House Leonhardstrasse 13
The house at Leonhardstraße 13 in Stuttgart-Mitte is the head building of a triangular building block, which includes two wing buildings at Leonhardstraße 11 and Weberstraße 9. The building block was built according to the plans of the architect Theodor Fischer in 1906 on behalf of the Association for the Welfare of the Working Class as a workers' residence and office building. The head building at Leonhardstrasse 13 is a listed building.
history
Around 1900 the living conditions in what was then Stuttgart's old town were catastrophic. The residents suffered from poor ventilation and light in the overpopulated houses in the narrow streets. Added to this were the inadequate structural fabric of the buildings, poor heating options and a lack of water pipes. The city of Stuttgart usually left it to the private sector to improve housing conditions. In this situation, the association for the well-being of the working classes took the initiative to renovate the old town. It was decided to demolish the existing houses and build new ones, as the old buildings did not seem fit for renovation.
In 1904, the Association for the Welfare of the Working Class under Eduard Pfeiffer commissioned Theodor Fischer to build a workers' house and office building on the acute-angled property between Wilhelmsplatz, Leonhardstrasse and Weberstrasse. In the spring of 1906 the building was ready for occupancy. 2 shops, 1 workshop and 1 restaurant were accommodated on the ground floor, 10 apartments with 3 and 12 apartments with 2 rooms on the upper floors. The house at Leonhardstraße 13, which was renovated in 2008, is a listed building, but the buildings at Leonhardstraße 11 and Weberstraße 9 are not.
description
location
|
|
The building complex at Leonhardstrasse 13 begins in the southwest across from Wilhelmsplatz. The property of 1,800 square meters extends in a north-easterly direction and encloses an elongated, acute-angled triangle between Leonhardstrasse and Weberstrasse. The buildings on Jakobstrasse were not part of the renovation. The unfavorable shape of the property goes back to the intention of the old town renovators to take into account the history of the quarter and the buildings in the area.
Structure
Fischer decided to split the building complex into three parts. He highlighted the front building with a gable field with a crowning fisherman's arch and a street facade at the gable, as he had already used in the Zeller house in 1903. The 60-meter-long left wing directly adjoins the front building, against which the shorter, 50-meter-long right wing leans at an acute angle.
The front building comprises four floors and a dwelling, the wing buildings are three floors high and end with an attic under a mansard roof. The facade of the left wing is loosened up by a dwelling, the facade of the right wing by an angular stair tower with a conical roof and internal loggias. The arrangement of the individual buildings resulted in two courtyards: the outer courtyard between the wings and the inner courtyard on Weberstrasse, so that sufficient ventilation and light for the apartments was guaranteed.
reception
- Theodor Fischer, application for exemption from the building regulations, 1906
- “The endeavor to interrupt the long main cornice line on Leonhardstrasse in the interest of the street scene, prompted the construction of a transept, the installation of which I ask for permission. According to the BOOV [building regulations], the construction of the mansard roof, which in a form submitted for approval here, is a landmark of traditional architecture in the newly emerging district on Leonhardstr. would form. On the other hand, in line with the efforts of the building association in favor of the street and the neighbors, a profit-seeking speculative use of the building area was avoided. The component on the front Weberstrasse steps back considerably behind the building line and the resulting courtyard space comes not only to the new building, but also to the neighbor Wilhelmsplatz, which means a source of hygienic advantages for the buildings on those streets. Here the new building could perhaps have been carried out up to a height of 20 m. instead, the plan over the approx. 11 m resp. 13.50 high main cornice only gable-like constructions of moderate size, so that the hygienic advantages of Wilhelmsplatz can benefit much more extensive parts of the new building than if it was expanded to the permissible height. "
- For construction site and workshop, 1906
- “Appropriate to the conditions of the residents and the surrounding area, part of the old town, the assembly is kept very simple and designed more for a painterly effect. There is even something stately about the front view. The small courtyards with archways, porches, small extensions, front and rear windows on Weberstrasse are attractive, while the front on Leonhardstrasse is treated in a very matter-of-fact and simple manner. The whole assembly, executed in white plaster, the shutters painted blue-green and the roofs covered with beaver tails, makes a very friendly and cozy, homely impression. "
- Bernd Langner: Non-profit housing construction around 1900 , 1994
- “Without a doubt, Fischer did not have an easy task, because his new building was to be built on an elongated triangle at the acute angle between Leonhardstrasse and Weberstrasse. Here in particular, an unorthodox and imaginative solution was required, in order not to overly condense the space with poorly lit apartments, especially in the rear part of the building. Fischer opted for a block structured in area with a long section to Leonhardstrasse and a smaller section to Weberstrasse, attached at an acute angle. With this division he created an inner and an outer courtyard and was able to light and ventilate the rooms in the center of the street triangle in an inexpensive way. "
- State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg, justification of the monument status of the house at Leonhardstrasse 13
- “The preservation of the building, which is a simple example of the traditional southern German architecture of Fischer, which should have an educational effect in Stuttgart and at the same time testify to the high-quality social housing of an association important for Stuttgart, consists of (architectural) scientific, artistic and local history reasons public interest."
literature
- Building group Weberstrasse in Stuttgart. In: For construction sites and workshops. Notices from the advice center for the construction industry, Volume 1, 1906, pages 25-27.
- Stuttgart. Workers houses. In: Rose Hajdu (photos); Dietrich Heißenbüttel: Theodor Fischer. Architecture of the Stuttgart years. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2018, pages 74-77.
- Bernd Langner: Non-profit housing construction around 1900. Karl Hengerer's buildings for the Stuttgart Association for the Welfare of the Working Class. Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 1994, pages 155-159, 161, 162.
- Claudia Schinkiwicz: Workers' houses, Stuttgart, Weberstrasse 9 / Leonhardstrasse 11/15. In: Winfried Nerdinger: Theodor Fischer. Architect and town planner 1862–1938. Exhibition catalog of the architecture collection of the Technical University of Munich and the Munich City Museum. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1988, pp. 214–215, 44.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ # Langner 1994 , pp. 154-155.
- ↑ # Langner 1994 , page 156.
- ↑ # Langner 1994 , page 155.
- ↑ #Schinkiwicz 1988.2 , page 214.
- ↑ # Building group 1906 , page 27.
- ↑ # Langner 1994 , page 156, 158.
- ↑ #Hajdu 2018 , page 76.
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '18.1 " N , 9 ° 10' 45.1" E