Straw bag passage

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In the Strohsack-Passage (2011)

The Strohsack-Passage in Leipzig is a passage from Nikolaistraße 10 to Ritterstraße 7. It contains commercial, service and catering facilities as well as the cabaret “Leipziger Funzel”.

Building description

The modernly designed access facade on Nikolaistraße with two metal-clad columns in front of it extends over all floors with glass. The kinked course of the passage leads through three differently designed courtyards.

  • Entrance Nikolaistraße (2016)

  • The floor clock (2016)

  • An atrium (2016)

  • Access building Ritterstrasse (2016)

The first and most attractive one reached from Nikolaistrasse is a two-story hall. Their main design features are the space supports designed as high metal mushroom columns. An escalator leads to the supermarket in the basement. Opposite is an open balcony of a restaurant on the first floor.

The largest clock in Europe is located under an upper light window. It was designed by Reinhard Minkewitz . It is fully functional and accessible. The hands under a pane of glass represent a male and a female figure.

The other smaller courtyards are kept simple, each with skylight windows. The rooms of the Leipziger Funzel cabaret theater are located on the ground floor and in the basement near Ritterstraße. The entire building also contains office space, apartments, an underground car park and a fitness center .

history

The former building on the property at Nikolaistraße 10 was called the “Free Life House” from 1681 to 1781, then the “Kraushauptsche House” and from 1816 to 1927 “City of Hamburg”. After it was acquired by Schweizerhaus AG in 1920, it was named “Schweizerhaus” from 1927 onwards. At times the Swiss consulate was also here . The Swiss house was destroyed in the Second World War. The vacant lot in Nikolaistrasse existed for several decades, and in 1989 the city began to build a prefabricated building on the site . After the Leipzig People's Building Conference in February 1990, it was decided to stop the construction at ground level, which was then completed.

On the property at Ritterstrasse 7 there was already a Burse in the 15th century that belonged to a Heinricus Behr, which led to the name "Bursa Heinrici". The name remained under changing owners until 1815, when it became the “university cellar”. When the name was changed in 1899, they remembered the history of student living and called the house "Strohsack", which is where the name of the passage goes back.

From 1995 to 1997 the Leipzig architects Bernd Appel, Anuschah Behzadi and Heike Bohne realized the passage described above on the two properties. While the building on Nikolaistraße was completely redesigned, the Strohsack building on Ritterstraße was largely demolished and reconstructed during the construction of the passage . The baroque facade of the first two floors has been preserved in the building fabric .

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 105-107 .
  • Ralf Koch: Sack of straw . In: Leipziger Blätter (1997), No. 31, pp. 8-10.
  • Wolfgang Hocquél: The Leipziger Passagen & Höfe. Architecture of European standing. Sax-Verlag, Beucha / Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , pp. 31-33.

Web links

Commons : Strohsack-Passage  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 53.
  2. ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . tape 3 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-13-4 , pp. 192/193 (map) .
  3. ↑ a b c Koch 1997, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 70/71.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 43.7 ″  E