Central Exhibition Palace
The Central Trade Fair Palace (also Central Fair Palace ) is a commercial building in Leipzig . The former trade fair building forms the corner of Grimmaische Strasse and Neumarkt. Its facade is a listed building .
history
The Central Exhibition Palace was built between 1912 and 1914 and opened for the spring exhibition in 1914. The builder and architect at the same time was Emil Franz Hänsel (1870–1943), who already held these functions when Specks Hof was built. The opulent architectural jewelry on the Central Exhibition Palace comes from the workshop of the Leipzig sculptor Bruno Wollstädter (1878–1940). In 1926, Hänsel acquired the Monopol exhibition center on the property next but one in Grimmaische Strasse and connected it to the central exhibition center , leaving out the intermediate property at the rear.
During the Second World War , the Central Exhibition Palace burned down completely in the air raid on December 4, 1943 , but it was able to reopen as a exhibition center in 1946/47. Office supplies, packaging material, paper and print products were offered on 4700 m² of exhibition space.
During a complex renovation of the roof and facade in 1961/1962, the condition of 1914 was almost restored. From 1968 to the beginning of the 1990s, the Neumarkt building housed the Café Corso and, with the entrance on the corner, a shop of the publishing house for women . In 1981 the Central Exhibition Palace and the former Monopol exhibition center were connected on the street side by a new building.
From 1991, the Central Exhibition Center was part of the property in Leipzig owned by the building contractor Jürgen Schneider . After its bankruptcy, DePfa Deutsche Bau- und Boden Bank AG bought it . After purchasing the neighboring properties, the buildings were completely gutted and rebuilt from 1996 to 1998, with the exception of the listed façades. The street-side gaps between the historical facades were closed with modern glass facades. The complex now ranges from Grimmaische Straße 6 to Neumarkt 10. In Grimmaische Straße 6 is since 1999, the Forum of Contemporary History with Wolfgang Matt Heuer plastic Jahrhundertschritt front of the entrance and in the number 8 since the same year, a sports shop of the trading company Sportscheck , with 3000 m² the largest in the new federal states and a 13 meter high indoor climbing wall .
architecture
The entire complex of the Central Exhibition Palace is a five-storey three-wing complex with a round atrium about 14 meters in diameter.
The historic Hanselsche building is a reinforced concrete structure with a horizontally emphasized facade made of Würzburg shell limestone . 15 window axes point to Neumarkt, 8 to Grimmaische Strasse, the right 6 protruding slightly and above it form a balcony.
There is plenty of figurative and ornamental jewelry on the first floor. The three-story volute gable , which is reminiscent of the Leipzig Renaissance building tradition, has a lion, the city's heraldic animal, on which a putto rides on its round end .
literature
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 89/90 .
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 658 .
- Wolfgang Hocquél: The architecture of the Leipziger Messe. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-345-00575-1 , pp. 113-115
Web links
- The Grimmaische Strasse. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
- Central Exhibition Palace Leipzig. In: architektur-blicklicht.de. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig , ID number 09298277
- ↑ architektur-blicklicht.de. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '22.8 " N , 12 ° 22' 34.7" O .