Schillerbau (Stuttgart-Center)
The Schillerbau in Stuttgart is a house at Eberhardstrasse 47/49, which bears a relief with a portrait of Schiller and the inscription "Schillerbau" above the entrance portal.
The Schillerhaus , in which Friedrich Schiller lived in 1781 and 1782, was also located on Eberhardstrasse . The building called Schillerbau in Stuttgart-Vaihingen , Möhringer Landstrasse 5, was named after the former café "Schillerbau", which was destroyed in 1942.
Surname
The owner of the Schiller Building was probably an enthusiastic fan of Schiller, perhaps the proximity of the former Schillerhaus at Eberhardstraße 63 inspired the name of the house. In 1905 the Stuttgart publisher and Schiller admirer Wilhelm Spemann commissioned the Stuttgart sculptor Adolf von Donndorf to create a statue of the poet on the 100th anniversary of the death of the national poet. Due to adverse circumstances, however, the statue was not erected until 1913, at the same time as the completion of the Schiller Building, as the second Stuttgart Schiller monument after Bertel Thorvaldsen's Schiller monument from 1838 .
building
The Schillerbau is a rental and commercial building in the semi-detached house Eberhardstrasse 47/49. The listed building was built between 1910 and 1913 by the architects Carl Heim and Jakob Früh in the neoclassical style.
The 5-storey building with a facade made of parlor sandstone is designed as a commercial building on the two lower floors and as a residential building on the other 3 floors. The house consists of 3 tracts: 2 identical side tracts with 3 window axes each and a single-axis central tract with the entrance portal. This is flanked by 2 rectangular shop windows on the first floor, which is higher than the other floors. On the first floor it is crowned by a round arched window, each flanked by two shop windows with basket arches. The three upper floors are divided by 7 axes with coupled double windows, with the two central axes of the side wings on the second and third floors bearing a continuous bay window with a connecting balcony.
Portal jewelry
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The lintel of the entrance portal bears the relief inscription “Schillerbau”. The keystone of the arched window above the entrance portal bears a relief with the profile portrait of Schiller looking to the left, framed by a laurel wreath and crowned by the capital of an Ionic column . Two round medallions in the spandrels of the window arch thematize Schiller's Wilhelm Tell: on the left, Tell's son with the apple in his outstretched hand, and on the right, the kneeling Wilhelm Tell, who is aiming the crossbow at his son. Two statues in the arched niches to the left and right of the window depict athletic porters clad in loincloths. The monogram "FH:" (?) Is engraved next to the figure on the right, possibly the first letters of the architect's name.
The sculptor of the portal jewelry and the rest of the architectural jewelry was possibly Josef Zeitler , who supplied the sculptural jewelry for the newly built buildings during the renovation of the old town in Stuttgart from 1906 to 1909.
literature
- State capital Stuttgart (editor): List of cultural monuments. Immovable architectural and art monuments, Stuttgart 2008, pdf .
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Footnotes
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '23.6 " N , 9 ° 10' 38.2" E