Büchelpalais
The Büchelpalais is a residential and commercial building in Aachen . It was built in 1889 in the neo-renaissance style and is located at Büchel (house number 10) on the corner of Rethelstrasse. The building is entered as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Aachen .
history
As can be seen from the county book from around 1460 , the wool kitchen , which was mentioned in a document since 1315 and was necessary for the production of the woolen kitchen, which was very important in medieval Aachen , was once located here . In 1668 - a few years after the great fire in Aachen - the building was still known as the wool kitchen. In 1685, the house was first as a storehouse designated as urban and until at least 1789 corn market used. The entire property, both the wool kitchen and the granary, was much larger than the current building.
In the 19th century the building served as a market hall for the local butchers (address until 1857: Litera A.1165 ) and was replaced by a new market hall in 1855 by the city architect Friedrich Joseph Ark . In 1857 the house was given house number 10. After Rethelstrasse had broken through, the hall was demolished in 1885 and the current building was erected in 1889.
Until 2006, the Büchelpalais was owned by the von den Driesch family, who ran a household goods store there. During the renovation work in 2006 and 2007, which were archaeologically monitored, the construction management came across a water pipe, the age and purpose of which has not yet been conclusively determined: it may be a canal for the woolen kitchen in large volume of water required. According to this, the canal most likely dates from the 14th to 17th centuries. For a while, the exposed water pipe could be viewed as an archaeological window in the historic cellar of the corner shop during opening hours; it is currently no longer accessible. Since the renovation work, the house has been called the Büchelpalais .
building
The new building from 1889 is a four-storey red-brown brick building with four to two axes, with the rounded corner forming another axis of its own, in which the door to the shop is located. The side walls are stabilized with stylish safety anchors and decorated with medallion ornamentation , in which imaginative heads have been incorporated. In the basement there are large windows for the shop exhibition, which are framed in bluestone . On the other hand, on the first and second floors of the lateral axes there are cross- frame windows , over the lintel of which segment arches adorned with five wedge stones are placed, the surfaces of which are decorated with coat of arms ornamentation and ornate fantasy heads. The corner axis on these floors is built like a bay window and equipped with three-part arched windows. The third floor has twin arched windows and the roof is equipped with dormer windows on each axis . The corner axis is crowned by a multi-curved hood .
Web links
- Büchelpalais in Aachen , on placesonline.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduard Philipp Arnold : Residential buildings and public profane buildings in Aachen and the surrounding area , Aachen History Association , no year
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '34.1 " N , 6 ° 5' 5.93" E