Shopping house
The shopping house at Allee No. 40 in Heilbronn is a building complex that was completed in 1971 according to plans by father Ernst Schaal and son Helmut in the brutalist style .
Location and surroundings
It is located on the east side of the inner-city main street Allee north of the Festhalle Harmonie and shapes the image of the northern avenue.
The high-rise towers over the rebuilt old town
Northern avenue with shopping center, photo from 1979
The shopping house during the light rail construction work in 2012
description
The striking fourteen -story tower is the tallest building on the avenue and was the tallest skyscraper in the city until the construction of the 16-story residential building in Güglinger Strasse in the Böckingen district in 1972. The building has ribbon windows that emphasize the horizontal and thus create a balance to the vertical of the fourteen floors. Unlike the Rosenberg high -rise, the shopping high-rise is a commercial building. Shops, offices, the city hotel and medical facilities are located in the building .
reception
The building also received notable criticism, including from Rainer Moritz :
"Shopping centers with inventive names such as Shopping-Haus are indicators of the ugly."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 87 .
- ^ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.5: Heilbronn district . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 66.
- ↑ Michael Schwarz: Living above the roofs of Heilbronn . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 55 , March 7, 2006, pp. 32 .
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 73 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 37.4 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 23.8" E