Residential and commercial building Kleine Schwalbacher Straße

The new building replaces a three-storey building that originally housed a tiny tobacco store on its first floor and was therefore called the “pipe house”. The old building had been in a dilapidated, collapse-prone state for years and was demolished in 2010.

The property is located in Wiesbaden’s pedestrian zone, in the middle of the so-called “Historic Pentagon”, the historic core of the Hessian state capital.

With a pitched roof made of natural slate, façades made of beige natural stone and light-colored plaster, vertical window formats and horizontal friezes, the new building takes up the main design principles of the neighboring buildings.

This also applies to the design of the corner of the building, which is traditionally given special treatment at road junctions and thus emphasized. The now raised lantern of the new building marks the transition from Kleine Schwalbacher Strasse to Kirchgasse.

The plinth zone, built from Dittfurt limestone, is designed as a mezzanine floor and, as with the previous building, accommodates a store. The upper levels accommodate a doctor’s surgery and further apartments, with the apartment on the third and fourth floors designed as a maisonette. The building’s lantern, designed as a loggia, offers an impressive view of Wiesbaden’s city center.