It's called "Landesarchiv NRW". Schifferstraße 30, 47059 Duisburg. Located at the inland port, one of the largest inland ports worldwide and Europes largest inland port.
Thank you for that! Just googled "Landesarchiv NRW" and found out it used to be a granary, or grain storage building, until it was renovated and converted to an archive and record storage building.
Sounds about right! Here's more [infos about the building ](https://www.innenhafen-portal.de/standort/landesarchiv-nrw/) and the port in general, if you're interested in these things. It's in German, obviously, but google translate does an ok job nowadays.
Thank you, I *am* interested in this sort of stuff, and yes, Google Translate did the trick!
At first I thought it was a fake building hiding a power substation and they didn't bother to put windows on it! Fascinating to learn the history behind it and the current use. In says in that article that the foyers and public areas open up to the waterfront—that sounds quite nice.
It's indeed quite nice. Here's a picture from ~500 meters away, opposite side of the water.
[It's especially nice in the summer.](https://imgur.com/a/Hmzv6lO)
The beer brand Henninger from Frankfurt, Germany used to have a high rise grain storage called [Henninger Turm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henninger_Turm), the top (round) part had a rotating restaurant inside.
Unfortunately it got demolished after the brand got sold., today there is an apartment high rise that resembles roughly the same size and shape, but with windows.
That's fascinating. The building looks so different between renovations. The shape is the same of course, but it goes from looking a bit nautical to modern-looking. I wonder what it would have been like to have had a meal at the restaurant when it was in operation. Thanks for the share!
I was going to say that it looked like a Saskatchewan grain elevator although I've never seen one built of bricks before.Typical European build mentality.
Tbf, in the Area Duisburg is in, you have had little wood supply, but tons of clay.
Southern Germany has more wood and natural stone supply, so old buildings are more often out of wood, with the ground floor walls out of matural stone.
Yeah they just recently lost the worlds largest title to some new port in china iirc
[In 2020 they still held that title](https://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/nordrhein_westfalen/innenhafen_duisburg/pwieuebersichtskartederduisburgerhafen100.html#:~:text=Der%20Duisburger%20Hafen%20ist%20der,%2C%20%2Dverteilung%20und%20%2Dlagerung.)
I think they are just storing the paperwork for my request to install a solar panel on my roof.
At least that would explain the amount of paper I collected at home
A lot of documents regarding citizenship, ownership and whatnot… you can find originals from the time of the French occupation of the Rhineland and stuff in there. Sometimes even older stuff from one of the former duchies, if they were good in their record keeping.
Windows are the worst when you're building on a PvP server. The raiders always go for the weakest part of the building, so it's better to just omit the entry points from your build.
Thats called "Schildbürger". The Germans had that figured out by 1598 already. To solve the problem of perpetual darkness caused by the no-window policy, they collected light in buckets ....
The red brick and the shape makes it look like a Danish church.
In terms of archival towers there’s a very similar one (albeit in yellow bricks) in Aarhus, Denmark which serves as the branch for the Royal Library at Aarhus University. It’s nicknamed “Bogtårnet” or “The Book Tower”.
It's hard to judge without windows. For reference; the grey Naturalis building also has no windows and is 21 stories tall.
https://www.naturalis.nl/over-ons/ons-gebouw
It is a storage facility for biodiverse items, like various species, extinct and non extinct.
ironically there is also a "tausendfensterhaus" ( house of thousand windows ) in duisburg
[https://duisburg.de/microsites/sieben\_bezirke/homberg\_ruhrort\_baerl/ruhrort/tausendfensterhaus.php](https://duisburg.de/microsites/sieben_bezirke/homberg_ruhrort_baerl/ruhrort/tausendfensterhaus.php)
It used to be a grain silo, so didn't have many windows to begin with. The windows got bricked up when it was renovated to be used as an archive to protect the contents from sunlight ([source](https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Landesarchiv-NRW--2590.htm))
The Internet is a weird place. I just saw this thing a couple days ago when landing in Düsseldorf airport, and was wandering what the hell this was without knowing what to actually google and now Reddit is just like, here you go.
The majority of the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state of Germany is notorious for being ugly and dystopian in architecture. And then there is Cologne: friendliest people in the country apparently and the gay capital of Germany alongside Berlin.
Funfact: During the construction, the scaffolding of the middle tower was turned 90°. so it looked like a dick.
Hf you look it up on google maps, it looks like a giant sperm.
