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Demolition of the old VLB university brewery completed
In January, the demolition of the old cellar building of the former Hochschul Brauerei (university brewery) of VLB Berlin was completed. After four months of work, this more than 8000 sqm section of the site is waiting for further construction work on behalf of TU Berlin and Charité.
(oh) As already reported in Brauerei Forum International (BF 11/2019, p. 23), a piece of Berlin's brewery history has come to an end. From the former university brewery of VLB Berlin (active from 1891 to 1981), only the old brewhouse and parts of the malthouse are still standing. The neighbouring German Heart Center extensively renovated the brewhouse building in 1999 and has been using in it ever since. The old malthouse, recently renamed the "Ulf Stahl Center for Biotechnology", houses not only some VLB departments but also the „Preussische Spirituosen Manufaktur“ (Prussian Spirits Manufacture). In the course of the reorganization of the use of the premises at Seestrasse 13, the north-eastern area of the property had been transferred to the use of Charité and TU Berlin (refer to Brauerei Forum BF 3/2019, p. 6). With the demolition of the cellar building, the construction site is now ready
The view from the balcony of the new VLB building to the construction site
for the two research buildings, that have already been approved and planned, namely "Berlin Centre for Advanced Therapies (BeCAT)" of Charité as well as "Simulated Man", which is a joint project of Charité and TU Berlin. Both buildings are scheduled to be completed in 2023.
The old cellar building was built around 1890 and extended in 1908. The three-storey building with cellar vaults housed the fermentation and storage cellar as well as the bottle and barrel filling of the VLB university brewery at Seestrasse 13 in Berlin-Wedding. Badly damaged in bombing raids in 1943, the building was rebuilt in the mid1950s and was also home to the student brewery, which was used jointly by VLB and TU Berlin for many years until 2017.
