The Spree-Bogen – Carl Bolle and his Legacy

Carl Bolle is without doubt one of the most traditional and best known entrepreneurs of Berlin history. With premises in the district Tiergarten, right along the River Spree, Bolle more than a hundred years ago established his business reputation. On a terrain of around 40.000 square meters, he developed what was then the most modern dairy in all of Europe.
Bolle’s dairy is to be credited with the implementation of the latest bacteriological know-how, thus setting and maintaining a high standard for food hygiene with respect to dairy production and catering.
With the listed building of the former Bolle dairy, virtually a stone throw away from the parliamentary district, has come into being a striking complex – the ‘Spree-Bogen’: a combination of architecturally noticeable buildings that shape Berlin’s face as a modern metropolis. In addition, the site accommodates the Ministry of the Interior.

This publication includes the following articles and is lavishly illustrated

Hans Pohl
Berlin’s Economy – From Prussia’s Residency to Germany’s new Capital (1700 to 1995)

Felix Escher
The Historic Scenery along the River Spree between the City Palace and Citadel (12th century to 1886)

Dieter Vorsteher
The ‘Gewerbefleiss’ Moves to Moabit (1752 to 1911)

Volker Koop
F.A. Schumann’s Porcelain Manufactory – The Beginnings of Industrialisation in Moabit (1826 to 1880)

Andreas Hoffmann / Klaus Dreher
The C. Bolle Dairy: A Modern Enterprise (1882 to 1995)

Peter Lemberg
Architectural History of the Bolle Dairy in Moabit (1832 to 1983)

Ernst Freiberger
Aspiration – Dialogue– Solution

Hans von Bülow
The Competition of Surveyors and Experts

Horst Porath
A Decent Piece of Land

The Karnickelberg Citizens Initiative
Good Will led to Compromise

Volker Koop
The Complex of Office Buildings with its Exceptional Surroundings

Linen Hardcover, 148 pages, many b/w and colour illustrations and photographs
Berlin 1995
ISBN 3-89488-088-0
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