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Excursions
to the Visit the
Sites of the
Bauhaus
Sites of
and
Modernism
the Bauhaus
A travel planner
and
Modernism!
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The UNESCO
World Heritage Sites and
the Sites of
Bauhaus Modernism
Hamburg
P. 31
Celle Bernau
P. 29 Potsdam Berlin P. 17
P. 17 P. 13
Caputh
P. 17 Luckenwalde
Alfeld Wittenberg
Goslar P. 17
P. 29 Dessau P. 10
P. 29
Quedlinburg P. 10
Essen P. 10
P. 27 Krefeld Leipzig
P. 27 Düsseldorf P. 19 Zwenkau
Löbau
P. 27 Dresden Weimar P. 19
Gera Dornburg P. 19
P. 19 P. 7
P. 7 P. 7
Künzell
P. 23
Frankfurt
P. 23
Kindenheim
P. 25 Ludwigshafen
P. 25 Völklingen
P. 25
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart P. 21
P. 21
Ulm
P. 21
Bauhaus institutions
that maintain collections
Modernist UNESCO
World Heritage Sites
Additional modernist sites
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100 years
of bauhaus
The Bauhaus: an idea that has really caught on. Not just
in Germany, but also worldwide. Functional design and modern
construction have shaped an era. The dream of a Gesamtkunst-
werk—a total work of art that synthesises fine and applied art,
architecture and design, dance and theatre—continues to this
day to provide impulses for our cultural creation and our living
environments.
The year 2019 marks the 100 th anniversary of the celebration, but the allure of an idea that transcends
founding of the Bauhaus. Established in Weimar both time and borders. The centenary year is being
in 1919, relocated to Dessau in 1925 and closed in marked by an extensive programme with a multitude
Berlin under pressure from the National Socialists in of exhibitions and events about architecture
1933, the Bauhaus existed for only 14 years. All the and design, art and cultural history, and education
same, the legendary Bauhaus—School of Design and research. Classical icons and controversial
has continued to have a lasting effect up until the sites, key buildings and ancillary settings, indivi-
present day. dual buildings and housing estates—the spec-
Under the motto “Rethinking the trum ranges from the authentic Bauhaus locations
World”, the centenary will be celebrated at more than and UNESCO World HeriDaye Sites to buildings
just its three historical sites in Berlin, Dessau and that exemplify early and post-war modernism.
Weimar. Modernism as a design approach has left its With this brochure, we invite you to discover
mark on many places in Germany, and to this day, and tour the sites of the Bauhaus and modernism
these traces continue to stimulate discussion about in Germany.
the designability of our living conditions. It is not the Welcome to the world of the Bauhaus—
Bauhaus as a historical institution at the centre of this on the trail of modernism! •
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Phases
of the Bauhaus 1925–1932
Bauhaus Dessau. 1932–1933
1900–1918 A new location, Bauhaus Berlin.
The roots a modern From political
of the Bauhaus. building—and repression
The emancipation a face of its own to inner emigration
of craftsmanship In Dessau, the Weimar “State Bauhaus” became the On 30 September 1932, the Bauhaus was dissolved
Bauhaus—School of Design. In the aspiring industrial following the NSDAP’s victory in Dessau’s municipal
The contribution of Henry van de Velde, who in 1902 founded the Kunstgewerbliches Seminar in Weimar (arts city of Dessau, the Bauhaus found the ideal environ- elections of 1931. Under the direction of Ludwig Mies
and crafts seminar) and was the director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of applied arts) from 1907 ment for designing models for industrial mass van der Rohe, the Bauhaus moved to Berlin-Steglitz.
to 1915, was significant to the early history of the Bauhaus. Here, before 1910, the transitional step from production. The new unity of art and technology— But on 11 April 1933, the building was searched and
craftsmanship techniques to industrial technology had already been taken. Under the leadership of Otto which is still the basis for the school’s international sealed by the police and the SA, and 32 students were
Bartning and with the involvement of Walter Gropius, Van de Velde’s successor, a work group of the ‘Arbeits- reputation—only achieved its full potential in Dessau, arrested. Due to the repressive political measures
rat für Kunst’ (Work Council for Art)—which had been established in 1918—discussed far-reaching reforms starting with the famous Bauhaus Building that of the National Socialists and the drastic cutbacks in
to the educational system and the art schools. Walter Gropius used the jointly developed concept paper as a opened in 1926, the stylistically influential use of funding, it was nearly impossible to carry out any of
basis for the founding of the Weimar State Bauhaus. The goal, which was to be achieved through a return to lower case lettering, and the founding of the Bauhaus the school’s work. So the teaching staff dissolved the
craftsmanship, was to develop a new formal vocabulary based on experimentation and craftsmanship that GmbH. With the Masters’ Houses that Gropius desig- Bauhaus on 20 July 1933. The brief and dramatic Berlin
would do justice to the industrial manufacturing process. This intention and its results exhibited a variety of ned, Dessau had the most prominent artists’ colony of phase led many Bauhauslers into “inner emigration” or
similarities and connections with reform movements like the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation), the day—known far beyond the borders of Germany. actual emigration. •
which was established in 1907. Exemplary for the reorientation of the schools of arts and crafts was the In 1928, Gropius handed over the director’s post to
English Arts and Crafts movement founded by the artist William Morris, which, starting in 1861, had revived Hannes Meyer, and in 1930 the position changed
old handicraft techniques and used them to produce high quality goods. • again, making Ludwig Mies van der Rohe the last
director of the Bauhaus. •
1919–1925 The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius On 1 April
Bauhaus Weimar. 1919, Walter Gropius created the Weimar State Bauhaus from the
merger of the former Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Bauhaus ideas
An assembly of (Grand Ducal Saxonian School of Arts) and the Großherzog-
lich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule (Grand Ducal Saxonian School after 1934.
high calibre of Arts and Crafts). The high calibre artists Gropius appointed as Bauhaus around the
artists, architects and masters at the Bauhaus in Weimar included Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel
Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily world—yesterday,
creative people Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Walter Gropius called for a new
beginning: Art should once again serve a social role, and there today, tomorrow
should no longer be a division between the crafts-based disciplines.
