#Administration building #Halle (Saale) #1922
Martin Knauthe, Alfred Gellhorn
Forsterstraße 29
06112
Halle (Saale),
Germany
Public transport: Am Steintor
Today's use: Offices
Description
Created as an office building, the house has an unusual shape, caused by the two shed roofs. The house on the street side has thereby three floors on the street side and on the courtyard side even four floors. On the contrary the wing in between designed for the stairway and is covered by a flat roof. Once the company name Sernau was mounted with metal letters on the flat roof as advertising. In a mixture of cubist and expressioniost forms, the windows are set far back in the house's facade.
The mullion on the front door was added during the 1991 reconstruction. The formerly probably yellow wooden window frames have been replaced by white plastic frames. Also the window type has changed. The first windows were horizontal pivot windows, no are used casement windows.
Description
Created as an office building, the house has an unusual shape, caused by the two shed roofs. The house on the street side has thereby three floors on the street side and on the courtyard side even four floors. On the contrary the wing in between designed for the stairway and is covered by a flat roof. Once the company name Sernau was mounted with metal letters on the flat roof as advertising. In a mixture of cubist and expressioniost forms, the windows are set far back in the house's facade.
The mullion on the front door was added during the 1991 reconstruction. The formerly probably yellow wooden window frames have been replaced by white plastic frames. Also the window type has changed. The first windows were horizontal pivot windows, no are used casement windows.
History
Architecture in the city of Halle (Saale) was occasionally progressive. This building from 1922 is one of the earliest buildings in Germany in the canon of modern architecture. Annette Bußmann shows in her dissertation Zu Adapation und Demontage von Architekturgeschichte im "Neuen Bauen" der Weimarer Republik (2003), that this house was mentioned in many architectural journals in the early 1920s as an example of valuable architecture. The architect Gellhorn also used this house to draw attention to himself.
The house is sometimes called Forsterhof.
History
Architecture in the city of Halle (Saale) was occasionally progressive. This building from 1922 is one of the earliest buildings in Germany in the canon of modern architecture. Annette Bußmann shows in her dissertation Zu Adapation und Demontage von Architekturgeschichte im "Neuen Bauen" der Weimarer Republik (2003), that this house was mentioned in many architectural journals in the early 1920s as an example of valuable architecture. The architect Gellhorn also used this house to draw attention to himself.
The house is sometimes called Forsterhof.
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