Rennweg 72 (Nuremberg)

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Street view
Part of the protected Art Nouveau fencing at Rennweg 72. Street view
Buildings Adamstrasse 45 (left) and Rennweg 72 (right). Street view

The apartment house Rennweg 72 in Nuremberg is under monument protection standing monument . The five-storey apartment building in the corner was built around 1901 and 1903 and has an elaborate front garden fence decorated with Art Nouveau elements. The designing architect was Michael Wiessner.

Time before the edification

The area between Rennweg and Adamstrasse, on which the Rennweg 72 building is also located (until 1905 “Rennwegstrasse” 38), was a garden in 1708 that bore the number 121 and was called “to the high Sradel”. There was a small courtyard on the southern part of the Rennweg.

Former residents

One of the first residents of the house was the cultural historian Dr. Heinrich Heerwagen (1874–1942). Heerwagen received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1899 and worked in the library of the Germanic National Museum from 1900 to 1939 ; from 1934 as department director and head of the library. He and his family lived in the apartment on the top floor of Rennweg 72.

In 1932 the drawing teacher Walter Möhring lived in the house . He was inspector of drawing lessons at the Nuremberg elementary schools and director of the "Open Drawing Room", a project for adult education that he initiated in 1910. On the day of his suspension, July 1, 1933, he put an end to his life.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. 2007, pp. 1670-1671.
  2. ↑ Nuremberg City Library, drawing, Nor. K. 10394
  3. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. 2007, p. 597.
  4. ↑ The history of the Rudolf-Diesel-Fachschule, p. 8/9 (accessed on August 4, 2015)
  5. ↑ https://www.nordbayern.de/ressorts/rudolf-diesel-fachschule-wird-100-jahre-alt-1.788857
  6. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. 2007, p. 1025.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '45.9 "  N , 11 ° 5' 56.4"  E