Green citadel of Magdeburg
The Green Citadel is a building in Magdeburg designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser . It was completed in 2005. It is the last project Hundertwasser worked on before his death. With the Hundertwasserschule in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , he artistically designed another building in Saxony-Anhalt .
The house is located in the city center in the immediate vicinity of the Domplatz and the Landtag ; the construction was controversial. Gero AG, owned by the Catholic diocese , was involved as the builder and MBN Montage-Bau GmbH , Magdeburg, as the general contractor. The artistic direction was the responsibility of the Gruener Janura AG, Vienna, founded by Hundertwasser, represented by the estate administrator Joram Harel and the architect Heinz M. Springmann . The cost was around 27 million euros.
history
The Nikolaikirche stood on the site of today's Green Citadel until it was demolished in 1959 . After being profaned in 1810, it was used as an armory. In the 1970s, a residential building in a prefabricated building followed on the fallow land (after the bombing in World War II ) . Rolf Opitz , the then chairman of the Magdeburg housing association from 1954 , had the idea in 1995 to contact Hundertwasser. He suggested redesigning the prefabricated building in the Hundertwasser style, which the artist had already done with other buildings. Hundertwasser agreed, but a new building was built later because of the greater scope for design. The architects Peter Pelikan (design) and Heinz M. Springmann (execution) were responsible for the planning.
use
The usable area is 11,300 m². There are several shops, a café and a restaurant on the ground floor. Among other things, the "Information in the Green Citadel" also contains the original model. The building is home to the theater, an ART hotel and the “FriedensReich” daycare center. On the upper floors of the house there are 55 apartments as well as practices and offices.
particularities
- The Green Citadel encloses two inner courtyards, in the larger one there is a fountain.
- No two windows of the same shape can be seen from any of the windows.
- The name of the house is based on the grassy roof. There are also a large number of trees on, in and around the building. Some have been planted on the roof and others take root on the outer walls of the apartments. These "tree tenants" are in the care of the respective tenant and are looked after by him.
- After completion, the external condition of the house should not be interfered with. As the trees grow and the exterior color fades, it is intended to change and convey the feeling of aging in a structure.
- The tenants have the window right , they are allowed - as far as arm and brush can reach - to design the facade around their windows.
- Some of the tools that the craftsmen actually worked with are symbolically incorporated into various railings of the building.
literature
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser (illustrations): The Green Citadel of Magdeburg. A Hundertwasser architecture project, Avance, Magdeburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019969-1 (38 pages).
- Manfred Zander, Malte Zander: Magdeburg. City guide, 2nd, updated edition, Mitteldeutscher-Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-820-9 (pp. 48–49).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Report ( memento of January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the Brand Eins magazine , November 2011, accessed on January 13, 2012
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '37 " N , 11 ° 38' 3.4" E