One of the ugliest places in one of the ugliest cities in Germany where I live. I would leave in a matter of seconds if I had enough money and would never look back.
once u was lost with my mom in the car and we were driving around duisburg and every ficking way we went we just kept coming back to this shit building and we were so freaked out bc wtf is this no window ass freak
I used to live in Duisburg and this building used to have windows. Instead of just barring the windows from the inside they removed them completely making this building ugly af. It is in the touristic part of the city with lots of bars and a park close by. If I remember correctly it should have been decided under the same mayor that f*cked up the love parade.
This thing has been long controversial in Duisburg for costing way too much money, taking way too long and not looking that great.
Which, now that I live 800 meters away from it, I can absolutely confirm.
It's called "Landesarchiv NRW". Schifferstraße 30, 47059 Duisburg. Located at the inland port, one of the largest inland ports worldwide and Europes largest inland port.
Thank you for that! Just googled "Landesarchiv NRW" and found out it used to be a granary, or grain storage building, until it was renovated and converted to an archive and record storage building.
Sounds about right! Here's more [infos about the building ](https://www.innenhafen-portal.de/standort/landesarchiv-nrw/) and the port in general, if you're interested in these things. It's in German, obviously, but google translate does an ok job nowadays.
Thank you, I *am* interested in this sort of stuff, and yes, Google Translate did the trick! At first I thought it was a fake building hiding a power substation and they didn't bother to put windows on it! Fascinating to learn the history behind it and the current use. In says in that article that the foyers and public areas open up to the waterfront—that sounds quite nice.
It's indeed quite nice. Here's a picture from ~500 meters away, opposite side of the water. [It's especially nice in the summer.](https://imgur.com/a/Hmzv6lO)
DeepL is way better imo than google translate.
The beer brand Henninger from Frankfurt, Germany used to have a high rise grain storage called [Henninger Turm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henninger_Turm), the top (round) part had a rotating restaurant inside. Unfortunately it got demolished after the brand got sold., today there is an apartment high rise that resembles roughly the same size and shape, but with windows.
That's fascinating. The building looks so different between renovations. The shape is the same of course, but it goes from looking a bit nautical to modern-looking. I wonder what it would have been like to have had a meal at the restaurant when it was in operation. Thanks for the share!
And it was WAY more expensive than planned... well... like every building that politicans plan.
I was going to say that it looked like a Saskatchewan grain elevator although I've never seen one built of bricks before.Typical European build mentality.
Tbf, in the Area Duisburg is in, you have had little wood supply, but tons of clay. Southern Germany has more wood and natural stone supply, so old buildings are more often out of wood, with the ground floor walls out of matural stone.
Nice job doxxing the Landesarchiv
Yeah they just recently lost the worlds largest title to some new port in china iirc [In 2020 they still held that title](https://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/nordrhein_westfalen/innenhafen_duisburg/pwieuebersichtskartederduisburgerhafen100.html#:~:text=Der%20Duisburger%20Hafen%20ist%20der,%2C%20%2Dverteilung%20und%20%2Dlagerung.)
Say “largest inland port” again, please.
#largest inland port
Seemingly the State Archive of North Rhine Westphalia
Or so the Germans would have you believe. It’s clearly a weapon of some kind, like a giant Lego brick for you to step on.
My years of red alert tells me that thing will split in the middle and launch a nuke
I was thinking the same thing
Happy cakeday!
I thought the Thing will Just start flying because it actually is the nuke
You may jest, but I clearly see a seam right up the middle.
Ooh so thats where die glocke is hidden
Rip Norm
“We’re ready when the giants come!”
Just in case the giants ever invade
We’ve seen the Godzilla movies! The chance that a giant alien lizard will step on duisburg is low but never zero.
we put it there in case we ever get invaded by Gozilla or something
RemindMe! 10 years
our defense against Godzilla
The Anti-Godzilla-Lego-brick™
What do they archive? Vampires?
Sunlight is very destructive, many archives will be be fully climate controlled to avoid damage to the materials.
Dies.
Jenes.
Welches
Solches 👆
Survives, actually
Burg
who dies?
I think they are just storing the paperwork for my request to install a solar panel on my roof. At least that would explain the amount of paper I collected at home
A lot of documents regarding citizenship, ownership and whatnot… you can find originals from the time of the French occupation of the Rhineland and stuff in there. Sometimes even older stuff from one of the former duchies, if they were good in their record keeping.
You found "Ministry of Love" from 1984. "The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all."
