Chilehaus

Chilehaus
Chilehaus in Hamburg by Fritz Höger
Shown within Hamburg
General information
Type	Office building
Architectural style	Brick Expressionism
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Coordinates	53°32′53″N 10°00′06″E / 53.5480°N 10.0016°E / 53.5480; 10.0016
Construction started	1921
Completed	1924
Owner	Union Investment Real Estate AG
Technical details
Floor count	10
Design and construction
Architect	Fritz Höger

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Chilehaus
Type	cultural
Criteria	iv
Designated	2015
Part of	Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus
Reference no.	1467

The Chilehaus (Chile House) is a ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany. It is located in the Kontorhausviertel. It is an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture. This large angular building is located on a site of approximately 6,000m², spanning the Fischertwiete Street in Hamburg. It was designed by the German architect Fritz Höger and finished in 1924.

Design

Chilehaus: Inner courtyard

The Chilehaus building is famed for its top, which is reminiscent of a ship's prow, and the facades, which meet at a very sharp angle at the corner of the Pumpen- and Niedernstrasse. The best view of the building is from the east. Because of the accentuated vertical elements and the recessed upper stories, as well as the curved facade on the Pumpen street, the building has, despite its enormous size, a touch of lightness.

The building has a reinforced concrete structure and has been built with the use of 4.8 million dark Oldenburg bricks.^[1] The building is constructed on very difficult terrain, so to gain stability it was necessary to build on 16-meter-deep reinforced-concrete pilings.

The location's close vicinity to the Elbe River necessitated a specially sealed cellar, and heating equipment was constructed in a caisson that can float within the building, so the equipment can't be damaged in the event of flooding.

The sculptural elements in the staircases and on the facade were provided by the sculptor Richard Kuöhl.

The building hosts one of the few remaining working paternosters in the world.

History

The Chilehaus building was designed by the architect Fritz Höger and built between 1922 and 1924. It was commissioned by the shipping magnate Henry B. Sloman, who made his fortune trading saltpeter from Chile, hence the name Chile House. The cost of construction is difficult to determine, as the Chile House was built during the period of hyperinflation that struck Germany during the early 1920s, but is estimated to have been more than 10 million reichsmark.

Gallery

Chilehaus at night
Aerial view, Kontorhausviertel
Entrance
Facade details
Ornaments at the tip
Courtyard

References

↑ Thiel-Siling, Sabine (ed.): Icons of Architecture", Prestel, 1998, ISBN 3-7913-3398-4

External links

Media related to Chilehaus at Wikimedia Commons

Chilehaus webcam from Chilehaus towards Hamburg-Speicherstadt, Elbe Philharmonic Hall and Hamburg Harbour

World Heritage Sites in Germany

For official site names, see each article or the List of World Heritage Sites in Germany.

Northern	Fagus Factory in Alfeld Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus in Hamburg St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim Hanseatic City of Lübeck Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar

Central	Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz ~~Dresden Elbe Valley~~ (delisted in 2009) Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski¹ Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg Wartburg Castle Classical Weimar

Western	Aachen Cathedral Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey Cologne Cathedral Upper Middle Rhine Valley Speyer Cathedral Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier Völklingen Ironworks Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

Southern	Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch Town of Bamberg Frontiers of the Roman Empire:² Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes Maulbronn Monastery Complex Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof Monastic Island of Reichenau Pilgrimage Church of Wies Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³

Natural	Ancient Beech Forests⁴ Messel Pit Fossil Site Wadden Sea⁵

¹ Shared with Poland ² Shared with the United Kingdom ³ Shared with Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁴ Shared with Slovakia and Ukraine ⁵ Shared with the Netherlands and Denmark

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