8/14/2017 · A video showing the operations of a Padernoster Elevator at the IG Farben building in Frankfurt.
7/10/2018 · Pater Noster at the university of Frankfurt, IG Farben building. The elevators – Pater Noster – in the IG Farben building are heritage protected. The building itself is stunning, but the elevators are really something. There at not many left so this is a rare opportunity to take a ride in one of them.
The was the largest office building in the 1920’s and a little research will tell you the history behind IG Farben’s involvement during WW2. The only thing interesting about the building is the box car elevator system (paternoster), I think it’s one of the two remaining systems in operations in europe.
11/29/2017 · During your visit, check out the paternoster elevators inside—those slow, ever-looping, never-stopping lifts without doors. Then look for this building .
He’s head of elevator maintenance at Frankfurt’s IG-Farben building , occupied since the war by the U.S. military. But he recalled a fatal accident in December 1991, when a young army specialist …
I worked in the Farben building in 1981 on the V Corps staff. The neatest thing were the lift mechanisms. They were called podernaster or something like that. You got into a litle lift that went up five floors and you simply stepped off at the right floor.
The façade of the building is a light cream/beige color with slight marbleizing. All seven floors have high ceilings and wide hallways that run the width of the building . The building is famous for its paternoster elevators (lifts) which are similar to dumbwaiters or vertical cable cars which have no doors and which run continuously. The University will keep the paternosters in operation.
The IG Farben Building or the Poelzig Building , was built from 1928 to 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is also known as the Poelzig Ensemble or Poelzig Complex, and has been previously known as the IG Farben Complex, and the General Creighton W. Abrams Building .
IG Farben, Monowitz concentration camp, Werkbund Exhibition, Frankfurt Cathedral, Großes Schauspielhaus
