Westwerk Leipzig

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View of the westwork from the millennium field (2008)
View of the Schumann & Co. site (1903)
Pressure fittings for the Suez Canal, Schumann & Koeppe (1890)
Newspaper advertisement for Schumann & Co. (1905)

The Westwerk Leipzig is an art quarter and off- space in Karl-Heine-Straße 85–93 in Leipzig - Plagwitz .

Foundation and name

The Westwerk Leipzig was founded in April 2007 as an art quarter on the 16,000 m² site of the former VEB industrial valve factory by the Leipzig designer and businessman Falk Röhner and renamed "Westwerk". The name Westwerk refers to the westward-facing portal of the large machine hall in the New Building style as the “ cathedral of industry ” and the location of the plant in the west of Leipzig . The area has been managed and further developed since 2007 under lease by the Leipzig art association ars * avanti with Westwerk Logistics GmbH and since autumn 2009 by Westwerk GmbH with managing director, lawyer Peter Sterzing. The owner and owner is the industrial engineer and construction mediator Christian Voigt, who lives in Starnberg and comes from Leipzig.

history

The Plagwitz district, developed by Carl Erdmann Heine in the mid-19th century, and its Karl-Heine Canal (drainage and shipping) enabled Kaspar Dambacher to set up a foundry between Weißenfelser Straße (formerly Bahnhofsstraße) and Karl-Heine-Straße (formerly Albertstraße) in 1874 . It is the oldest foundry in Leipzig, still preserved in its outer walls.

As early as 1882, the Schumacher & Koppe company took over this property as a brass foundry. Max Klinger worked artistically in a machine shed until his studio house was completed at the end of the 19th century.

With the addition of the neighboring property of the horse and later tram depot, which was also initiated by Karl Heine, and further outdoor areas, this company developed into an internationally recognized industrial valve factory by 1945, which experienced a boom as an armaments supplier with the manufacture of submarine fittings and ammunition in the two world wars.

This company, which was also economically important for the Soviet Union , was continued as SAG “Podjomnik” with over 600 employees after the victory of the Soviet Union over German fascism in 1946 and was taken over in 1950 by SAG “Transmasch”. Production requirements to fulfill the export and reparations program were decisive for extensive new construction and renovation measures. In 1952/53, the production hall designed by the architects Otto Hellriegel and Johannes Koppe and the administration building on Karl-Heine-Strasse, which were already planned in the 1930s, was built within just 8 months . At that time, the product range ranged from blast furnace and high-pressure fittings to pest control devices, rolling mill equipment, shaft mills, distillation plants and veneer presses.

In 1953 the company became public property under the name VEB "Industriearmaturen und Apparatebau Leipzig" (IAL). In the course of the formation of the combine, the company was connected to the "Magdeburger Armaturenwerke Karl Marx" (MAW) combine. The production range now included valves for the chemical industry, power plants, oil pipelines, for raw material extraction and for residential construction, as well as for the nuclear industry. Forced privatization by the Treuhand in 1990 , the company was privately run until its insolvency in 1996 by Eberhardt Voigt, the father of the current owner, who received the area with workshops as a result of an exchange of land in the course of the return transfer of industrial facilities that had been expropriated in the GDR . In the following 10 years, partial areas were used by the SAXWELD welding training center under SFI Klaus-Dieter Herte. In 2007, on the initiative of Falk Röhner, the restructuring began as an art quarter and offspace (conversion of heavy industry). In the period that followed, numerous visual artists, craftsmen, musicians, project makers, small businesses and restaurants quickly settled on the Karl-Heine Canal, helping to make the west of Leipzig known internationally as a creative quarter (with Leipzig cotton mill and wallpaper factory ). Numerous art exhibitions have taken place in the Westwerk since 2007, such as the work shows curated by the Leipzig art historian Barbara Röhner and the Leipzig annual exhibition from 2012 to 2016 .

Development from 2017

Graffito "Hands off the Westwerk", BIC, Ostwand, Leipzig, March 2017

In January 2017, the media reported that the owner is actively pursuing the further commercialization of the art quarter. Among other things, a supermarket is to be built in the Great Hall and a parking garage on the site of the former carriage hall of the Leipzig horse-drawn bus line. Affected artists and activists have announced resistance and made the discourse public. On February 12, 2017, about 1000 people demonstrated on the initiative of the protest platform "Westwerk rescue" for the cultural preservation of the Westwerk. In August 2017 the hackerspace "sublab" had to leave the Westwerk because the rent was no longer affordable. On April 10, 2019, a branch of Konsum opened in the Great Hall of the Westwerk . The following night, 52 windows were broken.

