Augusta School (Cottbus)
| Augusta School | |
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| founding | 1873 |
| closure | 1982 |
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| place | cottbus |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 45 '49 " N , 14 ° 20' 14" E |
The Augusta School in Cottbus was founded in 1873 by Adolf Rothenbücher as a teaching institution for girls and named after the then German Empress Augusta . Your building on today's Pushkin promenade , which was built between 1907 and 1912, is a Cottbus monument , which, in terms of architectural history, is one of the outstanding representatives of municipal construction around 1910 in Lower Lusatia and has housed the conservatory since 1982 .
history
At the beginning of the school year at Easter 1895, the previously privately run school came under the administration of the city of Cottbus. In 1906 plans began for a new building, which should also include a teachers ' seminar. The plot of land on the promenade planned for the new building bordered on the northeast of the old school building (Turnstrasse, today Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse 15). The construction business Hermann Pabel & Co. won the tender and carried out the smaller eastern component as the first construction phase from 1907 to 1908. In 1909 the school was recognized as an upper lyceum . For the larger, second construction phase, which was built between 1911 and 1912, the municipal building authority consulted the renowned Dresden architect Julius Graebner , who had previously worked in Cottbus . At his suggestion, the plans were changed in detail and the first construction phase was adapted accordingly. The gymnasium and the corridors were designed a little more elaborately and the construction of the foyer took place in a more robust solid construction . The house served as a school until 1982, when it was taken over by the Cottbus Conservatory. Already at the end of 1980, the conversion of the gym into a concert hall with 300 seats began, the showpiece of which is a Sauer organ . In the years from 2006 to 2012, an elevator was installed and barrier-free access was built.
description
The three-story school building with a high basement has an overall asymmetrical shape. The street view is characterized by closely lined up, multi-part lattice windows with differently decorated lintel zones. A strong cornice , accompanied by a block frieze, separates the ground floor from the two upper floors; Sill cornices connect the windows to form groups. The eastern construction section under the hipped roof extends to the domed stairwell risalit with a round arch portal. This is framed by pilasters with putti reliefs. The lintel is curved and crowned with tendrils. The western construction section consists of a six-axis, eaves part and a protruding, also six-axis gable structure. A four-part ribbon window is located under the ornamental frieze in the large gable field. Three relief figures are placed between the windows, they represent musicians in classical robes. Above this ribbon of windows is the writing “Augusta School”, the city coat of arms and the year “AD 1911”. The stairwells and central corridors are adorned with numerous ceiling and wall decorations. The gym building has a floor area of 338 m² and connects to the first construction phase to the north. Both houses are connected by a connecting wing. The connection to the property of the old building of the Augusta School (Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 15) forms an open, pillar-supported lobby under a pent roof , with two intermediate buildings and a central portico . The large triangular gable of the portico is decorated with tendril and bird motifs. The architecture follows the ideas of the reform architecture of the early 20th century, new baroque was combined with art nouveau forms .
literature
- Gerhard Vinken et al. (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 .
- Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues: City of Cottbus, part 1: Old town, Mühleninsel, Neustadt and Ostrow, inner Spremberger suburb, “ city promenade ”, western expansion of the city, historic Brunschwig. (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in Brandenburg , Volume 2.1.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9 , p. 410 ff.