List of buildings in Heilbronn

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This page presents buildings in Heilbronn that are of particular historical or architectural interest. In addition to buildings that have been included in the monument topography of the State Office for Monument Preservation as cultural monuments, those are also listed that are considered landmarks or are often dealt with in the literature for other reasons.

Detailed individual descriptions of fountains in Heilbronn , monuments in Heilbronn and sculptures in Heilbronn can be found in the corresponding articles. Architectural and cultural monuments in the incorporated districts are presented in the district articles.

Preliminary remark

Heilbronn market square with town hall (right) and Käthchenhaus (left).
(The buildings behind all date from the 1950s and 1960s.)
Heilbronn was destroyed in 1945

The settlement of Heilbronn received city rights in the 13th century and developed into a traditional patrician and imperial city . The historic city area was almost rectangularly enclosed by a city wall, the western part of which bordered the Neckar between the Götzenturm in the southwest and the Bollwerksturm in the northeast, while the eastern part ran parallel to it along today's avenue for about half a kilometer . Today's market square ensemble of town hall and Kilian's Church has existed in this form since the 16th century. The station suburb in the west across the Neckar did not emerge until the 19th century, as did the villa districts in the south and east. The historic old town had hundreds of historic buildings from all eras since the 13th century, including numerous churches and historically important secular buildings.

During the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944, the city center was completely destroyed. After that, very few buildings were reconstructed true to the historical models, including the town hall, the Kilian's Church and the Deutschhof . In addition to these, there are now numerous buildings in the city center where the typical Baroque style of the home style of Paul Schmitthenner's Stuttgart school was taken up again . Many backyards and side streets in the city center still have the building stock from the reconstruction period. Since the 1980s, the long-established trading shops have often moved out of the tightly dimensioned and gradually aging buildings. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a number of high-rise buildings in the simple brutalist style , such as the shopping center from 1971 or the Wollhaus shopping center from 1974, which are clearly visible in the cityscape today , were built in downtown Heilbronn .

Since the villa districts, unlike the inner city, were only slightly damaged during the war, the representative town buildings from the beginning of the 20th century are now very well represented among the listed buildings in the city. There are also significant evidence of the use of the Neckar and the early and strong industrialization of the city, such as the hand crane on the crane island or the old train station. The outer landmarks of the city are the tower and restaurant on the Wartberg in the east and the Heilbronn power plant in the west.

The monument topography, published in 2007, lists over 300 historical monuments and around 170 ground monuments for Heilbronn and its districts.

Public buildings from the past

town hall

The Heilbronn town hall on the market square opposite the Kilian's Church is a Renaissance building from around 1580 by Hans Kurz with a striking astronomical art clock by Isaak Habrecht . The town hall and the surrounding town buildings ( new chancellery and syndicate house as well as town archive) were destroyed in 1944. The main building was reconstructed in the historical facade in 1953/54, and from 1957 to 1959 it was expanded with buildings in a modern style. The former city archive, built in 1765 by Johann Christoph Keller and burned down in 1944, is now located in the inner courtyard of the town hall, which is surrounded by modern additions; a hall of honor was set up here in 1963 for the victims of the Second World War.

Deutschhof

The Deutschhof was founded in 1268 as a housewife of the Teutonic Order. The complex, of which the Teutonic Order Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul is a part, was redesigned in Baroque style in 1719 by Wilhelm Heinrich Behringer . After secularization in 1805, the property served various purposes, including a. as barracks and as the seat of the Heilbronn District Court . After its destruction in 1944, the Deutschhof was rebuilt true to the original from 1957 to 1974 based on designs by Richard Scheffler. Its premises are used today by the city museums, the city archive and the Heilbronn adult education center.

Other

Meat house

The meat store is an old court and market building from around 1600. The ornate arcades indicate the market that was then on the ground floor. The house was later the municipal messenger hall and from the late 19th century until 2009 a natural history museum. Its outer facade bears water level marks from historical floods.

The Cäcilienbrunnenhaus was built in 1589 when the master builder Hans Stefan was redesigning the Silchenbrunnen; it supplied 30 cisterns and 6 wells with water via a wooden pond pipe  .

The baroque shooting house was built in 1770 by Johann Christoph Keller on the ground floor of the Hammelwasen festival area as a hall for the Heilbronn horse market . After the elevation of the Frankfurter Straße passing by at the front, it now seems to be in a depression.

Churches

Kilian's Church is the most important church in Heilbronn

Kilian's Church

The evangelical Kilian church goes back to a St. Michael's basilica mentioned in the 8th century, making it the oldest church in the city. In the 12th century the church was enlarged and consecrated to Saint Kilian . Another renovation took place around 1460. In the church there is a high altar by Hans Seyfer from 1498. The west tower completed by Hans Schweiner in 1529 with its rich architectural decorations is a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and the city's landmark . Kilian's Church was destroyed in 1944, but rebuilt true to the original.

Nikolaikirche

The Nikolaikirche , first mentioned in 1351 and now Protestant, was the city's first Reformation church from 1525. It was a branch church of Kilian's Church, was profaned several times and u. a. Used as an armory, arsenal and gymnasium, but has been a church again since 1851, with its own parish since 1900/01. The Nikolaikirche was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in 1949 in the Heimat style.

Teutonic Order Minster

The Catholic Teutonic Minster of St. Peter and Paul in the Deutschhof has been an order church of the Teutonic Order since the 13th century , was temporarily a pilgrimage church and was redesigned in Baroque style in 1720 and consecrated to St. Peter and Paul. The church was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in 1951. Today the building, which has meanwhile been renovated several times and raised to the status of a minster in 1977, is the main church of Heilbronn's Catholics. The Heilbronn Madonna, kept in the tower chapel, is particularly admired .

Other churches

Martin Luther Church
The Aukirche was the first of a series of modern churches in Heilbronn
  • The Augustinus Church (Catholic) is located south-east on the B 39 (Paul-Göbel-Straße) and was designed in 1926 as a massive ship in stone view by Hans Herkommer in the expressionist style. After the destruction in World War II, it was rebuilt in a simplified form by Hans Herkommer and his son Jörg.
  • The Martin Luther Church (ev.) Was consecrated on June 17, 1934. On November 28, 1948 the church was consecrated again after its partial destruction; However, services were already taking place again in the destroyed building.
  • The Wichernkirche (ev.) Was built in 1948 according to a type design by Otto Bartning as part of the Notkirchen program as a replacement for the Friedenskirche that was destroyed in World War II .
  • The Church of St. Maria Immaculata (Catholic) was built in 1947 at the Südbahnhof as a branch of the destroyed and only rebuilt Teutonic Order Church in 1951.
  • The Aukirche (Greek-Orth.) In the industrial area was built in a characteristic tent shape in 1957 by the architect Gustav Ernst Kistenmacher and the engineer G. Störzbach instead of a Protestant church that was built in 1907 and destroyed in 1944. When it was inaugurated, the church was the most modern church in the city in terms of its shape. The building is now used by the Greek Orthodox community.
  • The Christ Church (ev.) , Built for the evangelical southern parish of Heilbronn in 1962, has a similar rectangular church tower as the previous one. The crucifixion group in the chancel was designed by Karl Hemmeter .
  • The Kreuzkirche (ev.) Was built by R. Krauter and the architect Fritz Holl in 1964 on Hohrain and also has a modern, rectangular church tower.
  • The Wartberg Church (ev.) , Built in 1967 according to plans by Rudolf Gabel with a rectangular tower like the other three previously built new Protestant churches and a tent-shaped roof like the Aukirche, today belongs to the same parish as this one.
  • The Pauluskirche (ev.-meth.) In the Karlstraße was part of a multifunctional multi-storey commercial building. It was sold in 2017 and the church interior was demolished.
  • The Mor Ephräm Church on John F. Kennedy Street was the church of the American troops once stationed here and was acquired by the Syrian Orthodox community in 1995.
  • The New Apostolic Church on Pfühlstrasse is the largest of the five New Apostolic church buildings in Heilbronn and the main parish of the church district, to which 23 parishes in the city area belong.
  • The building at Schillerstraße 29 was built after the Second World War as a Protestant parish hall with two church rooms for 250 people. After the end of its use as an emergency church, it served, among other things, as a municipal youth center; today it houses a day-care center.

