Kulturspeicher (Würzburg)

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Front of the culture store at night
The back of the building facing the Old Harbor

The Kulturspeicher is a former granary at the old port of the city of Würzburg . The building, originally erected in 1904 for the Bavarian state ports, was converted into a cultural center between 1996 and 2002 and since then has housed the museum in the Kulturspeicher with two permanent collections, the tanzSpeicher theater and a dance workshop. The Kulturspeicher is located on Oskar-Laredo-Platz (named after Oskar Laredo, who added an art gallery to the Josef Laredo arts and crafts department store founded by his father in 1879 in the 1920s).

The Bockshorn cabaret, which was formerly based in Sommerhausen , has also moved into rooms in the basement of the Kulturspeicher. It has acquired a very good reputation over the years, so that well-known cabaret greats such as Michael Mittermeier , Urban Priol , Rick Kavanian or Django Asül , who usually fill entire halls, perform in the more contemplative rooms of the fenugreek.

The gallery of the Professional Association of Visual Artists of Lower Franconia and the associated artist house with a printing workshop are located in the right wing of the Kulturspeicher .

modification

The plans for the conversion of the storage building, which had been idle until the 1990s, go back to 1993, when a delegation from the Würzburg city council visited the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt , which was housed in a former barracks building from the 18th century . After the city an extensive collection of what was then an anonymous collector concrete art was promised if you could provide a suitable building available, began a long political debate that in November 1995 the tendering of an architectural competition for the transformation of the former granary led . The winners of the competition in April 1996 were the Tirschenreuth architects Peter and Christian Brückner . In the meantime it had also become known that the offered art donation was from the Peter C. Ruppert Collection - Concrete Art in Europe after 1945 .

The conversion work, which cost the equivalent of 21.9 million euros, was carried out between 1999 and 2002. On the narrow sides of the 128-meter-long storage building, two glass extensions were erected, the facades of which are clad with natural stone slats. With these additions, the building complex has a total length of 160 meters. At the rear of the warehouse facing the Old Harbor, two additional buildings were built, which include a library and the offices of the museum administration. These additions are clad with green industrial glass, which is printed with a texture reminiscent of the surface of metal plates. The main building itself was initially completely gutted to make space for the twelve new museum rooms with a total exhibition area of ​​3500 square meters. Only in the middle part of the building, which now serves as the foyer, was the original roof structure of the building made of wooden beams. The museum opened in February 2002.

Natural stone facade

Stone slats on the facade

The facade of the Kulturspeicher is clad with 2248 natural stone slats, each two meters long and weighing around 130 kilograms ; 1960 of these slats are on the two extensions on the narrow sides of the original building, the rest on the upper edge of the front of the main building facing Veitshöchheimer Strasse. In the area of ​​the base of the building, the lamellas are made of shell limestone , above of Udelfang sandstone . Visually, the cladding, the individual elements of which are exposed at an angle of up to 45 °, gives the impression of a half-open blind .

In October 2010, some of the stones on the extensions had to be removed in order to be able to clean the window surfaces behind them. After the cleaning, for which the city of Würzburg estimated costs of 110,000 euros in July 2009, it turned out that the stone lamellas could not be reinstalled on the facade in the original way because the fastening points in the stone and the on Some of the suspensions attached to the building showed clear signs of material fatigue. Members of the Würzburg city council accused the architectural office of neglecting the need to clean the glass surfaces during the planning, as the type of suspension did not allow for the stones to be dismantled later.

In October 2011, the city of Würzburg admitted that it had already been informed about the impractical, difficult-to-access suspension attached to the back of the slats during the planning of the building redesign. For cost reasons, however, the architects made a conscious decision in favor of this solution, which made it necessary to clean the window surfaces through the spaces between the stone elements. For this reason, the installation of a pigeon deterrent was originally dispensed with. From the beginning of November 2011, the slats dismantled the year before were reattached to the building with a modified suspension that was accessible from the front. The city of Würzburg explains the long period since the stones were dismantled with the extensive load tests that were required for the new suspension system. By February 2012, the remaining slats on the building were also converted to the new system and a pigeon repellent was installed to facilitate future cleaning and maintenance work; The city denies any connection with possible damage to the old suspension of the stones that were not originally dismantled. The costs for the entire work amounted to around 350,000 euros.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Flade: Jews in Würzburg, 1918–1933. (= Mainfränkische Hefte. Volume 34), Würzburg 1985; 2nd edition ibid 1986, p. 59 f.
  2. ↑ a b Ralph Bauer: 200,000 euros for cleaning windows. In: Neue Presse Coburg , June 11, 2011, p. 2

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 20.5 ″  E