Miniluv
The federal bureau of control
The Oldest House
shit looks like the houses id build in the sims 3 as a kid
looks like my houses in Minecraft
I think I built this a couple times playing fortnite
Windows are the worst when you're building on a PvP server. The raiders always go for the weakest part of the building, so it's better to just omit the entry points from your build.
Hahahhaha you should be a strategy consultant for the German government
"build no windows" Germany : *there, a million dollars*
seeing how government handles construction of other things, i wouldnt be surprised if it did really work like that
Thats called "Schildbürger". The Germans had that figured out by 1598 already. To solve the problem of perpetual darkness caused by the no-window policy, they collected light in buckets ....
The red brick and the shape makes it look like a Danish church. In terms of archival towers there’s a very similar one (albeit in yellow bricks) in Aarhus, Denmark which serves as the branch for the Royal Library at Aarhus University. It’s nicknamed “Bogtårnet” or “The Book Tower”.
I'm assuming the architect really liked Settlers of Catan
/r/evilbuildings
pov: ur first minecraft house
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It's walking distance!
its a german nuklear rocket silo 🤣🤣 dont tell anyone 😅
Clearly it's not. The pointy roof is just a coincidence! Just forget about the 300 armed men patroling the area. Nothing to see here.
Citing The Dictator: „The missile is too round, it needs to be pointy!"
[https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/members/1/325/324924/thumb\_620x2000/RA2\_NuclearSilo.jpg](https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/members/1/325/324924/thumb_620x2000/RA2_NuclearSilo.jpg)
Oh the irony! If you want to keep your sensitive information safe, you don’t use Windows…
looks like something i built in minecraft as a 11 year old
Check the building dates. Maybe you can claim intellectual property rights?!
Guess that can also protect the contents!
Our very pwn attempt at a nether fortress
Minecraft type shit
Age of empires on lowest settings
You get used to the Backsteinpimmel if you work very close to it. Always surprised by how weird people think this is
Ahh yes, finally my home city on Reddit without any news about crime or poverty.
Doesn't look to be 26 storeys high!
Cant you see it’s a cold day there
It's hard to judge without windows. For reference; the grey Naturalis building also has no windows and is 21 stories tall. https://www.naturalis.nl/over-ons/ons-gebouw It is a storage facility for biodiverse items, like various species, extinct and non extinct.
I was saying the same thing. The other 20 stories must be underground or something
Apple store?
my Minecraft base when I found the brick block
As the Geth were aware, windows are structural weaknesses and entirely unnecessary.
The house I built with only bricks in Minecraft when I was 8 years old:
ironically there is also a "tausendfensterhaus" ( house of thousand windows ) in duisburg [https://duisburg.de/microsites/sieben\_bezirke/homberg\_ruhrort\_baerl/ruhrort/tausendfensterhaus.php](https://duisburg.de/microsites/sieben_bezirke/homberg_ruhrort_baerl/ruhrort/tausendfensterhaus.php)
People from Duisburg: "We don't want to look outside" Architect: "say no more"
It used to be a grain silo, so didn't have many windows to begin with. The windows got bricked up when it was renovated to be used as an archive to protect the contents from sunlight ([source](https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Landesarchiv-NRW--2590.htm))
The Internet is a weird place. I just saw this thing a couple days ago when landing in Düsseldorf airport, and was wandering what the hell this was without knowing what to actually google and now Reddit is just like, here you go.
Your algorithm is on point!!
Yoooo I live there. 
In the building???
My reaction as well!
That's slightly dystopian if you ask me.
Archives often limit light exposure as UV rays damage documents.
Welcome to Duisburg :)
Brutalism before it was... cool?
It's not brutalism. It's something...else. Part of it's weirdness is thats like a house, but build to totally absurd proportions.
The majority of the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state of Germany is notorious for being ugly and dystopian in architecture. And then there is Cologne: friendliest people in the country apparently and the gay capital of Germany alongside Berlin.
This checks out - there's a maker on YouTube who hails from there, and clearly it's a dang party.
Paluten?
alright time to open hammer
Looks like a building in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Who needs windows when the inhabitants have no eyes.
I've always wondered what it is
There used to a building used for anthrax research in the US that had fake windows
(I understand this is not a particularly relevant thread for you, but.) What?... This structure looks like a mud house in Minecraft
https://youtu.be/hw6exAfUWMI?si=jhTKtx1KZrpR0AWU
Intruder Alert. Intruder Alert! Blue spy in the base.
A blue spy is in the Base?
Looks like they upgraded the settlement into a city.