Cemeteries and grave monuments

Crematorium from 1905 in the main cemetery

The Old Cemetery , which was laid out in 1530 and occupied until 1882, has preserved 225 historical grave monuments, including many of important Heilbronn personalities. In the Heilbronn main cemetery , which was laid out in 1882, there are not only significant grave monuments, but also the main building, which is historically furnished with massive pillar porches, and the crematorium built by Emil Beutinger in 1905. The Jewish cemetery has existed since 1867 and is still used today. The Ehrenfriedhof is a burial site for the approximately 6,500 victims of the air raid on Heilbronn .

Towers

When Goethe visited the city in the 18th century, the Heilbronn city wall is said to have been reinforced by ten towers. Today only the bulwark tower and the Götz tower, which flanked the Neckar side of the medieval city, are preserved. The former watchtower on the Wartberg above the city is also visible from afar. The Schweinsberg tower is hidden in the forest at one of the highest points in the urban area.

Wartberg Tower

Wartberg tower with light sculpture

The Wartberg Tower was built in the 12th century as a watchtower on the Wartberg north of the city . From there the entire Neckar basin can be seen, the other way round, the tower can be seen almost throughout the city. The approx. 22.5 meter high tower, measured from the surrounding area, had been crowned by a conical roof since the 15th century and carried a movable signal button. This could be opened and closed and indicated alarm signals, later the beginning and the end of the working day. A spherical basket was last used for this purpose until around 1860. The tower received its battlements through a restoration in 1863–68. The light sculpture Sonnenstrahl for Heilbronn by the Dutchman Jan van Munster has been installed on it since 2002 .

The Wartberg restaurant on the tower has existed since 1792.

Bulwark Tower

Bulwark Tower

The bulwark tower goes back to the Hohenstaufen city fortifications of Heilbronn. The tower located on the northwest corner of the city walls was formerly also called the Witches Tower ; adulterers and child murderers were sometimes imprisoned in it before they were executed. After the war between the Swabian Confederation and Duke Ulrich von Württemberg broke out in 1519, Götz von Berlichingen was captured by the Swabian Confederation on May 11, 1519. The city of Heilbronn arrested him overnight in the Hexenturm before he was allowed to exchange his stay in the tower prison for “knightly imprisonment” in the “Gasthaus zur Krone” at the appeal of Franz von Sickingen and Georgs von Frundsberg .

The name Bollwerksturm comes from the time of the Thirty Years' War, during which the Swedes and French built a bulwark around 1643 to better defend the city. A well-known engraving by Matthaeus Merian tells of its appearance; the bulwark tower closes the city wall on the Neckar on the left (in the north). The tower's current shape and its battlements were not given until the renovation in 1884.

The bulwark tower was once as close to the Neckar as the Götzenturm is still today, the other corner tower of the city fortifications on the Neckar in the south. After the air raid on Heilbronn in 1944, the Neckar arm of the bulwark tower was filled with a huge amount of rubble and it was built over later, so that the original topography around the tower can no longer be guessed today. In the vicinity of the Heilbronner Stadtbad, which was built in the 1970s, the bulwark tower was surrounded by a green area for a long time before the immediate vicinity of the tower was also built over with the Mercure hotel in 2012 .

Harbor Market Tower

Harbor Market Tower

The Hafenmarktturm in Sülmer Straße (pedestrian zone) goes back to the tower of a St. Mary's Church, probably built in 1290, of the Franciscan monastery on the Hafenmarkt, which has been documented in Heilbronn since 1272 . The convent was abolished in 1544, whereupon the monastery building was rededicated as a school (Latin school, then Karlsgymnasium, today Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium ) and the monastery church as a Protestant church. These destroyed the French in 1688 in the Palatinate War of Succession . The tower was rebuilt by the architect Johann Philipp Meyer by 1727, and the necessary funds could not be obtained for the reconstruction of the entire church. Around 1800 the harbor market tower then served as a shotgun factory. From 1926 to 1936 the memorial for the dead of the First World War was set up in its base area. In the course of the reconstruction after the Second World War, a phoenix bird (designed by Heinrich Röhm in 1951) was attached to the top of the tower , and in 1963 a passage was created in the base area with the memorial for the dead of the First World War from the 1920s. There are other monuments and sculptures around the tower. In summer 2011 the spire will be renovated and the carillon will be repaired.

Idol tower

Idol tower

The 30 meter high tower made of Heilbronn sandstone was built in 1392, presumably from stones from the Klingenberg robber knight's castle, which was razed in 1361 , and protected the southwest corner of the late medieval city wall. As a relatively young tower of the city fortifications, it was originally only called the New Tower or the Square Tower . When Goethe's drama Götz von Berlichingen , in which Götz dies in front of such a tower in Heilbronn, became popular around 1800, travelers often asked about the location of the drama. The historic Götz was imprisoned in Heilbronn, but not in the New Tower , but in the Bollwerksturm, which was then still known as the Hexenturm . Since the Bollwerksturm was in the unrepresentative dye and mill district of the city, the more pleasantly located New Tower has been declared a tower of gods .

The tower has only had its current shape with battlements since renovations at the end of the 19th century. Since the 1985 "Sculpture Alley" event, the sculpture Above the Abyss by Hubertus von der Goltz has stood on the battlements of the tower .

Schweinsberg Tower

Schweinsberg Tower

The observation tower on the Schweinsberg was built in 1885/86 by the Heilbronn Beautification Association . Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle designed the listed tower, built in the historicism style of Sontheimer reed sandstone, and the execution was carried out by the Heilbronn architect Hamann and the Sontheim foreman Eckert. The tower replaced a wooden viewing pyramid that had been there for around ten years. For reasons of cost, the roofing provided in the design was dispensed with. The building was inaugurated on May 8, 1886, in the presence of Mayor Paul Hegelmaier . The tower stands at 372.8  m above sea level. NHN high Schweinsberg , the second highest elevation of today's urban area of ​​Heilbronn, at an altitude of 367  m above sea level. NHN and rises 21 meters. Access to the tower is initially via an external staircase with 24 steps to the high entrance on the west side, then inside via a stone staircase to an intermediate platform on the south side of the tower and further in a stair tower built on the north side of the tower to the upper platform. From this a narrow metal staircase leads to another small platform on the roof of the stair tower. A total of 114 steps have to be climbed. From the 20 meter high upper platform of the tower at 387  m above sea level. At the time of its inauguration, NHN could see 15 cities, 109 villages, 40 castles and palaces and four salt pans. Due to the higher trees, the view is somewhat restricted today. Not far from the historic tower is 371.1  m above sea level. NHN the 89.2 meter high telecommunications tower Heilbronn, built in 1954 .

Theresienturm

Theresienturm

The Theresienturm (until February 2016: General-Wever-Turm ) was built on the Theresienwiese in 1940 and then used as a high-volume bunker for the slaughterhouse that was still adjacent at the time and the surrounding residential areas. It was built in the so-called Dietel type by the Dyckerhoff & Widmann company from Düsseldorf. The patron saint until 2016 was the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Walther Wever, who died in an accident in 1936 . The tower is 28.50 meters high and tapers from bottom to top with a diameter of 12 to 11 meters. The outer walls are approximately 1.40 meters thick, the frustoconical roof is 2.00 meters thick. Inside there are ten floors, six of which were used as crew rooms for 42 people each. The outside of the tower is mostly clad with sandstone, it survived the numerous air raids on Heilbronn with almost no damage.

From the end of the war until 1948, the tower served as an emergency shelter for displaced people , and has been empty since then. From 1963 to the end of the 80s, it carried a large neon sign for the MAN company , which is why the tower is also known as the MAN tower . Until 1999 the tower was still designated as a civil defense object. It is now a listed building . The original access was a ramp to the third floor. Since the access ramp was blown up in 1951, the interior of the tower was not accessible until 2019. On the initiative of the Heilbronn Community Foundation, a new entrance structure was built; a visit is possible by appointment. A tower of the same type, the Mozart Tower, stands at Darmstadt Central Station.

