Large car park Schlotterbeck
The Grossgarage Schlotterbeck was a car repair shop (in Switzerland also garage or bodywork ) of the Schlotterbeck Automobil AG company in Zurich . The concrete and glass building designed in 1951 by Hans Rudolf Suter (1908–2001) and Peter Suter (1914–1998) from the well-known Basel architecture firm Suter & Suter (1945–1996) is the only garage in Zurich's building culture.
history
The founder and director of C. Schlotterbeck Automobile AG, Basel , Carl Schlotterbeck (1874–1945), had a large garage built in Basel as early as 1927/28. The rapid emergence of the automobile, which made the construction of large garages necessary in the big cities, as well as the development in the construction industry made it possible for the first time to build a frame of this size from steel and reinforced concrete. The monumental, valuable, but not protected, industrial heritage object was demolished in 1994.
Schlotterbeck's large Zurich garage was built in the 1950s as a Citroën garage in a central location on Badenerstrasse in Zurich- Aussersihl and offered space for 120 employees. The two architects had already created similar buildings in Biel and Basel.
building
The garage building consists of a forward exhibition and sales room, a tower with - in a double helix - access ramps and a rectangular workshop building with mushroom supports.
The exhibition room facing Badenerstrasse with its large panes of glass served as a sales room for new cars. In the tower behind it with a semi-cylindrical body and the narrow row of windows at the upper edge there are two ramps, which turn around their own axis side by side like a corkscrew and in opposite directions and serve as access ramps to the factory halls. The outer lane was used to drive the cars up the two floors, the inner one to go down. In the past, this service road concept enabled efficient garage operation, thanks to the two lanes there were no traffic jams.
Behind the tower there is a hall over 30 meters high and more than 200 years old. It was built far beyond what was then the city limits in the still undeveloped Aussersihl. The hall, which was raised by two floors in the 1960s, served the Schlotterbeck large garage as a workshop and storage room. The facade on the ground floor with the checkered, light-emitting windows developed by steel girders - at that time there were no large panes - from the 19th century is a witness of industrialization .
In 1974 the garage was gently renovated. Much of it is still in its original condition today. In the tower and in the exhibition room, the floor consists of gray tiles with a geometric pattern. In 2011 the garage was closed because Citroën moved to a less central location. The halls are to be converted into apartments, the listed tower will be preserved.
literature
- Carl Schlotterbeck-Simon: By bike, motorcycle and car to the Gross-Garage Schlotterbeck, 1900-1934: the story of a development. C. Schlotterbeck Automobile AG, Basel 1934
Web links
- Tages-Anzeiger from February 13, 2010: A cathedral for the car
- Museum of Design, Zurich: Citroën Schlotterbeck car workshop, 1962
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss Society for the History of Technology and Industrial Culture: Grossgarage Schlotterbeck in Basel (PDF; 171 kB)
- ↑ HelveticArchives , accessed on June 2, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '47.3 " N , 8 ° 30' 22.3" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and nineteen / 248212