Hermberg's house
The Hermberg'sche Haus in Johannisstrasse (today Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse ) No. 23 in Lübeck was built in 1910/1911 and, in contrast to other new buildings of the time, was well received. It is a listed building.
prehistory
The Lübeck Council Secretary and Councilor Johann Engelstede lived on the property from 1562 . Another house, the existence of which can be traced back to 1627, previously stood on the site of the Hermberg house. The merchant Mollwo lived there from 1795 and died the following year. Then it was bought by the merchant Carl August Jarck , who in 1803 became the first Prussian consul in Lübeck . To mark the house as a consulate, the Prussian coat of arms, the Frederickian flying black eagle with scepter and sword, was affixed to it, which is still preserved over the main door of the later built Hermberg house. The Colsmann guesthouse was located in the older building from 1861 . In 1871 it was bought by Thomas Bruhn 's father, from whom his son took it over and now used it as the office of the fire insurance company . In 1889 it came into the possession of Professor Dr. Struck before the entrepreneur Hermann Hermberg bought it in 1910 in order to tear it down for the new building.
history
The building, which today is only used for residential purposes, was originally intended for a different purpose.
The architects Hahn & Runge (Carl Hahn and Alfred Runge ) had designed it as a friendly, purpose-built commercial building and production facility for the Hermberg'sche Lithographische Anstalt and lithography and the poster and label factory of Friedrich Wilhelm Hermberg, Paul Wilhelm's son . The house should fit both stately and harmoniously into the street scene. Anyone who goes to the backyard of the house today can still guess the original concept.
As a historicist building , the building was modeled on the plait style and made of brick . Brick ornamentation on a plaster base structurally divides the facade. The front of the house is structured by pilaster strips and raised fields below the windows. The solution to the stairwell question was considered very original. Above the entrance gate in the middle, the three out of line windows, which effectively dismantle the front, indicate this. A wide bay window with a flat, curved end line is in front of the transverse roof . A strongly profiled cornice stretches on both sides of the roof sole up to the exposed central stairwell.
The doors and some of the windows show the characteristic flattened arches. On the left there is a vine door as a side entrance . Whoever walks through it comes to the back yard. The woodwork of the doors was dark brown and green, the rods between the glazing were white.
The house has a special ornament on the two company signs to the right and left of the main entrance on the indicated consoles of the flat pillars flanking the stairwell window. They were poured into clinker and burned. A plate from Statius von Düren , which was found in the old house, served as a stimulus for this . This plate was exceptionally well preserved and represented an equestrian fight . In order not to expose it to weathering, it was not attached to the outside. The artistically designed house number 23 was described as particularly pretty. It was emblazoned on black wrought-iron cartouche in matt gold. An empty coat of arms belonging to the High Renaissance , which was also found when the old house was demolished, was walled in over the side door .
The use of the property and the lighting of the large factory rooms was just as practical as their arrangement. There was a stone grinding shop in the basement , the machine room with the large high-speed presses on the ground floor . Above was the transfer press room . The lithographic studio and the bookbinding shop were on the second floor . The photographic studio and paint shop were located on the third floor . Toilets and cloakrooms belonged to each of the airy workrooms .
The company's products included topographical maps and labels for bottles and tinned food, but also views of Lübeck and, in 1905, the reprint of the Lübeck cityscape by Elias Diebel . In 1880, the company won a medal for its label tableau at the Melbourne International Exhibition in Melbourne . A part of the company archive is today as holdings 05.3-050 - Hermbergsche Lithographische Anstalt and lithographic printing house in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
References
literature
- New buildings in Lübeck. In: Father-city sheets. October 22, 1911, section: 2. The Hermbergsche Haus (Johannisstrasse No. 23)
Individual evidence
- ↑ New buildings in Lübeck. In: Father-city sheets. October 22, 1911, section: 3. The house at Grosse Burgstrasse No. 36.
- ↑ The new administrative building of the tax authority. In: Father-city sheets. Lübeck, November 8, 1908, No. 45.
- ^ Rudolf Struck ??
- ↑ Illustration of bottle labels for Nordhäuser brandy
- ↑ Christa Pieske : The ABC of luxury paper: production, processing and use 1860 to 1930. Reimer, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-496-01023-1 , p. 116.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 4.2 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 21 ″ E