Kontorhaus Leder-Schüler

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Current view of the Heidenkampsweg. The lettering on the roof facade was originally LEDER-SCHÜLER-WERKE .

The Kontorhaus Leder-Schüler on Heidenkampsweg in Hamburg - Hammerbrook was built in 1928 for a leather processing company. The building designed by Fritz Höger in a subtle expressionist architectural guise with a dark clinker brick facade and green lattice windows is now a listed building .

Building description

Contemporary photography by Carl Dransfeld , with a view of the facade to the north canal. The original high-rise character can be recognized by the low side buildings.

Stylistically, there are borrowings from the first skyscrapers in Chicago. This applies to the top row of windows facing Heidenkampsweg, the small-scale design of the main facade with regular block rows and the design of the building as a “multi-storey container” for the purpose of production and marketing. The architect Fritz Höger also used the American models for the cubic nesting . The concept of the staggered storeys is typical for Höger : the secondary buildings flanking the main structure make the narrow side resemble a stepped gable . A similar design can be found in the boiler house in Rendsburg , the cemetery chapel in Delmenhorst or the Wilhelmshaven town hall . In addition, there are characteristic features of the Kontorhaus Leder-Schüler that follow the Amsterdam School : the differently designed facades to the adjacent streets or the building, which looks like a skyscraper, to the north canal that ran here at the time (today Nordkanalstrasse; the later addition of stories to the adjoining building made the impression greatly changed). The expressiveness that defines the block is also typical of the Amsterdam School. The office building survived the Second World War unscathed, despite extensive bombing on the industrial Hammerbrook .

Hosted music venues

The basement rooms of the building housed important locations of the Hamburg scene: from 1946 the “Tangorett”, from 1965 the “Cotton Club”, from 1966 the “ Danny's Pan ”, in the early 80s the “Noise”, from 1985 the “ FRONT ” 1997 the "Chocolate City". Until 2012 the music club "Shake!" Was located here.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kontorhaus Leder-Schüler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Piergiacomo Bucciralli: Fritz Höger. Hanseatic builder 1877-1949 . Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin, 1992. ISBN 3-9803212-0-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Schmidt: The cathedral of the stars. Fritz Höger and the Anzeiger high-rise in Hanover - architecture of the twenties between cosmology and Low German expressionism . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, edited by Karl Arndt. Lit Verlag, Münster, 1995. ISBN 3-89473-457-4 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 32.9 ″  E