Industrial monuments

At the Neckar

The characteristic weirs in the Neckar Valley were built from 1929 to 1933 on behalf of the Neckar Construction Directorate founded in 1920 under Otto Konz . These 26 weirs between Mannheim and Plochingen, including the Heilbronn Otto-Konz Bridge designed as a weir bridge , were mostly designed by Paul Bonatz and, with their defiant architecture, adapt to the castles of the Neckar Valley. The other bridges over the Neckar, built after the Second World War, are also striking. The large Neckar valley bridge Heilbronn is already on the boundary of the neighboring town Neckarsulm.

The 3700 m long canal port, inaugurated in 1935, is the tenth largest German inland port. The Heilbronn power plant is located near the canal harbor , it is the most important landmark in the Heilbronn urban area, especially since its last expansion with the cooling tower and the two 250 m high chimneys.

The Wilhelmskanal , opened in 1821, still has an original lock system from the late 19th century. The hand crane on the Wilhelmskanal points to the former importance of the crane island as a goods transshipment point for Neckar shipping. The historic hand crane on Kraneninsel goes back to 1845, some cast iron parts were renewed in 1906. Here Neckar barges were once loaded and unloaded, today found there motoryachts a mooring site . The oldest mention of a crane on the Neckar in Heilbronn comes from 1516.

In the area of ​​Kranenstrasse and Hefenweiler there was an important Heilbronn mill district on the Neckar. The island of Hefenweiler takes its name from the yeast that was once processed there. Today, in addition to the Insel-Hotel founded by Willy Mayer in 1952, there is only a residential building and a gallery on it. The connecting island between Hefenweiler and Kraneninsel has been named Willy Mayer Bridge after the hotelier since 2005. Since 2007 the Adolf-Cluss-Brücke , named after the Heilbronn-born architect Adolf Cluss , has connected the Hefenweiler and the Kraneninsel with the Untere Neckarstrasse. The northern end of the Hefenweiler, which was previously difficult to access, has been made into a decorative public space since the construction of this footbridge, from where the entire Neckar oxbow lake (now called Hagenbuchersee ) can be overlooked.

In 1936, Carl Hagenbucher built the Hagenbucher , a six-storey warehouse building on the site of the town's bridge mill, which has been attested since the 15th century, as the third oilseed storage facility for his mill on the Kraneninsel . After other factory buildings were blown up in 1959, the building named after the company founded in 1882 remained the only building on Kraneninsel; since 1988 it has housed New Art in Hagenbucher , the exhibition of the Heilbronn Art Association and changing exhibitions of the Municipal Museum. After the expansion according to plans by the Berlin architects studioinges from May 2008 to November 2009, the Science Center Experimenta Heilbronn is located there today .

The Heilbronn hydropower plant was built on the dammed back arm of the Neckar in 1955/56 according to plans by Emil Burkhardt and Paul Barth , and an older hydropower plant there from 1922 was added.

Railroad and post office

Post Office No. 2 at the train station

The old station was built in 1848. Its tracks were on what is now Bahnhofstrasse, while the forecourt and main entrance of the building were on the back facing away from the street today. As early as 1874, a new, larger train station was built further west on the site of today's Heilbronn main train station. Both stations were destroyed in 1944. The old station was rebuilt in its old form in 1948, today's main station was built as a modern building on the old foundations. The concrete canopy of the cubic new building attracted a lot of attention during its construction. The neo-Gothic railway service building , built in 1902, is also located in Bahnhofstrasse . The railway tunnel built in 1859 under the Schnarrenberg with a length of 900 meters was then the longest railway tunnel in Württemberg.

The post office at the station was opened in 1906 in Bahnhofstrasse by Hermann Ockert as Post Office No. 2 built. It is a representative building with ornamental gables, bay windows and a tower and is one of the few buildings in the city that survived the Second World War undamaged. The old Heilbronn main post office had been on Untere Neckarstrasse since 1875, and the Neue Post was later built on Allee . In 1991, not far from the former post office No. 2 a new post office near the train station, which has served as the main post office ever since.

Industry

Maschinenfabrik MGH, today a youth center
Kaiser's tower

The machine factory at Olgastraße 45, today the municipal youth center, was built by M. Keppeler in 1904 for the Heilbronn mechanical engineering company (MGH). Steam rollers and farm implements were manufactured here. Two former factory halls, which stood parallel to each other, were renovated and connected with a modern intermediate section for use as a youth center since 1987.

The machine factory Weipert, founded in 1897, built a building complex in brickwork in the Weipertstrasse named after it and mainly manufactured lathes. After the company closed, several companies used the building as offices and workshops; there was a nightclub in the old foundry. In 1996 some of the houses were torn down, the rest were renovated and have housed the Heilbronn innovation factory since 1998 .

The Kaiser's Tower was a warehouse for the former Kaiser’s coffee roastery , which is now owned by the Tengelmann food company . It was built in 1939 in the functional style of the industrial architecture of the time at the Canal Harbor. The approximately 40 m high tower, which is now a listed building, has been given a nine-meter-high, glazed structure in recent years based on a design by the architect Matthias Müller, which houses a two-story restaurant with a hinged roof that offers a view of Heilbronn. In the evening hours, a lighting system illuminates the building, which can produce 260 shades of color.

Since the construction of the new Neckar Bridge, which runs directly past it in 2006, the Kaiser's Tower, which can be seen from afar, has now been at a traffic junction. In 2008, the Kaiser's Tower received the Audience Award at the award for good buildings by the Federation of German Architects, Baden-Württemberg State Association, a regional preliminary round of the Hugo Häring Prize .

The Kaiser's Tower is the central structure in the commercial area “Am Kaiser's Tower”, abbreviated to “AKT”, in which two new four-storey, metal-clad round buildings were erected between 2004 and 2005, the outer shape of which is supposed to be reminiscent of Neckarkiesel. Retailers, a discotheque, a few restaurants and other service providers have settled in the new buildings.

Water management

Waterworks from 1875 in the Salzstrasse

The municipal waterworks in Salzstrasse. 131 was opened in 1875. It drew its water from the Hartlesbrunnen in Biberach and from the wells near the Ochsenbrunnen near Neckargartach . It then went from the pumping station in Salzstrasse to an elevated tank on the Wartberg .

schools

Robert Mayer High School

A Latin school had existed in the city since 1544, the tradition of which was continued by a grammar school from 1620, for a long time under the name of the Karlsgymnasium. In 1950 the school was given its current name Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . The building in Karlstrasse in use today was built from 1956 to 1958 based on a design by Peter Salzbrenner .

The Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium was built from 1887 according to plans of the city building authority in the style of historicism and expanded several times until 1914. The Robert Mayer observatory was set up on the upper floor of the grammar school as early as 1914 .

Other historic school buildings in downtown are inaugurated in 1900 Rosenau school and in 1908 inaugurated Damm school .

