Transformer house on Travemünder Allee
The transformer house on Travemünder Allee is a former operating building of the Lübeck tram .
location
The building is located at the eastern end of Travemünder Allee at the point where the street merges into Travemünder Landstraße , about 4.5 kilometers from the castle gate . The house is on the north side of the street.
Usage
The brick structure erected in 1938 served as a transformer station for the tram, which at this point forked into the routes to Kücknitz / Herrenwyk and Schlutup . Since the stop for Israelsdorf was also located here , the porch was designed to be open so that waiting passengers could shelter.
With the cessation of the tram service in 1959, the building lost its function and has been unused since then. In 1986 Stadtwerke Lübeck ceded the house to the Stadtwald area of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, which has since been responsible for maintaining the still functionless building.
Artistic design
The gable of the house is decorated with carved wooden figures created by Otto Mantzel , which date back to the time of construction. In the original version of 1938 followed below a massive towering figure with an unclear character in the top field first a säender Bauer , a marching SA -Man with swastika and a sense supporting farmers. The row below showed a lumberjack with an ax and a saw , a carpenter on a roll , a marching Wehrmacht soldier with a steel helmet , shouldered rifle and knapsack, a country mailman with a parcel carrier on his back and a hunter . In the middle of the year 1938, a swastika was carved into the wood of the lower crossbar .
In the post-war period, various minor and major changes were made to the carvings: the SA man was replaced by a depiction of a mother with a child in her arms, and the woodcutter was replaced by a woman with a tray, and it is unclear whether it was should be a waitress or a nurse . The soldier no longer carries a rifle, but since he is still clearly recognizable through his steel helmet, uniform and knob , and no remodeling has been carried out, the weapon, like some other elements, may have been lost through the decay of the wooden sculptures over the decades. The postman no longer has a carrying frame and walking stick that assigned him to the rural area. The swastika in the base bar was made unrecognizable by a diamond pattern.
The building and the carvings are registered as a cultural monument.
Web links
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Art in Public Space Lübeck - Gable Decoration Trafo-Haus
- Transport workshop: press archive - forgotten "art" on the outskirts of Lübeck
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 47.9 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 48.2" E