Red College
The Rote Kolleg (formerly Neues Kolleg ) was a building complex of the University of Leipzig between Ritterstrasse and Goethestrasse with the address Ritterstrasse 16-22, of which the part on Ritterstrasse has still been preserved. It is one of the former colleges of the university , along with the small and large princely colleges.
history
In November 1502, Duke Georg ordered a reform of Leipzig University. In the course of this, the artist faculty was given a new domicile. A building with three upper floors was erected on the site of the Marstall of the City Council in Ritterstrasse, including the city wall, but its completion and handover took until 1515.
As early as 1517 to 1520, due to lack of space, a second building was built parallel to the first directly on Ritterstrasse, which, when viewed from the city, was now referred to as the front building and the older one as the rear building. The entire facility was called the New College . The front building had a very steep gable roof and was decorated with tracery . There was still construction activity on both houses in the 16th century, partly due to damage in the Schmalkaldic War. Even after the Thirty Years' War , repairs were made and the hall on the ground floor was converted.
In 1646 the name Rotes Kollegium appeared for the first time - probably because of a red paint job - and it had finally established itself by 1662. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , whose father was a professor here, was born on June 21, 1646 in the Red College. The engraver Christian Romstet lived here for a while.
After the city wall had been removed, the rear building was raised by two floors by university builder Carl August Benjamin Siegel in 1797/98 and a railing was attached over the entire front of the previous top floor. Between this development and the new Upper Park with the swan pond , the street Am upper Park was laid out in 1839 , which was renamed Goethestrasse in 1865.
In 1891/92, after the demolition and acquisition of three plots in the north on Ritterstrasse, the front building of the Red College was rebuilt by Arwed Roßbach . The gable structures on the risalite side and the tracery decorations on the facade are reminiscent of the previous building. The use of red brick facade reminds of the name. While the renting of residential and business premises in the old building was already evident from 1841, in the new building the university only used the first floor for the philosophy faculty. Business premises were rented on the ground floor and apartments on the other upper floors.
The rear building on Goethestrasse was also rebuilt. The new building from 1904/05 by Theodor Kösser now faced Goethestrasse with a historicizing decorative facade. Here, too, business and living spaces were rented.
During the air raids on Leipzig in World War II , the building complex on Goethestrasse was destroyed and its remains removed in 1946. Between 1963 and 1965, the “ Jenny Marx ” student dormitory with 433 places was built on the site and the neighboring property to the north . After renovations, the university administration has been using the building since 1994. The preserved front building in Ritterstrasse was renovated in the 1990s. Shops are rented on the ground floor. The upper floors are used by the Institute for Theater Studies and the university administration.
- Historical pictures
The Red College is marked on a map from 1749
The Rote Kolleg in Ritterstrasse around 1880
Arwed Rossbach's new Red College building around 1900
In the courtyard of the Red College in 1891
The rear building of the Red College on Goethestrasse around 1900
Theodor Kösser's new building on Goethestrasse 1906
literature
- Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5: History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1
- Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 72
- Wolfgang Hocquel: Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 111
Web links
- Brief building history of the University of Leipzig
- Picture of the destroyed building of the Red College on Goethestrasse in 1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , pp. 35–38
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig , p. 72
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , pp. 84/85
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 47" E