Linzer Architecture / Germania

[ghostsoldier]

Please excuse my ignorance of this particular subject, but being an armchair architect, I just love the proposed concept and scale of "Germania", and this look like the thread in which to ask this: What ever became of all those wonderful architectural models that we see in the photos? Were they all destroyed in the war, confiscated by the Soviets, or are they on display somewhere in the US/UK? Is there a specific reference website that has more info on this fascinating subject?
Rob

[duke22]

I'm 99% sure from what I read that they were destroyed in bombings as most of them were kept in a room nearby the bunker. That is why only plans and photographs of the models exist.

[ghostsoldier]

Would Speer and his entourage have been responsible for the creation of these models, or were they built before his tenure? If so, would he have had a studio or office somewhere in Munich or Berlin where they might have been stored, or were they kept in the Reichskanzlei? Come to think of it, did Speer even have an office in the New Chancellory?
Rob

[osoaviahim]

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[Maurice Laarman]

Berliner Unterwelten has an exhibition on Germania, in which they reconstructed some models.
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/mythos-g ... 637.0.html
and http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_536915.html

Kind regards,

Maurice

[osoaviahim]

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Please, tell me books about Nazi architectural projects in Linz.
The illustrations on the Internet is very small.

[Mannheim]

Ghostsoldier:
I seem to recall that Speer did not have an office in the New Reichschancellery but that he had a studio on the Pariser Platz (near the Brandenburg Gate). Adolf was in the habit of walking through the Ministry Gardens to a back entrance to this studio so he could discuss plans with Speer and check on progress.

[Marcus Wendel]

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[ghostsoldier]

Ghostsoldier:
I seem to recall that Speer did not have an office in the New Reichschancellery but that he had a studio on the Pariser Platz (near the Brandenburg Gate). Adolf was in the habit of walking through the Ministry Gardens to a back entrance to this studio so he could discuss plans with Speer and check on progress.

Do you know exactly where, or what building this would have been? I have read his book several years ago, but I don't recall the exact location (or, if he even stated it)...I would like to know if the building is still there, or survived the bombing.

Rob

[Cor]

Ghostsoldier:
I seem to recall that Speer did not have an office in the New Reichschancellery but that he had a studio on the Pariser Platz (near the Brandenburg Gate). Adolf was in the habit of walking through the Ministry Gardens to a back entrance to this studio so he could discuss plans with Speer and check on progress.

Do you know exactly where, or what building this would have been? I have read his book several years ago, but I don't recall the exact location (or, if he even stated it)...I would like to know if the building is still there, or survived the bombing.

Rob

The building is not there anymore, he even writes that in his memoirs if i remember it good.

The building was besides the Adlon hotel. Even now there is a akademie fur kunst in that block.

[ghostsoldier]

Thanks for the info, Cor. I'm going to see if I can find a period photo or aerial image of it.

Rob