The Baumann House is a
listed building in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
, Denmark. The building was constructed in 1911 and was listed in the national Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the
Danish Heritage Agency
The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces ( da, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen) is an agency under the aegis of the Danish Ministry of Culture. The agency carries out the cultural policies of the Danish government within the visual and performing arts, ...
on 18 September 1996.
The building is situated in the central
Indre By neighborhood on ''Jægergårdsgade'' adjacent to the
Aarhus Central Workshops.
History
The building was constructed as the administrative offices of the
Danish National Railroad's central rail workshops in Aarhus. The workshops had been the primary repair facility for trains and trams in
Jutland and
Fuenen from 1880 and the workforce had grown steadily to some 750 people by 1910. The constant expansion of the national railroads and the growing rolling stock meant the workshops were constantly expanding necessitating an administrative unit to oversee the work. The office building was completed in 1911.
The workforce peaked with some 1850 people in the post-war years but in the 1950s repair work was gradually centralized in
Copenhagen and the workforce gradually started shrinking in the following decades. in 1990 DSB decided to close the facility and reassign the remaining 140 workers. The buildings were listed in 1995 after which they were sold off.
In 2007 the two bottom floors were used for fitness and spinning.
Architecture
The building was designed by
Povl Baumann
Povl Erik Raimund Baumann (9 November 1878 – 3 July 1963) was a Danish architect who was a central figure during the transition from Neoclassicism to Functionalism in Danish residential architecture. In 1910, he was one of the founders of ''De ...
from whom the building gets its name. The building has powerful proportions and contrary to other buildings in the area it stands freely, separated from other structures. It is situated on the highest point in the area, on a hill overlooking the workshops below. The building material is red brick like most other structures in the area. The roof is pitched and features a large dormer window on the front facade with a balcony on top while there's a series of smaller dormer windows behind. Brick cornices frame the eaves on the front and back.
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Listed buildings in Aarhus
Houses completed in 1911
Neoclassical architecture in Aarhus