Shaping the future together.
© COS, Die Gebäude am Ziegelstadel 1 vor dem Umbau
In 1954, Carl Orff and his wife at the time, the writer Luise Rinser, purchased the property at Ziegelstadel 1 in Dießen St. Georgen. The two buildings, which were constructed in the mid-19th century, changed hands several times over the years.Orff's brother-in-law, the landscape architect Alwin Seifert, had pointed out the house and its park-like garden to the artist couple. Orff and Rinser were immediately enthusiastic. They commissioned Alwin Seifert to completely renovate the house. In her autobiographical novel Saturn auf der Sonne (Saturn on the Sun), Luise Rinser describes the property before the renovation in vivid detail.
»It would have been just like my dream house: one storey, with a high gabled roof, sloping corners so that all the rooms looked like bay windows, incredibly cosy; plus 30,000 square metres of land, gently sloping, with a small wood to the west, two large old trees in front of the house, a walnut tree and a copper beech. And from the house, the view stretched across the Ammersee to Andechs and south over the Murnauer Moor to the mountains. Attached to the main house was another, smaller one. We bought the property on 29 November 1954.«
– Luise Rinser, Saturn auf der Sonne –
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The 19th-century buildings were renovated in the architectural style of Sepp Ruf and the 1950s. Orff and Rinser moved into the property in 1956. For them, it was a retreat from war-torn Munich. Here, they both wanted to work in peace.Since 2018, the property and garden have been listed as a historic monument to preserve Carl Orff's legacy and honour Orff's brother-in-law Alwin Seifert in his dual role as architect and landscape architect. Carl Orff's study has been preserved in its original condition since his death and can be viewed as part of a museum tour.
The museum dedicated to the life and work of Carl Orff opens his place of work and final residence to the public. An extension complements the listed Orff estate with a residential and work building, a pergola and a landscaped park.This extension has been designed to be unobtrusive in order to preserve the charm of the estate and enhance its effect.The high hall of the special exhibition, with its distinctive barrel vaulted roof, emphasises the address. Inside, clearly structured exhibition rooms offer a variety of views and perspectives within the building and its characteristic surroundings. The concrete ribbed construction is reminiscent of the wooden beam ceilings in the existing building and makes the rooms column-free and therefore versatile. The calm material concept in the interior is characterised by the visible concrete, which is highly thermally insulated, and oak fixtures. In addition, the climate stability of the materials reduces the amount of building services required. The circular route through the entire ensemble is barrier-free.Axel Frühauf, meck architekten
