Chemistry Pavilion

Knopf'sche Mühle
(demolished in 1958)

Chemistry Pavilion

South side

The chemistry pavilion is a listed pavilion in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The pavilion is located at Schlossplatz 15 at the western end of Wittenberg's old town. Coswiger Strasse runs north and Schlossstrasse to the south, which meet immediately to the west of the pavilion. A little further west is the famous castle church .

Architecture and history

The pavilion was built in 1959/60 according to plans by the architect Erwin Zink on the site of the official mill that was demolished in 1958 (button mill). The design was in the style of the Second Modernism . It is one of the few buildings of this style, which is more common in Western Europe , in Saxony-Anhalt. The curved grid structure served as an advertising and exhibition pavilion for the products of the Piesteritz nitrogen works .

At times the address was Schlossplatz 6. Currently (as of 2018) the pavilion is used as an ice cream parlor .

The building is listed as a pavilion under registration number 094 35862 in the local monument register.

literature

Mario Titze: Modern architecture under monument protection. The former "chemistry pavilion" on Schloßplatz in Wittenberg. In: Preservation of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. 1997/2. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1997, ISSN 0949-3506 , pp. 128-134.
Mario Titze in Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 500.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 11: Mario Titze: Wittenberg district, Wittenberg district and Graefenhainichen. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-935590-56-3 , p. 169.

Individual evidence

↑ Karina Blüthgen: From book binders and earlier architecture. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . October 31, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019.
↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) (4733 pages). List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. - Conditions of online publication of the national monument register; Reasons for missing publication in the Internet; Planned publication of the missing parts of the series of monument registers; Details of the building and small monuments contained in the list of monuments and those that have been deleted since 1990 -. In: padoka.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , March 19, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2019 (PDF; 9.9 MB).

51.866543 12.639185Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 59.6 " N , 12 ° 38 ′ 21.1" E

[1] Karina Blüthgen: From book binders and earlier architecture. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . October 31, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019.

[2] Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) (4733 pages). List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. - Conditions of online publication of the national monument register; Reasons for missing publication in the Internet; Planned publication of the missing parts of the series of monument registers; Details of the building and small monuments contained in the list of monuments and those that have been deleted since 1990 -. In: padoka.landtag.sachsen-anhalt.de. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , March 19, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2019 (PDF; 9.9 MB).