Bahnhofstrasse 10/12 (Coburg)
The building at Bahnhofstrasse 10/12 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg is a residential and commercial building that the architect August Berger built in Art Nouveau style between 1910 and 1913 and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The assembly at the intersection of Bahnhofstrasse, Hintere Kreuzgasse and Hindenburgstrasse, together with the house at Hintere Kreuzgasse No. 1, consists of a total of three buildings. The double property in Bahnhofsstraße was built by Hildburghausen architect August Berger on his own account . He had previously acquired the Carl Kleemann construction company in 1902 and took over the planning by the building councilor Carl Kleemann for a rental and commercial building on the site. Berger bought the land , which was mainly built with tanner's houses, and after receiving the building permit in 1904, the first thing he did was build the house in Hinteren Kreuzgasse 1 with changes to the facade, which was completed in 1908. After the building permit was granted in 1910 for the complex in Bahnhofstrasse, changes were made to the facade plans and the western section up to the corner house on Hinteren Kreuzgasse was tackled. The house on the corner of the street (formerly Bahnhofstrasse 8) of the merchant Carl Thomas, who ran a grocery store there, only came into Berger's possession in 1911 for the purpose of demolition and a new building. In 1912/13 the semi-detached house, which replaced three tanner's houses, was completed. The painter Heinrich Höllein lived in house number 12 .
In 1977, the original showcases on the ground floor were replaced by modern shop windows and the bay windows were renovated after the console bay window of building No. 10 in Hinteren Kreuzgasse fell down without further consequences. In 1989 renovation and reconstruction work was carried out on the top floor. Overall, the property still has a large number of well-preserved details of its original furnishings.
architecture
The four-story tenement house, equipped with a converted attic, is characterized by numerous geometric Art Nouveau ornaments and the alternation of plastered and stone surfaces in the facade design. All surfaces seem to be in motion.
The main facade to the south, framed by two polygonal corner towers, has a slight asymmetry. The right part, house no. 10, has one window axis more than the left, which means that the pair of house entrances is shifted to the left. The right corner tower on Hinteren Kreuzgasse stands on four two-story columns that are fluted . On the first floor there are three flat, three-sided bay windows between the columns. The ground floor has wide segmented arcades with columns in the area of the shop windows . Polygonal, two-storey bay windows are arranged on both sides in the lower upper storeys. The right pair is closed at the top by a parapet and a ribbon of windows, the left by a tower tower with a hood and an arbor . There are risalits above the entrances that end in mid- height buildings. The parapets of the risalites are formed by vaults like small oriels.
The eastern facade in Hinteren Kreuzgasse is also designed with arcades on the ground floor. At the border to the neighboring house at Hintere Kreuzgasse 1, a three-axis console bay cantilevered into the two lower upper floors . The fourth floor is designed to protrude over the entire length of the facade. The west facade of the house no. 12 impresses Zwerchhausrisalit with a high curly gable, the above a stone sill has. The left side of the risalit has a two-storey polygonal bay window, closed at the top by a balcony with parapet. From the interior design from the construction period, fluted pilaster wall paneling and railings as well as the apartment doors are still present in the stairwells .
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
- Helmut Wolter: The house book of the city of Coburg 1400 - 1945, Volume 6: 150 years Bahnhofstraße , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937527-20-8
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 50 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 53 ″ E