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Bauhaus Architecture in Celle, Lower Saxony
Modern German Buildings ? birthplace of ?Neues Bauen? – ?New Objectivity? ? 20C Functional Design
21 Jul 2018
Bauhaus Architecture in Celle, Lower Saxony
Location: Celle, Lower Saxony, South East Germany
Baroque meets Bauhaus in Celle
Thematic Bauhaus tours and several events await you in connection with the Bauhaus anniversary year 2019
Discover “Neues Bauen” in the Bauhaus style in Celle ©CTM GmbH
Bauhaus architecture designed by Otto Haesler – German Modernism
CELLE, July 2018 – With over 490 colourful half-timbered houses, Celle presents the largest compact ensemble of its kind in Europe and is one of the most splendid towns in Germany.
Photos © CTM GmbH
The picturesque Guelph Palace and the modern 24-hour art museum located next to the impressive Bomann Museum in the Old Town are well-known. Less well-known, however, is that Celle is effectively the birthplace of ?Neues Bauen? (?New Objectivity? ? modern functional building design) and with regard to Bauhaus architecture it ranks in the same league as the towns of Weimar and Dessau.

This is the case, not only in terms of the quantity of the beautifully preserved buildings which are still partially used for their original purpose, but also in terms of quality, such as the ?Altstädter Schule? which in the 1920s came to international fame as the ?Glass School?,...