Sparkasse Bad Schmiedeberg (1929)

Within the small spa town with its magnificent villas and historic houses, this building on one of the main streets looks like really different with its smooth facades and rough building divisions. The rather massive and austere north-west facade is accentuated by the tower-like central section made of clinker bricks. The main entrance is in this area as well as the clock, which has an ornamental function. The left section of the main facade is set back a little bit, softening the austerity. For the counter room on the ground floor, a continuous band of windows was created on the south-west side to provide good lighting for the interior. 

We only know that the building was constructed between 1929 and 1930. Since it still belongs to the Sparkasse today, it seems to have been continuously used by this bank.

In Itzehoe, Germany, he designed with Willy Harder another bank of the Sparkasse group.

• 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