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Gründungskonstruktion

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Unbekannt
Fundort: Berlin (Stadt)
frühes 18. Jahrhundert

FOUNDATION PILES

The Humboldt Forum is a challenging construction site, because sections of the ground are unstable. All the architects who built here over the centuries have had to take this into account. Three hundred years ago, Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe had thousands of pinewood piles driven into the ground to a depth of up to ten metres. On top of the piles the builders placed a grid of wooden beams onto which they attached planks. This construction, parts of which still survive deep down in the ground, provided a stable basis for the palace's stone foundations. Today, the basement of the palace and the Humboldt Forum above it are supported by 40-metre-long concrete piles.