Stegmann's house

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Stegmann's house north side

At Carl-August-Allee 9 in Weimar, not far from the main train station, not far from the Ernst-Thälmann monument on Buchenwaldplatz, there is the so-called Stegmann House . This is a three-wing building that opens onto Carl-von Ossietzky-Straße. This is a two-storey residential building with a ground floor business space. This building is surrounded by a putti frieze made of fired clay, which has references to Weimar itself and in particular to Goethe and the New Museum Weimar . On the east side of the Neue Museum, a model of putti is drawn on a wagon, the Goethe and psyched memorials as well as putti who work as stonemasons with tools or parts of the architecture such as B. pull from the architrave , in a way that is reminiscent of a humorous pageant. On the south side, the greats of the classical era are remembered, i.e. Goethe, Friedrich Schiller , Christoph Martin Wieland and finally Johann Gottfried Herder . In addition, Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Franz Liszt and the director of the Weimar court theater Franz Dingelstedt and the Wimaria as an allegory of the city are shown on the north side . The design for this frieze, which depicts scenes from Weimar's social life, comes from Hermann Wislicenus . Programmatically, the putti frieze was supposed to represent the reconciliation of the old with the new Weimar, especially since the construction of the Neues Museum was on the one hand still intended to underline Weimar's cultural primacy in Germany, but on the other hand it was also a financial disaster.

The house itself was built from 1864 to 1866, following the example of the Italian Renaissance and according to his own design. This means that the Stegmannsche Haus is also the first building erected on Carl-August-Allee. The number of putti, which literally surround this building, is 155. The west side with the inner courtyard, which is only hinted at, has no putti friezes. An Italian-style balcony is attached above the portal on the east side . The richly carved door shows symbols from the building trade.

It was named after the architect Carl Martin von Stegmann . In this case, Stegmann was the client, architect and site manager all rolled into one. He is depicted on the frieze himself.

This building has been included in the list of cultural monuments in Weimar .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Griebel: One day in Weimar: Walks to Weimar City Architecture , 3rd improved edition, Weimar 2008, p. 96. Griebel is himself an architect and city guide in Weimar.
  2. ↑ https://www.weimarer-kunstgesellschaft.de/termin/events/vortrag-die-paedagogik-der-putten.html
  3. ↑ In Kerstin Vogel's biography of Streichhan, you can read in detail what the extent of the expenses was. Kerstin Vogel: Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan architect and chief building director in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1848 to 1884 , Diss. Weimar 2009, vol. 1: Text, p. 146.
  4. ↑ DuMont travel paperback travel guide Weimar and surroundings by Bernd Wurlitzer, Kerstin Sucher, p. 187.
  5. ↑ Carl Martin von Stegmann (1832–1895): born in Eisenach, studied in Berlin, doctorate, design and consultancy activities in Eisenach and Weimar, promotion of architecture and trade (trade association, 1866 establishment of a private educational institution together with F. Jäde in Weimar , Collection of models), in 1873 appointed director of the Bavarian Industrial Museum in Nuremberg. Information from http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/year/2009/docId/1409 Kerstin Vogel: Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan Architect and chief construction director in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1848 bis 1884, Diss. Weimar 2009, Vol. 1: Text, p. 20 Note 4.
  6. ↑ Griebel, p. 96.
  7. ↑ https://www.thueringen.de/mam/th9/tlbv/04-10_-_1112-18_-_denkmalliste_weimar.pdf

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 34 ″  E