Schranne Augsburg
The Schranne , not to be confused with the Schrannenhalle , is a building in the Bürgermeister-Fischer-Straße between Moritzplatz and Maximilianstraße in the old town of Augsburg .
It was built between 1979 and 1980 by the Engel-Hansjakob-Pfister-Schiffler architects' association based on the model of a granary that was demolished in 1906 on the same site. The Schranne houses numerous small shops and also serves as a waiting room for the “Moritzplatz” tram and bus stop.
The historic Kornschranne
During the times of the imperial city, the old Schranne on the north side of the Moritzkirche served as a storage facility for grain supplies, and until 1899 it was also used by the Augsburg fire brigade as a shelter for fire engines . In November 1906 the dilapidated hall had to give way to the traffic management on the newly laid out Bürgermeister-Fischer-Strasse. In their place, an open space was created with benches and a balustrade to separate the street from the street.
The new Building
After the necessary financial means for a new building had been lacking for a long time, plans for a rebuilding of the Schranne became known in the course of the incorporation of Moritzplatz into the Augsburg pedestrian zone in 1978/1979. The City Council finally approved a hall in January 31, 1979, construction of reinforced concrete -version, which was based in length and height at the historical model, in width, however, something was narrower.
The resistance of the "Alt-Augsburg-Gesellschaft" and the campaign of a "Citizens' Action Moritzplatz" with 13,000 protest signatures could not prevent the project: on September 23, 1980, the new hall was officially opened by Mayor Hans Breuer and City Planning Officer Friedrich-Hermann Stab .
The Schranne today
The former dispute has been forgotten and the waiting room is now a popular meeting place in downtown Augsburg. How the horrendous construction costs of 900,000 DM came about at the time is still clearly visible today: The 48 m long, 8 m high and 7 m wide structure has a wooden ceiling made of reddish mahogany , to which specially designed pendant lights are attached. The concrete elements are worked like a stone mason, and brick strips are laid in the ground. The roof of the hall is made of copper sheet and each of the two gables is emblazoned with a pine nut , the Augsburg city symbol.
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- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine, September 20, 1980
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 53.4 ″ E