House of the Three Kings (Leipzig)
The Drei Könige house at Petersstraße 32/34 in Leipzig is a commercial building that was one of the inner-city exhibition centers until 1990. With 2500 m² of exhibition space, it was one of the smallest. Shoes were exhibited there at the Leipzig trade fairs .
The building
The building faces the street with an approximately 19-meter-wide front that is divided into seven window axes. The entire facility extends about 60 meters below the surface and encloses a narrow inner courtyard on the side, about 20 meters long. Four upper floors rise above the ground floor of the front building. The roof is adorned with two rows of dormers with rounded arches . The plaster facade is structured by shell limestone elements. The ground floor zone used by a shop has a five-part round arch structure, with the entrance to the building in the left arch. A two-story bay window rises above this . On the first floor, Georg Albertshofer (1864–1933) depicts the Three Wise Men as sculptures . The bay floor above shows three allegorical figures. On the one hand, the bay window takes up the tradition of the Leipzig baroque bay window and is also a house symbol.
history
In 1680, an inn "To the Three Kings" was described for the left of the two pieces of land that the house now occupies (No. 34). The name and trade were retained during renovations and new buildings until the beginning of the 20th century.
In the 1860s, August Bebel set up his woodturning workshop in a former horse stable in the rear building of the Three Kings , which he ran until 1876, and he lived on the first floor.
The houses on both lots were demolished in 1915 to make way for a trade fair building. The figures of the three kings, which were located in the window front of the first floor, were given to the city history museum .
The new exhibition center was built from April 1915 to February 1916, i.e. during the First World War . These data are also in the middle of the bay window together with the slogan "Trusted in victory - built in war". The architects were Gustav Pflaume and Julius Nebel from Leipzig and Hans Stöcklein from Munich. The name of the former restaurant was taken over as the name of the reinforced concrete structure. For more than 70 years it was the center of the shoe fair. The restaurant tradition was initially continued in the new building with the “Drei Könige” coffee house on the ground floor.
With the transition to trade fairs from 1990 instead of the old universal trade fair concept, the Drei Könige exhibition center was converted into an office building.
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 83 .
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 116 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leipzig - its passages, courtyards and exhibition halls in detail. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig. (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15) . Leipzig 1931, p. 61 . Reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 .
- ↑ "Drei Könige" exhibition center. In: Leipzig Days. Retrieved May 15, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 28 ″ E