The Bauhaus relied on a pluralistic educational concept and the The Bauhaus ideas went well beyond the school’s existence—in particular through the work of
individual development of the students’ artistic talents. Everyone its teachers and students and through established and new networks both at home and abroad.
was to be allowed to study at the Bauhaus in Weimar, irrespective Many students and masters of the Bauhaus emigrated to the USA. In 1937 László Moholy-Nagy
of their educational background, gender or nationality. The ultimate founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe achieved
goal of the educational programme was a “synthesis of art”, as great prestige in the US as influential professors and architects. In Israel, Bauhaus architecture
Gropius called it, that would integrate all the Bauhaus workshops. fused with Mediterranean forms. For Japan and Mexico, a specific transfer of Bauhaus ideas is
Bit by bit, a pragmatic, functional approach prevailed at the proven, but it rarely had an impact on the design of architecture and products. In the Soviet
Bauhaus. Numerous design classics were created, such as the Union, the concept of modernism was sacrificed in favour of socialist classicism after 1932. After
famous Bauhaus lamp by Jucker and Wagenfeld. In the new elections the Second World War, the ideas of the Bauhaus were taken up in both German states. For the
of 1924, the right-wing party Thüringer Ordnungsbund gained a Federal Republic of Germany, the most prominent example is the Academy of Design (HfG) in
majority in the state’s legislative assembly, forcing the Bauhaus to Ulm, which began its work in 1953 and existed until 1968. In the GDR, too, ideas and concepts of
move to Dessau in 1925. • the Bauhaus continued to have an impact, including at architecture and design academies such
as the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, which was founded in 1946 by artists close to
the Bauhaus. •
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Sites of Modernism
bauhaus museum weimar Neues Museum Weimar
With the bauhaus museum weimar, a new precinct With a permanent exhibition about the pioneers of the
dedicated to Weimar modernism is emerging. The new Bauhaus from the Weimar painting school to Henry van
building for Weimar’s Bauhaus museum, which has been de Velde, the museum makes direct reference to the new
in existence since 1995, affords the space needed to bauhaus museum weimar (reopening on 6 April 2019
present the Klassik Stiftung Weimar’s unique Bauhaus with the permanent exhibition “Van de Velde, Nietzsche
collection, which meanwhile comprises 13,000 objects and Modernism around 1900”).
and documents. The revamped presentation of the
world’s oldest Bauhaus collection opens on 6 April 2019 Address: Jorge-Semprún-Platz 5, 99423 Weimar
with the slogan “The Bauhaus Comes from Weimar”. Website: ↘ klassik-stiftung.de
Address: Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
Website: ↘ klassik-stiftung.de/
bauhausmuseumweimar.de Bauhaus Ceramics Workshop,
Dornburg
The former Bauhaus ceramics workshop that Walter
Gropius established in 1920 continues to this day to
Haus Am Horn, Weimar accommodate a functioning pottery business. Many
The Haus Am Horn, designed by Georg Muche, was of the most important German ceramicists of the 20th
built by the Bauhaus workshops and the architectural century have got their training here.
office of Walter Gropius in 1923 as a model home for the
first big Bauhaus Exhibition. It is the first built example Info: Visits are possible upon request
of Bauhaus architecture. Address: Max-Krehan-Straße, 07774 Dornburg
Website: ↘ keramik-museum-buergel.de
Info: Can be visited as part of a Bauhaus
city tour
Photo: Address: Am Horn 61, 99425 Weimar
Main building of
Website: ↘ hausamhorn.de Factory owner’s mansion
the Bauhaus Uni-
versity Weimar
(1904 – 1911) Schulenburg House, Gera
Architect: Henry The mansion, which was built in 1913/14, is one of the
van de Velde
Main building of the Bauhaus few total works of art by Henry van de Velde that has
been preserved to this day. Schulenburg House houses
University Weimar and former a private museum with a worldwide important collection
School of Arts and Crafts of book designs by Van de Velde.
The main building, used today by various faculties of the
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, was renovated 1904/05 Info: Tours through the house given regularly
under the aegis of Henry van de Velde, and a second Exhibitions and music events
phase of construction followed in 1911. On this school Address: Straße des Friedens 120, 07548 Gera
building, Van de Velde celebrated in exemplary manner Website: ↘ haus-schulenburg-gera.de
Thuringia
the unity of form and function.
The building of the former School of Arts
and Crafts was built from 1905 to 1906 according to
plans by Henry van de Velde for the Großherzog-
lich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule (Grand Ducal
Saxonian school of arts and crafts) and used between
1919 and 1925 by the Weimar State Bauhaus. Today it
houses the Faculty of Art and Design and is a teaching
building for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
“From Thuringia to the world”: It was in Weimar in 1919 where
Info: Can be visited as part of a guided
everything started that would later revolutionise architecture, design and Bauhaus walk
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com
art throughout the world. There are still many traces today that recall this Address: Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8,
99423 Weimar
Contact and service
early phase of the Bauhaus—whether the Haus am Horn, the Bauhaus’s first
Website: ↘ uni-weimar.de
architectural achievement; the village church in Gelmeroda that was Thüringer Tourismus GmbH
frequently portrayed by Lyonel Feininger; Walter Gropius’s Auerbach and Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
99084 Erfurt
Zuckerkandl Houses, or the former Bauhaus pottery workshop in Dornburg, Tel.: +49 361 3742-0
amongst others. service@thueringen-entdecken.de
↘ bauhaus.thueringen-entdecken.de
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Explore modernism
The Bauhaus in Henry van de Velde and
Weimar—a walking tour the Bauhaus artists in Jena
The focus of this walking tour is the history of the Weimar This walk through the town creates a link between Henry
Bauhaus. The most important stations along the way are van de Velde’s Art Nouveau and the Bauhaus with the
today’s Bauhaus-Universität with Gropius’s studio, the Gropius mansions Zuckerkandl and Auerbach. The Jena
bauhaus museum weimar, the House of the Templers, and Art Society was seen as an open forum for the Modern
the Haus Am Horn as well as the Monument to the March Movement and so a close relationship developed
Dead and the commemorative plaque for the Weimar between the Bauhaus artists, the University and industry
Constitution of 1919. in Jena.
Info: weimar GmbH Email: tourist-info@jena.de
Website: ↘ weimar.de Website: ↘ jena.de
On the trail of the Bauhaus and the
Bauhaus in Erfurt New Architecture in Gera
Erfurt was not just in close contact with the Weimar This walking tour reveals Gera as the city with the most
Bauhaus; it also evolved into a focal point of modern architectural monuments in Thuringia from the time of
culture in the early 20 th century. Industrialists, patrons the Bauhaus. Here are many impressive buildings, like
and local art associations created important forums for Henry van de Velde’s Schulenburg House and Thilo
the artistic avant-garde and their works. Strolling Schoder’s former silk weaving mill for Schulenburg
through the city, you still come across office and com- & Bessler.
mercial buildings as well as residential neighbourhoods
in the style of classic modernism (visits to the Marga- Info: Guided tour for groups by arrangement
retha Reichardt House and the Angermuseum are not Contact: Gera-Information Photo:
included). Website: ↘ gera.de/tourismus Bauhaus Building
(1925 – 1926)
Architect:
Info: Guided tour for groups by arrangement Walter Gropius
Contact: Erfurt Tourist Information
Website: ↘ erfurt-tourismus.de
Photo:
Saxony-
Detail of the
Main Building
Bauhaus-
Universität
Weimar
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com. © VG Photo-Kunst, Bonn 2018
Anhalt
The ideas behind modernism were developed and tested in many
locations and institutions in Saxony-Anhalt—in Dessau, Magdeburg and
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com
Halle as well as in Leuna, Stendal and Wittenberg. It was in Dessau that the
Bauhaus had its heyday, and it was there that Walter Gropius, in 1925 – 1926,
erected the Bauhaus building, which was to become an icon of modernism.
