House Allee 18 (Heilbronn)

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The Allee 18 building in Heilbronn, photo from 2007

The house Allee 18 , also Villa Hauck called, was the only house on the avenue in Heilbronn , which was restored after the devastation of World War II, and the last Bauzeugnis prewar building of the avenue. The building still had a historical facade and portal with figurative building sculpture.

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history

Recording from 2011
Ruin when demolished in 2011
Vacant lot at the former location of the building, March 2012
Volksbank Heilbronn with extension on the site of the former Villa Hauck, May 2015

The house was built in 1910 for the Rotarian president and non-party councilor Ludwig Hauck (1870–1939). Hauck ran the Reiner cigar factory, headed the Reich Association of German Cigar Manufacturers and was President of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce until 1933. During the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944, the building was damaged and later rebuilt. In 1950 the house was owned by Werner Hauck. The house was home to Hans Bergdoll's fashion salon and Siller shoe store, the Südwestbank branch was on the first floor and its director Georg Schweikart lived on the second floor. The third floor was also rented. In 1961 there were exhibition and consultation rooms for Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall and the Krüger flower shop on the ground floor. The DAK district office was on the first floor, and the dentist Eugen Prescher had his practice on the second floor. Two apartments were also rented. In 1967 the house was "redesigned" and modernized. It then continued to house the flower shop, the offices of the building society and health insurance as well as the dental practice. The rear part of the house was still used for residential purposes. The Münch Ballet School had been located at 18 Allee since 1971, and in 2008 there was also a bridal shop in the house. Until it was sold to the neighboring Volksbank Heilbronn (Allee 20), the house belonged to a community of heirs. In the course of a new building, the Villa Hauck was demolished in early November 2011.

Art-historical significance and reception

The architecture was part of the " late Baroque style of the French Sun King Louis XIV ". After the air raid, the damaged building was rebuilt in the classicism style. The villa was considered to be “the last structural witness of the historic avenue”. The designs came from the architect Adolf Braunwald , who not only built residential buildings ( Happelstrasse 57 and Rosskampfstrasse 4 ) but also villas for the merchant Rudolf Fuchs and Ludwig Hauck. His most famous work in Heilbronn was the Liederkranzhaus .

The Volksbank's deliberations about demolishing the building, which is not under monument protection, aroused opposition from Heilbronn citizens, who feared the loss of “the last witness to the old avenue”. The Volksbank then agreed to “check what is worth preserving” by means of an architectural competition and to take urban planning aspects into account. Kilian Krauth describes in "Unsuccessful Protest" how much the villa was the subject of disputes between Heilbronn citizens and the Stuttgart regional council and the Baden-Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation. The result of the investigations finally showed that it was neither a cultural monument nor a public interest in the preservation of the villa:

“ The local Agenda 21 citizens' movement protested against the demolition of Villa Hauck without success. She even submitted an urgent application for monument protection to the regional council of Stuttgart. But the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments came to the conclusion that 'it is not a cultural monument'. The reconstruction does not correspond to the quality of the original, and conversions were carried out until the 1960s. Nice details weren't enough. In short: 'A public interest in conservation cannot be established' . "

  • Portal garments with historical figurative building sculpture

  • Portal garments with historical figurative building sculpture on the left

  • Portal garments with historical figurative building sculpture on the right

  • Detail of the portal: initials

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kilian Krauth: What the Heilbronn War left over . In: Heilbronn voice . December 4, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed December 10, 2009]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Kilian Krauth: The last building site on the old avenue falls . In: Heilbronn voice . November 2, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 2, 2011]).
  3. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1950 , Heilbronn 1950.
  4. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1961 , Heilbronn 1961.
  5. ↑ a b Roland Reitmann: The Allee in Heilbronn. Functional change in a street . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1971, p. 33 ( Small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 2).
  6. ↑ Fascination of the ballet . In: Heilbronn voice . July 16, 2002.
  7. ↑ a b Heiko Fritze: Volksbank buys on avenue . In: Heilbronn voice . January 25, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 1, 2009]).
  8. ↑ Kilian Krauth: Volksbank clears the way for new buildings on avenue . In: Heilbronn voice . September 7, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed September 7, 2011]).
  9. ^ Hauck villa on Heilbronner Allee is being demolished . In: Heilbronn voice . October 31, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 2, 2011]).
  10. ↑ a b Kilian Krauth: The last building block of the magnificent mile has it all . In: Heilbronn voice . April 7, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 1, 2009]).
  11. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 . P. 117.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 21.1"  E