Hansahaus (Leipzig)

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The Hansahaus (2011)

The Hansahaus in Leipzig is a commercial building located in the city center, the history of which is closely linked to the Leipzig Trade Fair . Its historic inner courtyard is a listed building. In connection with Specks Hof, the Hansahaus forms part of the Leipzig passage system.

Building description

The Hansahaus is facing Grimmaische Strasse as a five-story building with a 28-meter-wide steel and glass facade that is divided into four fields. These are spanned by an asymmetrically arranged projecting arch construction. A small glass roof has been installed over the shop entrances and the central portal.

  • The atrium

  • Mercury over the Art Nouveau door

  • Glass roof of the atrium

  • The singing bowl

The portal leads into a 600 m² atrium with a Meissen tile cladding in white and green. Mercury heads are located above the Art Nouveau doors, referring to the former trading activities. The entire courtyard is covered with a steel and glass construction.

The rear exit of the courtyard leads into Speck's courtyard , which connects the Hansahaus to its passages.

In the middle of the atrium is a replica of a bronze water singing bowl from the time of the Chinese Ming dynasty (around 1500 AD). The inscription on the bowl reads: “As you have eyes to see the light and ears to hear sounds, you have a heart with which to perceive time ”. The bowl can be made to ring by rubbing the temples and the rim with wet hands, causing the water to vibrate. The four cardinal points are marked on the floor around the bowl and a clock face is shown on which the time is displayed with a laser beam.

history

Grimmaische Strasse with Hansahaus (1917)

1904–1906, the formerly baroque house at Grimmaische Strasse 13, in which Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) lived as a student in 1746 , was transformed into a trade fair palace with a neo-baroque façade, which is a large, for the Hanseatic head that gave the house its name was adorned, rebuilt. The client was the entrepreneur Richard Pudor (1875–1950). It was the first building that was used exclusively for trade fair purposes. The size of the glass roofing of the atrium in the rear part was a structural novelty.

In 1909 the breakthrough to Specks Hof took place. In 1928, the so-called Salamanderhaus was demolished on the neighboring property at Grimmaische Strasse 15, a new building was erected and functionally connected to the Hansahaus. The Löwenapotheke had its home here from 1592 to 1685 .

During the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the Hansahaus was badly damaged and the front building burned down. It was poorly restored, so that from 1950 the book fair had its domicile here. During the reconstruction in 1958/59 by Rudolf Rohrer (1900–1968), a uniform facade was created for the whole house. In 1963 the book fair moved to the new exhibition center on the market , and from 1970 the Ministry for Foreign Trade of the GDR used the Hansahaus for negotiation purposes .

In connection with the renovation of Specks Hof, the Hansahaus was completely demolished, and the building described above with the restoration of the Art Nouveau inner courtyard and its historical roof glazing was built according to plans by the architects Rhode, Kellermann and Wawrowsky . The house was officially inaugurated on June 25, 1997.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hansahaus  - Collection of Images
  • Hansa house. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved March 27, 2017 .
  • Hansa house. In: ArchitekTouren Leipzig. Retrieved March 27, 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument protection object ID 09303664
  2. ↑ How to play the sound fountain in Leipzig. In: YouTube. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig: the historical travel guide. Publisher: Links, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3861536345 , p. 70
  4. ↑ Wolf-Eberhard Engelmann, Caroline Zoch: The history of the lion pharmacy in Leipzig . Leipziger Blätter , No. 70, 2017, pp. 61–65
  5. ^ Leipzig City Archives - Chronicle 1997. Retrieved on April 1, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '24.1 "  N , 12 ° 22' 38.8"  E