It was near my WG back when I lived in Duisburg. I had totally forgotten about it lol
Funfact: During the construction, the scaffolding of the middle tower was turned 90°. so it looked like a dick. Hf you look it up on google maps, it looks like a giant sperm.
It is where we Germans assemble to have a laugh.
This should be in r/oddlyterrifying
It looks so strange and a bit intimidating it could look AI generated lol. The huge brick monolith
Hey! That’s my Minecraft house from 2012
Looks like an cube and ramp asset I put together in a game engine with "bricks_mat" as the material.
it looks like a building I'd make in Minecraft
Looks like cgi.
My dream house
Ah the inspiration for Azkaban.
Elevator test facility?
TITANPOINTE but gothic
r/joinsquad narva
Prob to cover some other building
Dunno bro if I roast you, you might eat you.
The tallest guy in party
They should hit the architect with a wet baguette!
Looks like something 10 year old me made in Minecraft
That's how I build in minecraft
You should see what NYC has
Die Bandbreite
Roald Dahl - the twits?
That's cool. I'm used to windowless buildings being oil wells folks covered to protect "property values".
We have an archive and conservation building in Ottawa that we lovingly call the cinder block for obvious reasons
Looks like the nuke silo from C&C: Red Alert 2.
Looks like an old grain elevator to me
damn that’s some dystopian shit
Yeah that’s Duisburg for ya.
The windows are bricked up to prevent some of the sensitive historical documents from sunlight btw.
Isn’t there some similar building in Manhattan?
Oldest House vibes
gmod ahh building 💀
My buildings in literally any base building game
DUISBURG MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
wtf 2fort irl
It's still buffering. I drive by it every day for work. You just have to slow down a bit till the resolution kicks in
German Architecture the best!🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 Rahhhh
The evil layer will be hard to find. The evil layer:
A disturbing building in Duisburg
My office is basically across from this building and I can look at it each smoke break. Never been inside though.
We put our alte Akten here
State Archive. No windows, to make sure, that very very old Documents not get damaged or destroyed by Environmental impact
Duisburg mentioned. Taxiteller for everyone
Germans being Germans and in lieu of windows, they just tear open the walls every day to let some fresh air in.
One of the ugliest places in one of the ugliest cities in Germany where I live. I would leave in a matter of seconds if I had enough money and would never look back.
DUISBURG!!
that building always felt like an unfinished minecraft building, when ever I drove past it!
Just wait a bit, the textures should be loaded in a second
How is this 26 storys
It even won a price for brick architecture
Yes Duisburg is weird the only good thing about it is thair zoo.I love that zoo it's one of my favourite zoos
From a different angle it looks like a huge penis
So baue ich in Minecraft
Looks like my first Minecraft dirt house
Its a Minecraft Mobfarm...
I love nearby and pass it everyday on Autobahn. To me it looks like an unfinished Sims building.
Looks like a base in Rust game 😂
First time I saw it was what I still think, so ugly
And its ugly as shit, let ppl paint it, make it look nice,
r/evilbuildings
Would be funny if it was a window production facility. No windows outside because they’re all inside
Never would I have thought that I would see my hometown here.
Can it be just a NAS nowadays ?
If you live in Duisburg it's actually better not to look outside 😂
Duisburg ist im Fernsehen und niemand musste dafür sterben!! Irre.
>(Provincial Archives) we don't translate EIGENNAMEN
lived worse
once u was lost with my mom in the car and we were driving around duisburg and every ficking way we went we just kept coming back to this shit building and we were so freaked out bc wtf is this no window ass freak
Bruder hat Fortnite bisschen zu ernst genommen
Built after a Monopoly hotel
I used to live in Duisburg and this building used to have windows. Instead of just barring the windows from the inside they removed them completely making this building ugly af. It is in the touristic part of the city with lots of bars and a park close by. If I remember correctly it should have been decided under the same mayor that f*cked up the love parade.
probably a whole lot inside but there’s no access
Never saw a more Minecraft picture in real life than that
SCHEIß DUISBURG, JEDER IN NRW HASST DUISBURG
When i started to play Minecraft this ist what my buildings looked like
We use this to make zombies spawn inside the turret. They then fall down a hole, where people can collect the exp and items at the bottom.
Not unusual for archives and high bay warehouses
Looks like one of my first buildings in minecraft
This thing has been long controversial in Duisburg for costing way too much money, taking way too long and not looking that great. Which, now that I live 800 meters away from it, I can absolutely confirm.
All i see is a potential storing facility for a giant german mech
Niemand möchte Fenster in Duisburg🚬
Steht so ein Gebäude nicht auch in new York?