Klingerhaus

The owner of this residential and commercial building was the merchant and soap maker Heinrich Louis Klinger (1816-1896), who commissioned the Leipzig architect Rossbach for its planning and realisation. The four-storey corner building, with business and living spaces, was built between 1888 and 1889 and is almost unchanged in the outer until today.

Both  façades  are  divided  into  three  zones:  the  basement  and  first  floor,  which  are  opened  through  large  windows  and  connected  by  pillars;  the  third  and  fourth  floors,  framed  by  window  jambs;  and  the  large  reddish  terracotta  crow-stepped  gable.  The  decoration  of  the  building  is  partially  inspired  by  the  Italian  Renaissance,  with  suggestions  from  the  Lombard  architectural  tradition,  due  that  the  architect  and  Klinger  wanted  to  achieve  a  special  emphasis  on  the  building  for  urban  planning  reasons:  the  Klingerhaus  was  then  in  close  proximity  to  very  dominant  architectures  as  the  department  store  Pollich  (demolished  in  1937)  and  the  building  of  Deutsche  Bank. 

Architect: Arwed Rossbach

Project date: 1888 - 1889

ACCESSIBILITY

Private property.