Weissenhof Museum

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The Weissenhof Museum in Stuttgart is a museum for architectural history opened in 2006 . It is located in a semi-detached house designed by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the Weißenhofsiedlung .

The museum in the Le Corbusier house

The building has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016 as one of the 17 works by Le Corbusier .

Components

The double house consists of the two connected buildings at Rathenaustraße 1 and 3. The half of the house at Rathenaustraße 1 houses the actual museum. The half of the house has been subject to considerable structural changes since the 1920s, which were largely retained when the museum was built. There are exhibits that provide information about the history of the settlement.

In contrast, the half of the house at Rathenaustraße 3 has been restored to its original condition from 1927; it represents an "accessible exhibit".

organization

The building belongs to the city of Stuttgart. The museum is operated by the Verein der Freunde der Weißenhofsiedlung e. V. , which receives an annual grant of 80,000 euros from the city.

history

Plans for a Weissenhof Museum have been in place since the estate was listed as a monument in 1958. In 2002 the city of Stuttgart bought the building for the museum from the federal government , which was extensively restored in the following period. The cost of restoring the semi-detached house was 1.2 million euros and was borne by the Wüstenrot Foundation . The city of Stuttgart spent the same amount on the purchase of the property and on the museum furnishings.

After three years of construction, the museum opened on October 25, 2006.

Successful candidacy as a World Heritage Site - included in the list since 2016

Museum on the right, Haus Citrohan on the left

In February 2007, Germany left the two of Le Corbusier-designed building, next to the present museum also located next door house Citrohan, as a unified proposal to the tentative list of UNESCO Enter. Such a procedure is a prerequisite for applying for recognition as a World Heritage Site at a later date . This happened in January 2008: under the leadership of France and with the participation of the Fondation Le Corbusier , the houses from Stuttgart and initially 22 objects and object groups by Le Corbusier from six other countries under the title "The urbanistic and architectural work of Le Corbusier" ( French Œuvre urbaine et architecturale de Le Corbusier ) nominated for inclusion as a World Heritage Site. Despite having been revised and reduced to 19 objects in the meantime, this candidacy did not find a majority of the World Heritage Committee at its annual meeting in June 2011.

In July 2016, 17 buildings by Le Corbusier were added to the Unesco World Heritage List. This now includes the two houses in the Weißenhofsiedlung.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'œuvre architecturale et urbaine de Le Corbusier - deux maisons du Weissenhof-Siedlung à Stuttgart . Entry in the tentative list of UNESCO on their website (French); Retrieved April 14, 2014
  2. ↑ UNESCO dossier Le Corbusier signed in Paris . Press release from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, January 30, 2008; Retrieved April 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Joseph Hanimann: All or not at all . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 29, 2011; Retrieved April 7, 2014
  4. ↑ Le Corbusier's semi-detached house in the Weißenhofsiedlung is part of the world heritage on swp.de.
  5. ↑ Le Corbusier houses in Stuttgart are world cultural heritage on sueddeutsche.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '59 "  N , 9 ° 10' 39"  E