Jügelhaus
| Jügelhaus | |
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 The Jügelhaus |
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| architect | Ludwig Neher |
| Client | Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences |
| Architectural style | Neo-baroque |
| Construction year | 1906 |
| Floor space | 12,000 m² |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '5.2 " N , 8 ° 39' 6" E |
The Jügelhaus is a neo-baroque building on the Bockenheim campus in Frankfurt am Main . The building was built for the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in 1906 by the architect Ludwig Neher . After the university was founded in 1914, it was referred to as the main building of the Goethe University in Frankfurt until 2012 . After being destroyed in the Second World War , it was rebuilt by Ferdinand Kramer . Today it is owned as a research building by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and was renovated from 2014 to 2018.
history
Construction by the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences
Ludwig Neher received the order to draw a design for the building in February 1904 from the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences. The building should serve as an administration and lecture hall building for the academy. Construction work began in late summer of that year and was completed by 1907. It was inaugurated on October 21, 1906, and Mayor Franz Adickes gave an opening speech . The name Jügelhaus refers to the founder Carl Christian Jügel , who left a fortune of two million marks . The construction costs amounted to 1,096,000 marks, the furniture cost another 50,000 marks.
The building mirrored the building of the physical association . In the interior there were ten lecture halls with up to 250 seats, various conference and reading rooms and an auditorium with 600 seats. In addition, seminar, lounge and speaking rooms were housed in the building. The sculptors of the decorations and statues included Augusto Varnesi and Franz Krüger . The Senckenberg library with 40,000 volumes was housed in the eastern part of the building on the street corner .
Building design
In terms of architecture, the building already claimed to be a university building. The three-part structure is dominated by the four-storey central projection made of Main sandstone . A two-storey Rustikazone followed by two as Beletage configured upper floors with rich architectural decoration. The auditorium is behind the arched windows , the Audimax behind . In addition to Latin inscriptions, three gold medallions stand out from the architectural decorations, showing profiles of the three German scholars Immanuel Kant , Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Wilhelm von Humboldt . A staggered floor housed the light-flooded central library and closed off with an attic and a further roof terrace. A cornice above the rustic zone combines the risalit and five-storey side wings. Their higher number of floors is mitigated by the vertical combination of the window axes. They end with a slated mansard floor. On the ground floor there was originally a narrow neo-baroque entrance with a curved flight of stairs. The portal figures formed the allegories of science and the fine arts. As an expression of the upper-class striving for emancipation from the Prussian authorities, a crest cartouche with a Frankfurt eagle crowned the portal. In the entrance, bronze reliefs are reminiscent of the donors.
On a small T-shaped floor plan, Ludwig Neher accommodated the minimum academic needs in as monumental a way as possible. Instead of a continuous central hall, Neher designed convertible halls as more efficient crossroads, with ten lecture halls in the entrances, including innovative clothes racks in front of them and a refreshment room on the ground floor. Based on the central halls, the ground floor and first floor were connected by an opening. The side wings housed institutes and administration. With a view to the future, the Association of German Architects criticized the small size and lack of expansion options, as well as the poor circulation of people, reinforced by a very narrow main portal in 1913. With affirmative conservatism, the attempt was made to compensate for the university's lack of tradition by adopting the structural layout and spatial program from other university buildings and the palace architecture, for example by leaning the penthouse storey on the Mannheim Palace, while general references to Gießen's Aulagebuilding (1880) can be ascertained, even if they are moderate in Frankfurt modernized forms of neo-baroque preferred.
Takeover by the foundation university
The college building represented the academy and later the university pars pro toto to the outside world, although an extension had to be added according to Neher's plans to establish the foundation university in Frankfurt . In 1914 the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences was incorporated into the new university. The attached building cost 800,000 marks. From then on, the building housed the legal, philosophical, and parts of the natural sciences, as well as the social and economic faculties.