Commercial building

Commercial buildings

Käthchenhaus
  • The Käthchenhaus is a stone secular building with a striking decorative oriel on the market square, probably dates from the 14th century and is one of the city's landmarks. It was badly damaged in 1944 and then rebuilt with a simplified roof and gable construction.
  • The Zehender house at Marktplatz 12, built in 1726 by the widow of the merchant Georg Friedrich Pfeil, housed the haberdashery shop founded by Louis Zehender in 1848. It was badly damaged by bombs on September 10, 1944 and then completely destroyed on December 4, 1944. By September 1948, the building was rebuilt with the facade true to the original. Along with the town hall, Käthchenhaus, Deutschhof and the churches, it is one of the few buildings that have been faithfully rebuilt from the original.
  • The Safe'sche Pharmacy on the market square can be traced back to 1359. The house, rebuilt after the war's destruction, including the interior, is now a listed building.
  • The Stahl house in Christophstr. 3 from 1878 is the only surviving vintner's house in Heilbronn. On the ground floor of the house, which was built on the outskirts at the time, there used to be a wine press, stable and feed chamber. Today a flower shop is operated here.
  • The Friedrich Gerock house at Roßkampffstrasse 22-24 was designed in 1890 for the master baker Friedrich Gerock by the Heilbronn architects Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger .
Otto & Kaiser main building
  • There are other listed commercial buildings in Happelstrasse near the Südbahnhof . The former building of the savings and consumer association in Happelstr. 29 was built in 1913 according to plans by Jakob Saame and initially served as a cooperative self-catering facility with a bakery, distillery and other facilities. The building is still used for commercial purposes today. The Otto & Kaiser food factory , whose main building at Happelstrasse 59 with a five-storey corner tower was built in 1915 according to plans by Alfred Volz, used to be in the same street .
  • Some of the buildings that have been built since the reconstruction are now classified as monuments. For example the furniture store Kost an der Allee, which was built in 1950 by Hans Paul Schmahl and Karl Mogler in the light, diaphanous forms of the 1950s. In the shop building with an open gallery, a 70-meter-long shop window front and a sloping west facade, there is now a branch of the Sparda Bank.
  • The Assenheimer car dealership was completed in 1959 based on plans by Julius Hoffmann on Silcherplatz.
  • Further commercial buildings were newly built in the traditional Heimat style of the pre-war period, for example the building of the Bierstorfer furniture store in Lohtorstrasse 37 / corner of Lammgasse from 1950.

Bank building

Banks look back on a long tradition in Heilbronn. So-called Kawersche from southern France are said to have existed in Heilbronn as early as the 11th century . Heilbronn has been an important banking location since the second half of the 19th century. The three banks at the intersection of the avenue with the axis Kaiserstraße - Moltkestraße and other banks in historical buildings strongly shape the cityscape.

BW Bank at the corner of Allee and Kaiserstraße
Dresdner Bank at the corner of Allee and Kaiserstraße
  • The Baden-Württembergische Bank resides in the building of the former trading and commercial bank on the corner of Kaiserstraße / Allee 11. The building was built in 1952 by Julius Hoffman from Franconian shell limestone . Originally a seven-axis building with a central portal, it was later extended towards Kaiserstraße; this created the asymmetrically designed portal on the avenue side.
  • Paul Schmitthenner built the headquarters of Dresdner Bank (Heilbronn) between 1952 and 1954 at the corner of Kaiserstraße 32 and Allee. The elegant and striking building in the Heimat style is stylistically based on the same age building on the opposite BW bank.
  • The Volksbank Heilbronn is on the corner Moltke street / avenue 20. The façade of 1993 by Roland Meister and Roland Wittich built, four-storey house is covered with polished plates of green stone. The slightly flat roof, which protrudes over the edge of the building, adapts to the surrounding older building stock from the time of reconstruction after the Second World War. One corner borders the intersection at which the Dresdner Bank and Baden-Württembergische Bank houses are on the opposite side on the western side of the avenue. Volksbank Heilbronn, founded in 1909 by Abraham Gumbel as Heilbronner Bankverein, is today the largest credit cooperative in the region with a business volume of 1.3 billion euros.
  • The Kreissparkasse Heilbronn is located in a building complex on the corner of Wollhausstrasse and Uhlandstrasse, which was designed by the architects K. Häge, G. Kistenmacher and H. Alber and inaugurated on June 6, 1958. In the meantime, the high-rise building of the district administration, built from 1968 to 1971, has also merged into the building complex (see picture in the contemporary architecture section ). In 1978 the central building was opened, in 1990 it was extended and a glass pyramid was added. In 2004, another building was added to the building, and in 2006 a new customer hall was added. The Kreissparkasse, the successor to the Oberamtssparkasse founded in 1856, is the largest credit institution in the lowlands with a business volume of around 7 billion euros, around 100 branches and almost 1,600 employees .
  • The former Commerzbank building. Corner of Klarastraße / Wollhaus, was built in 1966 by Gustav Ernst Kistenmacher in travertine as a two-part complex, the two parts of which are connected by a glass bridge over Siebeneichgasse. At the entrance to the underground car park at the rear of the building, a section of the wall from the former Heilbronn Klarakloster has been preserved.
  • The building of the former trading and commercial bank in Karlstr. 70–71 was built in 1923 by Hermann Steuss in the neoclassic style. Today the building is the seat of the Württembergische und Badische Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft (WÜBA).

Restaurants

Wartberg restaurant by the Wartberg tower
Volksgarten
Slaughterhouse Restaurant
Hotel Hubmann

Restaurants and Hotels:

  • The Wartberggaststätte is a traditional restaurant on the Wartberg above Heilbronn that has existed since 1764 .
  • The Jägerhaus is a hermitage from the 15th century, also located above Heilbronn in the city forest, which has also been a restaurant since 1788 after various uses.
  • The Trappensee restaurant. goes back to the Heilbronn brewery Cluss , which acquired the property at Trappensee in 1879 and built a bar along Jägerhausstraße, which was later expanded and rebuilt several times. In 1977 the building was acquired by the city of Heilbronn and extensively renovated.
  • The Volksgarten inn at Pfühlstraße 57 was built in 1898 below the Wartberg on the outskirts of the city at the time, based on plans by Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger . With its ornamental framework and Swiss floating gables, the building has the character of a country house.
  • The Hotel Friedrich Hubmann is a former hotel at Wilhelmstrasse 58, which was built in 1898 according to plans by August Dederer in the neo-renaissance style. The house, which was rebuilt in 1956, has rich architectural decorations. The private house at Uhlandstrasse 57 was also built for the same owner . Hubmann also had the apartment building at Uhlandstrasse 61 built.
  • The Wilhelmstrasse building, once known as the European Court, is located on Rathenauplatz . 68 , as well as the former Metro bar in the Charlottenstrasse building . 2 , which was built in 1898/99 by Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger in the neo-renaissance style, as well as the earlier brothels at Sontheimer Str. 3 and Sontheimer Str. 7 .
  • The Heilbronn slaughterhouse was built in the neo-renaissance style in 1880–98. In addition to the actual slaughterhouse, the facility consisted of a three-storey administration building and a restaurant. The ornate ornamental gable of the restaurant shows the full sculpture of a bull's skull at the very top. The facility was later expanded several times, but the extensions have since been demolished. The preserved listed buildings were 2007 by the academy for communication. acquired, which established a school site there by 2012. In the vicinity of the slaughterhouse is also the Alte Milchhof , a milk collection point built in 1925, which today houses the city ​​of Heilbronn's Lapidarium .
  • The Wilhelm Waiblinger House at Schützenstrasse 16 was built in 1927 as a youth hostel.
Café Hagen, Christophstr. 13

Café building:

  • The Café Noller is found in Heilbronn since the year 1931st After the Second World War, Gottlob Noller (master confectioner) was able to open his café at Kirchbrunnenstrasse 32-36 on November 23, 1957, which was built according to plans by Kurt Marohn . At that time it was still two-story and had a balcony terrace on the first floor with a balcony parapet decorated by Maria Fitzen-Wohnsiedler (ceramicist, 1908–1989). In April 1986 the Café Noller was extended again and provided with a light metal facade and bay windows. The balcony parapet was dismantled and now decorates the interior of the café.
  • Café Kilian : In 1986 the Bergdoll house on the corner of Kaiserstraße / Kiliansplatz was rebuilt and Café Kilian reopened there. The eight-axis, three-storey corner building with a reddish facade on arcade arches shows features of historicism in the structure of its pillars and window reveals .
  • Café Hagen was founded in 1934 as a coffee shop with a coffee roasting facility in Heilbronn and has been located in a building from the early days at Christophstrasse 13 since 1994. The building was expanded in 2002.
  • Café Janssen : The interior design of the Café Janssen at Sülmerstrasse 6 speaks completely the design language of the 50s.
  • Café Romann : The Romann family has had a bakery at Fleiner Tor since 1696 in the city of Heilbronn. In 1867, August Romann set up a confectionery café on Lammgasse, and Eugen Romann opened a new confectionery on Sülmer Strasse in 1900. After the Second World War and the destruction of the city center, Hans-Eugen Romann was able to move to Sülmerstrasse on February 15, 1951 27 on the old square, the traditional café will be reopened. The building is two-story and has a wrought-iron work on the corner showing a baker with a cake.

