Red Building (Biberach)
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 The Red Building (2016) |
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| place | Biberach an der Riss | |
| architect | Carl Josef Banholzer | |
| Client | Carl Friedrich Neff | |
| Construction year | 1867/68 | |
| Floor space | 483 m² | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 '35.1 " N , 9 ° 47' 28.9" E | |
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| One of the few pure and early exposed brick buildings in Upper Swabia | ||
The Red Building (also known locally as a monastery , hospital , women's work school, homeless and asylum seeker home ) is a symmetrical three-storey brick building in Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia . The red building has the status of an urban cultural monument .
location
The Rote Bau is located outside the old town, on the corner of Waldseer Strasse and Königsbergallee, opposite the Biberach Employment Agency within the community center complex on a plot of 800 m².
History and use
In the years 1867/68, the master carpenter and vestments manufacturer Carl Friedrich Neff had the originally planned much larger complex as a sister house for the Congregation of Christian Mercy of III founded in Ehingen in 1846 . Establish the Order of St. Francis . The architect was district building officer Carl Josef Banholzer . Construction was discontinued after the completion of the south wing. The north wing and a central building with a chapel were not implemented. It was the motherhouse of the congregation only for a short time until 1869 . The sisters, better known as the Franciscan Sisters of Reute , moved their motherhouse to Reute , a district of Bad Waldsee , at the beginning of the Franco-German War . During this war, the Rote Bau was a military hospital with 100 beds and 20 sisters from Reute. Afterwards it was briefly a women's labor school and the headquarters of the Carl Neff Kunststickereianstalt Württemberg.
In 1876 the Hospital of the Holy Spirit acquired the unfinished facility for use as a new hospital until 1912, later as a home for the elderly. The clock gables on the front and back of the main building were added in 1898/99. Inside the building there were also section rooms, insane cells, a scratching facility and a death chamber. After the poor and smallpox house at the Magdalenenkirche burned down in 1887, these patients also came to the Red Building.
On October 26th, 1970, the local council decided to demolish the red building as part of an overall concept for the community center, which consists of several buildings and is located to the north. The building was not demolished, however, because from 1980 it was temporarily used for municipal offices. Since 1989 it has been used as a dormitory, successively for repatriates, asylum seekers and the homeless.
The building was extensively renovated from 2014 to 2016 for around € 4.9 million and converted for archive use. Since September 2016 it has housed the city archive of the city of Biberach an der Riss and the Wieland archive of the Wieland Foundation.
literature
- Country descriptions of the Sigmaringen State Archive: The Biberach District Volume 1 . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6185-4 , p. 637 .
- Reinhard Wortmann: The Red Building in Biberach. An early exposed brick building from the 19th century in Upper Swabia . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 15th year 1986, issue 1, pp. 42–45 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AmFedersee.de: Biberach “Rote Bau” is it already sold? of October 18, 2012, accessed June 10, 2013
- ↑ Biberach Kommunal - Bulletin of the city of Biberach with the sub-locations Mettenberg, Ringschnait, Rißegg and Stafflangen. No. 8 | March 7, 2012: The future of brick construction. Since construction began in 1866, the “red building” has given rise to discussions. ( Memento of June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of March 7, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2013
- ↑ New home for the City and Wieland Archives. (PDF) In: Biberach Kommunal, edition 31/2016. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .