Narrow wall patterns and lightly embedded parapets summarize the three lowest floors. The four-story building is divided into six groups of windows, each of which has three windows.
However, in the same year, it was decided to use the new construction of concrete skeletons and a simpler façade design. The first plans of the architect Jean Schmidt in 1907 show a brick building on a stone base, which was covered by a sloping roof and a slate roof.
The oldest part of this row of tall buildings is now hidden by a new building at the Schützenstraße. In the first years, residential buildings and workshops on the Laufdorfer Weg were still sufficient.Īt the turn of the century, the production of optical devices expanded so much that it originated the first skyscrapers in the city of Wetzlar. The Wetzlar factory was located on the opposite side of the administrative building of 1957 and formed a special urban architecture it is upstream from the slope of Kalsmunt and forms a structurally attractive graduation from the skyscrapers to the ruins of Kalsmunt Castle.Īlready in the last decades of the 19th century, Ernst Leitz and its production facilities had moved to the slopes of Kalsmunt.
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