Civil buildings

Villas

Trappenseeschlösschen
Villa Rauch, Steinstrasse 1

In addition to the former Trappenseeschlösschen and the striking Trappenseeeschlösschen , a baroque water castle that once stood in the middle of a fruit farm, there are numerous villas in Heilbronn that survived the destruction of the old building stock of the city during the air raid on Heilbronn in 1944, mostly unscathed. The Wilhelmstrasse and they crossed Cäcilienstraße south of the old town built after 1840 Heilbronner dignitaries and industrialists with their homes. To the east of the city center, in the area of ​​Bismarckstrasse, Dittmarstrasse, Alexanderstrasse, Gutenbergstrasse and a few others, there is another villa district with representative summer houses and residential houses of wealthy citizens that have been built since the late 19th century.

Wilhelmstrasse:

  • The Villa Goppel in Wilhelmstrasse. 7 is located at the southern end of Wilhelmstrasse and was one of the first buildings on this street to be built in the classicism style in 1842 by Heilbronn city architect Louis de Millas .
  • The Wilhelmsbau in Wilhelmstrasse. 9, built between 1841 and 1845 by Heinrich Cluss , Adolf Cluss's father . The building with the distinctive Byzantine round arches came into the possession of the city of Heilbronn in 1901, which has since housed part of the city administration there.
  • The Villa Kübel in Wilhelmstrasse. 11 from 1862 is another classicist building by Louis de Millas.
  • The Villa Zapf in Wilhelmstrasse. 13 was built in 1863 according to plans by Franz Weisert .
  • The Mössner house , Wilhelmstr. 17, was built in 1907 by Emil Beutinger and Adolf Steiner with elements of Art Nouveau .
  • The Villa Seelig , Wilhelmstr. 25, was built in 1877 by Robert von Reinhardt for the chicory manufacturer Emil Seelig in the neo-renaissance style. The two and a half storey building is crowned by a massive gable with a tympanum . Two slightly raised side sections encompass a recessed center section of the facade, which is structured by delicate pilasters , balustrades and a tympanum with a frieze of figures above the main entrance. The mezzanine floor under the roof is characterized by white figure friezes between pilasters. In 1911 Josef Hüls added a loggia and veranda, and a staircase was added in 1928. The ground floor and the interior of the entire villa were heavily modified in the 1940s and 1990s, complete renovation in 2003.
  • There are other representative historical properties in Wilhelmstrasse , including the twin house in Wilhelmstrasse. 16 and the Protestant deanery in Wilhelmstr. 18. In the further course to the south of Südstrasse is the villa of the chief architect Josef Eckert, built in 1899 and set back from the street, in Wilhelmstrasse. 42 as well as several representative residential and commercial buildings built between 1898 and 1903 in the style of historicism, including the houses Wilhelmstrasse 52 , 54 , 56 , 64 and  66 .

Cäcilienstraße:

Villa Faißt, Cäcilienstr. 66
  • The villa at Cäcilienstraße 3 was the residence of the director of the Cluss brewery, which was once located here on Rosenberg . The building now uses a care facility.
  • The Villa Meißner , Cäcilienstr. 47, was built in 1871 and somewhat redesigned in 1907.
  • The Villa Link , Cäcilienstr. 51, was built in 1881 by Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle for the Commerce Councilor Louis Link in the neo-Renaissance style. It is a two and a half storey, stately villa. With a rusticated base, the porch in the east and the balconies with a risalit-like shape, it is entirely committed to the Italian Renaissance. Today the building houses the municipal office for green spaces.
  • The Villa Neumayer , Cäcilienstr. 58, was built in 1909 by Jakob Saame in Art Nouveau style for the dentist W. Neumayer and was once surrounded by a large garden.
  • The multi-family house in Cäcilienstraße 60 was built by Christian Zillhardt in 1870. The balcony and the window frames on the first floor are particularly decorative.
  • The building at Cäcilienstraße 62/64 was also built by C. Zillhardt in 1875 and, like its recently built neighboring buildings, has an ashlar facade with decorative window frames and balusters.
  • The Villa Faißt , Cäcilienstr. 66, started in 1873 by C. Zillhardt, was completed by Robert von Reinhardt in 1876 for sugar factory director Andreas Faißt and his wife Henriette Cluss. In 1895 the villa was rebuilt according to plans by Ernst Walter and Carl Luckscheiter. The composer Hugo Wolf was occasionally a guest in the villa and made music here. The Villa Faißt is an example of the early phase of southern German historicism . The building was the seat of various state and municipal administrations from 1922 to 1995. Since 2000, the representative building has been maintained as the "Wine Villa" by a joint wine-growing company.

Bismarckstrasse:

Villa Teuffel, Bismarckstrasse. 48
  • The Villa Teuffel is located at Bismarckstraße 48 and was built in 1901/1902 by Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter for the banker Emil Teuffel. The villa is a listed building and a fine example of neo-baroque , a variant of late historicism. The secular building with two and a half stories has a hipped roof and dormers . The building corners with their window and door parapets are slightly bevelled and rounded. In the entrance portal there are columns with a split-open segment arch, the staircase above is extensively glazed.
  • The villa Mrs. Alfred Knorr , Bismarckstr. 50, was built in 1896 by Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter for Therese Knorr, the widow of the manufacturer Alfred Knorr . The building is a typical late historic mansion with Gothic and Renaissance ornaments. The villa is surrounded by a large park with mature trees. In 1904, a farm building with a striking pointed tower was built behind the villa, also in the style of historicism. In Gutenbergstr. 51 is also the Villa Carl Knorr .
  • In the Bismarckstraße there are other representative historical buildings, including the house of the merchant Chr. Hermann from 1896 in the Bismarckstraße , which is now used as a Protestant pastor's office . 54 , the Hitzker House in Bismarckstrasse, completed in 1899 . 61 and the building erected in 1897/98 as an officer's mess for the Heilbronn garrison in Bismarckstrasse. 67 .
Villa Münzing, Bahnhofstr. 9

Bahnhofstrasse:

  • Villa Münzing , Bahnhofstr. 9, built in 1896 by Ernst Walter and Karl Luckscheiter for the manufacturer Albert Münzing.
  • Villa Adelmann , Bahnhofstr. 11, built in 1870 by Robert von Reinhardt in the neo-renaissance style. The building was partially destroyed in World War II, but the facade was preserved during the reconstruction.
  • In the Bahnhofstrasse there are other representative historical buildings with residential character, including the service building of the railway (Bahnhofstrasse 20) from 1902 and the residential building Bahnhofstrasse. 27 , whose facade from 1874 survived the war destruction.
Villa Hagenmayer, Dittmarstr. 5
Villa Schliz, Alexanderstr. 53

Dittmarstrasse:

  • Villa Hagenmayer at Dittmarstrasse 5, built with an ornate corner tower and ornamental gables in 1899 by Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger in the neo-Gothic style for the architect Albert Hagenmayer.
  • Villa Dittmar , Dittmarstr. 16, built in 1881 by Hermann Maute for the only son of the knife manufacturer Dittmar. The villa shows classic forms of the German Wilhelminian era such as cornices and window gables as well as Doric architraves and friezes, but also Mediterranean flair, in the form of the tower crowning the villa in the style of Italian residential towers of the Renaissance with twin windows and a pilaster-reinforced structure. The building housed the municipal advisory center for families and upbringing until 2005; in November 2006, a tax advisory company acquired the property.

Gutenbergstrasse:

  • Villa Moosbrugger , Gutenbergstr. 29, was built in 1908 by Theodor Moosbrugger as his own house.
  • Villa Mayer , Gutenbergstr. 30, was built in 1912 by Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger for the manufacturer Ernst Mayer in the neo-baroque style.
  • Villa Dopfer , Gutenbergstr. 37, built in 1909 also by Maute and Moosbrugger for the chemist Otto Dopfer.
  • Villa Carl Knorr , formerly also called Villa 'Lerchenburg', Gutenbergstr. 51, built in 1897 by Johannes Vollmer and Heinrich Jassoy for the manufacturer Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr . The raised, castle-like building is an exemplary villa of late historicism. The neighboring building Gutenbergstr. 39/1 was the car garage that originally belonged to the villa.
  • Villa Kleinbach , Gutenbergstr. 63, on the corner of Dittmarstrasse, was built in 1908 for the reindeer Heinrich Kleinbach based on designs by Jakob Saame in the local style with wooden shingled gables.

