Former trade school (Schwäbisch Hall)
The former trade school is a listed building in Schwäbisch Hall . It is located at Gymnasiumstrasse 4.
description
The plastered building with a mansard roof has a three-story facade facing Gymnasiumstrasse, while the facade facing Langen Graben is two-story. The building is block-like. The windows are not framed. The wall surfaces are structured by simple pilaster strips . The rounded central risalit in the middle , which contains the staircase , is particularly designed . There is the entrance with a column portal and triangular gable . Daylight streams in through pairs of narrow windows. These run over several floors. The risalit ends with an attic with semicircular windows and is covered by a flat dome.
Art historical significance
The building was built in 1912 according to plans by Bihl & Woltz . The building is an example of reform architecture : It - “is a testimony, unchanged down to the last detail, to the formal language of the artistic reform movement that developed at the beginning of the 20th century, which renounced opulent decorations. prevailed against historicism ” . The Stuttgart architects continued to develop an old style in a free manner without directly quoting it, and wanted to create the new style of the 20th century by building on classicism, which was considered the last 'real' style in the contemporary understanding. develop " .
In 1995, the building was recognized for its modern interior design in the exemplary building competition in the Schwäbisch Hall district .
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Schwäbisch Hall: List of cultural monuments City of Schwäbisch Hall , p. 202
- ↑ Directory of buildings. Schwäbisch Hall, accessed January 12, 2014 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 17.9 ″ E