This was where art and technology were to merge into a new unity, and it was
here, in numerous Bauhaus buildings, that the essential idea of the Bauhaus
was articulated: to help form a modern society.
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Sites of Modernism Explore modernism
Bauhaus Building and Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Walking tour of the Tour “Magdeburg
Masters’ Houses, Dessau-Roßlau Quedlinburg Dessau-Törten Estate and the Modern Age”
In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. The museum and exhibition house is devoted to the The walking tour through the estate designed by Walter With its start into the modern age as “Stadt des Neuen
Here Gropius constructed the world-renowned school work of Lyonel Feininger and, with the collection of Gropius (1926 – 1928)—which was conceived as a Bauwillens” (city of the new will to build), Magdeburg
building (1925 – 1926). The Masters’ House settlement Bauhausler Dr. jur. Hermann Klumpp, possesses one of testing ground for new models of social housing—leads transformed itself in the 1920s into a colourful town.
(1925 – 1926) Gropius constructed for the Bauhaus the world’s most important collections of Feininger’s past various house types. Special highlights are the Colourful building façades still characterise the cityscape
teachers became one of the most important artists’ graphic prints. The collection is complemented by visits to a model apartment in the Laubenganghäuser today. The tour travels along historical examples of work
colonies of modernism. Artists such as Paul Klee, works by other artists of classic modernism. by Hannes Meyer (UNESCO World HeriDaye List), the by famous architects and urban planners like Bruno
Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Lyonel Feininger, Anton House, a prototypical row house built as SieTö II, Taut, Carl Krayl, Johannes Göderitz and Albinmüller.
Anni and Joseph Albers, and Georg Muche used to live Address: Schloßberg 11, 06484 Quedlinburg and the Steel House, which was created as a material
here. Since 2014 the ensemble has been complemented Website: ↘ feininger-galerie.de experiment. Website: ↘ visitmagdeburg.de
by the new Masters’ Houses of Gropius and Moholy-
Nagy. Website: ↘ bauhaus-dessau.de
Info: The main building and the Masters’ Piesteritz Workers’ Housing Estate, Deaconess Cloister, Elbingerode
Houses can be visited with a guided tour. Lutherstadt Wittenberg The main building of the Deaconess Cloister in Elbinge-
Break in the Bauhaus canteen or in the The Piesteritz workers’ housing estate was built by city Lyonel Feiningers rode was built 1932 – 1934 by Godehard Schwethelm.
café-bistro in the Bauhaus. planner Georg Haberland and architect Otto Rudolf Window on the City, Halle (Saale) He called the building in Elbingerode “his dearest
Address: Gropiusallee 38 / Ebertallee 59–71, Salvisberg in 1916 with the goal of realising an attrac- The two-hour tour takes you to the famous painter’s child”. Its design and execution are characterised by a
06846 Dessau-Roßlau tive, unified workers’ housing settlement with consis- centres of activity in Halle (Saale). Eleven paintings and meticulous dependence on the New Architecture.
Website: ↘ bauhaus-dessau.de tent constructive quality. In the year of Expo 2000, numerous drawings of Halle were created by Lyonel
Piesteritz was faithfully renovated and thus became the Feininger during his work here from 1929 to 1931. Info: Tour of the building possible upon request
first car-free settlement in Germany. Alongside studies, drawings and photographs, three of Website: ↘ mutterhaus-elbingerode.de
his finished works can now be seen in Kunstmuseum
Bauhaus Museum Dessau Info: Guided walking tour through the Moritzburg.
The new museum opens in 2019. For the first time it will housing estate
be possible to comprehensively showcase the second Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Platz 20, Website: ↘ halle-tourismus.de
largest Bauhaus collection in the world, with some 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg
40,000 exhibits from the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Website: ↘ lutherstadt-wittenberg.de
Starting from the historical objects, stories are told
about the Bauhaus in Dessau. Daily school life,
the networks, the workshops, the productions, the
advertising, the role of women, clothing, style and Hermann Beims Estate,
craftsmanship - all these are topics. The new building
will be inaugurated with the exhibition “Versuchsstätte Magdeburg Photo:
Kornhaus
Bauhaus. The Collection”. The Hermann Beims estate is one of the most expansive
Restaurant
architectural landmarks in Europe and one of the most (1929 – 1930)
Address: Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1, significant examples of social housing in Germany. Architect:
Carl Fieger
06844 Dessau-Roßlau It owes its existence to erstwhile mayor of Magdeburg
Website: ↘ bauhaus-dessau.de Hermann Beims, who, together with his municipal
planning directors, the visionary architects Bruno Taut
and Johannes Göderitz, had designed a general
development plan for Magdeburg.
Laubenganghäuser (Houses with
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com. © VG Photo-Kunst, Bonn 2018
Info: Visit to a model apartment possible
Balcony Access), Dessau-Törten Address: Beimsstraße, Große Diesdorfer Straße,
The five residential buildings are “real” Bauhaus buil- Seehäuser Straße u.a., 39110 Magdeburg
dings: they originate from the architectural department Website: ↘ visitmagdeburg.de
established at the Bauhaus in 1927, and were developed
as an act of collective planning under the management
of the second director, Hannes Meyer. Meyer’s motto
“necessities, not luxuries” was also pursued in the Lau-
benganghäuser and led to the construction of so-called Contact and service
Volkswohnungen (people’s apartments), which were
rented by workers and employees on low salaries. IMG—Investitions- und Marketing-
gesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt mbH
Info: Inspection tour possible as part of the Am Alten Theater 6
tour of the Dessau-Törten housing 39104 Magdeburg
Address: Peterholzstraße 40 A, Tel.: +49 391 568 99 80
06849 Dessau-Roßlau tourismus@img-sachsen-anhalt.de
Website: ↘ bauhaus-dessau.de ↘ sachsen-anhalt-tourismus.de
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Sites of Modernism
Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum Hansaviertel (Hansa District)
für Gestaltung Hansaviertel was constructed for the Interbau (Inter-
The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung (Walter national Building Exhibition) of 1957 by 53 architects
Gropius, Alex Cvijanovic and Hans Bandel, 1976 – 1979) from 13 countries, including various Bauhausler (among
holds the world’s most comprehensive collection on others, Walter Gropius and TAC—The Architects
the history of the Bauhaus. Its core is formed of Collaborative). The quarter is regarded as a prime
the works bequeathed by numerous former Bauhaus example of the modernist architecture and urban
members such as Walter Gropius, Herbert Bayer, Lucia planning of the 1950s.
