Horseshoe (Leipzig)
The horseshoe was a general because of its shape called a residential building in Leipzig , the mid-19th century by the landowner and industry pioneer Carl Heine was commissioned and almost one hundred years in the West suburbs existed.
Carl Heine acquired Rudolph's garden in 1844 as part of his plans to design Leipzig's western suburb . In 1846 he began building a spacious residential complex here, which was completed in 1848. It was a four-story building with two slightly bent legs that connected to a central building one story higher. The result was a plan similar to a horseshoe. The legs had 17 window axes. The southern leg ran along the newly laid out Rudolphstrasse, on the opposite side of which the Catholic Trinity Church had just been built. Access to the inner courtyard of the facility was from the “An der Pleiße” promenade via a separate bridge over the Pleißemühlgraben . Later the address was Rathausring 7 or Martin-Luther-Ring 7. The house had a flat hipped roof and bay windows on the gable ends .
In terms of living comfort, the house set new standards in Leipzig housing for the 34 tenants. So it had the first water supply for the kitchen and bathroom for a tenement house in Leipzig. To do this, workers had to pump basins in the attic full of water every day.
Carl Heine moved into one of the new apartments with his first wife and two daughters. The photographer Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann had her studio for several years in the southern longitudinal building at Rudolphstrasse 2 .
The horseshoe was destroyed by bombing during World War II. In its place there is now a meadow adjacent to Rudolphstrasse and Lurgenstein's footbridge.
Web links
- Karl Heine at Leipzig reading
Individual evidence
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 184
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 12 ″ E