Augustinerplatz 12 (Cologne)
The house Augustinerplatz 12 in Cologne (now Pipinstraße 4) was a residential and commercial building, which during the Second World War was destroyed.
history
The house was built in 1892/93 in the historicist style based on designs by the Cologne architect Adolf Nöcker . At the beginning of the 20th century, Post Office IV of the Imperial Upper Post Office was housed there. The Deutsche Automaten Gesellschaft (DAG), a subsidiary of the Stollwerck brothers , had rented a hall in the house. Films - twelve French short films - were shown here for the first time in Germany on April 20, 1896.
"The splendor of the later film and cinema metropolis Berlin , the attempt to claim the film as an" independent German invention "by the Berlin showmen Max and Emil Skladanowsky and the undeniable merits of the Berlin film pioneer Oskar Meßter make it all too easy to forget that - strictly speaking - the path of film in Germany did not begin in the Reich capital , but in the 'province'. If it is agreed that the place and the day of the first public screening of photographic motion pictures (not glued together to form ring films) held in the German Reich with the help of a projector as the birthplace and birthday of the film in Germany, the birth certificate should read "Cologne, Augustinerplatz No. 12 "and the date" 20. April 1896 «to be noted."
Building description
The main facade was divided into four storeys with a gable roof. Another façade carried out in several axes, with the central axis through design elements such as wall templates and round columns underwent an additional emphasis. Above all, however, the attic mansard tower, which is in supraposition over the central axis , with a conspicuous onion roof crowning , gave the main facade view an optical centering.
The facade design was given a clear, horizontal division into two parts by creating a circumferential balcony - with a wrought-iron railing - which took place immediately above the second floor level. The lower two floors were divided into a total of seven axes by installing several round columns .
The two upper floors, on the other hand, had only a five-axis subdivision, with a pilaster being used to structure the upper floor axes flanking the central axis .
literature
- Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings. 2nd year. Stuttgart architecture publishing house Kick, Stuttgart 1898.
- Bruno Fischli (Ed.): From seeing in the dark. Cinema stories of a city. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-922009-62-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cologne and its sights ... , edition 20, Verlag Boisserée, 1904, page 7
- ^ The first film recordings in Cologne in 1896, at www.koeln-im-film.de
- ↑ Bruno Fischli (ed.): From seeing in the dark. Cinema stories of a city. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-922009-62-X , p. 7
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 24.9 ″ E