Aachener Strasse 218 (Mönchengladbach)

Residential office building Aachener Strasse 218

The residential office building at Aachener Strasse 218 is in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the Westend district . It was built in 1911. The house was entered under No. A 003 on December 4, 1984 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

It is a three-storey corner building under a voluminous mansard roof with protruding eaves cornices . Façade designs in the same simple, objectified canon of forms of reform architecture , but with varying details. Consistent structuring of all facade surfaces through an imitation of natural stone in restrained plaster ashlar . The corner position is emphasized by a broad frontal front with central axial accentuation - wide entrance, two paired vertical rectangular windows with balconies - and a ground floor porch, the two pitched roofs of which border the balcony of the first floor.

The area of ​​the expanded mansard roof is broken through by four, equally spaced, narrow, vertical windows. The facade facing Aachener Straße shows an asymmetrical structure with emphasis on the left facade section by means of a two-storey box bay window and a gabled dwarf house , which continues to the right without gableing with a gable / hipped roof . Opening of the ground floor through two stilted arched windows and two arched house entrances , which flank two narrow, vertical rectangular windows combined in pairs. With regular ranking each of four windows of the two upper floors are constructed as a smooth cut in the wall surface high rectangles with planar Verdachungsdreieck.

The roof two about breaking through dormers . The facade facing Burggrafenstrasse is formulated as the main viewing area. Two identical oriel designs in a symmetrical arrangement dominate the front, which is otherwise only structured by rhythmic rows of windows - two grouped in pairs and a single rectangular window flanked by two small window openings. The suspicious ornamentation corresponds to that of the parallel front; The two dormer windows are also designed in the same way.

The building was completed in November 1911 and used as a restaurant and residential building.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

Individual evidence

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB). 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2012 (227.14 kB). 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 21.6 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 11.4"  E