The black horseshoe

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House sign above the entrance

The black horseshoe is the name of an office and commercial building in Leipzig , Nikolaistraße 55 at the corner of Brühl . It is a listed building .

history

The breakthrough in Nikolaistrasse in 1908, Schwarzes Hufeisen on the left, Brühl 55

Before the construction of the Leipzig main station , Nikolaistraße only ran as far as Brühl. In order to ensure better access from the new train station to the city center, Nikolaistraße was extended between 1908 and 1912 to Parkstraße (since 1913 Richard-Wagner-Straße). For this purpose, houses 53, 55 and 59 on the north side of the Brühl had to give way; No. 57 was already a vacant lot in 1908.

No. 55 belonged to blacksmiths from 1589 to 1641, after which there was an inn here, for which in 1663 the name "Zum Schwarzen Hufeisen" was given. By chance, the new building, which was now part of Nikolaistraße, also fit number 55, and the name was adopted as "The Black Horseshoe".

The Leipzig architect Emil Franz Hänsel (1870–1943) designed a commercial building that can be attributed to reform architecture , which together with the Harmelin House now represented the western development of the new section of Nikolaistraße. When it was acquired in 1914, it was mainly reserved for the fur trade.

architecture

  • The black horseshoe, Nikolaistraße 55

  • From the southeast

  • From the northeast

The black horseshoe is a five-storey reinforced concrete structure with a facade covered with shell limestone . It has sixteen window axes to Nikolaistrasse and eight to Brühl. The side of the building facing away from Nikolaistraße is indented around two window axes over a length of about eleven meters, creating a small courtyard like a three-wing complex.

In the shop area on the ground floor, two window axes are combined to form a shop window or entrance area. This structure is followed by fluted pilaster strips on the first and second floors . A strong cornice runs over it . The fourth floor is partially indented so that the corners are emphasized.

This continues in the hipped roof , which has mansards in the corner area and above and pike dormer windows in other areas . The corner area ends in an elevated pyramid structure.

Above the house entrance, a house sign in a triangle shows an owl holding a horseshoe up and down with its feet and covering two snakes with its wings. An inscription below reads THE BLACK HORSESHOE | 1913.

Web links

Commons : The Black Horseshoe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig , ID number 09298380
  2. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 178 .
  3. ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 499 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 52

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 34.9 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 41.4"  E