Comenius house
The Comeniushaus on Keplerstrasse in Saarbrücker is the seat of the Saar College of Fine Arts . It is a listed building as a monument.
history
The baroque building was built between 1765 and 1769 based on a design by Friedrich Joachim Stengel for Prince Wilhelm Heinrich at the western end of Ludwigsplatz. It initially served as a hospital, as well as an orphanage , breeding and workhouse . During the French period from 1793 and until the end of the coalition wars , it was used as a military hospital . In the 19th century the building became barracks for the dragoons stationed in Saarbrücken, and at the beginning of the 20th century it became a state museum, and the Ludwigsgymnasium moved into the premises from 1936 to 1944 .
It burned down completely in an air raid from October 5th to 6th, 1944 and was rebuilt between 1949 and 1953 under the direction of the architect Hans Koellmann . The facade was built true to the original, but the interior was changed. From the 1960s to 1985, the building housed the upper level of the neighboring Ludwigsgymnasium. Then the building was supplemented by an extension and the new headquarters of the State School for Art and Crafts founded in 1946 (today HBK Saar).
architecture
The building is a two-wing, eaves-mounted plastered building with three floors. At the center is a core building with a high mansard roof and six axes. On the ground floor, the two inner axes each accommodate a single-leaf door with a skylight. Pilasters and pilaster strips structure the building, the storey cornices continue into the side wings. The four inner window axes in the core building sit in a slightly protruding central projection that continues into a triangular gable with an oculus . An entablature with eaves cornice completes the building in the center. Windows and doors are adorned with clearly profiled bezels , and in the core building with floral motifs instead of a keystone. The two side wings each have eight axes and are strictly symmetrical.
Via the main portal you enter a large hall that occupies the ground floor and first floor of the core building. A concrete ceiling spans freely in it and forms a walkway that can be accessed via two curved stairs.
Behind the building, Koellmann put a U-shaped, single-storey building block with gently sloping pitched roofs. The buildings still serve as studios and classrooms today. Debris from the old baroque building was incorporated into the buildings. Large window fronts illuminate the interior generously.
literature
- Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland . Landesdenkmalamt Saar, Saarbrücken 2011, pp. 16/17
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarbrücken sub- monument list ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 19 (PDF)
- ↑ History of the Ludwigsgymnasium ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , School website, accessed November 22, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 57.8 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 6.7 ″ E