Goetz House

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The Goetz House on Lützner Strasse (2017)

The Goetz House in Leipzig is a residential building in the Lindenau district that was named after the doctor and sports functionary Ferdinand Goetz (1826–1915), who lived in it for 60 years and also ran his practice here. It is a listed building .

Location and description

The Goetz-Haus is a two-story building along the south side of Lützner Strasse at number 11. The property, which is open to the public, forms the corner to Birkenstrasse and is partly made of trees, under which there is a monument to Ferdinand Goetz.

Garden side of the house (2017)

The house has six window axes on the long side with arched windows on the ground floor. The half-hip roof has two bat dormers on the street side . A short side wing containing the entrance sits slightly at an oblique angle on the street side, to which a flat-roofed two-story extension is attached. The resulting angle is used as a patio for the restaurant operated in the house. A strong cornice above the ground floor, which shows the name of the restaurant after the street, is the only ornament of the house.

Inside, in addition to the restaurant in the event room on the ground floor as well as in the stairwell and the corridor on the upper floor, there is an informative gallery about the Goetz House and the work of Ferdinand Goetz, including a copy of the portrait bust of Ferdinand Goetz, which Gustav Adolph Kietz (1824 -1908) in 1885.

history

The house was built in 1823, during the Biedermeier period , which meant, among other things, the repair of the damage caused by the Battle of the Nations for Leipzig and its surroundings . Only a few of the houses built during this period have survived, as the industrialization that began in the second half of the century had to give way to three- to four-story tenement houses to accommodate working-class families.

In 1855 the lawyer Heinrich Goetz bought the house and left it to his brother Ferdinand, who moved in with his family, set up his medical practice on the ground floor and lived in the house until his death in 1915.

In 1867, a year before he took on the role of managing director of the German Gymnastics Association in addition to his work as a doctor, Goetz began to build an all-German gymnastics archive in his house, which also included a library. This was in Leipzig until 1922 before it was transferred to Berlin-Charlottenburg , where it became Germany's largest sports library with over 17,000 volumes by 1936. In 1933 the committee of the German Turnerschaft e. V. (Berlin) owner of the house.

After the Second World War , the house began to deteriorate and was no longer habitable in the 1980s. In preparation for the 39th German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig in 2002, the Goetz-Haus Leipzig e. V. 2001/2002 the house before it fell into disrepair and renovated it with support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection ,

The intended use by the Sports Museum Leipzig did not materialize and after the dissolution of the Goetz-Haus Association there was again a threat of decay, which was averted in 2015 with the opening of a restaurant.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 205 .
  • Bernd Weinkauf: Goetz House . In: Architekturführer. The 100 most important buildings in Leipzig. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89773-913-0 , pp. 70/71.

Web links

Commons : Goetz-Haus  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Lindenau , ID 09261561
  2. ↑ a b Goetz House. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 978-3-86729-036-4 , Volume 2, p. 13
  4. ^ Library of the German Gymnastics Association. (No longer available online.) In: Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on October 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Lützner Strasse 11 Goetz House. In: Lindenauer district association. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Bernd Weinkauf: Goetz House . P. 71
  7. ↑ Goetz House. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Goetz house in Leipzig-Lindenau neglected - information board reveals: restaurant is to be built. In: LVZ on January 30, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 12 ″  E