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Afrikahaus

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Afrikahaus

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

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ZEIT WISSEN

August 9, 2017

The Africa House in the Große Reichenstr. 27 was built in 1899 for the Hamburg entrepreneur Adolph Woermann. In the courtyard are two large bronze elephant statues. As a chamber of commerce president Woermann wrote in 1883 with Hamburg merchants a "memorandum", which was addressed to Bismarck. Their content: Germany finally needs its own colonies. They followed in 1884.

"Hamburg has been central to German colonialism," says Jürgen Zimmerer, head of the research center "Hamburg's (Post-) Colonial Heritage" at the University of Hamburg. The role of Hamburg in the colonial era is still a topic with which the Hanseatic city struggles.

Woermann himself got the monopoly on disembarking German colonial troops. From 1904 he shipped 19,000 soldiers to German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), where Germany committed its first genocide, to the Herero.

Listen here to the historian Jürgen Zimmerer Africa House: audio.zeit.de/podcast/ZEIT-WISSEN-Wanderungen/9Afrikahaus.mp3

Photos: Niels Boeing

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Siegfried LG

November 26, 2018

The "Afrikahaus" was built in 1899 on behalf of Adolph Woermann and Eduard Woermann as an office building for the trading company C. Woermann, founded in 1837 by Carl Woermann, operator of the Woermann line and the German East Africa line. The building was demolished the house Große Reichenstraße 27, an old Hamburg townhouse.

Architect Martin Haller designed the façade to underline overseas trade relations; the color scheme is based on the colors of the shipping company.

The "Africa House" was listed as a historical monument in 1972. The building documents the building type of the Hamburger Kontorhaus around 1900. It combines modern building technology and practicality. As an architectural monument, it is regularly opened on the "Day of the open monument" with guided tours for visitors.

It was completely restored a few years ago and reopened in February 1999 with modern office space. During the refurbishment, it was ensured that the typical style features such as cast iron columns, coffered ceilings, breast-feeding doors as well as the wall mosaic with African motifs and the portal elephants were preserved.

Source:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikahaus_%28Hamburg%29

To the person Adolph Woermann:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Woermann

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October 18, 2022

The "Afrikahaus" was placed under monument protection in 1972.

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