Wera house

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Wera House, 2016.

The Wera-Haus is a building in the Berg district of Stuttgart . The house was donated by Duchess Wera von Württemberg and built in 1904 by the Hausser brothers in Art Nouveau style. It housed a toddler school, an inn and a journeyman's home. A physiotherapy school has been housed in the building since 1977.

In addition to the Wera House, two other institutions donated by Duchess Wera bear her name: the Weraheim and the Werapflege.

description

The Wera house is located in Stuttgart-Berg at Nißlestrasse 22 at the foot of the Berger Church , which rises in the south of the house on a mountain spur above the Neckar valley. The 3-story, 6-axis building is 18 meters wide and 14 meters deep. The red brick facade of the two lower floors and the white plaster facade of the upper floor, decorated with brick ornaments, rises above a low stone plinth. The building is divided into three parts. The two-axis central building ends at the front with a diaphragm with a tail gable and stepped gable , and at the rear with a porch ( risalit ), which also ends with a diaphragm. The symmetrical, two-axis side wings end with protruding eaves under a double hipped roof ( mansard roof ).

history

On the initiative of Rector Kern, main teacher at the upper grammar school, the Werahaus Association was founded in 1903 to plan and build the Wera House. Duchess Wera von Württemberg, the adopted daughter of King Karl and Queen Olga , who was excellently involved in social welfare, took over the patronage and financing of the house, which was inaugurated on March 27, 1904. A toddler school with accommodation for the supervisors and an inn with an inexpensive lunch menu (Volkskaffeehaus) were set up in the house. In addition, it offered rooms for apprentices and workers, who could live here cheaply and found connection to the local YMCA , which Duchess Wera also sponsored.

In 1977 the first physiotherapy school in Stuttgart moved into the house. Since 1993 the school has been called “Dr. Peter Simon School "after its founder, the orthopedic specialist Dr. med. Peter Simon. Today it is run as a technical school for physiotherapy under the umbrella of the SRH technical schools .

Air raid tunnels

Mühlkanal air raid shelter.

Not far to the left of the Wera house is the entrance to an air raid shelter . A small sign at the entrance shows it as "Mühlkanal BW25 tunnel" (BW = building), a tunnel near the former Mühlkanal. The north-south branch of the tunnel built in 1942 led under the Berger Church and was therefore particularly protected, as churches were not bombed directly during World War II. The east-west branch led to the former state women's clinic and state midwifery school at Oberen Straße 2.

Weraheim

The Weraheim, built in 1954 at Oberer Hoppenlauweg 2-4, also goes back to Duchess Wera ( location ). The sensational child murder of a desperate single mother prompted her to set up the foundation “Refuge in Württemberg” with a capital of 166,000 marks in 1908, “the most important work of love owed to Duchess Wera”. Originally built elsewhere, Weraheim still offers mothers and their children accommodation and care. In keeping with the original purpose of the foundation, the house also has a baby hatch .

Wera maintenance

House maintenance.

Werapflege is a Swiss-style building at Furtwänglerstraße 24 in Stuttgart-Botnang , which was donated by Duchess Wera in 1874 as the “Werapflege Toddler Institution” to look after neglected children of working women and built by the architect F. Wahl ( location ). With brief interruptions, the house fulfilled its purpose for almost 100 years and from 1974 housed the “workshop for sound and tones, concerts and courses” for 25 years. Since 2009 only artistic courses have been held in the house.

literature

  • Attila Galic; Jörg Kleinbeck: East ways. Rediscover Stuttgart-East. Path no. 6. Cultural monuments and architectural styles. On architectural tracks in the east of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 2009, pages 20-21, pdf .
  • Paul Sauer : When love is missing in my heart, I miss the whole world: Duchess Wera of Württemberg, Grand Duchess of Russia; 1854-1912. Stuttgart: Markstein, 2004. - Wera-Haus: Pages 147, 209, Weraheim: 149–153, Werapflege: 190–192.
  • State capital Stuttgart, Office for Urban Planning and Urban Renewal, Lower Monument Protection Authority (publisher): List of cultural monuments, immovable architectural and art monuments, status: April 25, 2008 - by districts , Stuttgart 2008, pdf .

Web links

Commons : Wera-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gebr. Hausser: Probably Friedrich Haußer , born in Stuttgart-Berg, together with a brother.
  2. ↑ #Sauer 2004 , page 147.
  3. ^ Website of the SRH Fachschulen Campus Stuttgart .
  4. ↑ club shelters Stuttgart, BW25 - Mühlkanal .
  5. ↑ #Sauer 2004 , pp. 149–153.
  6. ↑ website Weraheims .
  7. ^ Website of the city of Stuttgart, Werapflege .

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '49.4 "  N , 9 ° 12' 36.8"  E