House Drautz

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Drautz House in Heilbronn
Front garden entrance
Hallway
salon
Villa Drautz and other villas in Bismarckstraße Heilbronn.

The Drautz house at Bismarckstrasse 23 (then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 4, today Friedensplatz 4) in Heilbronn was built in 1905 according to a design by Beutinger & Steiner opposite the Friedenskirche . The figurative architectural decoration came from the sculptor Adolf Amberg .

description

history

The building was built in 1905 for the factory owner Georg Drautz as a residential building based on designs by Beutinger & Steiner. The building was destroyed in 1944 during the air raids on Heilbronn during World War II. At the beginning of the 1950s, a house of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) was built on the old basement foundations of the Art Nouveau building . In 2006 the IHK building was replaced by a representative new building for the Deutsche Rentenversicherung . Today Classic Bautreuhand GmbH & Co. KG uses the house as an office and administration building.

Architecture and architectural decorations

The facades of the building were made of Heilbronn sandstone . The material effect of the sandstone was important. In addition, the Church of Peace opposite and only recently rebuilt influenced the shape of the building. The monumental effect of the house was also important; "A silhouette that is as closed as possible, in the building itself ... a large mass effect" should be achieved. The design of the roof landscape was also complex.

Instead of the main cornice , "continuous [...] belts with [...] chain motifs" were used. The house had double gables , which were decorated with figurative architectural decorations by the Berlin sculptor Adolf Amberg. In the double gables, vertical bands made of chased copper inlays were placed. The representative design of the house referred to the Peace Church on the opposite side, built just a few years earlier. An outside staircase led directly to the upper floors.

The double gables, elaborately designed with sculptural work, also formed a contrast to the lower, more simply designed floors and, with their three-dimensional design elements, were also designed to create a shadow effect. In 1911, the Süddeutsche Bauzeitung emphasized the “rich change” and the “strong shadow effect of the facade, which is strongly exposed to light ”. The double gable was connected by a construction comparable to an attic .

The garden architecture and the interior furnishings were also designed by Beutinger and Steiner and designed down to the last detail.

reception

The trade journal Der Profanbau. In 1907, the magazine for commercial, industrial and transport buildings praised the details, the choice of materials and the harmony of shape and color with the overall surroundings. The building was considered an outstanding masterpiece of the architects and a patrician house of modern style:

“Your masterpiece is likely to be the Drautz House in Heilbronn, which was completed two years ago (1905) [...] It is a patrician house in a modern style, the likes of which we only have few on the streets of big cities [...] with the creation of such buildings, the artistic one grows Power that is particularly filled by the sensitivity of understanding builders. "

literature

  • Beutinger & Steiner: The Drautz House in Heilbronn , in: Communications of the Württemberg Arts and Crafts Association, year 1907/1908, issue 1, pp. 21-30. ( Digitized version )
  • The secular building. Journal of Commercial, Industrial and Transport Buildings, No. 19, October 1, 1907.
  • House Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p. 161, XXI. Born in Munich, May 27, 1911.
  • Georg Scherer (April 18, 1874; October 1, 1944): The newer architecture in Heilbronn . In: Deutschlands Städtebau: Heilbronn aN (edited and published by the city administration), 2nd edition, DARI Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag Berlin-Halensee 1928, pp. 45–54, there p. 51: "Private house on Bismarckstrasse" .

Web links

Commons : Haus Drautz (Heilbronn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn database Heuss 39484
  2. ↑ Economic Service No. 10/1951 with articles on the inauguration of the house
  3. ↑ Ulrike Bauer: "No pension contributions wasted". Deutsche Rentenversicherung defends its new building on Heilbronner Friedensplatz . In: Heilbronn voice . May 11, 2006 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 27, 2015]).
  4. ↑ Classic Construction Trust ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Official website with a photo of the building  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luick.de
  5. ↑ “In the process, consideration was given to the fact that the stone - Heilbronn sandstone - comes into its own as such; therefore it shows only a manual processing with the tools of the stone mason. As far as the colors of the stones are concerned, they were all used as provided by the quarry, which resulted in a colored picture of real material, which was re-joined by processing. ”(Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p 161, Volume XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  6. ↑ “The house stands on the southwest corner of Kaiser Wilhelmplatz, on which the Romanesque Church of Peace rises. The architects determined the proximity of this structure, initially in the shape of the building for a silhouette that was as closed as possible, and in the building itself for a large mass effect; but refrain from the Romanesque style ”. (Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p. 161, Volume XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  7. ↑ "The entire wall body is joined by the gable roof, into which the transverse building cuts [...] The roof is to be documented both to emphasize the main entrance via this protruding and to separate the front facade and the kitchen from the outside". (Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p. 161, Volume XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  8. ↑ a b “The two gables are organically connected by the attic-like solution. A similar binding motif at the height where the main cornice is usually located is achieved by the continuous straps with the chain motif ”. (Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p. 161, year XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  9. ↑ "The beautiful sandstone material with the figural decoration of the gable, the latter by sculptor Adolf Amberg-Berlin - the vertical bands are enlivened by embossed copper inlays - naturally increases the nobility and the symmetry of this building, one of its surroundings - there is a new one on the square Romanesque church (Friedenskirche) had to receive a corresponding note. The double gables mark the location of the house ”. (Source: Der Profanbau , 3rd year 1907, p. 293.)
  10. ↑ Germany's urban development: Heilbronn aN , (edited and published by the city administration) 2nd edition DARI Deutscher Architektur und Industrieverlag Berlin-Halensee 1928.
  11. ↑ Drautz House. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , No. 21, p. 161, XXI. Vintage, Munich, May 27th. 1911.
  12. ↑ “For this reason, the architects kept the two lower floors completely plain and only began with the decoration on the gables, where the soft lines of the broken wall surfaces together with the richly embossed pendants that lie in the stone frames create a rich and powerful change Shadow effect of the facade, which is strongly exposed to light, is achieved ”. (Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung. No. 21, p. 161, year XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  13. ↑ “In the sturdy garden wall there are richly forged bars, which are planted with rose roses on the back. The architects designed the garden to be uniform with the building, and all the details of the furnishings throughout the house were specially designed and made ”. (Source: Haus Drautz. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung. No. 21, p. 161, year XXI, Munich, May 27, 1911.)
  14. ^ Der Profanbau , 3rd year 1907, p. 289.
  15. ^ Der Profanbau , 3rd year 1907, p. 293.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 41.7 ″  E