Helmstedter Straße 60, Heritage monument in Magdeburg, Germany.
Helmstedter Straße 60 is a four-storey plastered corner building in Magdeburg-Sudenburg, built between 1880 and 1890, on the west side of Helmstedter Straße where Melanchthonstraße joins from the north. Its façades follow the Neo-Baroque style, with rustication on the ground floor, flat risalits and corner quoining marking the corner and edge axes, and window openings partly framed by pilastered aedicules with gables. Lavish stucco ornament fills the parapet panels, and a mansard roof with dormers covers the building.
Helmstedter Straße 60 was built between 1880 and 1890 as a four-storey rental apartment house in the Sudenburg district of Magdeburg. It is listed as a monument under registration number 094 82059 and forms part of the protected ensemble Helmstedter Straße 5–13, 53–55, 57–61. Heritage authorities regard it as the head building of the closed Gründerzeit street frontage and as an example of an upper-standard rental house of its construction period.
The corner building marks the head of a closed Gründerzeit block; its address falls within the protected ensemble Helmstedter Straße 5–13, 53–55, 57–61. Neighbouring house number 61 to the south is likewise listed. The name of the cross street, Melanchthonstraße, recalls the reformer Philipp Melanchthon, linking the address to Magdeburg's Protestant memory.
The house stands on the west side of Helmstedter Straße at its corner with Melanchthonstraße, in Magdeburg's Sudenburg district rather than the city centre. It is a private residence, so visitors view the neobaroque facades, corner quoining and mansard roof only from the public street; the neighbouring house at number 61 is also protected.
The building is listed in Magdeburg's monument register under the number 094 82059. It also belongs to the protected ensemble Helmstedter Straße 5–13, 53–55, 57–61, and its southern neighbour at number 61 is likewise protected. Heritage records treat it as an example of an upper-standard rental flat of its construction period.
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