German bookseller's house
The German Booksellers' House in Leipzig was the seat of the Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig. It was inaugurated in 1888. Its construction had become necessary because the old domicile, the booksellers' exchange on Ritterstrasse, had become too small for the growing club. In 1943 the house was completely destroyed in the air raids of World War II.
The magnificent building in neo-renaissance style was built between 1886 and 1888 by the Berlin office of Kayser & von Großheim , which had won an architectural competition. The city of Leipzig provided the property in the graphic quarter on Hospitalstrasse (today Prager Strasse) free of charge. The steep sloping roofs, the domed towers and bay windows were striking.
Inside, the ballroom was decorated with stucco , wall paintings by Woldemar Friedrich and large stained glass windows , including a glass painting entitled “Leipzig as the center of the German book trade”.
Among other things, the house housed Germany's first library for the blind .
The House of Books was opened in 1996 as a new building on the site of the old bookseller's house . This houses the Literaturhaus Leipzig .
literature
- Edgard Haider: Lost splendor. Stories of destroying buildings . Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-8067-2949-2 , pp. 113-115.
- C. Siegfried: A festival of the German book trade in Leipzig . In: The Gazebo . Issue 24, 1886, pp. 423, 424 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Dieter Dolgner: Historicism. German architecture 1815–1900. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-363-00583-0 , p. 123 f .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 4.4 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 32.4" E