Brenzhaus
The Brenzhaus at Mauerstraße 5 in Schwäbisch Hall was on the bank of the Kocher and was thus visible from afar. The historicist building completed in November 1898 was demolished in March 1968 in favor of a new building in architecture typical of the time. This building was redesigned in 2008.
history
The Brenzhaus was built as an educational facility and to accommodate charitable institutions of the Protestant church. From 1926 there was also a sewing school in the house, which the Evangelical Women's Association had set up to create a counterpart to a similar institution of the Catholic Church in Steinbach . A deaconess worked as a teacher, whom the women's association had helped to obtain a professional qualification as a tailor. The courses were quarterly and paid for and were intended for girls who had left school. The lessons included patching, linen and clothes sewing, and embroidery. Finally, a second teacher was hired because an average of more than 200 girls attended classes each year. In 1944 teaching was stopped and only resumed in the post-war period, supplemented by the subjects of housekeeping and cooking. After its new building, the house has been operated as a family education center since 1972.
architecture
The Brenzhaus, inaugurated on November 5, 1898, was a building in the style of picturesque historicism . On the occasion of the inauguration, a postcard with a lithograph was published showing the main view of the Brenzhaus next to St. Michaelis Church in Schwäbisch Hall. The east facade of the two-storey house with an extended attic was oriented towards the stove as a front side. Towards the river, the building was divided into a southern gable and a northern eaves part with a central tower. The southern part, like the roughly square tower with a high hipped roof , had three floors and was also somewhat in front of the facade. As a counterpart to the tower, the rear front of the house had a risalit-like roofed component.
The facades were varied. The ground floor, which was also clad in natural stone, rose above a high substructure made of natural stone masonry with a two-flight, symmetrical staircase and iron railings between stone posts, on a base that accommodated the basement rooms. This opened with three large, arched closed windows and the main entrance to the river arranged in the tower, also covered with a arch. This main entrance was adorned in the tympanum with a bust of the Hall reformer Johannes Brenz .
The first floor was adorned with imaginatively curved half-timbered facings. A balcony was fixed between the tower and the projecting southern part of the building. The simple rectangular window openings had metal lambrequins on the lintels to conceal the external sun protection. The second floor, visible only at the gables and the tower, jutted slightly forward and was also provided with a decorative framework. The protruding half- hipped roofs of the various parts of the building were covered with interlocking tiles and had decorations in the form of iron crowns at the hip points. The roof was covered with small dormers to illuminate the second floor or the attic.
In March 1968, the Protestant Parish Council decided to demolish the Brenzhaus. A new building was built according to plans by the architect Kilpper (Stuttgart). This had four upper floors above a basement level that had been created instead of the previously existing substructure, with the fourth floor facing the river being designed as a recessed staggered floor and the northern building axis comprising only two upper floors. In contrast to the previous building, the façades, which were strongly horizontal, were clad with concrete elements. The windows arranged in five axes illuminated the rooms behind them like a ribbon. In 2008 the Brenzhaus was redesigned and given new, vertically oriented facades. The cubature of the building was retained except for the closure of the northern recess above the second floor and the addition of a narrower building axis on the north side. On June 15, 2008 the Brenzhaus was inaugurated again after the renovation work was completed. This construction work brought the Brenz bust of the old Brenzhaus to light in the excavation pit in June 2008. It was restored, lost parts added and integrated into the facade design of the new building.
Web links
- Information and pictures about the Brenzhaus in the Schwäbisch Hall building directory , accessed on February 4, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Marski (Ed.): Catechism, sewing kit, book folder. Female educational pathways in Schwäbisch Hall. Brochure for the exhibition of the same name. Schwäbisch Hall 2002, p. 28.
- ↑ Quotation: The Brenz bust of the previous building that was unearthed during construction work in June 2008. Photo: Daniel Stihler (StadtA SHA Server Houses Lexicon) Page 5 of 18. from http://www.schwaebischhall.de/buergerstadt/geschichte/ haeuserlexikon / gebaeudeververzeichnis.html? Detail = 342
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '44.3 " N , 9 ° 43' 58.3" E