Friedrich Froebel House (Bad Liebenstein)
The Friedrich-Fröbel-Haus was designed in 1924 by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer as a kindergarten , youth home and educational teaching institute in honor of the pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel and was to be built in Bad Liebenstein . The building, designed in the Bauhaus style , followed Fröbel's educational findings and, with its architectural design language, paid tribute to the pedagogue's achievements in the field of mathematics and geometry. The project failed due to the lack of political support from the city of Bad Liebenstein and the state of Thuringia.
history
On the 75th anniversary of Fröbel's death, Gropius designed a spacious kindergarten complex with a wide range of functions. Architecturally, the L-shaped building consisted of three parts. The main building should contain a kindergarten, daycare center and apartments for the kindergarten teachers, after-school care workers and interns. In addition, a private bath and a reading room was planned. The central kitchen, the dining room for the staff, the sanitary facilities and the caretaker's apartment were planned for the basement. The playrooms and day rooms with large windows facing south were planned on the upper floor. In the southwest of the main building, a large semicircular hall marked the climax of the kindergarten. The three-story Froebel Research Institute was to be built in the south-east - a little separated and raised by one floor . In the garden there were playgrounds, stables for small cattle and poultry as well as flower and vegetable beds. A children's recreation home with several pavilions was to be built on the edge of the forest, closer to the main building.