Rector's residence

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Rector's residence

The Rector's residence is a building in the style of the New Building in Celle in Lower Saxony . It was built from 1926 to 1928 according to the plans of the architect Otto Haesler as a residential building for the rector of the neighboring old town school . Today the building is a listed building and is used as an office building and for school purposes.

architecture

The Rector's residence is in the south-west corner of the property of the Old Town elementary school. It is a three-storey flat roof structure made up of several cubes joined together . One to two-storey cubes are attached to the main cube on the north and south sides. The cubes have different window shapes, roof overhangs and have ribbon windows, corner windows and oculi , which are emphasized by colored accents.

The usable area of ​​the building is 230 m². The room was divided according to the functions of the rooms. There is a utility wing and living area on the ground floor and a sleeping area on the upper floor. Depending on the use, the rooms are oriented in different directions. While the entrance is in the west, the economic area is in the northwest. The bedrooms face east. The sunny balcony is in the southwest. The original color design was done by the painter Karl Völker. It was reconstructed and restored during renovation work in 2005.

Architectural-historical classification

The Rector's residence is a typical building of the New Building in the 1920s, as it has its characteristic style motifs, such as cubes pushed into one another, flat roof, corner windows and an open-air terrace. Stylistically, the building ties in with the shapes of the Italian Garden settlement in Celle. Together with the director's residence, it is one of the two buildings that Otto Haesler built as a single house during the Weimar Republic . Haesler used the rector's house as a prototype for implementation on a larger scale in the Waack group of houses . He saw the single-family house as uneconomical because of the high costs in comparison with the multi-family house and rejected it because, in his opinion, it could not be reconciled economically and economically under the circumstances at the time.

literature

  • Simone Oelker: The Rector's House in: Otto Haesler. A career as an architect in the Weimar Republic. Munich, 2002, pp. 117-119.
  • Cellesche Zeitung (ed.): Rector's residence in the original colors in: 100 Years of Bauhaus , 2018, p. 73.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 42.3 ″  E