House Leipziger Strasse 114 (Berlin)
The house at Leipziger Strasse 114 in Berlin was a commercial building that was built from 1894–1895 to designs by the Berlin architect Hermann Krause (1857–1905) in the historicist style for the D. & B. Löwenberg company (furniture factory and store ). In addition to the Löwenberg furniture store, the building housed various other retail stores. The building no longer exists.
description
The facade was divided into five storeys, whereby the horizontal division above the second storey was particularly emphasized by the installation of a parapet. The facade was structured vertically by two side risers with bay windows and facing gables above . The central axis was emphasized by its excess width.
The two basement floors had a subdivision consisting of five axes, with the upper basement only showing glazed windows lined up with inscriptions.
The three upper floors took Achsgliederung the basements in supraposition again. The two lower storey levels of the central axis were subdivided into three axes through high rectangular windows. The appearance of the adjacent flanking axes was reduced by one window axis. The subdivision into seven window axes was exactly adopted in the attic , and arched windows were used here as a final architectural ornament .
In the triple window in the gable zone above the bay window, the wider, middle window showed a segmental arch as a closure, while the other two, narrower windows had straight lintels. The skylight , which was installed above the middle of the triple windows, had an ogival window canopy . Sims figures "smoothed" the height differences. The portal roofing shows a similar structure .
Front
Blind gable
portal
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Berlin and its buildings . Berlin 1896.
- Wilhelm Kick (Hrsg.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1898.
- Schweizerische Bauzeitung , year 1899, volume 34 ( image online in the image database of the ETH Zurich library , accessed on February 16, 2011.)
Web links
- Holdings on Hermann Krause in the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin (including three sheets on the house at Leipziger Strasse 114), accessed on August 13, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 37.7 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 10.9 ″ E