House of the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society

Emanuel-Larisch-Weg 21

Courtyard side

East side of the former dining room

The house of the Watchtower, Biblical and Tract Society is a listed building that is now used as a residential building in the Magdeburg district of Leipziger Strasse in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located at Emanuel-Larisch-Weg 21 on the east side of Emanuel-Larisch-Weg, near the confluence of Emanuel-Larisch-Weg with Wiener Straße, which runs south.

Architecture and history

The building was erected in 1930 by the architect Johannes Boye as a residential and farm building for the Watchtower Biblical and Tract Society , an institution of the Jehovah's Witness community . The three-and-a-half-storey building was built in the New Building style and was intended for the employees of the company's printing and bookbinding department, which was located in a direct extension of the property on Fuchsberg. The address of the building was Saarstrasse 17-19 . The plastered building rests on a base, has a mezzanine and is covered with a flat roof. There is a narrow eaves .

The building consists of three wings. The southern eleven-axis wing runs parallel to the Emanuel-Larisch-Weg. At its north end there is a middle wing to the east, at the east end of which a one or two-storey wing, formerly used as a dining room, is connected to the north.

The rectangular windows of the building are evenly arranged, lying flat and flush with the facade. At the corners of the building, the windows are designed as corner windows, a design typical for the construction period. On the east side of the courtyard there are small, flat ribbon windows . The corner windows and the ribbon windows facing the courtyard are faced with dark hard clinker bricks. The tall, narrow windows in the dining room are set at close intervals.

At the end of the 1930s, the actor Kurt Rackelmann (1910–1973) lived in the building.

After the Second World War , the building was used as a children's hospital. The address was changed by renaming the street first to Wachtturmstraße 17 , then in 1950 to Emanuel-Larisch-Weg 17 . In 1958, Rudolf Bethge made plans for the construction of an auditorium and other additions required for the children's clinic of the Medical Academy Magdeburg , which were then carried out between 1963 and 1967. Its use as a children's hospital ended in 2006.

It was then converted into a residential building. Balconies were placed in front of the street and courtyard facades. The subsequent additions were demolished again. The addressing changed due to a different assignment of the house number in Emanuel-Larisch-Weg 21 .

In the local register of monuments , the building is recorded as a residential and commercial building under registration number 094 70021.

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 , page 186.
• Antje Vargas, Dirk Fiedler, Matthias Risse, Silvian Tourel: Monument with energy efficiency and healthy living. Monument with a solar facade. Two examples. In: Bernhard Weller, Sebastian Horn (eds.): Monument and Energy 2017: Energy efficiency, sustainability and user comfort. Springer, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 162–178.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Magdeburg address book for 1939 , part I, page 302
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, page 2656

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '39.6 "  N , 11 ° 37' 1.9"  E