Johann Luger House
The Johann Luger House (often referred to as Steinhauser House due to its current use , address Marktplatz 9 ) is a listed building in the center of the Austrian town of Dornbirn . With its design that stands out from the surrounding building ensemble, which corresponds to a mixture of Art Nouveau and national romanticism, the house is one of the most photographed buildings on the town's market square. Like many other buildings in the center of Dornbirn, the building, which was rebuilt between 1901 and 1902, was designed by the architect Hanns Kornberger .
history
Originally, the building on the Dornbirn market square, now known as the Johann Luger House, was just the barn of the Feurstein House , which was built earlier and which faces the parish church of St. Martin and is still structurally connected to the Johann Luger House today. Later, around the 17th century , this barn was converted into the “Sonne” inn in the style of a classic Rhine Valley house. The sun painted on the gable above the balcony of today's building is a reminder of this purpose.
At the beginning of the 20th century, from 1901 to 1902, the businessman Johann Luger, who now ran a clothing store for women and a shoe retailer in the building of the former Gasthaus Sonne under the name Confections- und Modewarenhaus Johann Luger , left this to the renowned architect Convert Hanns Kornberger into a representative bourgeois commercial building. Kornberger orientated himself on the German bourgeois architecture, which was common before the First World War, and combined this with local elements. The resulting building no longer had anything in common with the original Rheintalhaus. Particularly noticeable are the picturesque bay windows , a curved bent gable with a balcony below, and the corner tower with the curved, slender helmet roof .
On February 22, 1987, the inside of the Johann Luger House burned down completely. While the historically valuable facade was largely saved, the interior of the building fell victim to the flames. When the architect Robert Felber remodeled it in the postmodern style one year later, it created modern office space inside the historic building, so that today only the facade of the Johann Luger House corresponds to the original historic appearance. The building on the ground floor is currently used as a café (Café Steinhauser, which is why the building is now also sometimes referred to as the Steinhauser House ), while the upper floors contain offices for a law firm, among other things.
literature
- Werner Matt: The Johann Luger House or Hanns Kornberger and the Cornflower . In: Robert Fabach, Arno Giesinger, Werner Matt (eds.): Invisible City. Explorations & contemplations in the city of Dornbirn . Residenzverlag, St. Pölten 2011. ISBN 978 3 7017 3239 5
- Dehio Vorarlberg 1983
Web links
- Werner Matt, Harald Rhomberg: Luger House in the Dornbirn Lexicon of the Dornbirn City Archives .
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 49.6 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 33.8" E