Octagonal house Darmstadt

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Octagonal house

The octagonal house in Darmstadt at Mauerstraße 17 in Darmstadt is a listed building and is used as a house of culture .

history

It is believed that the building was built as an octagonal garden house by the builder Jakob Müller for the Hessian Chancellor Anton Wolff von Todenwarth at the beginning of the 17th century . The two-storey, massive Renaissance building with a stair tower facing west and a tented roof stands on a square cellar dating from the 16th century with four groin vaults and a central column.

In 1759 the property was given to his favorite Helene Martini by Landgrave Ludwig VIII . In 1803 the interior of the building was redesigned and the garden was converted into a princely wooden warehouse. From 1854 the octagon house was a sanatorium for surgery and eye patients . The doctors working there Hermann Balser, Karl Eigenbrodt , Heinrich Orth, Gustav Simon, Oskar Verdier, Karl Weber, Wilhelm Hohenschild, August Hegar and Carl Tenner, popularly known as the red-backed shrimp, signed a contract with the Alice Women's Association around 1870. For this purpose, the house was enlarged with an extension to the walled hospital and equipped with care rooms, a living area for the nurses and a nursing school. After the new building in 1883, the Alice Hospital moved to Dieburger Straße 21.

From 1976 the building was extensively renovated. The cellar was adapted by the Darmstadt Jazz Club . A separate access staircase with its own sanitary facilities was built on the side, taking into account the protection of historical monuments. Only then made it possible for the public to attend concerts in the basement.

The octagonal house itself is used today as an office for the Darmstadt Concert Choir and the Darmstadt Residence Festival.

Web links

Commons : Achteckiges Haus (Darmstadt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Darmstadt. ed. by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse in cooperation with the City of Darmstadt's Magistrate, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 253
  2. ↑ Sign on site
  3. ↑ Manfred Knodt , Ursula Gleimann, Hanna Brückmann, Helga Schmitt, Gergard Stephan, Karl Hofmeister, Hans Jung: 100 Years Alice-Hospital Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1983, pages 11 to 13.
  4. ↑ jazzclub-darmstadt.de: History of the eight corner house. ( Memento from June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 38.7 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 36.5"  E