Director's residence
The director's residence is a building in the style of the new building in Celle in Lower Saxony . It was built in 1930 according to the plans of the architect Otto Haesler as a house for the director of the nearby Ernestinum high school . The building, which is now a listed building, has been used as an art gallery since 2006.
architecture
The director's house was built in steel frame construction on the former children's playground in the northwest corner of the French Garden . It is an L-shaped flat roof building with a living area and a utility wing and a usable area of 420 m², according to other sources 350 m². The two-storey residential wing is aligned in a north-south direction parallel to the course of the street. It is 3.5 meters high on the ground floor and 2.7 meters high on the upper floor. On the north side the residential wing is raised on two supports. The one-and-a-half-storey utility wing with a side entrance begins there at right angles. Half of the storey is a basement that protrudes only 1.5 meters into the ground, as the groundwater level did not allow a basement. The stairwell, which has a ribbon of windows , is located at the intersection of the residential and utility wing.
The east side of the building facing the park has a smooth front with a row of windows and a terrace in front of it. A three-dimensional element is a box-shaped balcony.
history
The building owner for the director's house was the Prussian Building Department, so that it was the first state building for Otto Haesler. Until 1954 the building was used according to its original purpose as a residence for the directors and employees of the Ernestinum grammar school. The DGB then moved into it and at times the municipal registry office was housed in it. From 1972 the building was used as a youth center under the name "Magnushütte".
At the beginning of the 1980s there were plans to demolish the director's residence, which had become unsightly at the time, in order to build a parking garage close to the city center due to the lack of parking spaces . The plans were dropped in 1983. In 2005, a comprehensive renovation was carried out in line with listed buildings, in which the colors were reconstructed.
Architectural-historical classification
The director's residence, made up of cubes pushed into one another at right angles, which owe their shape to their function only, is characteristic of individual buildings in the New Building style in the 1920s. The director's residence, along with the principal's residence, is one of the two buildings that Otto Haesler built as a single house during the Weimar Republic . He saw the single-family house as uneconomical because of the high costs in comparison with the multi-family house and rejected it because, in his opinion, it could not be reconciled economically and economically under the circumstances at the time.
literature
- Simone Oelker: The director's residence - a "state building" in: Otto Haesler. A career as an architect in the Weimar Republic. Munich 2002, pp. 209-213.
- Cellesche Zeitung (ed.): Time travel in the stairwell in: 100 Years of Bauhaus , 2018, pp. 100-108.
Web links
- Director's residence in Monument Atlas Lower Saxony
- The director's villa in the French garden Bauhaus portal of the Celle Tourism and Marketing Society
- Director house at "Otto Haesler Foundation"
- Photos from the director's house at "Otto Haesler Foundation"
- Celle: Bauhaus in the half-timbered idyll at ndr.de from April 2, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 15.4 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 45.6" E