House Mertens (Lüneburger Strasse 22)

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Lüneburger Strasse 22, 2013
View from the north
View from the south

The house Mertens was a listed residential and commercial building in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt . It was demolished in 2013.

location

The building was on the west side of Lüneburger Strasse at its northern end in Magdeburg's Alte Neustadt district at the address Lüneburger Strasse 22 . Opposite the house, Agnetenstrasse joins Lüneburger Strasse. The Haus Mertens monument (Lüneburger Strasse 23) is located south of the site . Immediately to the north runs the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line , which bridges Lüneburger Strasse over the Lüneburger Strasse railway bridge.

Architecture and history

The representative four-storey building was erected in 1893/94 on behalf of the master bricklayer Fritz Mertens, who also had the neighboring building erected. The name Haus Mertens also goes back to Mertens, but it is also used in the same way for the neighboring building, Lüneburger Straße 23. The author of the plans for the house was P. Schneider.

The design was in the neo-baroque style and was based on the bourgeois baroque architecture of Magdeburg in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The ten-axis facade of the plastered building was lavish and elegant. The two outer axes emerged as flat risalits and were crowned with tail gables. In front of the first and second floors there was a box bay in the middle two axes . The house had bulging balcony parapets with wrought iron bars. The building was covered with a mansard roof .

While prestigious apartments were housed in the front building, the courtyard was densely built up.

As part of the building group with the neighboring house, but also as part of the ensemble with the Magdeburg-Neustadt train station to the east, the building was considered significant in terms of urban development. It represented the western boundary of the area around the square in front of the Neustädter Bahnhof. Nevertheless, after a long vacancy in October / November 2013, it was demolished due to dilapidation.

In the local register of monuments , the building was recorded as a residential and commercial building under registration number 094 16814.

literature

  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 399.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 399
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, p. 4646

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 50.3 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 21.9"  E