Petershof (Leipzig)
The Peterhof is a building complex in the city of Leipzig , which is used as a residential and commercial building. It was built from 1927 to 1929 according to plans by the Leipzig architect Alfred Liebig (1878–1952) as a trade fair building and until 2003 also housed the Capitol cinema.
Location and building description
The Petershof extends between the Petersstrasse , the Sporergäßchen, the Burgstrasse and the Thomaskirchhof . The properties in question have the addresses Petersstraße 20, Sporergäßchen 6-12, Burgstraße 7-13 and Thomaskirchhof 9. The Petershof reaches the Thomaskirchhof at the end of the short cul-de-sac, also known as the Sack, where the exit from the Capitol cinema used to be.
The main building with ten window axes after Petersstraße is divided into the ground floor, four upper floors clad with travertine with outwardly protruding window frames and three floors with dormer windows in the roof. On the ledge above the ground floor there are seven 2.6 m high figures that represent arts and professions with symbols. Each of the figures bears the facial features of a person who was important for the construction of the building in 1929, e.g. B. the architect Alfred Liebig , the mayor Karl Rothe and the banker Hans Kroch .
After Sporergäßchen and Burgstrasse, built in 2004/2005, there are three floors of apartments over three business floors.
history
An inn existed on the property at Petersstrasse 20 as early as the 16th century, which was called "Haus zum Engel" in 1586 and "Zum Blaue Engel" from 1602. In his vault, Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682–1719) sold dishes made of red jasper porcelain (Böttger stoneware) for the first time at the Easter fair in 1710 and presented samples of his white porcelain . Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) stayed in the Blue Angel at the beginning of his stay in Leipzig in 1785.
In 1818 a hotel was built here, which was named "Hôtel de Russie" (also Russian court) in memory of the importance of the Russian soldiers in the Battle of Leipzig . A new building was built in 1868/1869, including the neighboring property to the north. When the name was no longer politically acceptable during the First World War , it became the in 1915"Reich Chancellor". After the end of the First World War, the hotel was converted into a trade fair building under the same name.
When Petershof AG was planning a large new building in the mid-1920s , a competition was announced in which Alfred Liebig won first and third place for his designs from among 50 Leipzig and three foreign competitors. However, the winning design could not be implemented in the original, as the Leipzig Building Department did not approve the raised central section of the facade and the planned passage to Burgstrasse.
The construction work began in the summer of 1927. The available property had been extended up to Burgstrasse and Thomaskirchhof from ten individual properties, so that the buildings on all of them had to be removed first. The topping-out ceremony took place on December 22, 1928 , and in March 1929 the building was put into operation under the name Petershof in time for the spring fair . It was built in reinforced concrete skeleton construction and had a usable exhibition area of 9300 m². On each floor, separate rooms, booths, were arranged in a closed, so-called forced tour, in which the exhibitors presented their products. The toys, musical instruments, artificial flowers, festive and joke articles and Christmas tree decorations were exhibited.
In addition to the facade on Petersstraße described above, the stairwell and the monumental atrium with cladding in Siegersdorf ceramics were remarkable. On the ground floor and basement of the part facing away from Petersstrasse, the Capitol cinema was opened in 1930 with 1714 seats.
In 1938 the figures on the facade on Petersstrasse, designed by the Leipzig artist Johannes Göldel (1891 – after 1946) in Cannstatter travertine , were removed because one of the people portrayed, Hans Kroch, was Jewish. In World War II the Messehof was spared from destruction to its southwest corner along Castle Road. Therefore, after the bombing of the Gewandhaus in the winter of 1943/44, the concerts of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1944 and 1945 took place in the hall of the Capitol cinema.
From 1946 to 1991, trade fair operations were resumed. From 1955 the week for cultural and documentary films was held annually in the Capitol . From 1970 to 1993 there was also the Capitol studio cinema in addition to the main hall.
After the trade fair was closed, the Petershof was restored in the 1990s, based on Liebig's designs. The seven façade figures were recreated as replicas in cement by the Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser and put up again in 1995.
In 2004 and 2005, the Petershof was rebuilt again after the cinema had been closed in 2003. With the exception of the facade facing Petersstrasse, the atrium and the round staircase, all parts of the building were demolished and a department store was built into the building fragments. In addition to four retail floors, the building also has offices, apartments (after Burgstrasse) and underground parking spaces. After a change of operator, the Petershof retail space has been empty since 2015. The building offers 17,000 square meters of floor space. As of 2018, up to three retailers and a 4,000 square meter fitness studio will move into the building.
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 81/82 .
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 460/461 .
Web links
- Petershof. In: Our home in Leipzig. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- Petershof (exhibition center). In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 59
- ↑ Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 460 .
- ^ Jürgen Friedel: Friedrich Schiller and Leipzig. In: Leipzig reading. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Petersstrasse. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- ↑ New Petershof owner plans hotel. In: LVZ of September 21, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
- ↑ LVZ-Online: Zalando and Fit / One move into the Petershof. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .