Zeppelinstrasse 41 (Munich)
The house at Zeppelinstraße 41 is a listed residential building in the Au district of Munich . The house is located in the immediate vicinity of the right bank of the Isar on a square-like extension of Zeppelinstraße at the junction with Eduard-Schmid-Straße. It is diagonally opposite the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium . The German Museum is in the immediate vicinity .
history
The house was built in 1851 by the "bourgeois master upholsterer" Karl Falk. The building permit had been granted for the new construction of a “living and wash house”, originally in Untere Isargasse 45. The plans came from the master mason Johann Babenstuber and the master carpenter Peter Erlacher. The plastered brick building typical of Munich initially comprised a ground floor and two floors with four window axes. In 1874 it was extended to the south by three window axes. Only the front part of the house has a cellar. The three residential floors have identical floor plans. At that time there was an apartment on each floor, each with three rooms, a kitchen, toilet and storage room.
Karl Valentin's birthplace
On June 4, 1882, the cabaret artist and film pioneer Karl Valentin , whose real name was Valentin Ludwig Fey, was born in the house . A plaque on the street side of the house reminds of this. The following year, 1883, Karl Valentin's father Johann Valentin Fey bought the property from Karl Falk for 50,000 marks.
Wagon and body shop
In 1898 Ludwig Weinberger senior founded a wagon workshop in the nearby Brunnthaler Straße and initially dealt with the manufacture of horse-drawn vehicles. In 1904 a new era began in the property at Zeppelinstrasse 41: Ludwig Weinberger moved in with his wagon shop in the rear part, in which he began to equip the then emerging motor vehicles with bodies in the same year. On October 7, 1906, Karl Valentin's parents sold the Fey property for 74,018 marks to the freight forwarder Adolf Weiß and his wife Maria.
The official address of the property was originally Untere Isargasse 45, later Entenbachstrasse 63. In 1906, part of Entenbachstrasse was renamed Zeppelinstrasse. Since 1910 the address has been Zeppelinstraße 41.
In 1910 Ludwig Weinberger sen. the property at Zeppelinstrasse 41 and had the rear building of the former forwarding company Falk & Fey demolished. The new workshops for the body shop were built there. In 1914 Weinberger set up an exhibition room for the vehicles he had equipped in the front building. Around the same time he had a balcony attached to Johann Valentin Fey's former apartment.
Bugatti bodies
After the workshops were built and the rear part of the property was partially roofed, the Weinberger company switched to the design and construction of car bodies. In 1932, Weinberger received the order to manufacture the body for the first Bugatti Type 41, also known as the Bugatti Royale . The Bugatti automobile factory based in Molsheim , Alsace , supplied the "rolling chassis", i. H. the chassis with engine and grille. At that time, body builders such as Ludwig Weinberger were responsible for designing the body in the luxury car segment. However, the car manufacturer Ettore Bugatti secured his influence on the design of the vehicles of the Royale type by reserving the choice of the body builder.
In 1931 Ludwig Weinberger junior, who had previously completed his studies at the technical center in Köthen , joined his father's bodywork company in the Munich district of Au. Almost at the same time he took over a BMW agency and provided the BMW chassis with the bodywork in his workshop.
End of the body shop
Ludwig Weinberger gave up his workshop in the Munich Au in 1953 and retired into private life. By then he had bodyworked a total of ten Bugattis. In 1954, a memorial plaque was attached to the Munich original at the Karl Valentin birthplace and unveiled by Valentin's long-time partner Liesl Karlstadt . The table was donated by the “ Friends of the National Theater ” under the auspices of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The occasion was the 100-year incorporation of the Au, Haidhausen and Giesings into Munich.
On April 18, 1984, the new owners of the "Karl Valentin birthplace", Bernhard Sprenger and Evelyn Hofer, applied to be allowed to demolish the house and replace it with a new building.
