Sparkasse am Anger (Erfurt)
The Sparkasse am Anger in Erfurt , Anger 25, was built 1928–1929 in the New Objectivity style based on a design by the architects and municipal building officials Ludwig Boegl and Johannes Klaß . The figurative facade decoration was created by the Erfurt sculptor Hans Walther . While the facade is now a listed building, the interior of the building has already been rebuilt several times.
Building history
The predecessor building on this property was the "Haus zum Rehbock" from the Renaissance period. The city of Erfurt Built in 1928-1929 in its place a modern office and retail building, which mostly long term to 1928 as a public corporation law founded Central German Landesbank was rented, as Landesbank and Girozentrale for the Prussian province of Saxony , the state of Thuringia and the Free State Anhalt served. In addition to its actual headquarters in Magdeburg , the Mitteldeutsche Landesbank had branches in Merseburg , Erfurt, Halle (Saale) , Nordhausen and Weimar .
The design came from the city councilor Ludwig Boegl and the city councilor Johannes Klaß. The Erfurt architect John Hall took over the entire interior design and also had in common with the other two architects, the construction management held. Implementation was the responsibility of the municipal building department.
In the style of New Objectivity was a reinforced concrete - skeleton with limestone built nose cone. On the ground floor and the first floor, the facade is summarized by the darker color of the cladding and the flanking, cross-story high reliefs by the Erfurt sculptor Hans Walther; the four almost life-size and unclothed pairs of figures are supposed to symbolize the reckless waste of money and the resulting hardship on the left, and the sensible use of money (thrift) and the resulting prosperity on the right. The lettering MITTELDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK was affixed in capital letters on the parapet of the first floor, which took up the entire width of the facade between the reliefs. The ground floor contained the modern counter hall, the first floor a representative meeting room with "bourgeois furniture".
The lighter facade on the 2nd to 5th floors, which also has a different window arrangement , is connected to it by a strong cornice . The office space on the 2nd and 3rd floors was also rented to the bank, on the 4th floor was the practice of the doctor Karl August Leopolder , the downstairs 5th floor contained a caretaker's apartment. A few years later, the 3rd floor was rented to the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
The name "Haus zum Rehbock" was taken over from the previous building and embodied by Johannes Saal with an animal head in brass forging next to the side entrance (not preserved).
The Mitteldeutsche Landesbank was dissolved by order of the SMAD on July 23, 1945.
In 1968 the building was renovated for six months, including a false ceiling in the counter hall. After the fall of the Wall, the interior of the house was completely redesigned from 1994 ( laying of the foundation stone ) to 1996 while maintaining the listed street facade. The counter hall received a glazed roof and was expanded to 700 m². The branch office of Sparkasse Mittelthüringen has furnished its business and office space with original works by Thuringian artists that have been acquired or are on permanent loan .
See also
literature
- Ruth Menzel, Eberhard Menzel: Sparkasse Erfurt. The story 1823–1998. Artus studio, Erfurt 1998.
- Elke Dallmann, Mark Escherich, Carla Fehr: Architectural Guide Thuringia. From the Bauhaus up to the year 2000. 2nd improved and corrected edition, Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-86068-139-7 , p. 126.
- Steffen Raßloff : 100 monuments in Erfurt. History and stories. (with photographs by Sascha Fromm) (= Thuringia Library , Volume 11.) Klartext, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0987-8 , p. 160 f.
Web links
- Sparkasse am Anger as a monument on erfurt-web
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Population register of the city of Erfurt , 72nd edition 1930, part IV, p. 109.
- ↑ a b c Description of holdings for holdings I 93 Mitteldeutsche Landesbank at the Saxony-Anhalt State Archive , accessed on May 23, 2018
- ↑ Inhabitants of the city of Erfurt , 75th edition 1935, part III, p. 16.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 29 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 58 ″ E