Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-House
The Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus in Darmstadt , Dieburger Straße 241, built as a hotel , later expanded as a castle , is now a guest house of the Technical University of Darmstadt for international guest researchers, doctoral students , postdocs and research fellows . The house comprises 19 apartments of various sizes. There are event and common rooms on the ground floor. In the spacious garden behind the building there is a fountain with the animal sculpture "Aspiring Cranes" by Gotthelf Schlotter . There is also a riding stable on the site , which is used by the riding club at TU Darmstadt eV.
History of construction and use
On October 16, 1899, the house, built for Martin Röhrich according to plans by the architect Fritz Nick (1858–1908) in the traditionalist style, opened as a park hotel on the outskirts of Darmstadt. In 1905 there was a first change of ownership. The merchant Bernhard Nathan bought the hotel and it was redesigned. In 1908 the estate was bought by the brewery owner and councilor Jean N. Dischinger. As early as 1910/1911, the architect Jakob Krug built it as Haus Hagenburg as the manorial residence for Prince Otto Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe and his morganatic wife Countess Anna von Hagenburg, née. von Köppen (1860–1932) around. During this time, the building was with elements of Art Nouveau designed. Ceramic tiles by Jakob Julius Scharvogel were installed in the main staircase . The stairwell is one of the best preserved works by Scharvogel in Hesse. The numerous horses of the family were kept in the adjacent stable.
As part of bankruptcy proceedings by the von Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe family as a result of the insolvency of the Darmstadt vehicle factory, Count Renault van Becker acquired the property in 1925, but had to sell it again in 1936 in a foreclosure auction . From 1938 the building was used by the National Socialists as an SA group school. There were other uses from 1940 to 1945 as a reserve military hospital , hospital for tuberculosis patients , from 1947 to 1955 as a women's clinic of the city of Darmstadt and from 1955 to 1977 as a student residence .
The riding stables adjacent to the building have been used by the riding club at TU Darmstadt since 1955.
From 1978 to 1980 the building was extensively renovated and since February 1980 it has been used as a guest house for the Darmstadt University and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research under the name “International Meeting Center for Science” . In 1983 it was also named after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , the physicist and poet born in Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt in 1742 .
In 2006, the building envelope was renovated in accordance with a listed building. TU Darmstadt has been the sole user of the building since 2012.
literature
- City of Science Darmstadt (Ed.): The Technical University of Darmstadt. A history of construction. Darmstadt 2007, p. 108 f.
- Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-House. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 301 f.
- Eckhart G. Franz , Christina Wagner (arrangement): Darmstadt calendar. Data on the history of our city. Darmstadt 1994, p. 156.
- Günter Fries and others (arrangement): City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 367.
Web links
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg House. In: tu-darmstadt.de , accessed on March 19, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 6 ″ E