Moholy and Georg Muche. Beginning in the spring of
2018, the Bauhaus-Archiv will be renovated and Info: Thematic tours for groups possible
expanded by a new building. The centenary exhibition upon request
of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Address: Altonaer Straße 22, 10557 Berlin
entitled “original bauhaus”, will be shown in the Website: ↘ visitberlin.de
Berlinische Galerie from 6 September 2019 to 27
January 2020.
Website: ↘ bauhaus.de Lemke House
(Mies-van-der-Rohe-Haus)
The residence built for the printing company owner Karl
Lemke (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1932–1933) is today
Hufeisensiedlung a venue for exhibitions and events. With its L-shaped plan
(Horseshoe Estate) and wall-sized terrace windows, Mies van der Rohe
The Hufeisensiedlung (Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, had a space built that flows between indoors and
1925 – 1930) was the first large-scale housing estate outdoors—and thereby created a jewel of the New
built in the Weimar Republic. The small streets with their Architecture movement in Berlin.
Photo:
interplay of façade colours, the estate’s old cherry trees
Bauhaus-Archiv / and its informal character all make the UNESCO World Info: Guided tours for groups possible
Museum für HeriDaye Site an island amidst Berlin’s otherwise typical upon request
Gestaltung
big-city development. Address: Oberseestraße 60, 13053 Berlin
(1976–1979)
Architects: Website: ↘ miesvanderrohehaus.de
Walter Gropius,
Alex Cvijanovic,
Info: Tours of the estate possible upon request
Hans Bandel Address: Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359 Berlin
Website: ↘ hufeisensiedlung-berlin.de
Siemensstadt Housing Estate
The Siemensstadt Housing Estate (Hans Scharoun,
Walter Gropius, Hugo Häring and others, 1929 – 1934)
was built predominantly by architects who belonged to
Berlin
the avant-garde collective “Der Ring”. It combines a wide
variety of manifestations of modernism that cannot be
found elsewhere gathered together in such a small area.
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com. © VG Photo-Kunst, Bonn 2018
Info: Thematic tours for groups possible
upon request
Address: Goebelplatz 3, 13627 Berlin
Website: ↘ visitberlin.de
Many members of the Bauhaus and other proponents of the modern
movement had close links to the capital city of the avant-garde. The residential Contact and service
buildings by Walter Gropius in the Siemensstadt estate, Mies van der Rohe’s
visitBerlin / Berlin Tourismus &
Perls House and Lemke House, Bruno Taut’s Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Kongress GmbH
Estate), and the “am Rupenhorn” villa colony—the large number of modernist Am Karlsbad 11
buildings provides impressive testimony to this. 10785 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 25002333
info@visitBerlin.de
↘ visitBerlin.de
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Explore modernism The UNESCO World
On the trail of the Bauhausler
in Berlin
Building the Future—Berlin’s
Hansa District
HeriDaye Sites of the
In addition to including a visit inside Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe’s Lemke House, the tour follows the tracks of
numerous Bauhaus graduates. With their independent,
On the occasion of the 1957 International Building
Exhibition (IBA), Walter Gropius, Egon Eiermann and Max
Taut realised their visions of modern housing and the
Bauhaus and Modernism
professional work in Schöneberg, Tempelhof and green city. It represents a counter-concept to Stalinallee
Wilmersdorf—as well as in Tiergarten, with the famous
National Gallery—before and after the Second World
in East Berlin, the foremost socialist prestige construc-
tion project of the day. The special feature of this tour
Alfeld: Goslar:
War, these architects have left behind important are the exclusive apartment viewings within the area. Fagus Factory Rammelsberg Mine
examples of modernism.
Website: ↘ artberlin-online.de UNESCO 2011 UNESCO 1992
Website: ↘ artberlin-online.de ↘ visitberlin.de Architects: Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, Architects: Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer,
↘ visitberlin.de Built: 1911 Built: 1936 – 1937
The “Am Rupenhorn” Villa Colony
Berlin: Hamburg:
Walter Gropius and his In the west of Berlin, at the transition from Charlotten- Modernism Housing Chilehaus
contemporaries
Greenery and gardens have determined Berlin’s quality
burg to Spandau, the villa colony “Am Rupenhorn” seems
like a small, world-class building exhibition. With UNESCO 2008 UNESCO 2015
Hermann Muthesius, Bruno Paul, Erich Mendelsohn, the Architects: Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner Architect: Fritz Höger
of life for the past 100 years. But is a modern living style Built: 1925 – 1926 Built: 1922 – 1924
possible amidst this greenery? The architects of the Luckhardt brothers with Alfons Anker, and Bauhaus
1920s designed groundbreaking examples for housing. teacher Ludwig Hilberseimer, major representatives of
This walking tour leads through Zehlendorf on the trail the German architectural avant-garde built here. As part
of the tour, a country house owned by the Luckhardt
Bernau: Stuttgart:
of Walter Gropius, Alfred Grenander, Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, Walter Peterhans, Richard Neutra and Bruno brothers can be visited, along with the grounds of ADGB Trade Union Le Corbusier House
Taut. Not all of them were Bauhausler, but they did share
a commonality: they were all gravitating towards the idea
the former Villa Lindemann by Bruno Paul (now Touro
College). School UNESCO 2016
of functional, sober-modern and affordable construction.
Website: ↘ artberlin-online.de
UNESCO 2017 Architects: Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
Built: 1927
↘ visitberlin.de Architects: Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer
Website: ↘ artberlin-online.de
↘ visitberlin.de
Built: 1929 – 1930
Völklingen:
Dessau: Völklingen Ironworks
Photo:
The renowned
Bauhaus Building UNESCO 1994
Various architects
sawtooth roofs
are a typical and Masters’ Houses Built: 1883 – 1976
UNESCO 1996
element of
industrial
architecture.
