The sight made| gene hurt. When the psychology student Bernhard Müller looked out of the window of his apartment in Berlin-Charlottenburg one fine day, the once so proud residential building across the way had already collapsed under the force of the wrecking ball. What was still sticking out, offered the image of a plucked holiday roast after a wild feast. With a difference: Nobody had even touched the fillet pieces – over there everything was destined for the trash, even complete doors and windows with their brass fittings. Even the dessert offered a picture of misery: beautiful old tiled stoves, richly decorated with ornaments and figures and with a glossy glaze.
The prospective psychologist began to ponder. And came to the conclusion, no longer to save the battered souls of his fellow men, but first of all everything useful from their ailing houses.
At that time – in a tear-jerking time in a tear-jerking city – they were pioneers, Bernhard "Ofen-Hardy" Müller and his like-minded friends. That was around fifteen years ago. Today they run the company "Antike Bauelemente" in Berlin-Tiergarten. The Entrepreneurs' Association of Historical Building Materials e. Category. currently belong 18 members, from Hamburg to Lake Constance.
As different as the individual motives of the initiators may be – they are all behind beams and planks, clinker and clinker, railings and bars, Tiles and bricks like the devil after the poor soul. And they secure, collect and sort not only, but strip paint, enter, the single burr, they clean, smooth, polishing, add to, refresh and repair. Then they sell their historical treasures and ensure that they are reused appropriately.
The most important utensil is a sure nose, who gets wind of demolition objects in time. Like Emil and the detectives, informants roam the city.