Steiff factory building

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Steiff factory buildings

The Steiff factory hall is a factory hall (east hall) built in 1903 by Margarete Steiff GmbH in Giengen an der Brenz in Baden-Württemberg . The hall is also known under the name " Jungfrauenaquarium ", whereby this popular name refers to the fact that in the past mainly unmarried women worked in the glazed hall.

construction

View of the east hall

As one of the first so-called curtain walls in Germany (curtain wall construction), the east hall in the New Building style, which is historically significant in terms of architecture, is part of the “ functionalist skeleton structures with seamlessly all-round curtain walls and visible wall connections. "

The building, co-designed by the client Hugo Steiff according to Richard Steiff's specifications, was created by Munich architects and Eisenwerk München AG, who remained anonymous, and supplemented in 1904 and 1908 by other buildings in the same style, although the metal structure was replaced by a wooden frame structure.

Appreciation

According to the architecture critic Falk Jaeger, “ Walter Gropius ' famous Fagus factory (shoe last factory) in Alfeld is far behind the listed buildings. "

literature

  • Bernhard Niethammer and Anke Fissabre: The Steiff toy factory in Giengen / Brenz. An unknown masterpiece of the early modern era . Geymüller, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943164-03-9 .
  • Rudolf Fischer: Light and Transparency. Factory building and new building in modern architecture magazines . Volume 2 of studies on modern architecture and industrial design. Ed .: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München, Berlin 2012, pp. 173-183, ISBN 978-3-7861-2665-2 .
  • Axel Föhl: Buildings of Industry and Technology, Bonn no year, series of publications by the German National Committee for Monument Protection, Vol. 47, p. 131, ISBN 3-922153-03-8 .
  • Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg I , arr. v. Dagmar Zimdars u. a., Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1993, p. 261, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
  • Herbert Brunner: Reclams Art Guide Germany II. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 6th edition, no year (1971), p. 193, ISBN 3-15-008073-8 .
  • Angelika Reiff: Architecture without architects. The glass buildings of the Steiff toy factory . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 21st year 1992, issue 3, pp. 83–87. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Steiff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Falk Jaeger 1985, quoted from Axel Föhl: Buildings of Industry and Technology, undated, series of publications by the German National Committee for Monument Protection, Vol. 47, p. 131

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 14.9 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 26.8"  E