Wislicenus block

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The Wislicenusblock is a building ensemble in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

history

The Wislicenusblock was named after the German chemist Johannes Wislicenus and was planned and built as a residential area for workers in the construction department of BASF from 1918. The completion was in 1920.

description

The war memorial of the weeping woman with child in the courtyard of the Wislicenus block

There are nine three-storey building blocks around three courtyards, each of which is equipped with representative mansard hipped roof buildings ( neo-baroque ). Several gate drives are arranged around the inner courtyards. The Wislicenusblock is located at Anilinstraße 40-46, on the street side with the even house numbers.

The listed ensemble was far ahead of its time at the time of its construction, as there were separate toilets and baths in each residential unit, which was unusual for workers' apartments at the beginning of the 20th century and represented a high standard of living.

The entrances to the residential buildings cannot be reached from the surrounding streets, rather only through the inner courtyards, of which the middle one is dominated by a representative war memorial. It is a crying woman with a child who stands on a square pedestal and is intended to commemorate the employees of the BASF plant who died in the First World War . The approximately six meter high monument was erected in 1923 by the sculptor Hermann Hahn from Munich and bears the inscription on the base:

"TO THE MEMORY OF OUR WORKERS FALLEN IN THE WORLD WAR"

On the back of the base you can see the now heavily weathered writing:

"BADISCHE ANILINE- & SODA-FABRIK MCMXXIII"

After extensive renovation in the 1970s, the residential complex was sold by BASF to a private operating company in the 2000s, which continues to operate under the name Neue Hofgärten .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 3 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
  2. ↑ Barara Ritter: Wislicenusblock (workers' housing complex of BASF) - "New Court Gardens" in Ludwigshafen. Rhein-Neckar-Industriekultur e. V., accessed on April 21, 2018 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ MCMXXIII is Roman numerals and means: 1923.

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  E