Plärrer high-rise
| Plärrer high-rise | |
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 Plärrer high-rise, 2010 |
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| place | Nuremberg |
| architect | Wilhelm Schlegtendal |
| Construction year | 1952 to 1953 |
| height | 56 m |
| Floor space | 714 m² |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 26 '53.5 " N , 11 ° 3' 47.5" E |
The Plärrerhochhaus or EWAG-Hochhaus is a listed building in downtown Nuremberg . The official name is the business and workshop building of the Nuremberg Municipal Works on Plärrer and is the administrative building of the Nuremberg Municipal Works. As one of the classic buildings of the 1950s , the house has been a listed building since 1988. A good 1,100 employees from the Nuremberg Municipal Works and its subsidiaries work in the entire building complex.
Location and surroundings
The Plärrer skyscraper is in the Nuremberg district Gostenhof at Plärrer .
The house is located on the corner of Rothenburger Strasse and southern Fürther Strasse on the edge of the old town, directly on the south-western entrance to the distribution floor of the Plärrer underground station .
architecture
The architect Wilhelm Schlegtendal deliberately wanted to contrast the old town with a typical urban dominant feature of the time. When it opened, the Plärrer high-rise was the tallest building in Bavaria at 56 m. The building was constructed in skeleton construction of reinforced concrete and has a base of 21 times 34 meters. The 15-storey building tapers from the 5th storey by 1 cm per storey in order to appear slimmer. The Plärrer high-rise is not completely parallel to Fürther Straße, it was rotated by five centimeters so that the side of the house is more visible and the house looks more three-dimensional from a distance.
The originally three-part complex of the municipal works consists of the 15-storey high-rise office building, an intermediate building and a western component with a lecture hall, teaching kitchen and workshops. The over 100 meter long intermediate building along Fürther Straße is a flat-roofed four-story wing . The third floor was set back from the street front in order to emphasize the contrast between the high-rise building and the long intermediate building; this was later built over. The intermediate building contained technical rooms, the factory kitchen and the dining room as well as exhibition rooms.
History of origin
Wilhelm Schlegtendal became a city planner in Nuremberg in 1937. In 1939 numerous plans for the “redesign of the city of the Nazi party rallies ” were made. The “Plärrer traffic hub” was to be redesigned into a “dignified anteroom” of the old town; this plan already included a high-rise building. Before the construction of the federal highway 4 R and the subway , the federal highways 2 , 4 , 8 and 14 and six lines of the Nuremberg-Fürth tram met at the Plärrer . The destruction caused by the Allied air raids and the four-day battle for Nuremberg in April 1945 formed the basis for a redesign of the square, taking into account the increased volume of traffic.
Construction of the Plärrer high-rise began in February 1952 and the construction was carried out by Wayss & Freytag . The building grew by one floor every week. While one floor was being concreted, the windows were installed on the floor below and work on the interior began there.
The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on December 10, 1952 . Until then, 450 tons of steel, 5500 cubic meters of concrete and 1200 windows had been used. The architect Schlegtendal described the Plärrer high-rise building at the topping-out ceremony as an “optical signal”. The impression was to be reinforced by a twelve-meter-high light mast that was put in place in October 1953.
One and a half years after the start of construction, the house was completed on time. The employees of the municipal works moved into the Plärrer high-rise on October 9, 1953. After the bombing in World War II , the employees had worked in makeshift accommodation that were spread all over the city. The construction costs amounted to 9.5 million DM .
Interior work
Practicality and functionality were in the foreground in the planning and execution of the building, but the house was also intended to serve the municipal works and the city for representational purposes. The Plärrer high-rise was therefore given a generous and artistic interior.
The stairs in the foyer in front of a two-story glass facade have a delicate railing. With evergreen plants and a goldfish pond with a small fountain, the foyer is almost in its original state. In the 2000s, electronic locks were installed in the entrance area, and the porter's lodge on the right-hand side of the foyer was replaced by a reception desk opposite the pond.
Wilhelm Schlegtendal and his employees also planned details such as furniture, door handles, wallpaper and curtains. Typical furnishings from the 1950s can still be found throughout the house, even if many details have since fallen victim to current building regulations, renovation and conversion measures. In 1976/1977, due to changed fire protection regulations, the paternoster elevator was replaced by an elevator system and suspended ceilings were installed, and the stairwell was rebuilt.
The connecting passage to the dining room on the third floor, popularly known as the “thorny official career path” because of its plant beds with large cactus plants , lost the thick carpet of thin bamboo sticks stretched under the ceiling. Only the mosaics made of Solnhofen limestone with African animal and human representations on the plastered and delicately tinted wall and the floor made of gray and red marble strips have remained. The plants have meanwhile been removed for cost reasons.
The wall decorations Adam and Eve in Paradise adorned the dining room .
From Otto Michael Schmitt , the draft comes tapestries on the 14th floor. The almost nine meter long tapestry shows the Plärrer high-rise and other Nuremberg buildings between the four elements and comes from the now closed tapestry manufacture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .
The view of Nuremberg from Schedel's world chronicle was implemented by Kurt Busch in a conference room as a sgraffito in dark brown colored plaster .
Jobst Kuch created a mural depicting the Nuremberg water supply. The work of art in the look of a tapestry has meanwhile been removed.