City of Munich buys the Valentinhaus
On October 1, 1987, the state capital of Munich bought the house for 1.6 million DM and immediately placed it under monument protection. Because the renovation of the “Karl Valentin birthplace” at Zeppelinstrasse 41 in the city was too expensive, the responsible cultural committee decided to sell the property. However, no buyer was found. Five years later, the Munich City Planning Councilor Christiane Thalgott tried to get the neglected property at Zeppelinstraße 41, which had been vacant for five years Karl Valentin birth house would cost 6 million DM. On August 13, 1993, the home nurse asked for the Karl Valentin birthplace to be retained.
Sold for DM 888,888.88
The well-known Munich fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer announced his interest in buying and received a draft contract from the city on September 7, 1994 for the purchase of the Karl Valentin birthplace. After Moshammer no longer showed any interest in buying the house, the city of Munich sold the property to the building contractor Klaus Schmidt on September 18, 1996 for the valentine sum of DM 888,888.88.
Town houses instead of Bugatti workshops
The Valentinhaus was completely renovated. In the rear of the property, five townhouses were built in row houses. The Munich architect Gert Bayer, who is experienced in dealing with listed buildings, oversaw the renovation and expansion of the Valentinhaus. The plans for the townhouses also come from him. For the structure and the facade design of the townhouses, Bayer used metal elements that were typical of the former car body shop. As a defining element, he placed a continuous gallery in front of the two townhouses that caught the eye from the street. In 1999, the renovation of the Valentinhaus in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments was honored with the facade prize of the city of Munich. For the townhouses completed in 1999, the Munich city council decided to give the architect Gert Bayer a “Honorable Mention” for the “exemplary building measure” in the context of the “Monument Protection and New Building” competition. The largest of the Valentin townhouses and three of the five apartments in the Karl Valentin birthplace were acquired by Hanne Hiob , daughter of Bertolt Brecht, who was friends with Karl Valentin . Five of Weinberger's Bugatti models are immortalized on ceramic panels and mark the five townhouses that were built in the back of the property at Zeppelinstrasse 41 in place of the workshops. Some of the old equipment from the body shop have been preserved and are located as museum pieces in the courtyard behind the Valentinhaus.
Green courtyard
The horticultural design of the inner courtyard is characterized by numerous woods, climbing plants and a water pond, from which a spring stone feeds a small stream in front of the Valentinhaus. The idea with the water elements reminiscent of the near Isar goes back to the garden architect Jochen Schneider, who planned the inner courtyard in 1998 and renovated it in 2017 according to his original plans. The balconies at the Valentinhaus and the terraces on the second floor of the townhouses are intensely greened and, together with the varied garden design of the inner courtyard, shape the overall impression of the entire residential complex, which is influenced by the nearby Isar ambience.
Association of Friends of the Au suburb
Today the former car showroom on the ground floor of the main building is used by the “Association of Friends of the Au suburb”. The association collects and archives u. a. everything that has to do with the history of the Munich district of Au, with Karl Valentin and with the property at Zeppelinstraße 41.
literature
- Rudolf Reiser: Old Houses - Big Names: Munich . 2nd completely revised edition. Stiebner, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8307-1049-3 , Karl Valentin's birthplace in the Au, p. 246 ff . ( Digitized version [accessed February 8, 2014]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Architectural monuments in Munich
- ↑ a b Munich time leaps
- ↑ Simone Hirmer and Marcel Schellong (eds.): Read Munich: Observations of a narrated city . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3789-4 , p. 78 ( digitized version [accessed February 8, 2014]).
- ↑ Munich time leaps
- ^ Cultural use for the Valentinhaus , Süddeutsche Zeitung / Münchner Stadtanzeiger August 30, 1985
- ↑ Chic ambience in ZEIT
- ^ The house where Karl Valentin was born in TZ. March 22, 2017, Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Memorial plaque - Valentinhaus. City portal Munich, accessed on April 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Munich time leaps
- ↑ Competition "Monument Protection and New Building". RIS Munich, accessed April 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Brecht daughter moves into Valentin house , Süddeutsche Zeitung on 24 April 1998
- ^ Homepage of the friends of the suburb of Au
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '40 " N , 11 ° 35' 0.9" E