As early as 1913, the Association of Architects noted that the building was not suitable for its use, for example the entrance area was too narrow. In 1953 the architect Ferdinand Kramer redesigned the building. The entrance area was widened, elevators installed and some interior walls moved. Since Kramer removed historical ornaments, statues and figures, the conversion was criticized many times and Kramer was called a "barbarian". Moderately damaged during the war, the Jügelhaus auditorium was initially used for public events, such as Walter Kolb's inauguration . It was initially restored in a simplified form, but was completely reconstructed in the early 1980s, except for the small chandeliers.
Cultivation and uses
The use and architectural integration of the Jügelhaus after the Second World War is closely related to the expansion of the Bockenheim campus . The western extension of a lecture hall building underwent significant structural changes in the 1960s, so that the building complex was extended to Graefstrasse. Since then, the Jügelhaus has been mainly used by the Department of Economics with the Dean's Office, Examination Office and Departmental Library. Their chairs, seminar rooms and administration rooms were also housed there. Contrary to popular belief, the university management and administration were not located there, which at that time was already located in a part of the Jurdicum on Senckenberg Strasse on the Bockenheim campus. Both internal and external events took place in the Jügelhaus auditorium; to be mentioned are e.g. B. for the university meetings of the senate or convention and for others the master craftsman celebrations of the chamber of crafts . What was formative in public during the student movement was that on May 30, 1968, the lettering above the entrance to Karl Marx University was changed by the students.
Takeover by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Since 2012 the Jügelhaus has belonged to the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research , which renovated it from 2014 to 2018. The architect is Peter Kulka , who is also in charge of the renovation work in the building of the Physikalischer Verein. The Jügelhaus now houses the central geological laboratory, the society's central library and a conference center.
During the renovation work, the characteristics of the various architectural epochs were retained. The historical floors, for example, as well as the conversions by Ferdinand Kramer have been preserved. The construction costs of 116 million euros were borne by the federal government with 70 million and the state with 46 million.
gallery
Postcard of the Jügelhaus from 1907
The auditorium of the Jügelhaus in 1907
Library 1907
Wandelhalle 1907
Audimax 1907
Entrance area of the extension building in 2014
literature
- Untitled: The new building of the scientific institutes of the Senckenberg Foundation on Viktoria-Allee and the Jügelhaus on Jordan-Straße in Frankfurt am Main. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 42nd year 1908,
- No. 86 (of October 24, 1908), pp. 585-589,
- No. 87 (of October 28, 1908), pp. 593–597,
- No. 90 (dated November 7, 1908), pp. 613, pp. 616-620.
Web links
- Lukas Gedziorowski: Groundbreaking for Senckenberg - renovation of the Jügelhaus begins. In: journal-frankfurt.de. May 16, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2016 (Article with picture gallery. Plans of the Jügelhaus and concepts of its future appearance are shown).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Inga Janovic: Extensive renovation work: Senckenberg takes over the university - Frankfurter Neue Presse. (No longer available online.) In: fnp.de. January 24, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Deutsche Bauzeitung , 42nd year 1908, ... (see literature )
- ^ Ludwig Heilbrunn : The foundation of the University of Frankfurt a. M . Josef Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1915, The Carl Christian Jügel Foundation, p. 37 ( digitized version - Internet Archive [accessed October 8, 2016]).
- ↑ a b c David Liuzzo : Jügelhaus, in: Maximilian Große-Beck / Charlotte Surridge (ed.): From the auditorium to the Bockenheim campus. Construction stories. A student project . Frankfurt am Main 2014, p. 14-17 .
- ^ Ludwig Heilbrunn: The foundation of the University of Frankfurt a. M. Josef Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1915, overview of the income, expenditure and capital assets of the University of Frankfurt a. M ,, S. 198 ( digitized version - Internet Archive [accessed October 8, 2016]).
- ↑ a b 1953. Modernization of the Jügelhaus - philosophicum.org. (No longer available online.) In: philosophicum.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Goethe University: Research Frankfurt , issue 1/2018 (PDF) .
- ↑ Christian Riethmüller: The Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt will be expanded and rebuilt by 2018 - Frankfurt. In: op-online.de. January 24, 2014, accessed April 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Lukas Gedziorowski: Groundbreaking for Senckenberg - renovation of the Jügelhaus begins. In: journal-frankfurt.de. May 16, 2014, accessed April 2, 2016 .