Architect: Walter Gropius Weimar:
Built: 1925 – 1926
Haus Am Horn,
Dessau: Main building of the
Laubenganghäuser Bauhaus-Universität
Photo: © Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com. © VG Photo-Kunst, Bonn 2018
(Houses with Balcony and the former School
Access) of Arts and Crafts
UNESCO 2017 UNESCO 1996
Architect: Hannes Meyer Architects: Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer,
Built: 1929 – 1930 Built: 1911
Essen:
Zollverein Coal Mine
Complex
UNESCO 2001
Architects: Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer
Built: 1930 – 1932
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Sites of Modernism
Bauhaus Monument of Hat Factory in Luckenwalde
the Federal School Bernau (Mendelsohn Hall), Luckenwalde
The Federal School of the General German Trade Union The former hat factory (built by Erich Mendelsohn,
Federation, or ADGB Trade Union School for short, was 1887 – 1953) is considered an outstanding example of
built from 1928 to 1930 by Hannes Meyer and Hans expressionist industrial architecture. Until 1923, four
Wittwer together with the Bauhaus building department production halls, a boiler and turbine house and
and is a document that chronicles the unity of research, two connected gatehouses were built on this site.
practice and teaching as it was aspired to at the Undoubtedly the most striking building was the dyeing
Bauhaus. Bauhaus students were involved in the hall, which, with its shaft-like roof turret, resembled a hat.
planning and construction of the school.
Info: Tours for groups possible
Info: Group tours possible upon request to a limited extent
Address: Hannes-Meyer-Campus 9, Address: Industriestraße 2, 14943 Luckenwalde
16321 Bernau bei Berlin Website: ↘ reiseland-brandenburg.de
Website: ↘ bauhaus-denkmal-bernau.de
Summer House for Albert Einstein, Explore modernism
Caputh
In 1929, architect Konrad Wachsmann, a pioneer of
serial construction, designed the summer house for the Mies van der Rohe Villas, Potsdam
Einstein family using modern wood construction tech- Mies van der Rohe built three imposing villas on the
niques. Many friends from all over the world came here shore of Potsdam’s Griebnitzsee. His debut work was
to visit, including artists, scientists and several Nobel the Villa Riehl (1907). From 1915 to 1917 he built the
Prize winners, such as Max Planck and Max von Laue. Villa Urbig, also known as the Churchill Villa because the
Photo:
ADGB Trade
British prime minister lived there in 1945, as a residence
Union School Info: Guided tours through the exhibition venue for the banker Franz Urbig. And the Villa Mosler (1924 –
(1928 – 1930)
are offered for groups 1926) was commissioned by the bank director Georg
Architects:
Hannes Meyer, Address: Am Waldrand 15–17, 14548 Caputh Mosler. Today all three villas are privately owned.
Hans Wittwer
Website: ↘ einsteinsommerhaus.de
Info: Walking tour of the villa colony
Neubabelsberg: “Movie Stars, Villas,
World History”
Einstein Tower, Potsdam Website: ↘ potsdamtourismus.de
The Einstein Tower on the Telegrafenberg (Telegraph Hill)
Branden-
was built between 1919 and 1922 as an observatory.
Designed by the architect Erich Mendelsohn, it was a
revolutionary building at its time of origin and constitutes dkw. Kunstmuseum
an icon of expressionism in the history of architecture. Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus
burg
Today it is part of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics The former diesel power station (1927 – 1928) was
Potsdam (AIP) and serves as a scientific observatory. designed by Werner Issel in a style between late
expressionism and New Objectivity. Today it is a multiple
Info: Guided tour on the Telegrafenberg award-winning venue for contemporary art. In the
with visit inside the Einstein Tower possible centenary year, special thematic exhibitions will be shown.
upon request
Website: ↘ urania-potsdam.de Address: Am Amtsteich 15, 03046 Cottbus
↘ potsdamtourismus.de Website: ↘ museum-dkw.de
The central building in Brandenburg’s Bauhaus history is the Trade
Union School of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in
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Sites of Modernism
Church of Reconciliation Schminke House, Löbau
and Kroch Estate The Schminke House (1932 – 1933) is one of the most
The Church of Reconciliation, built by the architect Hans remarkable residential houses of the 20 th century and is
Heinrich Grotjahn, is one of the most important regarded as being the most important private domestic
ecclesiatical buildings of the modernist movement in building by Hans Scharoun. The curved main body,
Germany. It was to be at the centre of the planned terraces, outside stairs and many porthole windows are
“Kroch Estate”, whose first construction phase was reminiscent of a steamship, and the garden skilfully
realised in 1929 / 30 in Gohlis-Nord. merges architecture and landscape.
Info: Tour “Modern Housing” in Leipzig Info: Private tours of the living spaces
as exemplified by the Kroch Estate possible upon request
Website: ↘ leipzig.travel Address: Kirschallee 1 b, 02708 Löbau
Website: ↘ stiftung-hausschminke.eu
Rabe House, Zwenkau
Built in 1930, the house is a residential building of inter-
national standing. Designed by Adolf Rading, the house
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impresses not only through its clear design stylistic
idiom. The elaborate wall decorations and interior Grassimuseum, Leipzig
design originated with Oskar Schlemmer. Today the The Grassimuseum (Carl William Zweck and Hans Voigt,
house is privately owned. 1925 – 1929) is home to the Museum of Ethnography,
the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museum of Musical
Info: Private tour of the house possible Instruments of Leipzig University. Particularly worth
upon request seeing: the stately window in the main stairhall according
Address: Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 26, to designs by the Bauhaus master Josef Albers (1927).
Photo:
Schminke House
04442 Zwenkau
(1932 – 1933) Address: Johannisplatz 5, 04103 Leipzig
Architect: Website: ↘ grassimuseum.de
Hans Scharoun
Garden City of Hellerau,
Dresden-Hellerau
The first German garden city was founded in 1908 by Schocken Department Store
Karl Schmidt, an important exponent of the reform (State Museum for Archaeology
movement and co-founder of the Deutsche Werkstätten. in Chemnitz)
The building ensemble for the Deutsche Werkstätten The former Schocken department store (Erich Mendel-
was a production facility of a new type, and it was just sohn, 1929–1930) was one of three buildings that Erich
as important for the modernist movement as the Fest- Mendelsohn built for the department store chain
spielhaus (Festival Theatre, 1911 – 1912) designed by Schocken. Its curtain wall and the horizontal bands of
Heinrich Tessenow. windows alternating with the façade cladding make the
Saxony
building an icon of modernism. Today the building houses
Info: Tour of the Festival Theatre and the State Museum for Archaeology (smac).
