Aubette (building)

The Aubette is a representative, classical building on Place Kléber in Strasbourg: The Aubette was originally built as the main station of Strasbourg Garde du Corps, today it is a spacious shopping mall with restaurants and parking.

The name Aubette refers to the original meaning of the word, with the French in a shelter is called.

History

The building was built in 1764-1767 by Jacques- François Blondel, court architect of Louis XV. , In the course of an urban transformation of the city of Strasbourg. The building, which dominates the square today, was a military purpose built, were in the officers' quarters housed, among other things, lounges and weapons magazines. The plan was a development of the place with appropriate buildings that were adapted in style, floor height, etc. of the Aubette. However, due to the turmoil of the French Revolution and the general lack of money the ambitious project came to a standstill, was completed only the Aubette.

The building was then used in different ways throughout history. Administrative bodies, a subject in 1845 was located in a part of building an inn. 1869 there urban art collection was housed 1870, it was destroyed by a devastating fire in the wake of the war between France and Germany, received only the facade of the Aubette remained after the.

Between 1873 and 1875 the Aubette was built under the direction of the Strasbourg master builder Geoffroy Conrath again. He took it before changes that intervened more or less in the draft Blondel. The roof was a different shape and the facade jewelry has been adapted to contemporary tastes.

In the 1920s, the brothers Horn of Mulhouse, two art lovers and collectors of contemporary art, the Aubette attended and left the house in a modern cultural and entertainment center remodel, which stretched over four floors, with restaurants, cafes, a fixed and was a cinema hall equipped -. With the interior they entrusted Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp, added coated as third parties the Dutch painter and architect Theo van Doesburg. 1927, the planning was completed and on 17 February 1928, the opening ceremony took place.

The interiors of the 1920s

The Horn Brothers and the artists involved hovered in designing the interior from a well-styled work of art. In the unconventional color and shape concept, notions of the Dutch artist group De Stijl knocked down to their outstanding representatives in addition to Piet Mondrian and Georges Vantongerloo also van Doesburg was one. The group held a purist position with a preference for abstract- geometric representations, cubic shapes, right angles and a reduction in the color palette to black, white, gray, and the triad of cardinal red, blue and yellow in architecture and painting.

This austere and less pleasing concept was well received by visitors with little enthusiasm. In the late 30s the unconventional, avant-garde interior was changed dramatically, hidden or even destroyed.

With the construction of a large shopping center and a restoration of the original interiors of the 20's, their uniqueness and quality has now been recognized as a work of art by those in charge of historic preservation began. 1994 the first cinema hall was prepared according to old photo documents again, followed in 2001 the ballroom, foyer bar and the staircase. 2006, the renovation was completed. The entire first floor is now a protected monument.

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