Reichshof (Leipzig)

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The Reichshof (2019)

The Reichshof is a commercial and former exhibition center in downtown Leipzig . It is a listed building.

Location and architecture

The building before the partial reconstruction (2012)

The Reichshof is the corner building at Reichsstrasse 2 / corner of Grimmaische Strasse. The four-story building has a length of 48 meters with nine window axes along Reichsstrasse. Four axes are directed towards Grimmaische Strasse. The corner is bevelled and has three decorative gables. The corner building is crowned by a copper-covered dome construction with a lantern structure . At the corner, the entrance has a small crowned copper roof. The sloping roofs carry seven or three dormers with arched roofs. The facades, structured by pilaster strips and ledges, have neo-baroque decorative elements.

Connected to the Reichshof and internally integrated is the neighboring house, Grimmaische Strasse 9–11, with an Art Nouveau facade . The two buildings, together with a rear building, enclose a small inner courtyard.

history

The integrated neighboring house (2012)

From 1896 to 1898 the Leipzig entrepreneur Richard Pudor (1875–1950) had a new building built on the site of a former residential and commercial building according to plans by the Berlin architect Albert Bohm (1853–1933). He had previously designed the Café Bauer on Roßplatz . The new building was to serve as an exhibition center for the sample fair that was establishing itself in these years . In order to keep the economic risk within limits, a fashion department store was initially housed on the ground and first floors, and only the upper floors were used as exhibition space.

In 1904 the building was expanded to include the neighboring property on Grimmaische Strasse (No. 7). At this time the name Reichshof also caught on, apparently with reference to the Reichsstraße, which was part of the Via Imperii (Reichstraße). During the renovations carried out in 1934, the Art Nouveau neighboring house in Grimmaische Strasse (No. 9-11), which had also been built by Albert Bohm, was connected.

1945 Reichshof was expropriated and purchasing house for the commanding ranks of the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR stationed occupying power . The name "Russenkaufhaus", which was widely used in Leipzig for the Reichshof, comes from this time. From the beginning of the 1960s there was a furniture store there. In 1990/1991 the Reichshof was reconstructed by the great-grandson of the builder and reopened as a department store. The sheet copper roof of the building received first prize in the competition “The most beautiful copper works in Germany 1993”.

Previous building (before 1896)

After a partial external reconstruction in 2018, the building was largely restored to its pre-war condition. The corner balcony of the first floor as well as the copper roof with a crown over the entrance on the corner were added. The color scheme of the facade has also been inverted - the previously lighter stucco decoration is now darker than the rest of the facade. Also, the missing inscription in memory of the client and builder with newly made and gilded letters was re-attached.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 68 .
  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 494 .
  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 581 .

Web links

Commons : Reichshof  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument protection object ID 09298267
  2. ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 581 .
  3. ↑ Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 494 .
  4. ↑ https://www.deutsches-architekturforum.de/thread/7031-leipzig-kleinere-projekte-in-der-innenstadt/?pageNo=43
  5. ↑ https://www.deutsches-architekturforum.de/thread/7031-leipzig-kleinere-projekte-in-der-innenstadt/?pageNo=42

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23.8 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 36.9"  E