House Auerbach (Jena)

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Haus Auerbach in 1924 shortly after completion
Street side of the house 2015

The house Auerbach is a residential building in Jena West district Schaefferstrasse 9, by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer designed the 1924th It is the first private project that Gropius carried out and the last that he designed together with Meyer. Originally it was the home of Felix Auerbach and his wife Anna, née Silbergleit, who lived there until they committed suicide in 1933. After a long vacancy, it was restored and placed under monument protection with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Building description

The design follows the design language of the so-called New Building , the Bauhaus , but also the aesthetic principles of the artists and architects' association De Stijl . The main forms of the building are two cuboids, which for the first time penetrate each other at right angles in a kind of modular system. This entanglement of the geometric form was new and replaced the closed design that had previously prevailed at Gropius and Meyer.

The three-storey building with a basement is located on a slight slope and is made of smooth plastered masonry made of so-called "Jurko stone". These are slabs made of slag concrete, alluvial stone or pumice stone with a cement bond, which are built up as hollow block masonry.

The flat roof has a roof terrace. There is also a balcony and a loggia glazed as a winter garden in a steel construction . The larger cube extends over all three floors and contains the utility and sanitary rooms for an upper-class household. A laundry room and a large drying room are located in the attic so that the rainwater collected in a cistern could be used for laundry. The smaller cuboid, extending over two floors, contains the central living room in addition to other rooms. From the outside, the separation of business and living areas is not recognizable. The windows are made of wood in different shapes that are borrowed from contemporary industrial architecture.

During the restoration in 1994/95 it became clear that the original color concept commissioned by the architects had been implemented by Alfred Arndt and was still there. The facade in white and the interiors in pastel tones, which range from pale red, pastel blue, light turquoise, olive green to dove gray. The color transitions are not only present at the edges of the room, but also in the area.

literature

  • The Auerbach house in Jena and the old color scheme . In: Malerblatt . tape 68 , no. 10 . Stuttgart 1997, OCLC 200842341 , p. 18-21 .
  • Ulrich Müller: The garden of the Auerbach house in Jena. In: garden art . New episode, issue 1, November 1999, ISSN  0935-0519 , p. 95-109 .
  • Gabriele Betz: Walter Gropius and Alfred Arndt: Villa Auerbach in Jena (=  preserve & design . No. 6 ). Mk, specialist publisher for customer magazines, Augsburg 2005, OCLC 76720690 ( haus-auerbach.de [PDF]).
  • Barbara Happe, Martin S. Fischer: Auerbach House by Walter Gropius: with Adolf Meyer . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86859-564-2 ( issuu.com ).
  • The spirit of the Auerbachs: Jena married couple lives in Gropius-Bau . In: Thüringische Langeszeitung . November 24, 2018 ( tlz.de ).
  • Amelie Seck: Colorful is my favorite color . In: Monuments. Magazine for monument culture . Issue 2, 2019, ISSN  0941-7125 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Auerbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdr.de
  2. ↑ haus-auerbach.de
  3. ↑ denkmalschutz.de
  4. ↑ Ulf Meyer: Bauhaus 1919–1933. Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3613-4 , p. 26.


Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 27.1 ″  E