Hindenburg building
The former Hindenburg building is a listed office and commercial building in downtown Stuttgart . The building has been owned by Zentrum 01 GmbH since January 1, 2016, the previous owner was LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg) Immobilien . In November 2010 the name was removed from the building.
Interwar period
The building across from Stuttgart Central Station was planned in the 1920s by Paul Schmohl , Georg Staehlin , Albert Eitel and Richard Bielenberg and was to be 136 meters long and seven stories high. This would have created a counterweight to Paul Bonatz 'station concourse.
However, between 1926 and 1928 only three storeys were built, on the roof of which the city planetarium was housed in a cuboid dome . However, the statics of the structure were already designed for additional floors.
Remodeling after World War II
After the Hindenburg building was partially destroyed in World War II , it was rebuilt from 1948/1949 according to plans by Hans Paul Schmohl . This version of the building was given five floors, with the upper floors receding from the lower ones and, as a typical representative of their time, appearing lighter and more linear than the older part of the building.
Redesign 2005/06
In 2005, a further renovation and a second floor was started according to plans by the Stuttgart architects Sorg and Frosch. A sixth floor, which, according to the instructions of the monument protection authority, should again clearly stand out from the older parts of the building, but on the other hand follow the lines of the previous upper two floors, was added to the Hindenburg building. The main elements of the design of the double facade, which is oriented towards Arnulf-Klett-Platz , Königstrasse and Lautenschlagerstrasse, are steel and glass. The walk-in gallery between the outer and inner façade allows a panoramic view of downtown Stuttgart. The Baden-Württemberg City Council rented around 800 of the total of 1765 m² of this new floor.
Criticism of the naming
On May 4, 2009, City Councilor Hannes Rockenbauch ( SÖS ) and City Councilor Ulricke Küstler ( DIE LINKE ) applied for the Hindenburg building to be renamed. This was justified by the fact that Hindenburg was "a symbol of the enemies of democracy and the Weimar Republic " and " paved the way for Hitler ". The proposed new name was " Carl-von-Ossietzky -Bau" or a name after Willi Bleicher or Clara Zetkin . Against the background that in the summer of 2010 the Stuttgart City Council formally revoked the honorary citizenship granted to Paul von Hindenburg in 1933, the owner of the building officially withdrew the name in November 2010 and the lettering on the facade was removed. A renaming is currently pending.
Stephanstrasse
Stephanstraße in Stuttgart connects the main train station with the Königsbau and runs parallel to Königstraße . It begins as a pedestrian passage in the middle of the Hindenburg building and is already signposted at this point. In the area of the Postquartier , on the back of the former Oberpostdirektion, it can initially only be used for delivery traffic, then as a side street (parking lots / multi-storey car parks) for motorized traffic.
Alienation
At the end of 2015, the building complex was sold for 101 million euros to Zentrum 01 GmbH, whose managing director is Ferdinand Piëch (son of the former VW supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piëch ).
literature
- Extension of the Hindenburg building. A story in three parts . In: Stuttgart is building. Developments and new construction projects 4.2006, page 54-57, online: .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ StZ newspaper article or reference as a search query ( memento of the original dated November 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hindenburgbau in Stuttgart sold - Piëch empire continues to grow Stuttgarter Nachrichten, December 23, 2015
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 51.5 ″ E