23. July | 2020
| News
Directly next to the tower of the baroque Garrison Church in Potsdamer Dortustraße stands the building of the data processing center of the Volkseigener Betrieb “Machine Computing”, completed in 1971. The Garrison Church, which was damaged in World War II and blown up in 1968, is currently being rebuilt with public and private funds. The “Rechenzentrum”, on the other hand, currently still used for cultural purposes, is a candidate for demolition. Why? In June 2020, the international project network "“UrbAuth”, led by the Research Area “Contemporary History and Archive” of the IRS, began work. The project aims to clarify how cities today attempt to establish historical authenticity in their building policies, and why certain epochs are repeatedly used as points of identification, while the traces of other epochs disappear from the cityscape.
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