Administration building of the LVA Baden

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High-rise building of the LVA Baden, today the German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg

The administrative building of the LVA Baden is a building complex with a high-rise in Karlsruhe . The building was erected as the headquarters of the Baden State Insurance Company's headquarters and is now home to the German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg .

location

The building with the official address Gartenstraße 105 is located on Weinbrennerplatz south of Kriegsstraße . It forms the north-western end of the Beiertheimer Feld service district in the south-west of Karlsruhe , where the Center for Art and Media Technology , the Federal Prosecutor's Office , the St. Vincentius Clinics and the Europahalle Karlsruhe are located. Allotment gardens and subsequently the inner-city recreation area Günther-Klotz-Anlage connect to the west .

Building description and history

The building complex was built between 1960-1964 according to the plans of the Karlsruhe architect Erich Schelling in the International Style built. It consists of the 80.5 m, according to other information 77 m high main building with 21 floors, the highest high-rise in Karlsruhe, and a low-rise building in front of it. In addition to the main building, an extension was built in 1976, which was also designed by Erich Schelling. The original building without the extension is a listed building.

In the years 2005–2007 the building complex was extensively renovated and modernized.

Individual evidence

  1. a b City of Karlsruhe - City Archives (Ed.): Karlsruhe. The city history. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1998, ISBN 3-7617-0353-8 , p. 571 f.
  2. City of Karlsruhe: Geographical information ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.karlsruhe.de
  3. Gartenstr. 105, Südweststadt in the database of cultural monuments Karlsruhe, accessed on April 9, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 16.4 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 46.8"  E