Stern Pharmacy (Kempten)

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Town hall fountain , in the background on the left the Stern Pharmacy, on the right the Ponikauhaus , as it was in 1884
Today's house with the address Rathausplatz 14 from the 1960s

The building with the name Stern-Apotheke was a listed building from the 16th century in Kempten im Allgäu . Despite its protection status, the old Stern pharmacy was demolished in 1961 in the course of the so-called old town renovation , a nationwide urban planning pilot project, and because of alleged dilapidation and replaced by a modern, historicizing new concrete building. The building is located next to the Ponikauhaus , a magnificent building in the former imperial city.

Description and history

The three-storey house had a neo-renaissance facade on the eaves side facing Rathausplatz , divided by five window axes . The steep, four-story saddle roof was architecturally structured by four rows of dormers . Towards Heinrichgasse, a narrow connecting path from the city ​​theater to the town hall square, there were partially walled-in round-arched and ogival light slits. The late Gothic gable, described by Michael Petzet as remarkable, had two large pointed arches under corresponding triangular fields in the spandrels . The side portal from the early 17th century consisted of pilasters under a triangular gable. On the ground floor there were rooms with bandwork from 1730.

Before the demolition, the Sozialbau Kempten GmbH acquired the house in 1960. The north side of the Rathausplatz was then rebuilt between 1961 and 1965 (draft Sozialbau Kempten, Dipl.-Ing.Gerd Selzer). The construction work completed at the Stern pharmacy in 1962 was carried out in accordance with the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . According to the city planners, the new, historicizing sgraffito façades by Franz Weiß should fit more harmoniously into the cityscape instead of the old, partly heavily modified town houses, which was described as a failure in 1990. The facade of the Wilhelminian era was also seen as a problem. In addition to the Stern-Apotheke, there is another residential and commercial building that was built in the course of this construction project. The modern concrete building now houses offices. The new Stern pharmacy existed until 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Kempten (ed.): Kempten im Allgäu. Kösel, Kempten 1972, p. 39
  2. ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 50.
  3. ↑ Lord Mayor of the City of Kempten [= Josef Höß] (Ed.): 30 years of urban redevelopment in Kempten in the Allgäu. August 1988. p. 60
  4. ^ Social building Kempten: old town renovation , 1970
  5. ↑ The building consultant - worksheet of the bayer. Landesvereins für Heimatpflege eV (Ed.): Old town renovation using the example of Kempten in Allgäu. 36th year, issue 1/2. Munich 1971. page 6.
  6. ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg, Michael Petzet: Monuments in Bavaria . City of Kempten: ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological site monuments. tape VII.85 , 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , pp. XXXIV-XXXVIII .

Web links

Commons : Stern Pharmacy  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 4.2 ″  E