Alexanderstrasse:

  • Villa Schliz , Alexanderstr. 53, built in 1901 by Paul Schmohl and Georg Stähelin in Art Nouveau style for the doctor and historian Alfred Schliz . The architects staged a house like a theater backdrop on the gently sloping terrain of the Lerchenberg. Oval windows , arches , sculptural cornices and pylons structure the tension-filled country house in the style of the French Art Nouveau floral style.
Villa Mertz, Rosenbergstr. 1
Villa Pielenz, Wollhausstr. 93

Other roads:

  • Villa Rauch on Steinstrasse. 1 was built in 1811 as a summer house by Gottlieb von Etzel for the manufacturer von Rauch. The historic villa in classicism style was rebuilt in a simplified form after the air raid on Heilbronn in 1949 according to plans by Adolf Braunwald .
  • Villa Mertz , Rosenbergstr. 1, built in 1811 by Gottlieb von Etzel for the Mertz family as a country house on Rosenberg (Neckar bank at Götzenturmpark). The country house was very popular and erasers and engravers like Georg Ebner depicted it in their Neckar views in a romantic manner.
  • Villa Treu , Urbanstr. 19, was built in 1874. With its loggia, risalits and exposed brickwork, the building is modeled on Italian country houses from the Renaissance period.
  • Villa Stotz , Charlottenstrasse. 31, was built in 1905 in the historicizing Art Nouveau style.
  • Villa Pielenz , Wollhausstr. 93, built in 1905 by Hugo Eberhardt for Knorr General Director Gustav Pielenz . With its slate-clad upper floor, it corresponds to the adaptation of the English country house architecture, which was used in Heilbronn through the so-called Heimatstil.
  • Villa Fuchs at Jägerhausstraße 104 was built in 1913 by Rudolf Fuchs according to plans by Adolf Braunwald in the neoclassical style. The villa is surrounded by a spacious park-like garden.
  • Villa Gabel in Oststr. 12 was built in 1923 by Adolf Mössinger for Anton Gabel in the neoclassical style.
  • The house at Villmatstrasse 17 was built in 1925 and is one of the few remaining buildings in Heilbronn in the Expressionist style.
  • Villa Winker in Gemmingstal 49 was built in 1924 according to plans by the architect Artur List as his home and expanded again by List when it was sold to the vocational school board in 1930. The park-like garden surrounding the neo-baroque building was laid out in 1928 and has been preserved true to the original.

Residential houses

Happelstrasse

Because of the destruction of Heilbronn's old town in 1944, not a single historic residential building has survived in the city. Only in the residential quarters built after 1840, especially in the south of the city center, in the area of ​​southern Wilhelmstrasse, Südstrasse, Ludwig-Pfau-Strasse, Happel-, Uhland- and Werderstrasse, are there still streets with buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Century.

Südstrasse, Ludwig-Pfau-Strasse, Happel-, Uhland- and Werderstrasse formed the historic workers' residential area at Heilbronn's Südbahnhof . The urban planning plan of 1873 already indicated this residential area for the “social middle class”, and it was only realized with the construction of the Bottwartalbahn at the turn of the century. At that time the residential buildings consisted primarily of two to three-room apartments without a bathroom, the ground floor was often used for business purposes, for example as a shop. The historic Heilbronn workers' residential area is architecturally determined primarily by "reduced historicism " or by Art Nouveau . The buildings were mostly built in brick construction without any plaster , the facades were decorated with an "ornamental sculpture in sandstone".

House Schöneck, Werderstr. 154
Happelstrasse
Here, an industrial and workers' residential area north of the Südbahnhof has largely been preserved. Buildings No. 51 , 53 , 53/1, 55 and 55/1 were built in 1904/05 as three-and-a-half-storey workers' houses on behalf of Ernst Nahm in a uniform style with brick facades. The corner house No. 57 with commercial space on the ground floor was also built by Nahm in 1906/07.
Werderstrasse
It forms the central axis of the industrial and workers 'residential area at Heilbronner Südbahnhof. This street, which runs parallel to the north of Happelstrasse, still has a dense number of workers' houses. Building No. 138 was built in 1906 according to plans by Beutinger & Steiner for workers in the silver goods factory Peter Bruckmann & Sons , No. 142 in 1900 for master baker W. Springer, buildings 152 , 154 , and 155 in 1906 according to plans by Architects Christian Dietz and Jakob Saame for the piano maker Wilhelm Schöneck. Buildings no. 148 , 150 and 157 were also built between 1900 and 1906. As in Happelstrasse, unplastered facades with exposed brickwork or brick ornamentation dominate here too. The corner house Werderstr. 183 / Gabelsberger Str. 14 was built in 1906 as a tenement house with commercial space on the ground floor. The three-storey exposed brickwork is designed in contrasting colors on the top floor, the house also has a polygonal tower window with a Welscher hood.
Ludwig-Pfau-Strasse
It is a north-south axis of the industrial and workers' residential area at Heilbronn Südbahnhof. Buildings No. 19 and No. 21/23 were built in 1910 by Rudolf Seitz with rich architectural decorations as tenement houses. The duplex house No. 25/27 , built in 1903 according to plans by Jakob Saame, also has facade decorations and ornamental gables. The corner house No. 36 on Werderstrasse was built in 1907/08 for the baker Heinrich Bezner; the owner's apartment and bakery were once on the ground floor.
Hubmann House, Uhlandstr. 57
Uhlandstrasse
  • The Hubmann house at Uhlandstrasse 57 was built in 1894 as a neo-renaissance house based on the builder's own plans. The facade has a polygonal bay window in the middle, which is closed off by a copper dome and above it a curved gable with volutes. At the back there is an extension with a visible framework.
  • The neighboring building Uhlandstr. 61 was built in 1898 as a tenement house for Hubmann. The historicist building has a wide balcony on consoles as well as window crowns and relief sculptures.
  • The three tenement houses at Uhlandstrasse 67/69 , 71/73 and 75 were built by K. Klenk for working class and craftsman families according to plans by Carl Mödinger. At house no. 67 there is a relief sculpture of a chimney sweep. The residential and commercial building No. 70 was also built by Fr. Klenk in 1898 according to plans by August Dederer. The architect Dederer also drew the plans for the twin house built in 1902 at Uhlandstrasse 74/76 with its crenellated bay windows and wall paintings.
Südstraße with corner house Silcherplatz 6
Südstrasse
  • Südstraße is the most important traffic axis of the industrial and residential area at the Südbahnhof, in which several historic residential and commercial buildings have been preserved. On the ground floor of the Südstr. Building, built in 1897 . 43 was once a butcher's shop. The building Südstr. 80/82 from 1910/11 has two portals decorated with figures. The apartment building No. 125/127 has high-contrast exposed brickwork and a curved gable; the ground floor of the building, built in 1908, was once a bakery. The tenement house no. 129/131 from 1902 has eye-catching facade decorations in the form of Art Nouveau mask heads. At the Südstr. 144/146 from 1910, the window parapets are adorned with architectural sculpture.
  • The Bürk house on the corner of Südstraße / Silcherplatz 6 is a residential building built in 1891 according to plans by August Dederer in the style of historicism with echoes of neo-renaissance and neo-baroque.
Schmollerstrasse
No. 22/24 in Schmollerstraße, which runs south of the Südbahnhof, is a railway house built in 1900 with a cantilevered gable roof similar to that of country railway stations. The building group Schmollerstr. 56/58 and 60/62 around corner house no. 64 was built in 1913 as a workers' housing estate according to plans by Mrs. Schneider and has brick facades.
Liebigstrasse 8
East Street
Catherine pen
Liebigstrasse
An ensemble of one and two-family houses has been preserved in Liebigstrasse, which were built in 1911 as residential buildings for their employees according to plans by Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger for the Knorr company . Buildings No. 8 , No. 10 , No. 12/14 , No. 16/18 , No. 22/24 and No. 26 are uniformly designed with shingled half-timbering and steep roof gables.
East Street
The building in Oststr. 2 was built in 1908 as an apartment building according to plans by Jakob Saame, its exposed wall facade is strongly structured by vertical elements. Other listed residential buildings on Oststrasse are the double residential building No. 21/23 , built in 1908 according to plans by Stuber & Beckmann, and the residential and commercial building Oststr. 25 on the corner of Bruckmannstrasse, built in 1913/14 according to plans by Friedrich Hubmann.
Other roads
  • The house Belz, Lerchenstr. 6, was built in 1881 by Karl Belz and, with its architectural decorations, the bay window and the gables, is an example of the villa-like residential building architecture of historicism.
  • The Albrecht House , Karlstr. 82, was built in 1884 by the wine grower GA Albrecht according to plans by Philipp Sulzberg and is characterized by an ornate stone facade.
  • The Weipert House , Herbststrasse. 8, was built according to plans by August Dederer in 1896 for the manufacturer Johann Michael Weipert and, after being destroyed in the war, was reconstructed in 1946 according to plans by Adolf Braunwald.
  • The Katharinenstift , Arndtstrasse 1, was built in 1899 by Gustav Stroh in the neo-Gothic style as a "recreation house" thanks to a foundation from the heirs of Louis Link ; later, the city nursing home emerged from the private foundation.
  • The house CF Hauth , Moltkestrasse 35, with a distinctive gable and polygonal bay window was built in the neo-renaissance style in 1902; the facade could be preserved during the modified reconstruction in 1947.
  • The residential and commercial buildings No. 50 and 54 in Olgastraße were built in 1902/03 according to plans by Heinrich Stroh and are among the few medium-sized buildings in the suburb of the station that have been preserved true to the original. Particularly noteworthy are the partly richly decorated gables of the otherwise reduced design language.
  • The house clean, Friedhofstr. 45, was built in 1903 for the gardener Robert Sauber by Jakob Saame in Art Nouveau style. The curved gable and the bay tower are striking.
  • The house in Kernerstr. 60 was built by H. Huber, it shows elements of Art Nouveau on the façade, which is crowned by an asymmetrically attached gable.
  • The Müller house , Pfühlstraße 51, with tower window and volute gable was built in 1910 according to plans by Karl Vogler as a residence for Louise Müller.
  • The Kunz house , Roßkampffstraße 4, was built in Art Nouveau style as a tenement house for Johann Kunz in 1913 by Adolf Braunwald.
  • The house at Louis-Hentges-Straße 5 was built in 1927 by Stuber and Beckmann in the neoclassical style. Along with Villa Fuchs and Villa Gabel, the house is one of the few examples of the modern interpretation of classical architecture and at the same time a forerunner of conservative modernism in architecture of the 1950s.
  • The arcade house , Kornacherstraße 1, was built in 1930 and 1931 according to plans by the Heilbronn architect Ludwig Knortz as a prototype of a modern multi-storey apartment building. The house is named after the floor corridors that run like arcades outdoors.