History of the building
After the end of the Second World War, Nuremberg's old town was 90% destroyed. The house in front of the southwest gates of the old town shaped the cityscape for a long time and became a symbol for the reconstruction and the new prosperity. In 1950 the Nürnberger Nachrichten wrote of a "skyscraper for the Plärrer"; With 15 floors, the Plärrer high-rise was the tallest building in Bavaria. The construction progress was closely followed by the population; opinions about the high-rise building ranged from great praise to megalomania.
In the first few years, many people from Nuremberg visited the high-rise, also to take a look from the roof terrace . A tea room , glazed on three sides, was set up on the roof terrace, offering a view of Nuremberg's old town; it served the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg as a representative room , as in the summer of 1960 when the Thai royal couple Bhumibol Adulyadej and Sirikit were accompanied by the then Federal President Heinrich Lübke and his wife Wilhelmine through Lord Mayor Andreas Urschlechter .
The high-rise was completed in 1961 with the addition of the Nicolaus Copernicus Planetarium , and it was also intended to be used as a lecture hall.
The Plärrer high-rise was placed under monument protection in 1988 as one of the first buildings from the 1950s .
In 2000, the “N-ERGIE-Centrum” was built, which is connected to the longitudinal building by a glass walkway across Südliche Fürther Straße. There is a house in the house in the counseling center. Through the transparent installation of functional exhibits, visitors should be brought closer to the products of electricity, natural gas , district heating , drinking water and telecommunications . Since May 27, 2003 there has been a pair of fiery red sitting and scurrying rabbits by the Stuttgart artist and stage designer rosalie on the glass walkway .
On the 50th anniversary of the move into the Plärrer high-rise in 2003, the municipal works had an exhibition and a film made about the history of the Plärrer and the high-rise. In the film by the Franken Medienwerkstatt , contemporary witnesses have their say, including the son of the architect Michael Schlegtendal.
On the roof there was a panorama camera that filmed Nuremberg between Rosenaupark in the northwest and Sandstrasse in the east for the panorama pictures in the early program of BR-alpha and Bavarian television .
Due to fire protection regulations, the building has been fundamentally renovated since summer 2016 and also modernized.
Web links
- The history of the skyscraper at Nuernberginfos.de
- Alexander Racz: Plärrer high-rise - symbol of the economic miracle in Nuremberg, 2014: http://kunstnuernberg.de/plaerrer-hochhaus-ein-wahrzeichen-nuernbergs/
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- It's a memorial's birthday - 50 years of the Plärrerhochhaus. VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg, October 2, 2003, accessed on September 12, 2008 .
- André Fischer: Timeless elegance . In: Bruno Schnell (Ed.): Nürnberger Zeitung . Nürnberger Presse Druckhaus Nürnberg GmbH, Nuremberg, 2008 ( accessed online on September 15, 2008).
- Katrin Kasparek: 50 years of the Plärrer high-rise . Exhibition in the Plärrerhochhaus from October 6 to 31, 2003. History for Everyone - Institute for Regional History on behalf of the Nuremberg Municipal Works, Nuremberg, 2003 ( accessed online on December 25, 2012).
- Nikolaus Bencker: The Plärrer high-rise - a synonym for the reconstruction of Nuremberg. In: Michael Diefenbacher and Matthias Henkel (eds.): Reconstruction in Nuremberg. Publishing house Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-925002-89-2 , pages 248 to 255.
- Christian Koch: Plärrer high-rise . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 829 ( complete edition online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ "In order to lessen the harshness of the angular structure for the eyes, the four sides of the high-rise from the 5th floor are drawn inwards by one centimeter per storey, so that the high-rise extends up to the roof by 10 cm tapered on each side. "( Our works : 1954)
- ↑ Michael Metzner: Epoch: Post-war period. In: Baukunst Nürnberg. Retrieved September 12, 2008 .
- ↑ 100 years of Wayss & Freytag in Nuremberg. From the dog house to the Frankenstadion . In: Deutsches Baublatt. Volume 31, No. 309, 2004, ISSN 0939-8791 , p. 22 ( PDF; 110 kB ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).
- ↑ 50 years of Plärrerhochhaus - a reason to celebrate. (PDF) In: Annual Report 2003: Report on the 45th business year. StWN Städtische Werke Nürnberg GmbH, 2004, pp. 10–13 , archived from the original on October 14, 2004 ; Retrieved September 12, 2008 .
- ↑ The Plärrer high-rise is "by no means a sober functional building, but is full of architectural treasures, so a delightful horticultural complex with a fountain surprises on the ground floor of the staircase." ( Stadtführer (1950) )
- ^ Bomb raids on Nuremberg. (No longer available online.) In: The air war against Nuremberg. The attack on January 2, 1945 and the destroyed city. Michael Diefenbacher and Wiltrud Fischer-Pache (eds.), Archived from the original on September 14, 2007 ; Retrieved September 12, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The magazine Das Glasforum wrote in 1953: "In terms of shape, color and furnishings, the tea room is one of the most beautiful rooms that the author of this article has seen in recent years."
- ↑ Summer 2008 broadcast schedule for Bavarian TV. (PDF) Feratel Media Technologies AG, accessed on October 5, 2008 .
- ↑ nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: Skyscraper on Plärrer has to be completely renovated . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on November 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Complete renovation of the high-rise building on the Plärrer: roadway and underground entrance closed . In: marktspiegel.de . ( marktspiegel.de [accessed on November 12, 2017]).
