Littmannhaus

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Ludwigstraße 3 (view from the rose garden )
Ludwigstrasse 3 (view from Ludwigstrasse eastwards)
Ludwigstrasse 3 (view from Ludwigstrasse westwards)

The Littmannhaus at Ludwigstrasse 3 in Bad Kissingen , the major district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-114-39 .

The hall building Theresienstraße 26 , which is directly connected to it, belongs to the Littmannhaus .

history

The property is located at the Bad Kissinger Rosengarten (at the beginning of the Balthasar-Neumann-Promenade ) opposite the Regentenbau . It was built in 1908 by the Munich-based architect Max Littmann as a private residential and commercial building for Ms. Kommerzienrat Albertine Hailmann and Miss Anna Hailmann. A year earlier, Littmann had also designed the associated hall building at Theresienstraße 26 in the same design language.

The Littmannhaus is a three-storey, plastered mansard roof in a corner with a rounded edge, designed in the classical Art Nouveau style . With the exception of the front facing Ludwigstrasse, which is symmetrically structured by two identical gabled oriels , the property is designed according to freer principles. The structure is restrained and consists of the ribbon window and an ornament based on Louis-Seize .

From 1907 onwards, the architect Max Littmann tried to acquire the nearby Collard House ( Am Kurgarten 6; Ludwigstrasse 4 ). The state of Bavaria wanted to acquire the property in order to round off the area in connection with the regent building that was still to be built, but this project failed due to lack of money; it was not acquired by Littmann. Possibly Littmann wanted to include the Collard house in a larger overall concept, which he then implemented when building the Littmannhaus.

Max Littmann can be proven by his handwritten signature on the input plans as the architect of the property Ludwigstrasse 3, which bears the oversized vertical lettering "LITTMANNHAUS" on the side facing the rose garden. Another indication of Max Littmann's authorship is the construction of the property by the construction company Heilmann & Littmann in 1910, which Max Littmann ran with his father-in-law Jakob Heilmann from 1892. Although Littmann had left the company at the end of 1908 in order, as Heilmann later described it, "to be able to devote himself entirely to his artistic inclinations", Littmann still had his own office in the company and was able to fall back on a staff of proven employees.

The Littmannhaus shows - just like the driveway he helped design to the nearby Ludwigsbrücke - that Littmann wanted to influence the surroundings of the Regentenbau he built. This influence was also evident in the now lost office building at Ludwigstrasse 5.

Today the property houses apartments, shops (including an ice cream parlor) and medical practices.

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 60 f .
  • Cornelia Oelwein: Max Littmann (1862–1931): Architect • Architect • Entrepreneur , special publications of the Bad Kissingen City Archives, Volume 7, edited by Peter Weidisch, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-865-68-923-8 , Pp. 313-315

Web links

Commons : Ludwigstraße 3 (Bad Kissingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Oelwein: Max Littmann (1862–1931): Architect • Architect • Entrepreneur , special publications of the Bad Kissingen City Archives, Volume 7, edited by Peter Weidisch, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-865-68-923-8 , P. 295
  2. ↑ BayHSta MF 67971
  3. ↑ Georg Jakob Wolf : Engineer J. Heilmann and the construction business Heilmann and Littmann. A look back at forty years of work , Munich 1911, plate 56
  4. ↑ Cornelia Oelwein: Max Littmann (1862–1931): Architect • Architect • Entrepreneur , special publications of the Bad Kissingen City Archives, Volume 7, edited by Peter Weidisch, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-865-68-923-8 , P. 15
  5. ↑ Jakob Heilmann: Memoirs , Munich 1921, p. 54
  6. ↑ Cornelia Oelwein: Max Littmann (1862–1931): Architect • Architect • Entrepreneur , special publications of the Bad Kissingen City Archives, Volume 7, edited by Peter Weidisch, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-865-68-923-8 , P. 294f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '55.79 "  N , 10 ° 4' 30.25"  O