Thomashaus

Thomashaus / Parish house of the Thomaskirche (2019)

The Thomashaus is a listed building on the Thomaskirchhof in Leipzig .

History and description

It was initially the seat of the superintendent and was built in 1904 in the neo-Gothic and neo-renaissance style on the property of the old St. Thomas School, which was abandoned in 1902 (today located in the Bachviertel ), in which St. Thomas Cantor Johann Sebastian Bach also lived, according to plans by the architects Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer .

The limestone- clad building has three floors, three stepped gables and a roof covered with slate . The facade is characterized by box oriels , on the wall facing the promenade there is an Art Nouveau interior for the minstrel Heinrich von Morungen .

In 2003 the Thomashaus was expanded: The architect Gerd Heise (HPP) built a glass pavilion that functions as a Thomasshop with a focus on Johann Sebastian Bach and the St. Thomas' Choir .

Today's users

Next to the parish office of the Ev.-Luth. St. Thomas Church ( Thomaskirche ), the following associations and foundations are based here:

• Thomaskirche - Bach e. V.
• Foundation Canons of St. Thomae
• forum thomanum Leipzig eV

literature

• Vera Denzer / Andreas Dix / Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Leipzig: a regional study , landscapes in Germany vol. 78, Böhlau, Cologne 2015, p. 122.
• Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig: Architecture from the Romanesque to the Present , Passage-Verlag, 2nd edition, Leipzig 2004, p. 71.

Web links

Commons : Thomashaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annette Menting : Leipzig. Stuttgart 2015, p. 72 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 19.9 ″  E