Villa Kaltehofe
The Villa Kaltehofe is a building with outbuildings in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort . The building group was built in 1894 as a branch of the hygiene institute of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe Foundation , which operates a small museum with a restaurant, has been located there since 2011 .
history
In 1894, under the direction of Franz Andreas Meyer and by the building inspector JHW Wulff at Kaltehofe, a new building for the branch of the Hygienic State Institute founded two years earlier was completed. In this building laboratories were set up and the most important scientific work of the institute was carried out.
The building, which is part of an ensemble with other functional structures - such as the valve houses - is a brick facing structure that has been faced with yellowish clinker bricks. These are interrupted by decorative elements made of red clinker bricks, for example on the cornices or plinths, and the wooden structures and the sandstone surrounds of the window and door openings also have this red color. The architectural style with its appealing design is close to the Hanover Building School and is shaped by Franz Andreas Meyer, who was also responsible for the design of the buildings in Hamburg's Speicherstadt . The yellow brick building, for example, has late historical elements borrowing from the Renaissance and is structured by decorative decorative fields. To protect the measuring instruments in the building, the masonry was made of weather-resistant geest bricks and the facing was made of burnt Silesian clinker bricks. After a few years, the villa was extended by a stylistically adapted extension to accommodate the operating rooms of the waterworks. The building has two doors in the main front area.
The scientific operations building consists of a duplex with two gable permanently arranged projections , which include on an almost square plan a storey traufständigen cross section and a square tower. The parts of the building are equipped with protruding gable roofs and covered with slate. The facade is loosened up by dormers, roof houses and porches and deliberately designed asymmetrically and was surrounded by a park-like area.
Division and use of the interiors
The interior design was designed to include only the bare essentials. There were three laboratory areas on the ground floor, one for chemical and two for bacteriological examinations, and two further laboratories and a scullery in the basement, which had the latest facilities. In each of these two laboratory assistants and one support worker were required to check the samples and maintain the equipment. Therefore, apartments were set up on the first floor and in the attic for these, mostly single, employees. The building also had a business room and offices for the management and the filter supervisor, who was also provided with an official apartment so that smooth operation could be guaranteed.
In the Second World War, Kaltehofe was not spared either, the filter systems were badly damaged by bombs and the villa also accommodated six families with 14 people in two rooms who had become homeless. Most of them were able to provide for themselves by growing vegetables on the site. On September 28, 1945, permission was given to rebuild the facility so that it could be used again in 1948.
Reuse
The sand filtration plant planned by Franz Andreas Meyer and inaugurated in 1893 , which also included the building complex with valve houses and operational buildings on the Elbe island Kaltehofe near Rothenburgsort, was one of the so-called " water arts ". At that time it was the first central water supply system in Europe and a forerunner of the Hamburg waterworks. In 1990 the facility was closed and the buildings and grounds were left to their own devices. A new usage concept was created through an Agenda 21 process , so that a museum has been located in the historic company building since 2011, and a new exhibition building was added to this. This measure ensured the preservation of a culturally and historically unique facility for water supply and treatment technology in the form of an industrial monument. At the same time, the area was made accessible to the public as a nature park and local recreation area.
The building was completely renovated and some walls were removed. The museum shop is now located in one of the former laboratory rooms, while the rooms on the first floor house a small exhibition on the history of the Elbe island and its use. There is a café in the subsequent extension. The modern new building is connected underground with the main building and inside the workshop of a well builder with numerous plaster figure models based on Hamburg fountain systems. The renovation and expansion began in March 2008 and was completed in September with the opening of the museum.
literature
- Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe (= Hamburg construction books. 15). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944405-22-3 .
Web links
- Industrial monument. on wasserkunst-hamburg.de
- The Elbe island Kaltehofe Hamburg on meerart.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Stiftung Wasserkunst Elbinsel Hamburg ( Memento from 7 May 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) on wasserkunst-hamburg.de.
- ↑ Numbers · data · facts - water art. wasserkunst-hamburg.de, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Elbe waterworks Kaltehofe with the pumping station on Billwerder Island and the filter plant on Kaltehofe Island (PDF, p. 3).
- ^ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe. Pp. 18/19.
- ^ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe. Pp. 19-21.
- ^ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe. P. 25.
- ^ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe. P. 2/3.
- ^ Eva Decker, Jörg Schilling: Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe. Pp. 35/36.
- ↑ 4th Environment Foundation Forum. ( Memento from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) on buhck-stiftung.de.
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '27.6 " N , 10 ° 3' 9.4" E