Königsbau (Leipzig)

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The Königsbau house on Augustusplatz (2019)

Königsbau is the name of an office and commercial building on Augustusplatz in Leipzig , Goethestrasse 1 / corner of Grimmaische Strasse. Its name comes from the name of the Königsbau AG company that gave the building contract . It housed the former Jewish department store Bamberger & Hertz and also a Blumen-Hanisch branch for 40 years . The facade is a listed building .

history

In 1876 Jacob Bamberger (1849–1918) founded a clothing store in Worms . His name was added through his brother-in-law Karl Hertz and remained as Bamberger & Hertz when he left the company. Business was good and the company expanded to Leipzig as well as Frankfurt am Main , Saarbrücken , Stuttgart , Munich and Cologne at the beginning of the 20th century.

  • The previous buildings

  • The Königsbau around 1920

  • After the pogrom night

  • After the Second World War

The Königsbau AG company, owned by the Bamberger family, acquired properties in a prime location on Augustusplatz and the Leipzig architects Schmidt & Johlige were commissioned to build a new department store. On October 18, 1911, the “specialty store for men's, boys' and sportswear” was opened, although the entire building was only ready for occupancy in April 1913. In addition to the fashion business, the Corso concert café, founded by master confectioner Otto Kuttert, moved in and was taken over by Ernst Fischer in 1926. The part of the ground floor facing Grimmaische Strasse was occupied by Blumen-Hanisch , whose store had been in the previous building since 1885. The department store, managed by Jacob Bamberger's sons Gustav and Ludwig Bamberger, developed into one of the leading men's outfitters in the upper price range in Germany.

Due to the boycott against Jewish businesses after the takeover of the NSDAP revenue from Bamberger & Hertz went from 1933 to 1938 to a third. The house was set on fire during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938. The Nazis accused the Bambergers of their own arson and insurance fraud and expropriated them. The house was sold to the Alte Leipziger insurance company . Gustav Bamberger as well as Ludwig Bamberger and his wife Olla perished in concentration camps near Riga and Theresienstadt in the early 1940s .

The Königsbau was extremely badly damaged in the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , but was rebuilt in a functional manner by 1949. The Blumen-Hanisch company moved back into the ground floor for the next 40 years. This constant location meant that the people of Leipzig agreed to meet in the city center “at Blumen-Hanisch”.

In 1991 the Königsbau was transferred back to the Bamberg heirs and in the meantime it came to the property of the building contractor Jürgen Schneider in Leipzig . From 1998 to 2000 the building, now again owned by the Alte Leipziger insurance company, was thoroughly renovated, gutted and rebuilt inside. Then Citibank (now Targo Bank ) moved in with its largest East German branch.

description

Königsbau Leipzig Bauschmuck.jpg
Königsbau Leipzig Alte Leipziger.jpg
Königsbau Leipzig Bambergertafel.jpg


Architectural jewelry
"Old Leipzig"
Bamberg table

The Königsbau occupies an area of ​​around 40 by 30 meters. The street facade made of sandstone, designed in the style of historicism , has five storeys; the glass-roofed inner courtyard has seven floors, taking advantage of the roof height. The ground floor and the first two upper floors show nine and six axes respectively , which are delimited on the upper floors by Ionic columns . The windows on both floors are trapezoidal without a cornice. The fourth and fifth floors with double the number of windows are separated by a false balustrade . Other architectural decorations and boards can only be found on the corner of the building. The roof carries seven or four round arched gables . On the ground floor, the first axis parallel to Grimmaische Strasse is open as a passage.

literature

  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 311 .
  • Andrea Lorz: The Bamberger family from Leipzig and their Bamberger and Hertz clothing store - not just a memory. In: Leipziger Blätter , Heft 31 (1997), pp. 36–39
  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 487 .

Web links

Commons : Königsbau  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Nenke: commercial buildings on Augustusplatz . In: Thomas Topfstedt, Pit Lehmann: The Augustusplatz; Functions and shape change of a big city square. Leipziger Universitätsverlag 1994, ISBN 3-929031-28-0 , p. 67
  2. ↑ List of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig , ID number 09298256
  3. ↑ Andrea Lorz: Seek the city for the best: life pictures of Jewish entrepreneurs from Leipzig. ProLeipzig 1996, ISBN 978-3000005978 , p. 52
  4. ↑ Martina Güldemann, Otto Künnemann: So, tomorrow at half past seven, at Blumen-Hanisch! Wartberg-Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3831314-26-3
  5. ↑ "Schneider Objects" in Leipzig City. Retrieved August 30, 2010 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 22.9 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 47.4 ″  E