Art exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007 24-hour exhibition "ART IS NOT FUN"
  • 2008 "ARTE A FULL" (Rodrigo Zori Comba)
  • 2010 "Westwerk - Artists exhibit" (curator Barbara Röhner)
  • 2012 19th annual Leipzig exhibition "Unterwegs"
  • 2013 20th annual Leipzig exhibition "monumental"
  • 2014 21st annual Leipzig exhibition "ZUCHT @ ORDNUNG"
  • 2015 22nd annual Leipzig exhibition "proM"
  • 2015 dis-APPEARANCE [* 3] in the West Pole
  • 2016 23rd annual Leipzig exhibition "always & forever" (curators Sebastian Gögel and Thomas Moecker)

Artist (selection)

  • Aki Benemann
  • Franziska Möbius
  • Sophie von Stillfried
  • Daniel Windisch
  • Neven Allanic
  • Wendelin Lippold
  • NK Doege
  • Nans Quétel
  • Daniel Krötel
  • Peter's friend
  • de rien
  • KaySchwarz157

Actors (selection)

  • Saxweld - DVS welding technology course center
  • Boxing club Olympia / Kai-Uwe Schulz
  • Restaurant Kaiserbad
  • Rosentreter fashion studio Sandra Jahn
  • Grapevine
  • Ashtanga Yoga Leipzig

literature

  • Maximilian Popp: capital of dreamers. In: Der Spiegel. No. 43, October 23, 2012, pp. 42-43.
  • Jürgen B. Wolff: Old works - new workers. The Leipzig creative projects “Tapetenwerk” and “Westwerk”. In: Leipziger Blätter. Issue 54 , Leipzig 2009, p. 53.
  • Walter Lange (ed.): The millennial Leipzig. The city in the middle. "Rege" Deutscher Jubiläums-Verlag, Leipzig 1928/29, DNB 361151829 .
  • Ursula Herrmann, Hannes Bachmann: Plagwitz - From the history of the suburb and its industry. Leipzig 1986, DNB 870190229 .
  • Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (Ed.): The history of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe and their predecessors. Leipzig 1996, DNB 948007052 .
  • Bärbel Kolaczek: Leipzig, between Karl-Heine- and Weißenfelser Straße. Conservation analysis and reuse of a former depot and production facility for cultural purposes. Thesis. Faculty of Architecture, Bauhaus University Weimar, 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dörthe Stanke: Plagwitz pioneering spirit . Ed .: LIZ Leipziger Internet Zeitung. Leipzig July 22, 2007.
  2. ↑ Jürgen B. Wolff: Old Works - New Workers · The Leipzig creative projects "Tapetenwerk" and "Westwerk" . In: Kulturstiftung Leipzig (ed.): Leipziger Blätter . No. 54 . Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2009.
  3. ↑ ars avanti - e. V. - Leipzig. In: www.arsavanti.de. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Westwerk Leipzig imprint. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ Peter Sterzing: Westwerk Leipzig: Past - Present - Future History and a new beginning. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Frank Basten, archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipziger-westen.de
  6. ↑ D&R MAGAZINE - March 2016. (PDF) Donner & Reuschel Privatbank AG, accessed on April 3, 2016 .
  7. ^ Commercial register Munich-Leipziger Apparatebau Eberhard Voigt GmbH. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.handelsregister-anendung.com
  8. ↑ Leipziger Internet Zeitung: Plagwitz is changing: The Westwerk in the Metamorphosis - L-IZ.de. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ LVZ-Online: Reaction to the “Westwerk rescue” initiative - Administrator of the Leipzig Westwerk: Will not destroy the character - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  10. ↑ : appeal. Retrieved January 24, 2017 (American English).
  11. ↑ Trouble in West's work - happy happy - we like electronic music from Leipzig. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  12. ↑ LVZ-Online: Fear of changes in Leipzig-West - Westwerk administrator: Sublab termination was not kicked out - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Leipzig: Take cover! The battle for the westwork. (No longer available online.) Indymedia.org, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / linksunten.indymedia.org  
  14. ↑ https://westenwehrtsich.noblogs.org/. Retrieved February 16, 2017 (American English).
  15. ↑ Save the westwork - preserve free spaces - also beyond . In: Juliane Nagel . February 12, 2017 ( jule-nagel.de [accessed February 16, 2017]).
  16. ↑ LVZ-Online: “Westwerk rescue” - Almost a thousand people demonstrate for the preservation of free spaces in Leipzig - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ sublab - A hackerspace in Leipzig . In: archive.is . February 18, 2018 ( archive.today [accessed February 18, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Attack on new consumption - 52 panes in the westwork destroyed. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
  19. ↑ (Le) Consumer opening: stones, bitumen and butyric acid - de.indymedia.org. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
  20. ^ Thilo Egenberger: 24-hour exhibition Art is not fun. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Rodrigo Zori Comba, Wiebke Scheffler: ARTE A FULL II “art for good”. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.serhumanos.org
  22. ↑ Barbara Röhner: WESTWERKER and guests exhibit. ARS AVANTI eV, accessed on June 3, 2016 .
  23. ^ A b c d e Rainer Schade: Leipzig annual exhibition. Leipzig annual exhibition e. V., accessed on June 3, 2016 .
  24. ↑ dis-APPEARANCE (* 3) in the West Pole from 17.09. - 04.10.2015. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Aki R. Benemann: Aki R. Benemann. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  26. ^ Franziska Möbius: Franziska Möbius painting and art in public space. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Sophie von Stillfried: sophievonstillfried. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Wendelin Lioppold: Wendelin Lioppold. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  29. ^ Nina K. Doege: Nina K. Doege. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  30. ↑ Nans Quetel: Nans Quetel on LinkedIn. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 3, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.linkedin.com  
  31. ↑ leipzigerkulturgeschichten: leipzigerkulturgeschichten. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 3, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / leipzigerkulturgeschichten.wordpress.com  
  32. ↑ Bettina Wedel: KaySchwarz157. Retrieved September 12, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 50 ″  E