Watty House
The Wattyhaus in Hamburg's old town at Speersort 6 was built in 1911 by the Hamburg jeweler Johann Jakob Heinrich Watty as an office building with retail space, workshops, residential and office space.
The building replaced a previous building in which the jewelers JH Watty & Sohn (founded in 1822), gold and silver goods shop , had been located since 1853. A modern, six-storey commercial building with a striking, red and white clinker brick facade was built on the site between St. Petri Church and St. Jacobi Church , across from the Johanneum School for Scholars and in direct proximity to the Kontorhausviertel , which was barely spared by the Great Fire in 1842 showrooms that were progressively designed for the time. In the previous building, shop windows and business premises were one of the first shops in Hamburg to receive electrical lighting.
Above the shop on the ground floor there was office space, an owner's apartment and staff rooms as well as the caretaker's apartment on the upper floor. The building had an L-shaped floor plan, the short leg formed the street front. In the rear building were the workshops and stores in an atrium, the other side of which bordered the rear of the toy Rasch house. At least in the post-war period, the house had a paternoster elevator , in which a 15-year-old apprentice suffered severe bruises in April 1956 when he tried to drive through the cellar on one of the conveyor booths for a test of courage .
The company JH Watty & Sohn AG used the building until 1933/34 and then moved to Bergstrasse 26. The name Wattyhaus appeared for the last time in a Hamburg address book from 1936.
In 1943 the building was badly hit during Allied air raids . The stamp auction house Edgar Mohrmann & Co. mbH had its headquarters here from 1946/47 to 1958, and from 1960 to 1990 it was the headquarters of the construction company Dyckerhoff & Widmann . In the years 1990 to 1992 the building was completely gutted and the interior of the building was expanded by the Dutch development and investment company MAB together with the neighboring building (formerly the Rasch toy house, corner Speersort / Ida-Ehre-Platz ). The facade of the former Wattyhaus was preserved, but received a modern roof extension. The whole complex has been called Speersorthaus since 1992 .
The previous building in 1878
Embossing
Shop front around 1929
Building scheme 1956
See also
List of office buildings in Hamburg
literature
- Carl Friedrich Robert Watty: Genealogy of the Hamburg family Watty self-published, Hamburg 1925
- JH Watty & Sohn A.-G .: Company history 1822-1930, special print from: The book of the old companies of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Jubilee publishing house Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1930
- Fred Watty: Watty - Genealogy of a Hamburg family. History, stories and facts from three centuries editione pro-equus, Langwedel 2008, ISBN 978-3-940895-13-4
- Hamburger Abendblatt of December 8, 1992, April 16 and May 26, 1956
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 55.2 ″ E