Hagenbucher (Heilbronn)
The Hagenbucher is a former warehouse on the Kraneninsel in Heilbronn . The six-storey building was erected in 1936 and stood alone on the Neckar Island from 1959 until construction of the Experimenta extension began in 2016. It was a commercial warehouse until 1988 and then served cultural purposes until the spring of 2008, above all the New Art in Hagenbucher sponsored by the city of Heilbronn . The building has been extensively rebuilt since May 2008 and has housed the experimenta science center since November 2009 , the largest of its kind in southern Germany.
history
Construction and use as an oil seed storage facility
The company, which was founded in the 19th century and was one of the largest oil producers in the German Empire, took over the repeatedly renovated mill on Kraneninsel in 1916 in order to extract oils, fats and animal feed from oil fruits . The massive construction of the new storage building from 1936 is due to the heavy weight of the oil fruits to be stored there. Even on the third floor, the floor can be loaded with up to three tonnes per square meter. The actual oil factory was connected to the northwest towards Kranenstrasse.
During the Second World War , the building's basement served as an air raid shelter. During the air raid on Heilbronn , some of the buildings on Kraneninsel were severely damaged. The other buildings were blown up in 1956 and completely removed. The demolition of the extremely massive warehouse building was omitted for cost reasons, so that the Hagenbucher was the only remaining building on the island. After Carl Hagenbucher & Sons disappeared in 1959, the building came into the possession of the city of Heilbronn. For the time being, the building was rented to Rhenania and other companies as storage space , but as early as 1959 there were plans for another use as part of a planned recreation area on the Neckar Islands.
New art in the Hagenbucher
In August 1988, the city of Heilbronn gave the third floor of the recently vacated building to the gallery owner Mechthild Bauer-Babel for a ten-day performance. In March 1989, Bauer-Babel received permission to use the second floor of the building for events until further notice. The city waived rent claims for 1989, and low rents were agreed for later years. The second floor and occasionally other parts of the building then housed the New Art in Hagenbucher , which was funded by the City of Heilbronn with around a third of the costs , for installation art and performances by Birgir Andrésson , Kurt App , Janusz Bałdyga , Monika for about 20 years Bartholomé , Thomas Buts , Margret Eicher , Hannes Forster , Dorothea Frigo , Almut Glinin , Roland Graeter , Christian Hasucha , Carola Heine , Ulrike Hein , Rolf Julius , Sornitza Kalinova , Nadia Kevan , Verena Kraft , Mischa Kuball , Christina Kubisch , Inge Mahn , Valerian Maly , Susanna Messerschmidt , Antoni Mikolajczyk , Brygida Ochaim , Kurt Petz , Brigitte Pfaffenberger , Li Portenlänger , Gabi Rets , Dorothee Rocke , Matthias Schamp , Klara Schilliger , Eva-Maria Schön , Georg Schweitzer , Peter Spielbauer , Michael Stephan , Anna Tretter , Hans-Peter Webel , Tomek Wendland and Georg Winter could be seen. A special feature of the series of events can be that the works shown always refer to the architectural features of the approximately 550 square meter, trapezoidal and pillared room or had to integrate the room as part of the work. From 1999 the character of the New Art in the Hagenbucher changed to so-called storage of art objects, which referred to the original purpose of the building. In addition to some of the works mentioned above, there were works by Uli Aigner , Johanna Bartl , Roland Boden , Christoph Frick , Ruth Handschin , Adi Hoesle , Kazuo Katase , Tünde Kovàcs , Stephan Kurr , Michael Laukemann , Silke Leverkühne , Hanns-Michael Rupprechter , Ushio Sakusabe , Steffen Schlichter , Andreas Karl Schulze "stored" there. The series of events at the Long Table , which began in 2003, created special contact with the artists .
The rest of the building was meanwhile used by the city of Heilbronn for various purposes, including for exhibitions of the Heilbronn Art Association and changing exhibitions of the city museum, for the restoration of archaeological finds and for the storage of machines and school inventory. In 1990 a new elevator was installed.
