#School #Kassel #1927
Freiherr-vom-Stein Straße 11
34119
Kassel,
Germany
Public transport: Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe (train station) / Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
Today's use: School
Description
As with other public buildings, Tessenow loved creating courtyards. Similar to the Saxon State School in Dresden, the school's core is used for all classrooms. Tessenow adds in Kassel the auditorium in the southwest and in the southeast the school's gym. This significantly extends the south side of the school. The caretaker's apartment is the smallest building on the north-east corner of the main school building.
With the Dresden-Hellerau Festival House Tessenow created already in 1911 a public building without ornaments and a tough architecture. In Germany he is considered a well-known representative of the style of Reformarchitektur. This trend wanted to break with historicism and Art Nouveau and pursued a purist architectural conception in the 1910s.
Description
As with other public buildings, Tessenow loved creating courtyards. Similar to the Saxon State School in Dresden, the school's core is used for all classrooms. Tessenow adds in Kassel the auditorium in the southwest and in the southeast the school's gym. This significantly extends the south side of the school. The caretaker's apartment is the smallest building on the north-east corner of the main school building.
With the Dresden-Hellerau Festival House Tessenow created already in 1911 a public building without ornaments and a tough architecture. In Germany he is considered a well-known representative of the style of Reformarchitektur. This trend wanted to break with historicism and Art Nouveau and pursued a purist architectural conception in the 1910s.
History
The municipality of Kassel started a competition to built two schools in the west and east of the park Goetheanlage. At the end, just the school in the west was finished in 1930. The architect Heinrich Tessenow was a well known at this time. This girl's school was named Malwida von Meysenbug until 1940. Malwida von Meysenbug, born in Kassel in 1816 was a fighter for women's rights and a close friend of Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. But the Nazis did not want to promote her life and renamed the school into Heinrich-Schütz-Schule, a baroque composer.
Due to the school's musical profil the name was kept until today.
History
The municipality of Kassel started a competition to built two schools in the west and east of the park Goetheanlage. At the end, just the school in the west was finished in 1930. The architect Heinrich Tessenow was a well known at this time. This girl's school was named Malwida von Meysenbug until 1940. Malwida von Meysenbug, born in Kassel in 1816 was a fighter for women's rights and a close friend of Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. But the Nazis did not want to promote her life and renamed the school into Heinrich-Schütz-Schule, a baroque composer.
Due to the school's musical profil the name was kept until today.
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