Zeppelin House

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The Zeppelin House (2012)

The Zeppelinhaus in Leipzig is an office and commercial building at Nikolaistraße 27/29. It is a listed building .

history

Previous buildings before demolition (1910)

In 1908 the Leipzig tobacco merchant Felix Reimann bought the property at Nikolaistraße 29 and in 1910 combined it with the neighboring property No. 27. No. 29 was an old brewery property . The city council bought it in 1654 and brewed a simple beer called Breuhahn here until 1821 . The house therefore had the name of the council Breuhahn-Brauhaus .

Reimann had the building torn down and a commercial building built in 1911/12 according to plans by Leipzig architect Gustav Pflaume . The name refers to Ferdinand von Zeppelin , the founder of airship travel , which enjoyed a particular boom in those years. The 1914 address book lists 19 tobacco products for the building.

The building was damaged in World War II . After 1990 it was completely renovated.

architecture

The Zeppelin House is a four-wing, closed construction with extensions of 27 meters along the street and over 45 meters in depth. The four parts of the building enclose a glass-covered courtyard of around 10 × 16 meters. The building is five stories high.

  • Details on the Zeppelin House

  • Zeppelin medallion

  • Art Nouveau lanterns

  • Lattice door

  • Passage to the yard

The street front is clad with dark natural stone in the arched shop area on the ground floor, the other floors are limestone . The facade is divided into seven parts with three window axes each by eight pillars attached to the wall . From the first to the third floor, the windows are polygonal with a wave-shaped roof termination. On the first and second floors they alternate in bay-like semicircles and show animal heads under the cornice.

In the bay window sections, the gabled roof contributes to the strong cornice four gable with open top and about four towing dormers .

The central entrance with a passage to the courtyard is closed by an iron decorative grille with imitation brass. Two putti hold the house's nameplate above it . A portrait medallion of Count Zeppelin, which was created by the Leipzig sculptor Hans Zeissig (1863–1944), is mounted one floor higher.

literature

  • Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 481 .

Web links

Commons : Zeppelinhaus  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of cultural monuments in the center of Leipzig , ID number 09298373
  2. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 51
  3. ↑ Leipzig Address Book 1914. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29.2 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 40.4"  E