House "Schellborn" (1930)
On the trail of Bauhaus in Erfurt
In the 1920s it was primarily industrialists, supporters of the arts and local art societies who provided important platforms for modern artists to present their works and promote their projects. In Erfurt, Walter Kaesbach, the director of the municipal museum, and Alfred Hess, a shoe manufacturer, played a decisive role in staging numerous modernist exhibitions and events.
Hess's villa became a popular meeting place for artists and architects – among them Walter Gropius, Theo Kollmer and Karl Meinhardt. Alfred Hess raised the profile of Neues Bauen in Erfurt by commissioning the conversion of several commercial buildings in the city centre. These are still striking features of the Erfurt cityscape today. The artist Margaretha Reichardt was born in Erfurt. She studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau and from 1933 ran a handweaving workshop where she taught weaving and passed on the intellectual and cultural ideas of the Bauhaus. Her workshop – with the original handlooms, still used by weavers today – has been listed as a historic site since 1987 and is administered by Erfurt Angermuseum.
Offer
1 January - 31 December
Monday - Sunday
Duration
2 hours
Price
€ 160.00 per group (up to 35 persons)
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Petersberg Citadel
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Small Synagogue Meeting Place
Used as a place of worship by the Jewish community from 1840-1884, today the synagogue is a meeting place with a special commitment to German-Jewish relations.
Contact
Catherine Leifheit
Manager city tours
Benediktsplatz 1
99084 Erfurt
+49 361 - 66 40 120
citytour@erfurt-tourismus.de
Franziska Gebauer
city tours
Benediktsplatz 1
99084 Erfurt
+49 361 - 66 40 120
citytour@erfurt-tourismus.de
