Mozart School (Mannheim)
The listed building of the Mozart School Mannheim is located in "Quadrat" R 2, 2 in Mannheim .
description
The current building rests on the foundations of a previous building from the 17th century. Together with the Mannheim Konkordienkirche and the tower placed in between, the Mozart School forms a double building. The neo-baroque tower is 86.93 meters high. This type of building is an example of Mannheim's symmetry and served as a model for the Old Town Hall with St. Sebastian Church on the market square and the department store on Paradeplatz .
The neo-baroque school building was erected between 1914 and 1917 according to the drafts of the town planning council and head of the town building department Richard Perrey, strictly symmetrical to the baroque church of Concord. The Mozart School has a rectangular floor plan. The ridge turrets on the hipped roof and the balustrade on the roof from 1893 are still preserved at the Mozart School.
The elaborate architectural decorations, roof turrets, figures and decorative vases are reminiscent of the Mannheim residential palace. The entrance pillars to the playgrounds have been adorned by several schoolchildren's figures since 1917. The school building had two schoolyards, one for boys and one for girls. The entrance pillars to the boys' school yard showed two pairs of boys. One couple portrayed an allegory of friendship and the other two boys were busy reading books. The entrance pillars to the schoolyard for the girls were decorated by two pairs of girls. Two girls showed up with pets while the other two girls were engaged in needlework. The figures damaged in World War II were restored in 2006 by the sculptor Matthias Dämpfle from Freiburg.
The pillars of the schoolyard enclosures were decorated with several schoolchildren figures from 1917 to 1945.
The pillars of the schoolyard enclosures have been decorated with schoolchildren figures again since 2006
The pillars of the schoolyard enclosures have been decorated with schoolchildren figures again since 2006
literature
- Otto Sarrazin and Friedrich Schultze: The Preservation of Monuments (published by the editor of the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung), Berlin 1917
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the city district of Mannheim , Munich 1982.