Wünschmann House

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The Wünschmann House in Leipzig (2019)

The Wünschmann-Haus (formerly Haus Deutscher Handlungsgehilfen ) is a residential and commercial building at Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 8-14 in the inner southern suburb of Leipzig. It is a listed building . (Not to be confused with "Wünschmanns Hof", Dittrichring 18–20)

history

The building was erected during the First World War from 1914 to 1917 according to plans by the Leipzig architect Georg Wünschmann . The client was the Association of German clerks , a forerunner of the union federation of employees . The name of the house was therefore the House of German Clerks .

The house around 1920

Previously, in 1847, the Leipzig orthopedic surgeon Moritz Schreber had built his “orthopedic-gymnastic sanatorium” on part of the site and operated it until 1861.

From 1917 one of the main tenants was the Great Leipzig tram . A War Economics Museum was also set up in the new building in 1917, from which a Reich Economics Museum emerged in 1919. From 1946 the building belonged to the FDGB .

After German reunification , it was taken over by a family-run company from Baden-Württemberg and extensively renovated from 1993 to 1996 and equipped with an underground car park with 60 parking spaces. The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) developed into a permanent tenant, so that the house was sometimes also called the House of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe .

In 2013 LVB moved into its new administration building on Georgiring, and in 2015 the building was sold to a new owner, a community of investors from Baywobau and two private investors. He introduced the new name Wünschmann Haus and built 25 apartments as part of the realignment of the house.

architecture

The building measures almost 100 meters along Karl-Liebknecht-Straße with 23 window axes . It has three west-facing side wings of different lengths, of which the middle one extends to the raft place . Together with neighboring buildings, they enclose two inner courtyards. The entire complex has around 12,000 m² of usable space.

The monumentally designed facade of the five-story building is clad with travertine . There are semicircular windows above the doors and windows of the first floor, which houses retail stores. On the portico-like central section, six fluted columns rise over four floors . Six large sculptural head figures stand on its architrave . An attic floor behind it is closed by a triangular gable with the inscription ERBAUT | IN THE WAR 1914–17 | ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN ACTION AIDS. The side parts of the street front have a flat three-axis risalit in their middle , which ends in a round-arched, crowned dwelling . In addition, three bay windows each combine the two upper floors.

  • Central gable

  • Entrance hall

  • Glass mosaic of the entrance hall

  • The 47 m high dome building

  • One of the courtyards

Three arched entrances in the middle section lead into an open entrance hall, the coffered ceiling of which is adorned with six glass mosaics by the Leipzig painter Arthur Michaelis . Behind it was a counter hall, in which a post office was operated until 1993. The stairwells and passageways of the courtyards are covered with ceramic tiles in relief.

A central round building with twenty flat valleys and small oval windows rises on the hipped roof , each with a row of gable and towed dormers . Above it, surrounded by a gallery, rests a round hall building about eighteen meters in diameter with twenty room-high windows. He is available for various events. The building is completed by a hemispherical roof, which reaches a height of 47 meters above street level. The dome defines the cityscape of the southern suburb of Leipzig.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 185 .
  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 510 .

Web links

Commons : Wünschmann-Haus  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig-Zentrum-Süd , ID number 09297122
  2. ↑ From the history of Leipzig university orthopedics . Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b memorial text
  4. ↑ a b Wünschmann House Leipzig. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 185 .
  6. ↑ New owner for LVB building in Leipzig's Südvorstadt. In: Deal magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 48.8 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 23.6"  E