Johanneum (Leipzig)

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Part of the southern front of the Johanneum
around 1900
The Johanneum from the south as a ruin in 1952, on the right the gable of the Augusteum

The Johanneum of the University of Leipzig was one of the four large parts of the building that were created when Arwed Roßbach redesigned the Paulinerareal at the end of the 19th century. The name referred to King John of Saxony.

The three-storey building, erected from 1892 to 1895 in the neo-renaissance style, connected the Augusteum at Augustusplatz with the centrally located Albertinum in an east-west direction and extended to the Beguinenhaus on Universitätsstraße. It was built on parts of the area of ​​the old senate building and the Konvikt that had been demolished for this purpose. The house had 19 window axes and was structured on the south front by a strongly protruding central risalit , which was higher than the other rooms on the central floor and contained two lecture halls.

The Johanneum initially housed lecture and seminar rooms mainly for the cultural history institutes and from 1897 exhibition rooms for the Archaeological and Egyptian Museums, which were expanded in 1912/13 with an extension.

During the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the Johanneum was badly damaged, but reconstruction could not be ruled out. Some rooms in the corridors of the first floor could already be used by the German Institute in October 1945. The western wing, in particular, was intended to be rebuilt soon, but this was never carried out.

Instead, the remaining structure of the Johanneum was blown up on June 20, 1968 to make room for the new buildings of the socialist Karl Marx University. The area is now occupied by parts of the lecture hall building and the seminar building.

literature

  • Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5 History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1

Web links

Commons : Johanneum (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , p. 447

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 42"  E