Stadt Wolfen, Wolfen-Nord
June 2014
Stadt Wolfen was one of the showpieces of the late GDR years. Located in the middle of a prefabricated housing estate, it remained popular as a restaurant and discotheque after the German reunification. There’s a community of fans who reminisce “the hottest parties” that went down at StaWo / Time Discoland from 1992 to 2002. Wolfen and the Bitterfeld region suffered from deindustrialization and depopulation. After standing vacant for a long time, the decaying building is set to be demolished.
What’s still left are the signs in the Ultra Bold Italic style of Churchward Design. The geometric letterfroms of the once trendy sans were drawn at the other end of the globe, by Samoan New Zealand designer Joseph Churchward (1932–2013).
In July 2009, the building housed a döner joint (with signs in Arnold Böcklin). The “Treffpunkt Wolfen” sign had white letters.
