Bauwens house
The Bauwens House in Leipzig is a commercial building built in the 1990s. Because of its covered inner courtyard with a passage to the opposite side, it is often counted among the Leipzig Passages . After a change of ownership in October 2016, the building is labeled Hildebrand & Partner Haus .
Location and architecture
The pentagonal building on a plot of land with an area of around 1530 m³ borders on Markgrafenstrasse, Burgplatz , Burgstrasse and Ratsschulstrasse. It has the address Burgplatz 2.
The building has five floors, with the ground floor and first floor being combined in line with the Leipzig commercial building tradition around 1900, here by color and window design. The lower part is clad with gray granite , the upper floors with beige trachyte . Seven broad window axes point to Markgrafenstrasse, five to Burgstrasse and Ratsschulstrasse each, in the latter with an approximately 15-meter-wide interruption through a building-high glass facade in front of a glass-roofed inner courtyard with a passage to Markgrafenstrasse. Here, too, the color separation is consistently maintained. The courtyard serves as one of the bad weather alternative locations for the summer open-air concerts at the Bach Monument.
At the corner of Burgstrasse and Ratsschulstrasse, a corner bay rests on two precious metal pillars. The side facing the Burgplatz is most conspicuously designed. A flat, darkly framed glass bay window arches out between two narrower window axes on the upper floors, which continues up two floors in front of a tent roof. This front is perpendicular to the Hugo-Licht-Straße leading from Burgplatz to Martin-Luther-Ring and is therefore an effective eye-catcher from the ring. The remaining roof areas are zinc sheet mansard roofs with a total of 56 small flat roof dormers .
history
In 1897 work began on demolishing the Pleißenburg for the construction of the New Town Hall . Markgrafenstraße was built on the former moat. This resulted in a worthwhile building site on this and the Schulstrasse (today Ratsschulstrasse) and Burgstrasse, but on Schulstrasse the newly built box house of the Masonic Lodge Minerva to the three palm trees still stood on Schulstrasse . In 1905 a new box house was moved into on Weststrasse and the building site became vacant.
In the style of historicism , also with a decorative gable facing Burgplatz, a commercial building was built on the site of the later Bauwens house for a builder Teiche, which was called Haus Teiche . It fell victim to the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . The square remained undeveloped for decades and was used as a parking lot. In May 1991 the architect Gerd Heise from the architectural office Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner (HPP) began planning a commercial building for the Cologne construction company Bauwens. In 1994 the building was completed, which cleverly takes on design references to the previous building.
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 78/79 .
- Wolfgang Hocquél: The Bauwenshaus · Architectural highlight on Burgplatz . In Leipziger Blätter No. 26, 1995, p. 38
Web links
- Martin Pelzl, Volkmar Heinz: Liaison with Bach and Freemasons - the Leipzig Bauwens House. In: LVZ . January 6, 2012, accessed April 1, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monday concerts at the Bach Monument 2017. Accessed on April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the Present , p. 78
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 14.6 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 22.6" E