Long Oskar

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Long Oskar was the nickname, which the citizens of the city Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany gave to the 101 meters high office building of the local resident municipal savings bank. The building was directly in the city centre of Hagen and was considered as a landmark of the region. The multi-storied building was inaugurated on 29 November 1975; it is named after the director of the savings bank at that time (Oskar Specht). The architect of the building is Karl-Heinz Zernikow from Hagen. On 1 August 1972 the building was begun and finished on 29 November 1975. The cultivated surface amounted to 634 m², the effective area 12,634 m² (office surface: 7.621 m²). The building had 22 projectiles, of it 2 basements, the building height over the upper edge of the area was 98 meters, the building length of 37 meters, the building width approx.. 18.5 meters. The front consisted of a before-hung aluminum construction with a surface of 10,300 square meters. The converted area amounted to 57,000 cubic meters. A characteristic was the constant reinforced concrete slab, which served the balance of the building for the elevator pits: 113 meters long, 9 meters wide and 1.72 meters thickly. Due to leakages in the front water penetrated, whereby the insulation aufweichte. A reorganization would have brought further necessary measures with itself (reorganization of the air conditioning system, installation of a second stairway from fire security reasons). Reorganization costs at a value of 42 million euro were estimated, which outline costs of 5 million euro and new building costs of 16.8 million euro opposed, so that the decision for an outline and a new building fell.

[edit] Demolition in 2004

On 7 March 2004 at 10:53 o'clock this building in the up to then largest and riskiest breakup of a multistoried building in Europe was torn off. The blowing up masters had in such a way attached and in temporal order had ignited their 1450 explosive charges with a total mass of 250 kilograms at the building that the entire multistoried building with its 26,000 tons concrete and steel folded first and put then into for it a planned only 70 meters long bed, without damaging thereby neighboring building. The successful breakup is considered as master achievement of the implementing specialty firm from Thuringia and receives an entry in the ' Guinness book of the records '. About 50,000 merry from the entire federal territory as well as various European neighbour states observed the event. For the security of the adjacents resident and merry the range was divided approximately around the building in two zones, in which nobody was allowed to be in the free one. In the zone I with a radius of 140 meters all adjacents resident were evacuated on the early morning. In the zone II with a radius from 140 meters to 200 meters the adjacents resident were allowed to be only in the rear areas of their dwellings. For the protection of the fronts from flying around rock and fragments the surrounding buildings with a curtain from special textile fleece were protected. The city used the internationally considered event as an opportunity for a multicolored master program. Thus there was among other things the possibility of the overnight accommodation with "blowing up breakfast". Already in the evening of the vortages there was live-music in 15 restaurants of the city centre to the zero tariff. A person tried even, a balcony place with an InterNet auction platform to auctions. Also after the breakup this building did not lose at attraction. "rubble tourists" tried, as after the case of the citizens of Berlin wall to secure itself a piece walls.