Google translation: The house is Chile with its reminiscent of a ship's bow pointed east side an icon of Expressionism in architecture. Built from 1922 to 1924 office building is an example of the Brick Expressionism of the 1920s. Inspired by the brick Gothic and Expressionism. The building, with its 5950 m2 and its partially ten floors resulting in a gross floor area of 36,000 m2. It has 2,800 windows and is one of the first skyscrapers in Hamburg. The site on which the house was built in Chile was built in 1868 still with 69 buildings. The actual plot, of Lower Road, Burchardstraße, pumps, Klingberg and Depenau bounded and bisected by the Fischertwiete was 5950 m². The fish Twiete leads to Meßberg who served since the Middle Ages as a vegetable market. In the axis of Fischertwiete was the Wandrahmsbrücke. On Klingberg is the 1906-1908 Albert heritage built in a baroque-style police station on Klingberg. She is clutching full house of Chile.
The region was one of the Hamburg Gängeviertel and therefore parceled into small portions in medieval structures. The southern town of Hamburg was spared by the great fire of 1842, there were no major structural changes were made. Only the filling-in of Reichenstrasse Fleets to create the route between City Hall and the railway station opened in 1842. The construction of the warehouse district 20,000 people were resettled. Part of it comes under the transitions quarters. During the cholera epidemic in 1892, the reorganization and restructuring of the area has been decided. The redevelopment of this area was started twenty years later. The plans were influenced by the Hamburg chief architect Fritz Schumacher. On Klingberg is the 1906-1908 Albert heritage built in a baroque-style police station on Klingberg. She is clutching full house of Chile. The plot was purchased in October 1921 by the client. The client was the entrepreneur Henry B. Sloman, this has acquired his fortune by trading saltpeter from mines in Chile. Sloman in 1912 designated with assets of 60 million marks as one of the richest people in Hamburg and at the same shipping family distantly related. In Hamburg it was customary to give the name of office buildings. Since it operates Rob. M. Sloman had already called her office 1908-1910 built on Baumwall Slomanhaus, decided Henry B. Sloman, his home in memory of his 32-years of service in South America to give the name "Chile House". Fritz Hoger received the order. The first draft of the city in the construction document, dated 19th January 1922 shows, however, only partial. Construction was then in 1922, handing over to the client was the 1924th On ceramic wall decoration of the facade and the stairs of the sculptor Richard Kuöhl was instrumental. The construction costs were - due to inflation and the subsequent changeover - are estimated at only completed in 1924, on approximately 10 million Reichsmark. In the house settled down many small import and export companies, each required only a few rooms to practice their trades can.
The Chile House today Total area: about 30,400 m² Retail and warehouse: about 5200 m² Parking: Limited on the patio possible Terms of office: about 25,200 m²
