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Specks Hof is a commercial building with the oldest preserved shopping mall in Leipzig . The complex near the Nikolaikirche is an example of Leipzig's trade fair and trading houses that were built at the beginning of the 20th century.
Location and description
Specks Hof extends over 82 meters along the Schuhmachergäßchen between Reichs - and Nikolaistraße, where the building has front lengths of 40 and 47 meters. To the south it borders on the Reichshof , the Hansahaus and the new post-war building with the Fürstenerker .
Specks Hof has six floors. In the first three upper floors, the principle of the support and rail system can be clearly seen through the emphasis on the continuous pilasters . The upper two floors are set back slightly behind a balustrade or a narrow roof strip. In each of the three adjoining streets there is an arched arcade entrance, each of which, like the two corners of the building , is emphasized by a rounded risalit . On the front, clad with trachy tuff and cast stone, there is plenty of architectural jewelery, both in stone and on the plinth above the ground floor and above the third floor in copper. The figures are borrowed from the Greek world of gods and have no relation to the purpose of the building.
The design of the southern, later part of the front in Nikolaistraße differs from the rest of the building. It is kept simpler and instead of the upper two floors has a three-storey tower-like structure with a pyramid roof extending over the ridge line of the outbuildings.
The ground floor of the building is traversed by barrel-vaulted passageways, some with an embossed copper ceiling. A corridor runs from Reichstrasse to Nikolaistrasse with a junction into Schuhmachergäßchen; a branch leads into the Hansahaus. The corridors are interrupted by three glass-roofed atriums, which are labeled A, B and C starting in the west and have areas between 40 and 50 m². Your walls are artistically designed.
Passage
Atrium A
Details in atrium B
Atrium C with café
Staircase window atrium B
33 white terracotta tiles by Peter Makolies (* 1936) are installed in courtyard A. Above the fourth floor there is a picture frieze by the Leipzig painter Bruno Griesel (* 1960) on the subject of "Psychology of Time". In courtyard B, the previous buildings in Nikolaistraße (left) and Reichsstraße (right) are shown in large format on Meissen tiles based on a design by the Leipzig painter Heinz-Jürgen Böhme (* 1952). Above it rises on more than 20,000 colored ceramic plates over several floors the wall frieze by Moritz Götze (* 1964) “The morning, the noon, the evening”. Atrium C is adorned with 16 medallions depicting everyday objects, primarily shoes, using an enamel glaze technique by Johannes Grützke (1937–2017). In the stairwells of the atriums A and B there are still original lead glass panes designed by the painter Paul Horst-Schulze (1876–1937).
While offices are located on the upper floors, the ground floor is completely occupied by retail facilities including two restaurants, many of which can also or only be reached via the passageways and atriums.
history
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Since around 1430 there was a large building on Reichsstrasse and Schuhmachergäßchen that served as a residential building, brewery and wine cellar . The last design of the façade was baroque, although some with large modern windows. The house was bought by Maximilian Speck von Sternburg (1776–1856) in 1815 and was called Specks Hof from then on .
On December 16, 1889, it was auctioned on behalf of inheritance, with Maximilian's son, Alexander Maximilian (1821–1911) buying it and paying out the other beneficiaries. In 1890 he sold the building to Karl Gottlieb Scheller, who nine years later gave it to Dr. Johanna Petersmann sold. It was bought by the businessman Paul Schmutzler and the architect Emil Franz Hänsel (1870–1943) on March 15, 1908 .
After the municipal department store in Leipzig was built as the first exhibition center in the transition to the sample fair in 1897 , a building boom began in the city for such buildings and building complexes. That also applied to Speck's farm. Beginning on Reichsstrasse, the first construction phase of today's building with 5000 m² of exhibition space was built according to plans. After the purchase and demolition of the building on Nikolaistrasse - including the so-called “Nürnberger House” - the second construction phase was completed in 1911. In 1928, the third construction phase followed on the property opposite Nikolaistraße 3. This was built in the Art Deco style, deviating from the Art Nouveau of the first sections . An objection by the Nikolai parish prevented another floor of the section that already extends beyond the rest of the building. With 10,000 m² of exhibition space, Specks Hof was now the city's largest exhibition center.
During the Second World War , the building complex was badly damaged in an air raid on December 4, 1943 and lost its roof structure. Reconstruction began in 1947 and dragged on until 1960. The exhibition center was now available for the leather , gallantry and jewelry industries . In 1981/1982 the passage area was renovated. The Leipzig painters Heinz-Jürgen Böhme and Detlef Lieffertz (* 1949) restored the trading scenes in Atrium C, which were created by Otto Josef Olbers and Theodor Illing in 1927 and destroyed during the war.
This work was lost during the extensive restoration of the building from 1993 to 1995 when atrium C was enlarged. During this restoration, the original roof landscape of the building was restored and most of the artistic decorations of the atria were created. First of all, the historical passages were to be removed, resistance from the population and from monument preservationists ultimately led to the compromise of maintaining the passages and an atrium and enlarging two atriums. This restoration, carried out by the Düsseldorf architects RKW , won the prize for the most beautiful office building renovated that year (Refurbished Office Building) at the world's largest real estate fair MIPIM in Cannes in 1996 .
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Specks Hof . In: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe. Architecture of European standing . Sax-Verlag Beucha • Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , pp. 36–41 and 133
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 556 f .
- Building files archive Leipzig. Construction file "Specks Hof" Volume 1.
- Paul Schmutzler: Twenty-five masses in Speck's yard in Leipzig. Leipzig 1922.
Web links
- Site Specks Hof. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hocquél: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe , p. 38
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.3 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 38.6 ″ E