Former office building of the Hamburg high school authority
The former service building of the secondary school authorities in Hamburg is at Dammtorstrasse 25. The Schumacher building is now privately owned. It was entered on May 6, 2008 under No. 1654 in the list of monuments of the Hamburg Monument Protection Office (today's number: 12575).
Building history
As early as 1907, plans were made to erect a new service building to centralize all of the school authority's offices . Until then they were scattered and partly housed in rented buildings. The design by Fritz Schumacher in 1910 was finally realized. From 1911 to 1913, the building was one of the city's first state administration buildings. It replaced a lower previous building and thus initiated the higher development on Dammtorstrasse .
During the First World War , copper parts had to be removed from the building for material procurement, but these were later replaced.
The Hamburg school authority was based here until 1970. After they moved to Hamburger Strasse , the Court of Auditors first moved into the building. Eventually the city of Hamburg sold the house. Then it was renovated. Offices were built on the upper floors, shops moved in on the ground floor, and visible structural changes also had to be made outside.
description
The six-storey, historicist building takes up Renaissance designs . It combines elements of the old Hamburg community center with the requirements of the modern office building .
By dividing it into two gabled wings, Schumacher achieved a certain degree of adaptation to the small-scale development in the area. The wings, separated by a bay window , each have three window axes . The bay window begins on the first floor and ends in the roof area with a copper-covered roof hood. It consists of shell limestone and is reminiscent of the stair tower of a castle.
On the ground floor, the facade is characterized by a continuous arcade of seven arches made of shell limestone. We also find this material on the first floor, while the following floors and the gables were faced with bricks . The otherwise simple gables are each provided with a large arched loggia .
We find figurines on the cornice above the first floor. The children's reliefs protruding into the brick area come from Arthur Storch and Emil Obermann . A little lower down, at the southern transition to the neighboring house, is the figure of Hammonia , who is leading a young man. The group was created by Oskar E. Ulmer and symbolizes the care of the city of Hamburg for the youth.
entrance
Bay window on the 1st floor
Children's relief and hammonia with a young man
See also
- List of office buildings and similar state buildings in Hamburg
- List of cultural monuments in Hamburg-Neustadt (North)
swell
- Dominik Schendel: Architectural Guide in Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86922-242-4
- Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg. The great architecture guide. Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9
- Manfred F. Fischer: Fritz Schumacher, buildings and planning in Hamburg. Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1213-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ § 6 Paragraph 1 Hamburg Monument Protection Act of April 5, 2013, (HmbGVBl p. 142), as of October 29, 2012
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '26 " N , 9 ° 59' 20.5" E