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Scharnhorst Substation (1927)
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Berliner Zentrum Industriekultur
May 14, 2019
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Observation Post for Street Lights.
This substation has a special feature: a glass observation post 25 meters high for supervising the city’s streetlights. Down to the 1940s, an employee decided …
This substation has a special feature: a glass observation post 25 meters high for supervising the city’s streetlights. Down to the 1940s, an employee decided …
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SWE
November 16, 2020
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The monumental industrial building was built between 1927 and 1929 based on designs by the then in-house architect of the Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke Aktiengesellschaft (BEWAG), Hans Müller.
The supporting steel skeleton was fitted with yellow clinker bricks. This makes the building look like a mixture of Brandenburg brick Gothic and expressionist modernism. The light control room was housed in a circular, glazed extension on the roof of the substation: this is where the urban area of Berlin was observed in the 1920s. The street lighting could be switched on and off depending on the lighting conditions.
The supporting steel skeleton was fitted with yellow clinker bricks. This makes the building look like a mixture of Brandenburg brick Gothic and expressionist modernism. The light control room was housed in a circular, glazed extension on the roof of the substation: this is where the urban area of Berlin was observed in the 1920s. The street lighting could be switched on and off depending on the lighting conditions.
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Frau Kaschperl
April 18, 2021
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It is precisely at this point that the Panke (rises in Bernau near Berlin) joins the shipping canal.
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