Löhrs Carré

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Löhrs Carré, northern part

Löhrs Carré is an office complex in the northern suburb of Leipzig , the main users of which are Sparkasse Leipzig and Sachsen Bank within Landesbank Baden-Württemberg . The name of the complex refers to the owner of a former public park on this site and to its rectangular shape.

Location and description

Löhrs Carré is bounded in the north by the following streets, starting clockwise: Uferstraße, Nordstraße, Keilstraße and Löhrstraße. It occupies an area of ​​about one and a half hectares. Humboldtstrasse, which is a green pedestrian area in this section, divides the complex into a larger northern and a smaller southern area, with the five-storey buildings, each with a raised and recessed attic, grouped around inner courtyards. The northern inner courtyard still contains a four-story round building.

  • Rotunda in the north part

  • The Humboldtstrasse

  • footbridge

At the southeast corner of the northern part rises a skyscraper with 18 floors and 65 meters high. At its south-east corner it is framed by a 14-storey part of the building, the wall surfaces of which are pivoted by 10 degrees to those of the main building. The facades are in two shades of gray, dark glass and light granite.

A two-level pedestrian bridge with multi-colored glazing and blue-green vase-like ceramic supports, a work by the American artist Siah Armajani (* 1939), runs across Humboldtstrasse . There are public passages through the courtyards at ground level.

Löhrs Carré contains 850 offices and several other commercial units such as restaurants and retail in the ground floor zone on a total of 56,000 m² of usable space.

history

In Löhr's garden

In 1770/1771 the Leipzig banker Eberhard Heinrich Löhr (1725–1798) had a publicly accessible, approximately six hectare park designed on the site, which extended from his house built seven years later on Löhrs Platz (since 1839 Tröndlinring) to the Parthe , Löhr's garden . When the husband of Löhr's granddaughter, Johann Georg Keil (1781–1857), became the owner of the garden, it was called Keils Garten. The last owner of the property, Adolph Keil, had the property gradually parceled out from 1870 and sold the remaining part in 1886 to the Leipzig real estate company, which had the site completely built on.

During the Second World War , the development in the area of ​​today's Carré was almost completely destroyed. After that a fallow land remained. Construction only began after German reunification. In 1992, according to plans by the Munich-based Wörle-Siebig Planungsgesellschaft, the construction of City-Nord , as the project by Sparkasse Leipzig and Landesbank Sachsen (predecessor of Sachsen Bank) was initially called. After two construction phases, the building for 530 million DM was now completed and occupied as Löhrs Carré . The official inauguration was on May 23, 1997.

literature

Web links

Commons : Löhrs Carré  - Collection of Images
  • Löhrs Carré. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  • Löhrs Carré. In: euroluftbild.de. Retrieved on July 20, 2020 (aerial photo from Löhrs Carré).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 210/211 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 47 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 26"  E