House Allee 72 (Heilbronn)
The house at Allee 72 in Heilbronn was the building of the Heilbronn local health insurance fund , built by the architects Emil Beutinger and Adolf Steiner . It was one of the magnificent buildings on Heilbronner Allee in the period before the First World War . In its place, an AOK administration building planned by Rudolf Gabel was built in the post-war period .
1st building: Emil Beutinger and Adolf Steiner (1913)
The building of the local health insurance fund was built at Allee 72, at the corner of Allee / Turmstrasse, in July 1913 by the Heilbronn architects Emil Beutinger and Adolf Steiner as a “veritable modern” house. After the destruction in the air raid on Heilbronn , its ruins were laid down on April 20, 1951.
2nd building: Rudolf Gabel (1951)
The new administration building of the AOK was built according to plans by Rudolf Gabel, and the neighboring area of the Liederkranz Society House was also built over. The building erected in 1951/1952 was referred to as an "administration building with heavy traffic". It was considered a "first-rate cultural work" (Reg.-Dir. Bretz).
Exterior
The fulcrum of the building was in the corner of Allee and Turmstrasse through a withdrawn main entrance on the northwest corner with a spacious entrance hall on the north side. In the corner of the building there is a column covered with mosaic.
The facade on the west side facing the avenue has a reinforced concrete construction with a fair-faced concrete grid and is determined by the symmetry of the windows and floors - a “well thought-out symmetry of the window arrangement” with a “strongly emphasized cassette”. The coffering of the facade created a “strong movement” in the structure. While the floors were emphasized in a light tone, the parapets were set off with a dark green color.
Counter hall
The core of the building is the large counter hall on the ground floor, with various office rooms in front of it on both long sides. This was 27 m long, 15 m wide and 4.5 m high. At that time it was the largest ticket hall that Heilbronn had received. Special emphasis was placed on the color scheme. Plastering in light umbra gave the room depth, contrasted by the “rich brown-red hue” of the doors. While the counters were moved with gray Wallenfels limestone, the floor was laid with gray stoneware tiles. When the hall was completed, there was a large skylight in the ceiling of the hall, over which there was a very light steel truss ceiling made of glass.
Artistic jewelry
In the counter hall there was a mural by the painter PJ Schober, which is supposed to symbolize the age. It is a pure mural with very subdued colors, with gray, blue and brown tones dominating. The picture shows the types of motherliness, youth, man and old age. There are children playing, a young man with a violin, a young girl with a flower in her hand, a man leading a horse, a woman with a baby and an old man in the vineyard. The figures were held together by the frieze-like earth. In the group on the left was the figure of a mother with child against a background of blue puffy cloth.
In the entrance hall there was a sgraffito relief with two mosaic-covered columns. In the relief, the helping element was symbolized in the group of two women. One of the two women is exhausted, the other is helping her with water from a spring.
3rd building: Roland Kinderlen (1996)
In 1996, according to plans by Roland Kinderlen, a new building was added to the old building from the 1950s. It is on two sides at the intersection. The building consists of a combination of concrete, aluminum and glass and is crowned by a disc-shaped plate with a glazed viewing terrace.
literature
- Bernhard Lattner, Joachim Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses . 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 .
- Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 34 ). Volume VI: 1945-1951. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 .
- Roland Reitmann: The avenue in Heilbronn. Functional change of a street (= small series of publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 2 ). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1971.
Individual evidence
- ^ Reitmann: The avenue in Heilbronn. P. 29, p. 30.
- ↑ Lattner, Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. P. 45: Moments of edification - urban self-confidence and urban planning - Heilbronn is growing steadily. And Emil Beutinger (1875 - 1957) architect ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Renz, Schlösser: Chronicle Heilbronn… 1945–1951. P. 494.
- ↑ The example - the architect and his helpers in construction - Heilbronn. (Published on behalf of the architects BDA of the Heilbronn am Neckar district group: August Abele, Herbert Alber, Rudolf Baer, Erik Beutinger, Eugen Dürr, Heinrich Fellmann, Rudolf Gabel, Wolf v. Hagen, Wilhelm Hagner, Adolf Hanselmann, Richard Heeg, Julius Hofmann , Paul Kern, Gustav Kistenmacher, Kurt Marohn, Hannes Mayer, Karl Messerschmidt, Adolf Mössinger, Karl Mogler, Ottmar Schär, Richard Scheffler, Richard Schmeißer, J. Vassillière, Hermann Wahl, Hans Gerber), Heidenheimer Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Heidenheim an der Brenz , June 1953, p. 15.
- ↑ -lostro-: The finished work praises the master. Heilbronn can be proud of its new AOK! In: Neckar-Echo . November 10, 1952, p. 3 .
- ↑ hf: CONTEMPORARY HOUSE OF AOK Heilbronn. A new lively functional building. Clear dispositions, lots of light and practicality determine it. - Artistic jewelry in the entrance and counter hall. In: Neckar-Echo . November 8, 1952, p. 5-7 .
- ↑ ing: The new building of the local health insurance fund Heilbronn is inaugurated today. Example of the beauty of the functional. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 262 , November 8, 1952, pp. 5 .
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 95.
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 41.3 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 24.6 ″ E