Town house (Leipzig)
The town house has been the seat of part of the Leipzig city administration since 1912 . It is located within the Leipzig inner city ring just north of the New Town Hall on Burgplatz .
When the New Town Hall was being built, there were plans to increase the number of rooms with an attached extension. In the years 1908 to 1912, a so-called “town house” was built in a similar, but sober design (brick masonry with facing bricks in shell limestone ) according to the plans of the Leipzig city building councilor Hugo Licht , who had also built the neighboring New Town Hall . Both buildings are separated by Lotterstrasse , across which they are connected by a two-storey bridge structure (popularly known as the “civil servant track”).
The seven-storey town house with its irregular five-sided floor plan takes up the area at Burgplatz 1, Martin-Luther-Ring 8–8a and Markgrafenstraße 3 with a total area of 7,695 m². It has more than 300 rooms, including the Leipzig registry office . The large and small wedding halls have been used since 1911. These rooms have a separate representative entrance from the Martin-Luther-Ring. In addition, the two wood-paneled marriage rooms are particularly artistically designed, in the corridor in front there is a wall fountain made of polished Jura marble with decorated tile cladding.
The town house was on 16./17. Badly damaged by bombs in April 1945, the building of the haberdashery wholesaler Berger & Voigt in the north-western corner (Martin-Luther-Ring 10 and Markgrafenstraße) was completely destroyed. An eleven-storey office and commercial building named Trias was built here and was completed in June 2014.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 564
Individual evidence
- ^ Trias high-rise in Leipzig by Schulz and Schulz. In: BauNetz. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 13.3 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 21.5 ″ E