the garden city of Hellerau
Contact: Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen Address: Stefan-Heym-Platz 1, 09111 Chemnitz
Website: ↘ deutscher-werkbund.de Website: ↘ smac.sachsen.de
↘ hellerau-gb.de
Whether the Church of Reconciliation in Leipzig, Schminke House
in Löbau or the garden city of Hellerau—the Free State of Saxony boasts many Contact and service
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connections to the Bauhaus and modernism. Two great Bauhaus masters in
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For the 2019 centenary, the federal state will pay tribute above all to Bautzener Straße 45–47
the building culture heriDaye, and will build on existing presentations and 01099 Dresden
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cultural topics. info@sachsen-tour.de
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Sites of Modernism
Weissenhof Estate and Weissenhof Dammerstock Estate, Karlsruhe
Museum in the Le Corbusier House, Designed by Walter Gropius, the Dammerstock housing
estate numbers amongst the most prominent examples
Stuttgart of the New Architecture. The “Gebrauchswohnungen”
The Weissenhof Estate was built in 1927 as a building (utility apartments) constructed at the end of the 1920s
exhibition of the City of Stuttgart and the German Werk- by three building societies constituted an alternative to
bund. Under the artistic direction of Ludwig Mies van the prevailing traditionalist trend of the time and set new
der Rohe, 17 architects created an exemplary housing standards for housing development.
programme for modern big-city dwellers. Le Corbusier
also designed two houses, which, together with other Info: Tour of the district
buildings by the architect, were declared a UNESCO Contact: KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH
World HeriDaye Site in 2016. Website: ↘ karlsruhe-tourismus.de
Info: Tour of the Weissenhof Estate
and the Weissenhofmuseum im
Haus Le Corbusier
Address: Weissenhofmuseum, Rathenaustraße 1–3, Explore modernism
70191 Stuttgart
Website: ↘ weissenhofmuseum.de Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the hometown of the Bauhaus master
Oskar Schlemmer. The collection of the Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart contains an array of important works by the
Ulm School of Design (HfG) renowned artist, as does the Archive Oskar Schlemmer.
As the Bauhausler Max Bill founded the Hochschule für In the centenary year, thematic special exhibitions will
Gestaltung Ulm in Baden-Württemberg in the 1950s, he be shown here.
created one of the most important design schools after
Photo:
the Bauhaus. The buildings of the former School of Address: Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30–32,
Duplex House, Design are among the most outstanding architectural 70173 Stuttgart
Weissenhof examples from the young Federal Republic of Germany. Website: ↘ staatsgalerie.de
Estate (1927)
Architects: Since 1979, the entire complex has been classified as a
Le Corbusier, cultural monument of significant importance.
Pierre Jeanneret
Info: Group tours of the HfG building and Visits Inside Haus auf der Alb
the HfG archive possible upon request Realised by the Stuttgart architect Adolf G. Schneck
Contact: Ulmer Museen, info.ulmer-museum@ulm.de (1929 – 1930), the Haus auf der Alb (House on the
Website: ↘ hfg-archiv.ulm.de Swabian Jura) was originally a convalescent home. It is
Baden-
a rare example of the simple, transparent, functional
and socially inspired architecture of the modernist
movement.
Info: Group tours through the house
Württemberg
possible upon request
Address: Hanner Steige 1, 72574 Bad Urach
Website: ↘ hausaufderalb.de
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Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
At the beginning of the 1930s, the building currently
used by the Zeppelin Museum was built according to
Le Corbusier, Oskar Schlemmer, Johannes Itten and Max Bill— designs by the architect Karl Hagenmayer. Today it
Baden-Württemberg is a setting for the action and the works of many Contact and service houses the world’s largest collection pertaining
to airship travel, and it also shows periodic special
famous pioneers of modernism and a centre of the New Architecture. It is exhibitions of contemporary art.
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not without reason that the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart is considered Baden-Württemberg
a milestone in modern architecture. After the Second World War, the Esslinger Straße 8 Info: Exhibition on the topic of the Bauhaus:
70182 Stuttgart “Idealstandard. Living Spaces of
Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (Ulm School of Design), co-founded by Contemporary Art” (26 October 2018
Tel.: +49 711 23858 0
Bauhausler Max Bill, extended Bauhaus history and lastingly influenced info@tourismus-bw.de to 3 March 2019)
design education. ↘ tourismus-bw.de Address: Seestraße 22, 88045 Friedrichshafen
Website: ↘ zeppelin-museum.de23
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Ernst May House and Römerstadt Museum Angewandte Kunst,
Housing Estate, Frankfurt Frankfurt
The “New Frankfurt” project, under the direction of Ernst The city of Frankfurt am Main can look back on a distin-
May and with developments including the Römerstadt guished design tradition that has consistently focused
and Heimatsiedlung housing estates, set standards for on functionality and tended towards a rigorous aesthe-
a new way of living. A model home in the Ernst May tic—the same holds true of the “Frankfurt Kitchen”,
House, a restored row house in the middle of the “Römer- designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. It changed the
stadt”, presents the urban and housing development concept of home living and is considered a prototype of
of the New Frankfurt in exemplary manner, including the modern fitted kitchen. Now for the first time, an
the widely familiar “Frankfurt kitchen”, as part of a example of the legendary kitchen will be shown in the
permanent exhibition. permanent exhibition, alongside the extensive collection.
Info: Tour of the Ernst May House and the Info: Exhibition “Modernism am Main
Römerstadt housing estate (90 min.) 1923 – 1933” (working title)
Website: ↘ ernst-may-gesellschaft.de from February to April 2019
Website: ↘ museumangewandtekunst.de
Bornheimer Hang Housing Estate,
Frankfurt-Bornheim Deutsches Architekturmuseum,
This residential development was planned and imple- Frankfurt
mented by the architect and urban planner Ernst May The permanent exhibition presents a journey through
with the assistance of Herbert Boehm and carried out in time that explores German and international architectural
multiple construction phases by the “AG für kleine Woh- history. In addition to some other pioneering objects,
nungen” (Corporation for small dwellings) from 1926/27 partial bequests of Bauhaus members Hannes Meyer
Photo:
to 1929 as part of the “New Frankfurt” housing project. and Mart Stam can be seen here.
Charles Hallgarten
School Housing Info: Tour of the estate possible upon request Info: Exhibition “Neuer Mensch—neue Wohnung.
Estate
Bornheimer Hang Website: ↘ ernst-may-gesellschaft.de The Architecture of New Frankfurt
(1928–1930) 1925 – 1933” from March to August 2019
Architect:
Ernst May
Website: ↘ dam-online.de
Loheland Women’s Colony,
Künzell bei Fulda
In the first anthroposophical settlement in Germany,
starting in 1919 women designed a place where learning,
working and living should go hand in hand. Over time,
some notable buildings were erected in the style of
modernism. Today, the colony includes a Waldorf kinder-
Hessen
garten, the RudolfSteiner School Loheland, a Demeter
farm, the colony’s archive, a carpentry shop and a
conference hotel with garden café.
