Franz Rohde House

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The Franz-Rohde-Haus, built in 1938 by Otto Bartning as a retirement home (2016)

The Franz-Rohde-Haus in Karlsruhe , Dragonerstraße 4-6, was built in 1937/38 by the Karlsruhe architect Otto Bartning for the Protestant Association of the West City - Wichernbund. It was planned as a "retirement home with 25 small apartments". Until October 2017 it was operated as a nursing home by the Evangelical City Mission Karlsruhe eV. The house was named after Pastor Franz Rohde (1863–1937), who worked at the Christ Church in Karlsruhe from 1898 to 1932 .

History of construction and use

On May 8, 1937, Bartning submitted the building plans for an “old people's home of the Protestant Association of the West City in Karlsruhe”; The Karlsruhe architect Hermann Zelt took over the site management. The house was ready for occupancy on November 24, 1938 and was put into operation on December 1, 1938.
In Bartning's own catalog raisonné owned by the Otto Bartning Archive of the TU Darmstadt, the building bears the number 146.
The residential wing of the Franz-Rohde-Haus is set back on the property and in a park-like garden with historical trees - including an approx. year old English oak - built.

The house survived the Second World War without any major war damage, so the original, complete window and door inventory is from the construction period. In 1979 an elevator was installed, and in 1981 a small extension was added on the north side. In 1982 handicapped-accessible conversions and an extension for a care department were made in the Franz-Rohde-Haus, from 1982 the house was run as a "nursing home with care department". These structural changes to the north facade were made without a permit under monument protection law. In 1990 the Evangelical City Mission Karlsruhe acquired the house and operates it as a nursing home. The Franz-Rohde-Haus and its garden are significant in terms of history and social sciences, as this property is "an important, rarely well-preserved source of active evangelical care for the elderly during the National Socialist era."

Monument history

The Franz-Rohde-Haus and the surrounding garden were found in December 1997 by the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg as a cultural monument according to § 2 DSchG BW and are entered in the list of Karlsruhe cultural monuments. Public interest in the preservation of the Franz-Rohde-Haus was shown in 2013 by an expert opinion by the regional council for artistic, scientific and local history reasons: “As an excellent master builder, Otto Bartning is one of the great sons of the city of Karlsruhe. His structural legacies, including the old people's home, are of particular local historical interest. ”In
2013, the Evangelische Stadtmission Karlsruhe eV obtained permission to demolish the house and develop the park with the help of an unpublished profitability report. After the demolition permit for the Franz-Rohde-Haus became known, resistance to the destruction of the cultural monument and park rose among the population of Karlsruhe. More than 5300 citizens spoke out in a petition against the demolition of the Franz-Rohde-Haus.
The press and experts also became aware of the demolition plans. a. the Friedrich Weinbrenner Society and the German Foundation for Monument Protection took a position: "The Franz-Rhode-Haus in Karlsruhe is one of the few preserved secular buildings by this important architect and therefore a particularly sensitive monument." Above all, the importance of the building for Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe cityscape was thematized: “In Karlsruhe, however, Bartning's hometown, his architectural legacy is being destroyed out of irresponsible ignorance and profit maximization.” In 2016, a petition to preserve the Franz-Rohde-Haus was submitted to the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

In July 2016, the Evangelical City Mission of Karlsruhe declared that it would not demolish the house, although it still had a legally binding demolition permit, but asked for an additional building that would partially cover the cultural monument and destroy most of the garden.
On July 24, 2017, the Evangelical City Mission sold the house to an investor. The city of Karlsruhe checked its right of first refusal for the listed area. On September 25, a majority in the local council decided against drawing this right of first refusal, so that the sale to a private investor took effect on September 26.

Art historical significance

In the 1930s, Bartning only built a few secular buildings, which emphasizes the importance of the Franz-Rohde-Haus for the overall work of Bartning. Bartning's design for the Franz-Rohde-Haus is an alternative to the public buildings of the Third Reich that were built at the same time and is based on regional traditions such as the architecture of his teacher, the reform architect Friedrich Ostendorf . In the Karlsruhe district of Rüppurr, whose garden city Ostendorf designed (from 1907), there is also the deaconess hospital, to which the Franz-Rohde-Haus is connected by its owner.
“Bartning was one of the few who survived the 'Third Reich' without compromise, precisely because he only built churches during this time. The Franz-Rohde-Haus in Karlsruhe stands for his attitude: no ingratiation to National Socialist pomp and pomp, an unobtrusive building for a social purpose. With a hipped roof and bat dormers , partly round-arched lattice windows and shutters, the architect is continuing a tradition in Karlsruhe that extends from Friedrich Weinbrenner to his teacher Friedrich Ostendorf. In contrast, the restrained asymmetry appears modern. From a loggia on the second floor there is a view of the beautiful old park trees. "

exhibition

From July 22nd to October 22nd 2017, Bartning's original designs for the Franz-Rohde-Haus were presented to the public for the first time in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe in the exhibition Otto Bartning (1883-1959). Architect of a social modernity shown.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Hans KF Mayer: The builder Otto Bartning and the rediscovery of space. Heidelberg 1951 (with catalog raisonné).
  2. ↑ https://www.leo-bw.de/en_GB/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/wlbblb_lösungen/1031945288/Rohde+Franz
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgeschichte.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
  4. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv-karlsruhe.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3747#382f4241205363686c6573696765722031393832x1843
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karlsruher-stadtmission.de
  6. ↑ Clemens Kieser justification of the monument status December 16, 2013
  7. ^ [1] Karlsruhe, cultural monuments
  8. ↑ Clemens Kieser: Justification of the monument property December 16, 2013
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVmdnOsV5-c
  10. ↑ [2]
  11. ↑ u. a. Marie-Dominique Wetzel on May 11, 2016 on SWR2: https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/journal/die-stadt-karlsruhe-plant-abriss-eines-otto-bartning-gebaeudes-architekturdenkmal- in-danger / - / id = 659282 / did = 17418316 / nid = 659282 / iyueqj / index.html
  12. ↑ Report on May 6, 2016 http://weinbrenner-gesellschaft.de/index.php/mektiven/peinlichen-imageschaden-von-karlsruhe-abendung/
  13. ↑ https://www.denkmalschutz.de/presse/archiv/artikel/plaedoyer-fuer-das-karlsruher-otto-bartning-baudenkmal.html
  14. ↑ Karin Leydecker in BauNetz April 20, 2016 http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/M nearly-Otto_Bartnings_Kulturdenkmal_in_Karlsruhe_4733760.html
  15. ^ KULT parliamentary group Karlsruhe - Franz-Rohde-Haus: City mission shows willingness to agree . In: KULT parliamentary group Karlsruhe . ( kult-fraktion.de [accessed June 26, 2017]).
  16. ^ Karlsruhe: City will examine the right of first refusal. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
  17. ^ Karlsruhe: Preserve the Franz Rohde House with a new owner. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  18. ^ Julia Hauch: Friedrich Ostendorf (1871–1915). Architectural work, architectural history and theoretical writings. Dissertation, Mainz 1995.
  19. ^ Hermann Erbacher: The Inner Mission in Baden: A Contribution to the History of the 19th and 20th Century of the Evangelical Regional Church Baden, 1957.
  20. ^ Dietrich Heißenbüttel: Crowdfunding for monument protection. Context: weekly newspaper, July 20, 2016, accessed August 4, 2017 .
  21. ^ Exhibition of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe , accessed on August 4, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 45.3 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 26.5"  E

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