World Trade Palace

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The World Trade Palace (official name: Internationaler Zentral-Welt-Handels- und Welt-Messe-Palast ) was a design from 1921 for a monumental and multifunctional building in Leipzig . The planned building on the Schwanenteich site based on designs by Leipzig architects Oscar Schade and Hans Voigt would have had a floor area of ​​around 25,000 square meters and would have been 16 stories high.

planning

View from Augustusplatz, 1921

On March 5, 1921, the World Trade Palace was founded in Leipzig . AG with a share capital of 100,000 marks and, in addition, the World Trading Palace Company Ltd. in the United States . (Share capital: 100,000 US dollars ) with the aim of building a large exhibition palace on the approximately 32,500 square meter area of ​​the Schwanenteich to the northeast of Leipzig Central Station , in order to concentrate the Leipzig sample fair close to the city ​​center. A short time later, the project was tendered, and those responsible saw themselves as competition for the design of the Messeturm , a 30-story high-rise building that was to be built on Fleischerplatz . The basic designs for which, according to a foldable postcard, the Leipzig architects Oscar Schade and Hans Voigt were responsible, aroused great protests in Leipzig and were then abandoned, the then city planning officer was Carl James Bühring . The estimated construction costs with an estimated construction time of about two years were put at 1.5 billion marks.

Building details

Overall, the building was designed for approx. 225,000 square meters of floor space. For pure trade fair activities, the building should be designed for 20,000 exhibitors; outside the trade fair, space should be provided for 1,000 shops, 4,000 offices, 2,000 hotel rooms, various festival, theater, cinema and event locations. 500 parking spaces were planned for automobiles , and an underground railway with a connection to the main train station was planned.

literature

  • Invitation to the completion of an International Central World Trade and World Trade Fair Palace in Leipzig. [Price invitation]. Röder, Leipzig 1921 (Leipzig City History Museum, Sign .: IG 561/19)
  • The International Central World Trade and World Trade Fair Palace in Leipzig, a metropolis of the future. [Memorandum] . Hübel & Denck, Leipzig 1921 (Leipzig City History Museum, sign .: IG 561/36).
  • Peter Leonhardt: Modernism in Leipzig. Architecture and urban planning 1918 to 1933 . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-936508-29-1 , pp. 75-77.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The International Central World Trade and World Fair Palace 1921, p. 6.
  2. ↑ The International Central World Trade and World Fair Palace 1921, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Invitation to the completion of an International Central World Trade and World Trade Fair Palace in Leipzig 1921, p. 13.
  4. ↑ International Central World Trade and World Fair Palace at the main train station (Schwanenteich site) . [foldable postcard] . Leipzig 1921 (Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig, Sign .: IG 561/25).
  5. ↑ for example: From the swan pond . In: Leipziger Abendpost of April 8, 1921, p. 3; The ill-reputed swan pond . In: Leipziger Zeitung Handelsblatt for Saxony . Supplement of April 13, 1921, p. 5.
  6. ↑ The International Central World Trade and World Fair Palace 1921, p. 9.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.3 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 53.3"  E