Info: Tour of the facilities possible upon request
Website: ↘ loheland.de
With its pioneering project for “The New Frankfurt”, the state of
Hesse was one of the main arenas of New Architecture in the 1920s. As a
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comprehensive social reform programme, a total of 12,000 apartments Contact and service
embodying a new housing culture and way of living were built in Frankfurt
under Ernst May, the head of municipal planning. With the shift towards New HA Hessen Agentur GmbH
Architecture, the standards for interiors also changed: with the Frankfurt Konradinerallee 9
65189 Wiesbaden
kitchen, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed a ground-breaking innovation Tel. +49 611 95017-80
for the Frankfurt housing estates. info@hessen-agentur.de
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Ebertsiedlung, Ludwigshafen Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
The Ebertsiedlung, built between 1927 and 1930, was Here you can vividly experience the fascinating history
long regarded as a model in terms of technology and of printing, writing and type. In the centre of the old
design. With its district heating, refined supply systems town of Mainz is one of the oldest printing museums in
and generously proportioned apartments, its architects the world. Founded in 1900 by Mainz citizens, the
Hermann Trum, Wilhelm Scholler and Markus Sternlieb Gutenberg Museum is dedicated to the “man of the
ensured comfortable living. In addition, communal millennium” Johannes Gutenberg and his inventions.
facilities such as a nursery school and a food cooperative
were available in public areas. Info: Major typography exhibition
in the centenary year 2019
Contact: Ludwigshafen tourist information office Address: Liebfrauenplatz 5, 55116 Mainz
Website: ↘ lukom.com Website: ↘ gutenberg-museum.de
Kreutzenberger Winery, Völklingen Ironworks, Saarland
Kindenheim Völklingen Ironworks (1883 – 1976) is the world’s only
The main building (1929) of the winery, created by Otto fully preserved blast-furnace complex from the golden
Prott, is a two-storey plastered building in the style of age of industrialisation. Highlights are the vast blasting
New Objectivity. As a rare and high-quality example of hall, the parklike premises and the charging platform.
a consistently modern implementation of a traditional
building type in the first half of the 20th century, the Info: Guided walking tour through the facility
building stands as a cultural monument in the heriDaye Address: Rathausstraße 75–79, 66333 Völklingen
list of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Website: ↘ voelklinger-huette.org
Info: Wine tasting in an architectural landmark
Photo:
Kreutzenberger
Address: Hauptstraße 5, 67271 Kindenheim
Winery (1929) Website: ↘ kreutzenberger.com
Architect:
Otto Prott
Rheinland-
Palatinate
Bauhaus artists such as Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef
Albers and Joost Schmidt revolutionised the graphic design and communications
design of their age with the “New Typography” or ‘Elementary Typography’ and
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had an impact throughout the world. In 2019, the Gutenberg Museum in
Mainz is devoting attention to the influence of the Bauhaus in the field of TourismusMarketing
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the achievements of the New Architecture, in which the focus was on the 56068 Koblenz
connection between modern architecture and sociopolitical concerns, will be Tel:. +49 (0)261–915 20 0
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Sites of Modernism
Lange House and Esters House, Zollverein Coal Mine Complex, Essen
Krefeld The coal mining facility opened by the Gelsenkirchener
Lange House and Esters House (Ludwig Mies van der Bergwerks-AG was long regarded as the most modern
Rohe, 1927–1930) rank among the most important and aesthetically pleasing coal mine in the world (Fritz
examples of the New Architecture in Germany and today Schupp and Martin Kremmer, 1926–1932). It soon came
host an art museum with changing exhibitions. to influence the design of other central conveying systems.
Info: Tours of the houses and the gardens, Experience: Guided tour “Zollverein architecture
as of 2019 with a walk-through sculpture yesterday and today—classic
by the artist Thomas Schütte modernism and its heriDaye”; visit
Address: Wilhelmshofallee 91–97, 47800 Krefeld to the Ruhr Museum
Website: ↘ kunstmuseenkrefeld.de Address: Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, 45309 Essen
Website: ↘ zollverein.de
Dye Works and Warehouse for
the United Silk Weaving Mills Explore modernism
Corporation, Krefeld
In 1931, Mies van der Rohe was commissioned to design LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur,
a two-storey production and administration building for Münster
the weaving mill of Vereinigte Seidenwerke AG. In two The central art museum of Westphalia, with its outstan-
separate construction phases in 1931 and 1935, the ding collection, will be showing the special exhibition
construction was carried out in collaboration with the “Bauhaus and America. Interactions” from 9 November
technical department of Verseidag. 2018 to 10 March 2019.
Photo: Info: Visit as part of a “Mies van der Rohe” Address: Domplatz 10, 48143 Münster
Zollverein coal
tour of the Belgian Quarter Website: ↘ lwl.org
mine complex,
winding tower, Address: Mies van der Rohe Business Park,
shaft XII Girmesgath 5, 47803 Krefeld
(1928 – 1932)
Architects:
Website: ↘ mies-van-der-rohe.com,
Fritz Schupp, Stadtmarketing Krefeld ↘ krefeld.de Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Martin Kremmer
Bottrop
The Bauhaus master Josef Albers was born in Bottrop
in 1888 and devoted himself to painting and colour
Düsseldorf Planetarium
North Rhine-
theory. The museum shows the artistic development of
(later a concert hall) Josef Albers. The collection is complemented by a
Known today as the Tonhalle, Düsseldorf’s former sculpture garden.
planetarium (Wilhelm Kreis, 1925 – 1926) offers special
concert experiences. The foyer is considered one of the Address: Im Stadtgarten 20, 46236 Bottrop
Westphalia
most important examples of expressionism. Website: ↘ quadrat-bottrop.de
Info: Special guided tours for groups in
combination with attendance of an event
Address: Ehrenhof 1, 40479 Düsseldorf Housing Development in the
Website: ↘ tonhalle.de Ruhr District
Housing development represented a major innovation of
progressive architects in the 1920s. Within the city limits
Coming from Rhineland and Westphalia, Henry van de Velde, Karl- of Duisburg alone, about 150 housing estates were
created, including the Einschornsteinsiedlung, which was
Ernst Osthaus, Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius provided early impulses that established entirely in the spirit of the New Architecture.
