Furniture store Karl Kost

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House Kost on the avenue in Heilbronn

The former furniture store Karl Kost is a building built between 1951 and 1954 on the avenue in Heilbronn . Neighboring buildings on the east side of the avenue are the Harmonie concert and congress center in the south and the shopping center in the north .

history

On March 3, 1951, the excavation work for the building began at the corner of Allee and Karlstrasse. At the site of the building there used to be the building of the Chamber of Crafts (Allee 36) and the egg wholesaler Richard Scheufler (Karlstrasse 29), both of which were destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944. The client, the furniture store Emil Walker, had to file for bankruptcy during the construction. In December 1953, the Stuttgart furniture store Kost acquired the building that was not yet finished and opened on August 27, 1954. The plans for the building came from Professor Hans Paul Schmohl from Stuttgart, the construction was carried out by the Böckingen architect Karl Mogler. The Heilbronn branch of Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg has been housed in the building since November 15, 2004 .

Description of the building

The building is characterized as follows:

"[...] With its more than 70 meters long shop window front and its sales and exhibition area of ​​4500 m² spread over six floors, the newly created furniture store was undoubtedly one of the most modern and beautiful furniture retail stores in Germany."

Hennze describes the building as follows:

"Hans Paul Schmohl and Karl Mogler erected [...] a utility building [...] in the light, diaphanous forms of the 1950s on the Allee at the corner of Karlstrasse."

- Joachim J. Hennze

Fekete describes the building as follows:

“[...] the furniture store Kost [...] was built on the avenue on the edge of the city center, based on designs by Paul Schmohl from Stuttgart, the design of which is particularly due to the large-format window openings, the wall cladding with colored clinker brick and the spacious, curved, open, multi-storey gallery The staircase was given a very representative character. In addition, the building impressed with architectural tricks and detailed solutions such as B. the inclination of the western window front, which minimized solar radiation. "

- Julius Fekete

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume VI: 1945-1951. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 , p. 480 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 34).
  2. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 161, 216 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35).
  3. ↑ Heiko Fritze: New branch under monument protection . In: Heilbronn voice . November 10, 2004 ( Stimme.de [accessed June 1, 2009]).
  4. ^ Heilbronn - Young city on the way into the future . Druckhaus Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1970. p. 91 and p. 92: furniture store Karl Kost
  5. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 73
  6. ^ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg . Volume I.5: Heilbronn district. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 58 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 24 ″  E