Museum plans
When drawing up the framework for the Heilbronn municipal museums in 1985/86, the Heilbronn municipal council provided for the establishment of a Robert Mayer Museum in honor of the Heilbronn physicist Robert Mayer in the Hagenbucher. However, since the large museum complex in Deutschhof was inaugurated in 1990/91, the first detailed conception for a museum in Hagenbucher was only available in 1995. In 1999, the municipal museums proposed the establishment of a Neckarpark museum "Nature - People - Technology" in Hagenbuch, a departure from the older framework plan . This concept primarily comprised regional focus topics such as Neckar shipping. In June 2001 the municipal council presented a concept for the use of the Stuttgart Atelier Brückner as a cultural store "Museum of Regional Resources" , and in November 2001 a public call was made to come up with ideas on further concepts for using the building. In April 2002 a committee of experts met in Hagenbucher and discussed the concepts previously presented for the building. However, the local council postponed a decision scheduled for June 2002 on future use and then postponed the museum project for financial reasons in March 2003 until further notice.
Science Center experimenta
Ultimately, the decision was made to set up the Science Center experimenta , which, as a museum with a school laboratory, is intended to arouse enthusiasm for technology and natural sciences among young people.
In 2006, the city of Heilbronn announced an architectural competition for young architects to redesign the building. The competition envisaged the renovation and expansion of the building in order to finally obtain a total area of around 5,200 square meters instead of the previous 4,000 square meters of usable space. The construction costs should not exceed 10 million euros. In 2007, among the designs submitted, the decision was made in favor of those by the Berlin architecture firm studioinges .
From May 2008 to autumn 2009 the building was rebuilt and an annex was added on the north side. The Science Center opened on November 12th, 2009 and has since been the largest facility of its kind in southern Germany.
description
The core of the Hagenbucher is a trapezoidal reinforced concrete frame building with clinker brickwork and a slightly sloping flat roof. The building has a basement and six storeys on top, each around four meters high. The dimensions of the base sides are 33.72 meters on the north side, 20.31 meters on the south side, 25.00 meters on the east side and 24.60 meters on the west side. The height of the building to the roof parapet is 24.80 meters. The reinforced concrete skeleton of the building consists of 22 pillars, each about four meters away from the walls and from each other and tapering from the basement to the top floor. The floor slabs are each laid as concrete slab beam ceilings on joists extending from the pillars.
To the east, the building is flush with the bank of the former raft lane of the Neckar between the river islands Kraneninsel and Hefenweiler. An annex was added to the north, partly resting on the side wall of the old engine duct branching off the building. To the north of the building there was a landing stage for loading the oilseeds.
Art historical significance
Today the building is considered an “irreplaceable witness to Heilbronn's architectural history”, which is characterized by the “wise scarcity of form”.
While Joachim J. Hennze assigned the construction to the architect Hermann Wahl in 2005 , Hennze assigned the building to the architect Hermann Steus in 2009, who also built the Villa Angele and the building of the commercial and commercial bank.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Experimenta - Science Center of the Heilbronn-Franken region gGmbH in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-17260
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 70
- ^ Neckar-Echo of February 6, 1959
- ↑ Artist names after www.neue-kunst-im-hagenbucher.de
- ↑ Museo 21/2004, pp. 23-25.
- ↑ Documentation architectural competition on competitionline ( Memento from August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Günther H. Oettinger ceremoniously opens the learning and experience world experimenta Heilbronn ( Memento from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 68
- ↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 146.
literature
- Mechthild Bauer-Babel: workbook New Art in Hagenbuch 1988–1993 , Heilbronn 1993.
Web links
- neue-kunst-im-hagenbucher.de
- Announcement in the construction network for the Hugo Häring Prize 2011
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '37.4 " N , 9 ° 12' 53.9" E