Logenhaus

Logenhaus stands in Fürth, Germany, as a freestanding three-storey building surrounded by a spacious garden. Leonhard Bürger designed it for the Freemason lodge Zur Wahrheit und Freundschaft between 1890 and 1891. Richly carved sandstone façades combine Neorenaissance and Historicist forms with Oriental and Moorish details. Alfred Babée designed the garden, while wrought-iron fencing rests on a sandstone base around the grounds.

The lodge began in 1803, and merchant Wolf Wilhelm Mailaender donated the land for construction. National Socialist authorities confiscated the property after the lodge refused to exclude its Jewish members. Restitution returned the building to the lodge in 1948, after wartime persecution and private ownership. A 2014 façade renovation and later accessibility improvements added an elevator, stair lift, and accessible toilet.

Inside, a grand foyer leads past a wrought-iron staircase and mosaic flooring towards the renovated hall. A stained-glass cloverleaf window adds colour near the entrance. The rear upper floor contains a temple redesigned by Fritz Freitag in 1951. Hans Härdtlein painted Freemason ritual scenes across its ceiling frieze. Two female figures on the gable represent truth and friendship, giving the sandstone exterior its most distinctive human detail.