Hundertwasser day care center

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On the roof garden

The Hundertwasser day care center at Kupferhammer 93 in Frankfurt am Main-Heddernheim is “ Frankfurt's most extraordinary house for children”. It is officially called day care center 130 and was opened on June 22, 1995 in the presence of Friedensreich Hundertwasser , who had developed the artistic design for the building. The planning was carried out by architect Peter Pelikan and the Frankfurt Building Department. The concrete core of the building was largely covered with earth, in which grass, bushes and trees take root. Approx. 60 kindergarten and 40 after-school children can be looked after in the day-care center.

history

The Hundertwasser day care center was one of the first buildings to be built on the former site of the United German Metalworks (VDM), which had been located there until 1982 ; The foundation stone was laid on December 20, 1988. For its construction on the edge of the planned new settlement area Mertonviertel / Riedwiese, the city of Frankfurt provided 7.58 million marks at the suggestion of cultural department head Hilmar Hoffmann . After completion, however, it was discovered that the entire area was contaminated with highly toxic hydrocarbons and heavy metals , including the floor under the day-care center. At times, the demolition of the new building was therefore up for discussion, but ultimately it was decided to only dredge the adjacent site several meters deep and replace it with unpolluted earth. The removal of the contaminated sites cost around one million marks, of which the legal successor of VDM took over 90%.

When the lengthy renovation process was completed, Friedensreich Hundertwasser threatened the city of Frankfurt with a lawsuit in 1994 for infringement of his copyright, as his concept of a hilly, forested roof landscape had not been adequately implemented for cost reasons. As a result, Hundertwasser succeeded in applying additional soil and planting two dozen trees, including beech , oak , linden and ginkgo .

The proceeds from the sale of copies of a lithograph of the kindergarten donated by Hundertwasser finally made it possible to gild the two previously zinc-colored onion domes.

  • The view from the north

  • The view from the southwest

  • The outer walls are bricked "crooked" ...

  • ... and the bricks of the roof garden are also inconsistent.

  • There are pillars in front of the main entrance ...

  • ... and a pillar also supports the hallway on the ground floor.

  • The hallway upstairs ...

  • ... has mosaics on the walls.

literature

  • Wolfgang Pülm: Heddernheim. The checkered history of a Frankfurt district. Published by Frankfurter Sparkasse, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pülm: Heddernheim. The checkered history of a Frankfurt district. Published by Frankfurter Sparkasse, 1996, p. 105
  2. ↑ Kinderzentrum Kupferhammer, formerly KITA 130 “Hundertwasser”. On: heddernheim.de , accessed October 19, 2015
  3. ↑ hundredwasserhaus.de ( Memento from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '58.8 "  N , 8 ° 38' 27.4"  E