Bank on Kohlmarkt

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The Bankhaus am Kohlmarkt (2012)

The Bankhaus am Kohlmarkt is a historic bank building in Lübeck , Kohlmarkt 7-11. It is located on the south side of the Kohlmarkt in the center of Lübeck's old town , directly opposite the market and near the town hall .

history

The Credit- und Versicherungsbank was founded on September 19, 1856 and renamed Commerz-Bank in Lübeck on June 1, 1859 . Since 1863 it has been located in a late classicist office building built in 1855 on the corner of Breite Strasse and Johannisstrasse . At the beginning of the 20th century it became clear that this building no longer met the requirements and the growing scope of modern banking operations. It became necessary to construct a new building that was completely tailored to this purpose.

For this purpose, Commerz-Bank acquired the properties Kohlmarkt 7-11 in 1908 and wrote an architectural competition for the new bank , in which the Lübeck-born architect Karl von Großheim had an active part, to which 87 contributions were submitted and from which the Design by the Berlin architects Richard Bielenberg (1871–1929) and Josef Moser (1872–1963), who specialize in office buildings , emerged victorious. This design of a building in the Heimatschutz style referred to the formal language of the brick renaissance widespread in Lübeck . The design of the bank was based on the proportions and shapes of the neighboring Renaissance gabled house carbon market 13. The three-story brick street facade with two small side gables and a dominant central gable oriented in scale and form of the directly adjacent Renaissance - gabled house carbon market 15; the central gable of the new building even took over the shape of the historic building very clearly. In the basement, the building was given large, contemporary vaults with the latest security technology at the time.

Construction of the new bank began in 1909; in December 1910 it was completed and was used by Commerz-Bank. The total construction costs amounted to 1.3 million marks , a large part of which was already covered by the sale of the old house.

During the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , the building was largely destroyed except for the facade, but the vaults and all the contents stored there remained intact. The bank, renamed Handelsbank in Lübeck in 1940 because of the similarity of its name to Commerzbank , relocated its operations to an alternate quarter in the Ernestinenschule , while at the same time, despite the difficulties caused by the war, the rebuilding of the bank on Kohlmarkt began. In the following three years the building was poorly restored but usable. At the end of April, a few days before the occupation of Lübeck by British troops, the Handelsbank moved its business premises back to the house on Kohlmarkt.

The building is still the headquarters of the Deutsche Bank , in which the Handelsbank in the form of its successor institute, Deutsche Bank in Lübeck, which existed since 1993, was merged in 2002.

  • The banking house (1910)

  • Kohlmarkt 13

literature

  • Käthe Molsen: The commercial bank in Lübeck 1856–1956 . Publisher Hanseatischer Merkur, 1956.
  • Historical society of the Deutsche Bank (Ed.): The Deutsche Bank in Lübeck . Piper, Munich 2006.

Web links

Commons : Bankhaus am Kohlmarkt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50th anniversary of Commerz-Bank in Lübeck. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1906, No. 39 (from September 23, 1906), pp. 157–159.
  2. ^ Secret building officer Prof. Carl von Groszheim. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , Janhgang 1910, No. 44 (from October 23, 1910).

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 57.5 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 4.3"  E