Dresdner Bank (Heilbronn)

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Dresdner Bank in Heilbronn (June 2006)

The building Dresdner Bank in Heilbronn in the Imperial Road 37 at the corner of Avenue was 1952-1955 by Paul Schmitthenner built and is "an important document of the resumption of the typical of the Stuttgart School baroque-home style pre-war" under monument protection .

history

In terms of its long tradition, Dresdner Bank ranks second among the oldest banks in Heilbronn and goes back to the Max Gumbel-Kiefe banking business, founded in 1860 by the brothers Isaak and Max Gumbel, where Max was married to Lina Kiefe. The business was later split into Isaac Gumbel and Gumbel-Kiefe. In 1918 the branch of the Gumbel-Kiefeschen banking company was taken over by the Darmstädter Bank.

Before the Second World War, the property on the corner of Kaiserstraße and Allee still belonged to the commercial and commercial bank, which, after the war and the total destruction of Heilbronn city center during the air raid on December 4, 1944, built a new building on the opposite side of Kaiserstraße.

The building on the northeast corner of Kaiserstraße / Allee was built in 1952 as part of the reconstruction by the Stuttgart architecture teacher Paul Schmitthenner for the then Rhein-Main-Bank . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on April 6, 1955, and the inauguration was celebrated on August 17, 1955. On the occasion of the inauguration, the Rhein-Main-Bank donated 6,000 DM each for the reconstruction of Kilian's Church and the city hospitals.

In 1957, Rhein-Main-Bank was transferred to the newly founded Dresdner Bank , and in 2009 to Commerzbank .

Building description

The building was laid out as a four-storey, cubic block, which effectively emphasizes the eastern end of Kaiserstraße and represents an elegant entrance to Kaiserstraße. An imposing three-storey bay porch on the avenue side and a low extension on Kaiserstraße dissolve the external appearance of the striking closed cube. Both the twin windows on the upper floors and the high arched portals on the ground floor, which are reminiscent of Roman buildings from antiquity, are marked by white limestone and granite.

The building is a striking example of the artistic, classic tradition of the Heimat (protection) style , which preferred solid craftsmanship with local materials such as Heilbronn reed sandstone and white Heilbronn shell limestone . The architecture was controversial during the construction period. Hans Franke criticized the new building in June 1955 in the Neckar-Echo .

Located at the intersection of Kaiserstraße / Allee , the Dresdner Bank building forms part of the commercial and commercial bank building on Kaiserstraße opposite, which also dates from the 1950s, and the modern Commerzbank building on the opposite side of the avenue, which was expanded in 2013 central traffic intersection of the city center, a distinctive ensemble of three banks.

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  1. ^ Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Stadtkreis Heilbronn . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 104 .
  2. ^ Franke: History of the Jews in Heilbronn
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn 1952–1957, p. 261.
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn 1952–1957, p. 286.
  5. ↑ Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn 1952–1957, p. 271.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 30.3 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 18.9 ″  E