Europahaus (Leipzig)

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Europahaus (2015)

The Europahaus in Leipzig is a 13-storey and 56 m high listed office building at Augustusplatz  7.

Building history

View from the time of construction (on the left you can see a part of the Dutch house that was destroyed in World War II , on the right a part of the Museum of Fine Arts, which was also destroyed )

The second Leipzig skyscraper was built by Otto Paul Burghardt (1875–1959) in 1928/29 as a counterweight to the Krochhochhaus . It was the first building of the Ringcity concept presented in 1927 by the Leipzig city planning officer Hubert Ritter (1886–1967), but this was no longer realized after Ritter left. Burghardt had to revise his first draft, in which the taller tower was in an axial corner position, under the guidance of Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955) in May 1928, following demands from the Saxon Ministry of the Interior . The facade of the office and commercial building was given a significantly simplified form with a vertical structure running between the windows. Burghardt dispensed with any ornamentation , and the house only appears through the expressionistic emphasis on the vertical. The revision was completed in July 1928, so that the shell was completed in early November 1929 and most of the rooms could be used from January 1, 1930.

Architecture and functions

The now directly to the ring-building of the 1950s on the Roßplatz adjacent reinforced concrete - skeleton with limestone cladding consists of a 56 meter high tower with 13 floors, which is provided on both sides with seven storey side wings. Today's Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig is immediately adjacent to the other side . At the time of construction there was a roof garden restaurant in the middle part of the high-rise .

In the GDR era, the house was the seat of the district administration of the State Insurance of the GDR . In 1965, Frieder Gebhard and Hans-Joachim Dreßler carried out a reconstruction in the style of the 1960s, with the upper closure being significantly changed. Colonnades were created on the ground floor , which were necessary after the promenade ring was widened.

Another repair took place in the years 1998 to 1999. The windows were renewed and repairs were carried out on the facade.

After renovation and modernization work, Stadtwerke Leipzig with around 160 employees moved into the Europahaus in 2014 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Europahaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument protection object ID 09290004
  2. ↑ Horst Riedel (Red .: Thomas Nabert ): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 139
  3. ↑ Stadtwerke move into the Europahaus. In: stadtbau.com. Leipziger Stadtbau Aktiengesellschaft, October 24, 2013, accessed on April 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 14.4 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 53.3"  E