Hugo Häring House

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Hugo-Häring-Haus, 2019

The Hugo-Häring-Haus ( Hugo-Häring-Hauser ) is a group of houses built by Hugo Häring in 1950 in Biberach an der Riss . With the support of the Kreissparkasse Biberach it came into municipal ownership, is a registered cultural monument of the modern age and, after a restoration in accordance with the requirements of the monument-compliant restoration by the Biberach building department, is being owned by the Hugo-Häring-Gesellschaft e. V. supervised.

Location of the house

Hugo Häring, one of the most important representatives of “ New Building ”, built both houses after the Second World War . The house, located on the eastern slope of a steep slope edge of the Riss Valley , northeast above the old town, at Mettenberger Weg 17, was planned and built for Werner Schmitz. The larger house with the address Mettenberger Weg 15 was also planned and built by Hugo Häring for Werner Schmitz's father, Guido Schmitz, a Biberach entrepreneur active in silk weaving .

You enter the Hugo-Häring-Haus on the upper floor. The core of the building is a two-storey structure with a floor plan in the form of an angle. One leg of the angle faces the south side with its long side and accommodates the living spaces. The other leg branching off to the north is the stairwell and the adjoining rooms. A pent roof rising slightly to the south underlines the opening to the sunlight. Häring was not allowed to build during the Nazi era . During this time and later, he dealt with architecture in theoretical writings . Here's how he wrote about the design process when creating a floor plan in general:

“It's about laying out the house from the inside, starting from the living processes of living .... The outside is no longer given from the outset; it only emerges how the outside emerges in all organs. The outside sets limits to the organ work, but it does not determine its shape. You draw walls around residential groups, you do not arrange residential groups in rectangles. ... there will hardly be a right-angled structure. ... A natural order will emerge, in which the endeavor to determine the place in relation to the sun works in detail, so that the house radially expands to the south and from east to west, but with its back to the north. It behaves like a plant that turns its organs towards the sun. "

- Hugo Haring

The city of Biberach acquires the house

After purchasing the house, they tried as best they could to restore the house to its original state. The main interest of the dismantling was the following components:

  • The outer skin of the house, mainly the plastered facade, was renewed, the wooden formwork was painted to be transparent again
  • The original wooden shutters were still preserved and have been redesigned
  • Some of the windows were very well preserved and were also revised and made practicable
  • Salubra wallpaper in the interior has been replaced by a similar product made in Switzerland
  • Alinol floor (plastic cast floor) had to be completely renewed
  • Electrical installations
  • Radiators were retained or supplemented with the original type

literature

Living room, 2019
  • Joachim Ganzert , Katrina Obert: “Building new things” in Biberach / Riß - the house at Mettenberger Weg 17. Guido Schmitz - Hugo Häring - Karl Böttcher (= contributions to the history of architecture and culture ; Volume 5). Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-578-0 .

Web links

Commons : Hugo-Häring-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Kopf: Cultural Monument of Modernism - Hugo Häring House in Biberach an der Riss. In: Press releases from the Baden-Württemberg Municipal Council. 2009, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Cultural monument - Hugo Häring House in Biberach an der Riss. In: Baukunst und Werkform. August 22, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '12.5 "  N , 9 ° 47' 59.3"  E