Garden and vineyard houses

Several historic vineyard houses have been preserved in the vineyards around Heilbronn. These include the vineyard cottage on Aubergweg, built in 1513 and expanded in 1775, the vineyard cottages on Riedenberg and Vorderen Hundsberg, also dating from the 18th century, and the well and vineyard shelter in Breitenloch, built around 1800.

Listed garden houses are the garden house with observation tower built in 1892 in Rosengartstraße in the style of late historicism and the garden belvedere built by the merchant Rudolf Sperling on Nordberg 5 in 1911/12.

Bunker systems

In addition to the Theresienturm (high bunker), there are other old bunkers in Heilbronn. The reinforced concrete bunker cube under Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz is now covered with a playground; Entrance and ventilation shafts are still visible. Along the eastern bank of the Neckar, there are also remains of the bunker systems of the Neckar-Enz position built in the 1930s and razed after the Second World War .

There is an underground bunker from the Second World War for 400 people under the industrial area. From the underground facility, which had no electricity and water supply and was only provided with dry toilets, the above-ground service building converted into a kiosk, the bunker entrances and some ventilation shafts can still be seen today. However, the kiosk in the converted above-ground service building of the underground bunker closed in 2016. After renovations based on designs by the architect Franz-Josef Mattes, the building will be made available to the Diakonie for the Midnight Mission. Alexandra Gutmann from the Midnight Mission looks after the homeless, drug addicts, criminals and other people who have committed criminal offenses. In addition, alcoholics, prostitutes, asylum seekers, Nordstadtkids, migrants, refugee children and children from the homeless shelter.

Fountain

Some wells in Heilbronn are historically significant, including the since 1588/90, enclosed in a pump room Cecilia fountain until 1875, the most important institution for the water supply of the city, the Seven Tube wells , perhaps gave the city its predecessor its name, and the renaissance time Fleinertorbrunnen and the equally old harbor market fountain . The idyllic Köpferbrunnenanlage has existed since 1898. After the Second World War, numerous new fountains were built, and in 1959 there were 55 public fountains in the city. The larger new fountains include the Theaterbrunnen (1982) and the Neue Stadtbrunnen (1996). In the Heilbronn districts, local fountains have recently emerged, which have the respective Utzname of the place as their subject.

See fountain in Heilbronn .

Contemporary architecture

harmony
Heilbronn Theater
Stadtgalerie shopping center
  • The Frankenstadion at Badstrasse 100, built in 1920, was re-inaugurated on August 16, 1988 after renovation.
  • The Technical Town Hall at Cäcilienstraße 49 was opened on March 12, 1993.
  • The new post office at Bahnhofsstrasse 12 opened on November 24, 1989.
  • The multi-storey car park at the Stadtbad with an oval floor plan and striking wooden facade designed by the architects Mahler, Günster, Fuchs was inaugurated on November 27, 1998 and was awarded the Hugo Häring Prize in 2000 .
  • The Kolbenschmidt Arena , which was built in 2002 in place of an older ice rink according to plans by the Heilbronn architect Jürgen Pils, is located near the Stadtbad .
  • Since 2002, at the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke, where Frankfurter Strasse previously merged into Bahnhofstrasse, there has been a new landmark in the city center, the so-called Neckarturm with its rounded shapes. The design comes from the architects Gerd Krummlauf and Ulrich Bechler. Ralf Bellm, Hochtief's project manager, designed the tower with colored lights. The facade of the Neckar Tower arches towards the east towards the Neckar. The south side of the building facing Frankfurter Strasse was structured with a box-like crossbar. A long wing with a plastered facade and sandstone slabs adjoins the tower to the west towards Bahnhofstrasse.
  • The LVA administration building is located at Friedensplatz 4 , a six-storey office and administration building that was completed in 2004 according to the designs of the Heilbronn architect Werner Ruf. The building is a reinforced concrete skeleton construction with a glass facade, the semicircular arched barrel roof over a recessed attic is open to the west.
  • The residential complex Stadtvilla Neckarterrasse. am Neckar, built in 2003 according to a design by the architect Otto Steidle , comprises several five-story, square buildings with glass verandas facing the Neckar.
  • The family house in the Karl-Smudge Street, built in 2003 according to the architect Mueller, consists of two separated by a glass joint cubes . On the north side, the building has a plastered facade, while on the garden in the south, a facade made of wooden slats and glass is in front of it.
  • The city ​​gallery was opened in March 2008 according to plans by the architect B. Hillrichs. The building was controversial in the press because of its architecture. BDA boss Matthias Müller described the building as a “UFO”, which was “a foreign body in terms of urban planning”, which “went beyond scale”. He qualifies the building as “bad urban development that has absolutely nothing to do with Heilbronn” and hopes that the city ​​gallery “does not [...] set new standards”. The building is visited by around 19,000 people every day and was able to report around 5 million visitors after the first five years of operation.
Schmoller School, extension building
  • The entrance hall of the Helene-Lange-Realschule was built according to a design by Bernd Zimmermann and received the Good Buildings Award in 2002 . The horizontally structured concrete structure with generous glazing, similar to a self-supporting, rectangular frame, is about one meter above the schoolyard level, which is bridged by an elongated ramp .
  • The house of business. The IHK in Ferdinand-Braun-Straße 39, built in 2001 according to a design by the architect Michael Wendel, is a four-storey, elongated building with a plastered facade, with a two-storey entrance hall built in front of it. The house, structured by glass, steel and concrete, has a circular meeting room in the center of the house.
  • The Siemens HIP house. in Edisonstraße 19, built in 2002 according to a design by the architect Alex M. Schleifenheimer, is a four-story, elongated building with a plastered facade that stands on round pillars. The facade is structured by very flat ribbon windows held horizontally.
  • The office building at Lise-Meitner-Straße 22 was also designed by the Neckarturm architects Gerd Krummlauf and Ulrich Bechler. The five-storey building was erected on a square floor plan in the shape of a cube. Horizontal ribbon windows with panels in light blue, red, yellow and blue structure the facade.
QBig: Extraordinary steel construction as an exo-skeleton
  • The house of the Gesamtmetall association. in Ferdinand-Braun-Straße 18, built in 2004 based on a design by the architect Dominik Dreiner, is a single-storey, elongated rectangle with a glass facade and was awarded the Hugo Häring Prize in 2006. This is also in the Schwabenhof industrial park . located office building Blue Office. ran for the same award in 2011. The QBig office building was last opened in that industrial park in 2012 . Completed with a striking white steel construction above the glass facade.

