Kornhaus (Dessau)
The Kornhaus is a restaurant on the Elbe in the Dessau-Roßlau district of Ziebigk . It belongs to the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau.
architect
Carl Fieger designed the Kornhaus in 1929/30 on behalf of the City of Dessau and the Schultheiss-Patzenhofer Brewery AG.
Fieger, born in Mainz in 1893 , was Walter Gropius's draftsman for many years . As one of his closest collaborators, he followed him from Weimar to Dessau and Berlin . Carl Fieger worked on the designs for the Bauhaus Dessau and the Masters' Houses. After the war he was a town planning officer in Dessau and an employee at the GDR Building Academy in Berlin. He died in 1960.
The main factory is the Kornhaus and his house built in 1927 in Dessau- Törten .
history
In the 18th century there was a granary on the Elbe bend in Dessau. A small excursion restaurant was built here around 1900. After this establishment was demolished in 1926, the city of Dessau held an architectural competition in March 1929. Carl Fieger did not win this competition, but he delivered the economically more favorable design. The Kornhaus was opened on June 6, 1930 and quickly became a popular restaurant.
The building survived the heavy bombing raids on Dessau in the Second World War undamaged. It was also a popular excursion restaurant in the GDR under the direction of the HO (State Trade Organization of the GDR).
From 1994 to 1996 the Kornhaus was renovated from a historical preservation point of view. It was operated as a restaurant by a tenant (Ulrich Heilmann) until August 30, 2011. The regional press then reported on the inability of the Dessau-Roßlau city administration to find a new tenant who would ensure the seamless operation of the granary, which is why it was closed for over a year. It was not until April 2012 that a new tenant, the specially founded Kornhaus Dessau GmbH , was signed by contract. The Dessau Kornhaus was reopened on October 3, 2012 after a renewed renovation in accordance with listed buildings.
architecture
Following the demands of classic modernism, the architecture of the building is derived from its functionality ( form follows function ). The building consists of two elements organized around the central kitchen.
Located on the Elbe embankment, the building is single-story when viewed from the river side. The two-story facade with the main entrance is visible from the street side. A curved staircase leads from the main entrance up to the main rooms.
The granary was built from reinforced concrete (columns) and brickwork. As is customary in the Bauhaus style, it has a flat roof and consists of individual, cubic structures crowded together. The restaurant with dance hall and a terrace on the Elbe is located on the upper floor. In the basement there is a cloakroom, social rooms and a former standing beer hall.
The glass winter garden , which is almost a full circle, is particularly interesting , reminiscent of a ship's bridge and from which a view of the Elbe is possible.
literature
- Hans Engels, Ulf Meyer: Bauhaus. 1919 - 1933. Photography and concept . Prestel, Munich et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3613-4 .
- Monika Markgraf: Die Dessauer Bauhausbauten , Leipzig: Spector Books 2016 (Bauhaus Taschenbuch; 16), ISBN 978-3-95905-094-4 , pp. 111–119.
Web links
- Kornhaus restaurant
- Carl Fieger's Kornhaus at www.bauhaus-dessau.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Kornhaus: "Everything is going normally". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 30, 2011, accessed December 14, 2012 .
- ↑ The «hot phase» begins. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 18, 2011, accessed on December 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Web Site Kornhaus / History. Retrieved January 19, 2013 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 23 ″ N , 12 ° 13 ′ 1 ″ E