School and community center in Kleinmünchen
The school and community center in Kleinmünchen is the former school and community center of the formerly independent community of Kleinmünchen (today a district of the Upper Austrian capital Linz ). The ensemble, which was probably built in the third quarter of the 19th century, is located at Dauphinestrasse 56 and is a listed building.
history
The school and community hall of the community of Kleinmünchen was built in the late 19th century and subsequently rebuilt and expanded several times. The renovations and extensions were carried out in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The facade was designed in 1909 by master bricklayer Ferdinand Bachbaur. The former infant care facility behind it in Dauphinestraße 56a was built in 1878 by the Upper Austrian Construction Company , with Wilhelm von Löwenfeld acting as the client. Today's Caritas kindergarten was extended in 1903 in the area of the ground-level side wing by Ferdinand Bachbaur and rebuilt in 1941 by the Office for People's Welfare under construction manager Karl Schimany.
Building
The school and community center is grouped around a rectangular courtyard. The inhomogeneous, two-storey building has a main front with a simple, historicist structure. Bachbaur used grooves to accentuate the ground floor and equipped the ground floor windows with late classicist lance grilles. He separated the first floor from the first floor with a cordon cornice . The upper floor is structured by grooves on the corner pilaster strips. The windows on the upper floor were equipped with profiled frames, simple parapet fields and straight roofing. Nachbaur installed a cornice with a serrated frieze between the upper floor and the roof. The round arched main portal is flanked by pilasters and has wooden door leaves that have been renewed according to the old form. The east facade of the school and community building was structured in the area of the three southern axes in the same way as the main facade, but more simply in the other window axes. In contrast, the west facade was not designed. The east wing facing the courtyard has padded arcades between pilaster strips. On the first floor there are orthogonal chamfer grids with double windows. The rear transverse wing, originally used as a gymnasium, was demolished in 1994.
The kindergarten behind the school and community center is located in a free-standing building with a historical structure, with grooves and rusticated corner pilaster strips and drilled window frames on the ground floor. The eastern entrance front has a three-axis risalit with pilasters and triangular window roofs. As in the building in front, the kindergarten also has a round arched portal flanked by pilasters.
literature
- Herfried Thaler, Bernhard Prokisch and others: Austrian Art Topography, Volume LV “The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz”, III. Part: Outside areas, Urfahr, Ebelsberg. Berger & Söhne, Ferdinand, 2001, published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Inventory and Monument Research, ISBN 978-3-85028-343-4