bridges

Rosenberg Bridge (1950)
Böckinger Bridge
Paul-Metz-Bridge (2003)
Adolf Cluss Bridge (2006)
Lock bridge (1959)
  • The stone block bridge in Jägerhausstraße was built in 1772–1782 over the former gorge of the Molkenbrunnenbach instead of a Jägerhaussteig. The asymmetrical round arch and the massive inclined buttresses are remarkable.
  • The railway bridge in Fasanenstrasse / Schillerstrasse was built in 1900. The wrought-iron balustrade decorated with volutes with an anchoring that traces the shape of a lily is remarkable about the steel construction on stone masonry. Furthermore, the curved bridge cheeks resting on consoles, decorative rivets and stepped, rounded retaining walls.
  • The Pfühlbachbrücke is an arched bridge that was built in 1926/27 for pedestrian traffic in the Pfühlpark .
  • A covered bridge adorned with balusters in the Kleiner Deutschhof connects the building of the former city library from 1566, originally the knight and kitchen building of the order's coming, with the commander's house from the years 1546–1550, which today houses the adult education center. Another bridge leads to the rectory (the former "Trappenei").
  • The Neckar Canal Bridge is an arched or cove bridge made of prestressed concrete. A first bridge was built in 1950 and replaced by a new one in 1996.
  • The Böckinger Bridge is an arched bridge over the Neckar Canal , the arch of which is below the roadway. It was built from steel in 1996 and replaced an older prestressed concrete bridge (by Willy Stöhr).
  • The pedestrian walkway at the hydropower plant is a girder bridge over the Neckar.
  • The Peter-Bruckmann-Brücke crosses the Neckar Canal and is also a lower arch bridge, but made of concrete with a remarkable three-hinged arch. It was the world's first prestressed concrete bridge with a span of more than 100 m and was planned by Willy Stöhr , the former head of the civil engineering office in Heilbronn.
  • The Rosenberg Bridge is an arched bridge with a broken arch that runs under the roadway. This concrete bridge with a span of 59.00 meters was built in 1950 to replace a bridge that was destroyed in World War II. It was designed by Willy Stöhr.
  • The Neckar Valley Bridge Heilbronn crosses the Neckar Canal and is part of the A 6 . It is a 1350 meter long and 30 meter wide steel girder bridge and was built in 1967. It is just beyond the municipal boundary in the area of ​​the city of Neckarsulm, which has grown together with Heilbronn .
  • The Wilhelmskanal lock bridge is a sandstone arch bridge built in 1959 over the Wilhelmskanal, the arch of which runs under the roadway.
  • The Bleach Island Bridge was built as a girder bridge and stands on round, columnar pillars; The B 39 leads over them .
  • The Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke was built in 1947 instead of an iron arch bridge that was destroyed in World War II and replaced a three-year provisional structure at that time. From 1990 the bridge was replaced by a new building, which was completed on December 1, 1995. and was inaugurated with a bridge festival on July 27, 1996. It is a girder or cove bridge (100 × 21 m) made of concrete. Under the bridge, between the pillars, an art gallery was set up that received the Exemplary Building Heilbronn 1994–2000 award.
  • The Paul-Metz-Brücke was built in 2003 with the support of the consulting engineers Bung. It is a steel tied arch bridge, is 95 meters long and 14 meters wide. It creates a connection between the two industrial areas of Wohlhotels and Salzhafen.
  • The Karl-Nägele-Brücke, originally the project name Fügerbrücke, was built in 2005 based on designs by Boll und Partner. It connects the Wohlhotels industrial area with the Kaisers' tower. The bridge was named after Karl Nägele (1911–1979), who was the First Mayor of Heilbronn from 1948 to 1976. It is an arch or tied arch bridge made of steel, 105 m long and 17 m wide and reaches an arch height of 17.5 m.
  • The Adolf-Cluss Bridge, originally the project name Lohtorbrücke, consisting of two footbridges with the dimensions 52 m × 3 m and 33.2 m × 3 m, was completed in 2006. It connects Lohtorstrasse via the island of Hefenweiler with the Kraneninsel and was built as a steel bridge with the support of the consulting engineers Mayr, Ludescher and Partner. The middle section of the second footbridge was to contain an integrated lifting bridge for the passage of the excursion boat traffic, which, however, was not implemented for cost reasons.

See also

supporting documents

  1. Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann with contributions by Gerhard Bauer, Martina Berner-vom Feld, Jörg Biel, Ulrich Frey, Wolfgang Hansch, Joachim Hennze , Markus Numberger, Ulrike Plate, Christhard Schrenk: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.5: Heilbronn district . Edition Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 104.
  2. Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn - volume = 34th volume VI: 1945–1951 ). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 , p. 282 .
  3. Women were often imprisoned for heresy or the like and only impregnated during imprisonment, which made them adulteresses and in many cases child murderers, cf. the witch trial led by Count von Neipperg in Schwaigern in 1713.
  4. The Schweinsberg Tower: a piece of city history in the middle of the forest. on Stimme.de on April 15, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2017
  5. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  6. a b Photo of the height table on the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org
  7. Photo of the memorial plaque on the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org
  8. Christhard Schrenk: 125 years Heilbronn Beautification Association. In: Swabia and Franconia. (Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice ) No. 3/1988.
  9. Geographical coordinates of the Schweinsberg Tower: 49 ° 6 ′ 37.2 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 54.8 ″  E ; of the telecommunications tower: 49 ° 6 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 3.6 ″  E
  10. Access building at Theresienturm inaugurated - part of a lived culture of remembrance. Heilbronn Community Foundation, April 15, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  11. Location: 49 ° 9 ′ 4 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 46 ″  E
  12. Kilian Krauth: "Good Buildings" awarded. In: Heilbronn voice. July 18, 2008.
  13. ^ Maria Theresia Heitlinger: Sparrowhawk lands with a bar on Kaiser's tower . In: Heilbronn voice . June 4, 2005.
  14. ^ Christhard Schrenk: City history Heilbronn: 741 to 1803. City archive Heilbronn
  15. City newspaper: Neckarexpress No. 34 City and District Heilbronn Series "Bankenstadt Heilbronn": Founder-Successor-Economic Factor (1) Wednesday August 18, 2004.
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  19. Monument topo p. 114.
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literature

  • Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.5: Heilbronn district . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 .
  • Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0556-6 .
  • Bernhard Lattner, Joachim Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 .

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