Melanchthon House (Pforzheim)
The Melanchthon House in Pforzheim , a town in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1914. The building at Bissingerstraße 6, located directly on the Enz , is a protected cultural monument .
The five-storey building, named after the humanist and reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), was built for the Evangelical City Mission Association (founded in 1891) according to plans by the architect Hans Blöchle from Pforzheim.
The arcades and the natural stone facade survived the Second World War . A frieze above the fifth floor bears the name Melanchthon House.
The interior of the building was redistributed from 1949 to 1952 and the original hipped roof was changed with an additional storey.
Above the arcade zone made of yellow sandstone with round arches, two plastered upper floors are optically combined with painted pilaster strips . The square skylight windows give the high halls on the first floor additional daylight. All windows were replaced in the 1980s without their original muntin division.
literature
- Christoph Timm: Pforzheim. Cultural monuments in the urban area. (Monument topography Baden-Württemberg, Volume II. 10.1) Published by the city of Pforzheim and the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2004, ISBN 3-89735-221-4 , pp. 172-173.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '22.5 " N , 8 ° 41' 51.6" E