House Kaiserstraße 23 1/2 (Heilbronn)
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The house at Kaiserstraße 23 1/2 in Heilbronn went back to the imperial city parsonage of St. Kilian , later it was the house of the Royal Chamber of Finance and the Higher Regional Court . In 1903/1904 a "typical Art Nouveau building " was built here , built according to plans by the architects Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter . The Art Nouveau building was one of the splendid, representative commercial buildings on Kaiserstrasse, which was the most important street in Heilbronn at the time. The Art Nouveau building was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn . Today there is a residential and commercial building built in 1950 by G. H. Keller's Tuchhandlung based on plans by the Stuttgart architect Hermann Krenz , who also planned the company's headquarters in Stuttgart.
Location and surroundings
The building was located at the traffic junction Kiliansplatz , Kaiserstraße and Sülmerstraße and counted with the two other corresponding buildings to the towers of Kiliansplatz . The name arose from the fact that all three buildings had corner towers that were coordinated with one another and dominated Kiliansplatz in the immediate vicinity of Kilian's Church.
The city of Heilbronn had undergone a major change as a result of industrialization, with the breakthrough of Kaiserstraße as a thoroughfare to the east towards the avenue and the establishment of the Heilbronn tram lines crossing at Kiliansplatz from 1894 to 1897 triggered urban development impulses, which included numerous buildings the Kaiserstrasse were renewed.
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history
"Pfarrhove" (St. Kilian) / Royal Finance Chamber / Higher Administrative Court
A building at this point was first mentioned in documents in 1408 as a parish and from 1485 as a parsonage. The establishment of a fountain has been handed down to us in 1601. The building was owned by the municipal foundation until the early 19th century, before it was swapped with the Schöntaler Hof and given to the Royal Chamber of Finance. It then served as the seat of the Higher Regional Court from until 1862. In 1863 it was sold by the state to businessman Albert Schmidt. In 1901 the three-storey classicist building came into the hands of the construction company Koch & Mayer, which demolished the building in 1902 for a new building.
"Pillar of Kiliansplatz" (architects Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter)
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Owned by the Koch & Mayer construction business since 1901, the old building was demolished and an Art Nouveau building was built in 1903 according to the plans of the architects Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter .
On the left side of the house there was an "oppositely curved blind gable with foliage decorations ". The building sculpture of the gable consisted of a conch , child and fruit festons . Below the front gable was a "double bay window closed off by a balcony".
On the right side of the house was a "cornered three-story bay window that rests on consoles with round arches over the main entrance [e]". The corner ended in a "turret with a lantern and a hood".
The tower structure corresponded to the turrets and lanterns of the two opposite houses 25 and 40, which were therefore called "the three pillars of Kiliansplatz".
Like the entire city center of Heilbronn , the house was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944.
Residential and commercial building (architect Hermann Krenz)
On October 15, 1950, the residential and commercial building of the company GH Keller's Tuchhandlung was opened at the same location according to plans by the Stuttgart architect Hermann Krenz, who had also built the main Stuttgart business of this company.
reception
A contemporary quote describes Kaiserstraße in the Wilhelminian era:
“Boulevard of the Wilhelminian era ... The city's most representative commercial buildings on Kaiserstrasse; Together with Bahnhofstrasse, it formed a metropolitan boulevard in the heart of the city. "
The Art Nouveau building located at the traffic junction Kiliansplatz, Kaiserstraße and Sülmerstraße has remained the subject of depiction even after its destruction:
- In 1980 the artist Hubert devoted himself to the Art Nouveau building in a modern etching. The work is called: “View of the intersection Kaiserstraße / Sülmerstraße from the south”.
- In 1991, in homage to Heilbronn - early memories ( acrylic / chalk on nettle) , Rolf Friederichs dedicated himself to the historic corner building at Kaiserstraße 23 1/2, as it seems to crash into the tram passing underneath. The striking corner house is flanked by the Hafenmarkt Tower:
“Rolf Friederichs brings over 50 years of experience in and with the city to his implusive four-part 'Homage to Heilbronn' . With a nervous line he reflects on the cityscape before the destruction, which almost threatens to collapse on the little boy, shows the burning city and the reconstruction and comments on today's Heilbronn, where 'commerce outweighs culture' and industry rules. Friederichs copies two images on top of each other in an exciting way and integrates the title into the image as lettering. "
literature
- Marianne Dumitrache, Simon M. Haag: Archaeological city cadastre Baden-Württemberg. Volume 8: Heilbronn. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-927714-51-8 , p. 116.
- Friedrich Albrecht: History of the Schöntaler Hof. In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice. 42nd year, No. 6, Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn October 1996, p. 4f.
- Werner Heim: The Württemberg Zehnthof in Heilbronn. In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice. 18th year, No. 8, Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn August 12, 1972, p. 2f.
- Helmut Schmolz: Heilbronn . In: Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg - Explanations. Epithet to Map IV, 8: Outlines of Medieval Towns III , Stuttgart 1976, 10 No. 63.
- Wilhelm Steinhilber: The health system in old Heilbronn. Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn 4 , Heilbronn 1956, appendix city plan reconstruction no.56.
- Document book of the city of Heilbronn. 1st tape , edit . v. Eugen Knupfer. Württemberg historical sources 5 , Stuttgart 1904, 416a.
- Document book of the city of Heilbronn. 2nd tape , edit. v. Moriz v. Smoke. Württemberg historical sources 15 , Stuttgart 1913, nos. 1400a, 1289 b, 1596a, 1657.
- Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn , ed. v. kgl. statistical state office. Volume 2, Part 1, Stuttgart 1903, 66.
- Ludwigsburg, State Archives F 56 Bü 39, Bü 275.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ from the website The Virtual Exhibition on City History on stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ a b c d e Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach (ed.): Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. (= Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn , 15.) Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1967, Volume 2, p. 16 (No. 14: Kiliansplatz between 1931 and 1934) .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 8, 2011 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.
- ↑ Uwe Jacobi describes the building as an example of the elaborate architectural style of the founding years at the turn of the 20th century: Features: imposing portal , facing gables , consoles , round arches , multi-storey bay windows and turrets with lanterns and hoods . Compare Uwe Jacobi: Heilbronn, a lost cityscape. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, p. 30.
- ↑ Reconstruction of the business and residential building of GH Keller's cloth shop in Heilbronn am Neckar. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 239 , October 14, 1950, p. 8 .
- ^ The virtual exhibition on city history on stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ http://heuss.stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de/index.php?f=/_bin/img.php&imgf=/bilder/56787.jpg&
- ↑ Andreas Sommer: Sensual attempts at knowledge. Summer exhibition of the Künstlerbund Heilbronn in the Kreissparkasse . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 211 , September 11, 1981, pp. 24 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 31.2 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 12.7" E