Swan temple
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_(7892345690).jpg) Swan Temple (2012) |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| architect | Albin Mueller |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Construction year | 1914 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '34.5 " N , 8 ° 40' 2.2" E |
The Swan Temple (also: Ceramic Pavilion ) on Mathildenhöhe is a building in Darmstadt .
History and description
The swan temple (see also Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie # Schwanentempel ) was built in 1914 for the third exhibition of the artist colony according to plans by the architect Albin Müller . The temple towered over a hillside garden with a pergola and a detachable holiday home . A stairway leads directly to its base. The load-bearing double pillars were faced with ceramic tiles from the Gail Gail steam brickworks. At the edge of the flat sloping roof there are rhythmically structured relief panels . The gutter is drained through the beaks of the swans, which are finely crafted in white marble .
These sculptures are by Albert Burghardt from Erbach in the Odenwald .
Inside the swan temple there is a mosaic floor . The temple is crowned by a decoratively painted dome . Originally the roof had a beaver tail covering . Due to structural defects, the plain tile roofing was dismantled in 1987 and replaced with sheet copper . The Swan Temple was extensively renovated in the 2010s . The detachable holiday home no longer exists.
Monument protection
The design of the small structure shows the contemporary arbor, kiosk and pavilion fashion. This fashion represents the idea of simple life aesthetically exaggerated and transfigured. For architectural, architectural and city-historical reasons, the Swan Temple is a listed building .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen .) Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 336.
