House Badstrasse 64 (Heilbronn)

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The house at Badstrasse 64
Demolition of the house at Badstrasse 64

The house at Badstrasse 64 in Heilbronn , also called Villa Angele , was a residential building in the neo-baroque style. It was demolished in February 2010 despite popular protests.

history

The Villa Angele was built in 1925 according to plans by the architect Hermann Steus for the entrepreneur Berta Angele in neo-baroque style. The building had bay windows, balconies, semicircular windows with keystones and a copper-covered turret. Angeles family ran a laundry and ironing room here until 1944. During the air raid on Heilbronn in the Second World War , the villa was largely spared as one of the few buildings near the completely destroyed city center. Only the roof was damaged. After the war, the Angele steam-washing facility was still located there. The laundry employed between 30 and 50 workers, “including washerwomen, stokers and drivers”. In addition, several apartments were rented. The Blomert family lived in one of the apartments from 1958, and their son Reinhard Blomert later became a well-known sociologist. The last occupant of the house was an artist who had her studio in it. She moved out in late 2009.

Demolition 2010

At the end of 2009 the company Lidl & Schwarz bought the house with the plan to demolish it. The reason was the planned rounding up of the adjacent Kaufland facility, in front of whose goods delivery and international sampling center the building was located. The company belongs to the corporate empire of Heilbronn's honorary citizen and founder Dieter Schwarz , which led to controversy. Against the demolition of the residential building, which was described in the press as a "piece of ... formative architecture in Heilbronn", the citizens' movement Local Agenda 21 campaigned .

The demolition was possible, among other things, because the building was not a listed building. Although there was still a historic staircase, wood paneling and stucco inside, the monument authorities assessed the changes made in the house since 1925 as too strong to prevent demolition. In addition, according to the monument office, the building was "nothing special from a national perspective [...], and the architect is only second in line". Nonetheless, the Heilbronn conservationist Joachim J. Hennze pointed out that when evaluating historical building material, the focus should be on the whole of Germany. A building cannot be placed under monument protection "if [it] is significant for the city's history, but insignificant from a supraregional perspective."

Web links

Commons : Badstraße 64 (Heilbronn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudi Fritz: Angele-Villa. The demolition could not be prevented . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . February 17, 2010 ( from stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on February 20, 2010]).
  2. ↑ Kilian Krauth: The future of the yellow villa is open . In: Heilbronn voice . January 14, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on January 23, 2010]).
  3. ↑ kra: The secret of the wealth of cities is in the houses . In: Heilbronn voice . January 13, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 24, 2010]).
  4. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1950 , Heilbronn 1950.
  5. ↑ Kilian Krauth: Kaufland is tearing down the yellow villa on Badstrasse . In: Heilbronn voice . February 16, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 18, 2010]).
  6. ↑ Joachim Friedl: Ober sticht Unter with demolition of the villa . In: Heilbronn voice . February 13, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 18, 2010]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 11.5 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 35.2 ″  E