Wilhelm I memorial was not part of the palace proper but it completed and complimented the complex so maybe it could be rebuilt in some form and rededicated to someone else like Humboldt. Kaiser Wilhelm I did unify Germany but he also established it as a hard line militarist state that ultimately led Germans to absolute ruin.
The Nazis cannot take Wagner from the German people.
So lächerlich wie das ganze Projekt ist die Untermalung mit Wagner - Stillosigkeit mit Geschmacklosigkeit übertroffen. Aber so sind die Zeiten ...
germany w
mein Gott, da gäb's ja noch sooo viel zu rekonstruieren in Berlin! Warum ausgerechnet das Stadtschloß?
Na gerade das Stadtschloss
Gluckwulich , dier Schone Grube .
Kowtow to Prussian chauvinism and militarism.
I mean, this is a cool building that probably shouldn't have been destroyed, but it seems kinda dumb and pointless to rebuild.
Rebuilding the old palace of your former Empire isn't a great look
It is a great look.
The question for the German taxpayer is why? Warum? You have no royalty. It is the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. What is the purpose of a city palace without an emperor, and without a Prussia which my country and the other allies wiped from existence by treaty and military force?
There is a sort of a non-royal version of a constitutional monarch in your president. But that office already has a ceremonial palace to carry out duties. So, what use is this grandiose building to serve? Yet another museum? The money could have been better spent on the transportation network, or medical facilities.
John Morrison so you think just cause it doesn't have a monarch doesn't mean they can't rebuild it? The taxpayers are probably glad that there money is going to this amazing project
I am a German taxpayer and I disagree with you Kleingeist...
Germany is saturated with museum, this is a country that has museums for the most ridiculous of things. They should focus on building their dilapidated roads, run down schools and dying town especially in East Germany, there are places in east Germany where they use aeriel technology to watch television with no cable network, these are the places teeming with AFD proponents...
"Teeming with AFD proponents" - lay down your crackpipe, you don't have a clue, so stop talking about it. Weichbirne.
Morrison, it's about cultural history. I know that something like that is not your business and your lack of knowledge is mindblowing. Why? Warum? Warum ist die Banane krumm?
Should've kept the DDR parliament building
Socialist Federation of Gh0sty This what true architecture looks like. Not concrete and glass.
AJ Naylor Nevermind, I've changed my opinion since writing this comment
Socialist Federation of Gh0sty Thats good!
New BRD elite closed Palast der Republik in first years after german reunification with excuse that building is health threatening because of asbestos. They forgot how many asbestos they have in west german cities. They let the building to ruin and then they demolished it. This new building is just ideological thing, SED regime demolished old stadtschloss and made a place for socialist architecture and now they demolished socialist architecture and are building prussian castles. And all this with taxpayer money. A lot of Germans live in poverty, but elite is building castles with their money!
@@peterregorsek1504 Please inform yourself properly. The overall costs for the construction of the Humboldt Forum amount to a total of 644 million€ of wich the federal government takes over 532€ and the state of Berlin 32€. 80million € are donated by private sponsors to rebuild the Baroque facades plus 25 million€ for the dome. Everyone could donate. It is build to be a museum for everyone not a palace for the elite.
It was democratically voted to rebuild three of four facades.