Apartment block Elisabeth-Schumacher-Straße 42-52 (1931)

This entire block bears characteristic features of modernism in architecture, such as the the makeup of the verandas facing the street and the stairwell windows, protruding from the structure as resalites at the back of the house. The flagpole´, a beloved element in the architecture of those years, on the northwest corner is preserved. In the middle of the block was created a passage, that leads from the street to the back of the block and its entrances. 2 plaques have been placed here, one comemorizing the architekt Rothmann and the other one comemorizing the company Gemeinnützige Mieterbaugesellschaft m.b.H. Leipzig. The corners of this passage are glass elements with interior illumination. As it is often the case in Leipzig, the aesthetics of the building was severely affected by replacing the original windows by contemporary windows with plastic frames.

In the literature, this building is assigned to the architect O. M. Rothmann, but on a plaque in the building's passage we found the name W. Rothmann as the architect of this block. This riddle has yet to be solved. The block with 6 entrances and 71 apartments was built from May 1931 to January 1932. A new residential area with several thousand apartments was planned for the districts of Sellerhausen and Paunsdorf, of which only this block and the block in Elisabeth-Schumacher-Str. 28-40 were realized. In a way, the housing estate Paunsdorf of the 1980's can be seen as the realization of these plans.