Widenmayerstraße 1
The building at Widenmayerstraße 1 is a tenement building in Munich . It was built in the 1890s and is listed as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
location
The building is located at the beginning of Widenmayerstrasse in the Munich district of Lehel am Isarkai. It is part of the listed ensemble Widenmayerstraße . Together with the neighboring buildings No. 2 and No. 3 , which are also listed , it forms a single building block.
history
On the property north of Maximilianstrasse , built in the 1850s between Hofhammerschmiedbach and Isar, was the Klarermühle, also called Hofsägmühle, built around 1630. In the opinion of the court officials, it represented an aesthetic impairment of the newly built boulevard. The fortification of the banks of the Isar also made it difficult to deliver the timber supplied by the Isar rafting company to the sawmill. Nevertheless, Josef Klarer only had the mill torn down after long disputes and replaced by a manorial residential development in 1893/94.
The house at Widenmayerstraße 1 was built at the same time as two neighboring buildings that no longer exist on Maximilianstraße, where the new building for the Bavarian Insurance Chamber stands today. The architect August Brüchle designed the plans . The plans also included the neighboring house, Widenmayerstraße 2 , which, however, was not initially built. For the construction, the Hofhammerschmiedbach was vaulted and the inner Isarstraße on its east side was abandoned.
In the Second World War , the building itself was not hit by a bomb, but the facade was damaged by the air pressure from external bomb explosions. The eastern alignment of the newly built administration building of the Bavarian Insurance Chamber was set back by five meters, exposing a corresponding piece of the fire wall of the house at Widenmayerstraße 1. In 1976/77 this wall was designed based on the execution of the street facade.
description
The building is five storeys high and has a facade with five window axes on Widenmayerstraße. The lower floors are combined in pairs by means of horizontal cornices above the first and third floors. The ground floor and first floor are in rustic style.
The three central window axes form a central risalit , which is crowned by a triangular gable. In the central axis there is a gate with a round arch. On the second floor, a balcony with a stone balustrade extends across the three central window axes. On the second and third floors, the central axis is emphasized by a bay window .
On the pediment of the central projection is a copper plate driven female figure with helmet, shield and spear. Hygin Kiene created this figure in 1897 based on a model by the sculptor Anton Kaindl .
literature
- Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: State capital Munich - center (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 , p. 1210 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Widenmayerstraße 1 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 25.3 ″ E