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were of crucial importance to the Bauhaus idea. The growing cities along the Contact and service Info: Guided tours of housing estates possible
Rhine and Ruhr underscored their status through administration buildings and
upon request
housing developments in the style of the New Architecture. A highlight is the Tourismus NRW e.V. Website: ↘ duisburgkontor.de
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a UNESCO World HeriDaye Site in Völklinger Straße 4
40219 Düsseldorf
Essen. But “real Bauhaus” can also be found in NRW: In Krefeld, Ludwig Mies Tel.: +49 211 91320-500
van der Rohe built not only the Verseidag building but also two villas for the info@nrw-tourismus.de
businessmen Lange and Esters. ↘ nrw-tourismus.de29
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Fagus Factory, Alfeld Bauhaus Tour:
The Fagus Factory was built in 1911 by Walter Gropius From Italian Garden to
and is globally regarded as a key work of modernism.
With steel and glass architecture, the architect succee- Glass School, Celle
ded in giving a mid-sized company a completely new At the edge of the old town of Celle, the walking tour
appearance that diverges from the usual tradition. For leads to the buildings of the architect Otto Haesler.
more than 100 years, Fagus shoe lasts have been pro- He was one of the first German architects to replace
duced in this factory, which is now a UNESCO World conventional brick construction with a steel frame. His
HeriDaye Site. housing estates for families with little income, along
with the “glass school” and the “director’s residence”,
Info: Group tours of the factory possible served as models for modern architecture.
Address: Hannoversche Straße 58,
31061 Alfeld (Leine) Website: ↘ celle-tourismus.de
Website: ↘ fagus-werk.com
Sprengel Museum in Hanover
Rammelsberg Mine With its emphases on German Expressionism and
Exemplary for the New Architecture are the above- French Modernism, the museum is one of the leading
ground buildings at the Rammelsberg World HeriDaye museums of 20 th- and 21 st-century art. The exhibition
Site in Goslar (Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer, 1936). on the Bauhaus photographer Umbo (1902 – 1980)
The former ore mine documents in a striking way the honours an important former citizen of the city: in the
industrial culture of the region. chaos of and after the war, had Umbo’s path led him to
Hanover. There he worked most notably for the Kestner
Info: Various guided tours, both above and Society.
below ground
Photo: Address: Bergtal 19, 38640 Goslar Info: Exhibition “Otto Umbehr—alias Umbo.
Fagus Factory
Website: ↘ rammelsberg.de Photographer” from 9 February to
(1911) 5 May 2019.
Architects:
Walter Gropius, Address: Kurt-Schwitters-Platz, 30169 Hannover
Adolf Meyer Website: ↘ sprengel-museum.de
Otto-Haesler-Museum, Celle
Otto Haesler (1880 – 1962) was one of the great master
builders of the 20th century, with an international repu-
tation. With a Bauhaus workers’ apartment preserved
and furnished in its original condition, refugee accom-
Lower-
modations from 1945, a laundry and bathhouse, and an
extensive photo exhibition about life in a working-class
Bauhaus housing estate, this museum is unique in all of
Germany.
Saxony
Address: Galgenberg 13, 29221 Celle
Website: ↘ otto-haesler-stiftung.de
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The links between the state of Lower Saxony, the Bauhaus and
its major figures extend well beyond Gropius’s early work in Alfeld. Prime Contact and service
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Site), and the thermal power station in Wolfsburg. The most frequently sold Essener Straße 1
Bauhaus product—the Bauhaus wallpaper—also has its roots in Lower Saxony. 30173 Hannover
Tel.: +49 511 270488-0
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Sites of Modernism
Oberstraße Temple Synagogue,
Chilehaus Rolf Liebermann Studio
Built between 1922 and 1924 of 4.8 million clay bricks, The former temple synagogue from 1931, built by the
the Chilehaus is exemplary for the brick expressionism architects Felix Ascher and Robert Friedman, is one of
of the 1920s; it is considered a representative example the last surviving large synagogue buildings in Germany.
of the renewal of North German brick construction The pogrom night on 9 November 1938 was followed by
supported by Hamburg’s chief building director Fritz the forced sale of the building, and it was subsequently
Schumacher and by Fritz Höger. With its distinctive purchased in 1953 by NDR (then still NWDR). Today the
architecture and slender, unconventional built form— forceful cubic building is an important concert hall
reminiscent of a ship’s bow thanks to its apex—the seating up to 1,200 people.
Chilehaus is one of Hamburg’s central points of interest.
Info: Concert visit in NDR’S new Rolf
Info: Guided walking tour of the Kontorhaus Liebermann Studio
district Address: Oberstraße 120,
Address: Fischertwiete 2, 20095 Hamburg 20149 Hamburg-Harvestehude
Website: ↘ hamburg-tourismus.de
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Michaelsen House
The country house, which is considered a pioneer work
of the New Architecture, was designed in 1923 by the The Kontorhaus District
architect Karl Schneider for Mr. and Mrs. Michaelsen. In the 1920s, Hamburg’s chief building director Fritz
In the mid-1950s it came into the possession of Axel Schumacher had a lasting impact on the construction
Springer, who lived in it until the 1960s. After a number activity in the Hanseatic city. The Kontorhäuser, mercan-
of checkered years, the house is now home to a gallery tile office buildings, bears witness of their checkered
and a doll museum. history, of significant economic growth and sought-after
Photo:
global standing. The tour includes visits to Laeiszhof,
New crematorium
Info: Visit the interiors and the exhibitions Afrikahaus, Meßberghof, Chilehaus, Sprinkenhof and the
and cemetery
Address: Grotiusweg 79, 22587 Hamburg Mönckebergstraße Kontorhaus ensemble.
Hamburg-
Ohlsdorf Website: ↘ galerie-droescher.de
(1930 – 1932) Website: ↘ hamburg-tourismus.de
Architect:
Fritz Schumacher
Jarrestadt Estate
The neighbourhood designed in 1926 by then chief On the trail of Gustav Oelsner
building director Fritz Schumacher—which to this day in Altona
remains self-contained and homogeneous—continues to In the years 1924 to 1933, Gustav Oelsner decisively
characterise the face of the Jarrestadt estate. Ten archi- shaped the cityscape of the still independent city of
tectural firms built ten blocks. The proximity to the city Altona as its building senator. He set new accents,
park and to workplaces was intended to meet the varied particularly with regard to municipal housing. The stroll
demands of the residents. leads to public buildings, various residential buildings
Hamburg
and examples of small-scale architecture.
Info: Guided tour of the neighborhood
Website: ↘ stadtfuehrungen-hamburg.org Website: ↘ hamburg.de
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In the 1920s, Hamburg’s chief building director Fritz Schumacher
had a lasting impact on the construction activity in the Hanseatic city. His
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Winterhude. To this day they remain trendsetting for social housing. As a Wexstraße 7
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