Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building

The Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building in Szczecin (German pronunciation: [ʃtɛˈtiːnɐ ɡenəˈʁaːl ˈanˌt͡saɪ̯ɡɐ]) was an office building, which was located at the corner of today's Opłotki Street and New Market, in the Old Town, in the Centre district. It was destroyed in a bombardment in the 1940s.

Stettiner General-Anzeiger Building
The eastern frontage of the New Market, from the right tenement houses No. 3 and 4, which stand in place of the pre-war building
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General information
Typeoffice building
Architectural styleeclecticism
AddressNeuer Markt 3-4
Town or citySzczecin
CountryPoland
Coordinates53°25′28″N 14°33′41″E / 53.424472°N 14.56125°E / 53.424472; 14.56125
Completedafter 1897
Demolished1940s
Technical details
Floor count5
Design and construction
Architect(s)C. Kelm

History

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The house was built in the late 19th century. It was designed by the architect C. Kelm. The building replaced two older buildings: tenement house no. 3 inhabited by a shoemaker Brünnlein and tenement house no. 4, which was owned by an innkeeper Müller. The new building became the seat of the editorial office of the newspaper Stettiner General-Anzeiger, founded by Ewald Gentzensohn in 1848.[1]

During the bombing of Szczecin between 1943 and 1944, the New Market area was destroyed. The surrounding buildings were demolished in the 1940s, but for unknown reasons the ruins of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building survived until around 1954.[2] After 1995, construction work began on the site of the building in connection with the revitalisation of the lower Old Town.[3] However, no decision was made to restore the original appearance of the Stettiner General-Anzeiger building. The original division of the plot into two parts was reinstated and a new, post-modern building was erected on plot no. 3. In 2005 the editorial office of Głos Szczeciński was moved to the new building.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Jak wyglądało Podzamcze Szczecina przed wojną". Szczecin Nasze Miasto (in Polish). 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  2. ^ Czejarek, Roman (2016). Szczecin, którego nie ma = Stettin, das es nicht mehr gibt [Szczecin that no longer exists] (in Polish) (1 ed.). Łódź: Księży Młyn Dom Wydawniczy. p. 122. ISBN 978-83-7729-339-3. OCLC 992532859.
  3. ^ Białecki, Tadeusz, ed. (2015). Encyklopedia Szczecina: wydanie jubileuszowe z okazji 70-lecia polskiego Szczecina [Encyclopaedia of Szczecin: jubilee edition to mark 70 years of Polish Szczecin] (in Polish). Szczecin: Szczecińskie Towarzystwo Kultury. pp. 638–639. ISBN 978-83-942725-0-0. OCLC 924941684.
  4. ^ Flasiński, Krzysztof (2011). "Współczesne strategie rozwoju szczecińskich dzienników regionalnych - samodzielnie czy w ramach koncernu?" [Contemporary development strategies of Szczecin's regional dailies - independent or as part of a conglomerate?]. Transformacja polskiego systemu medialnego [Transformation of the Polish media system] (in Polish). Vol. 48. Olsztyn: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie. p. 157. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)