Association of health insurance companies Sachsen-Anhalt (1927)

The city's most progressive apartment house from the 1920s

Description

The tension created by the architecture of the house is made up of three cubic forms with two different facade designs. The staircase in the middle with living rooms stands out as a clinker facade. The vertically arranged stairway windows reinforce the effect of the height. The two lateral blocks of flats are painted white. The left block has a recessed top floor creating a terrace. The meadow on the right site in front of the building is nowadays used as a parking space.

An appeiling detail are the glass bricks used for the entrance and the stairway.

It is mentioned, that the architect Martin Knauthe was inspired by many ideas of Walter Gropius.

History

According to the sources, the house was built in 1927/28. It was formerly used as an office building for the health insurance companies and as a residential building. Nowadays it is used just as an apartment house.

Sources

• www.moderne-halle.de Clara-Zetkin-Straße 15
• Allerheiligen, Wendland: Mehr als das Bauhaus: Modernes Bauen in Sachsen-Anhalt 1915-1935 / More than the Bauhaus: Modernist architecture in Saxony-Anhalt 1915-1935., 2019