Banking house Suermondt

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The Suermondt bank in Aachen , Theaterstrasse 9, is a monumental, neo-baroque bank building built in 1900 by the Aachen architect Eduard Linse . The house has been partially listed since 1977 .

History of construction and use

Banking house Suermondt 2012

In 1900 the banker Robert Suermondt had Eduard Linse built a bank building at Theaterstrasse 9. Bankhaus Robert Suermondt & Cie. Was founded on October 22, 1901 - in the year the building was completed . liquidated. The building was owned by the Cockerill family for two years . In 1905 the banker Oligschlaeger took over the building and used it as the company headquarters and business premises. In 1925 the bank building became the seat of the banking business Probst & Co. founded in 1910 . a. housed the seat of the chief delegate of the high Interallied Rhineland Commission . In 1933 and 1934 the building was briefly owned by the Westdeutsche Bodenkreditanstalt . The Aachen-Leipziger Versicherungs-Gesellschaft used the building as its place of business since 1935. Since 1984 the house has been the seat of the United Aachen-Berlinische Versicherungs-AG , a subsidiary of the United Insurance .

The bank is located a few houses below the building of the Reichsbank headquarters in Aachen , Theaterstrasse 17, which was erected by Max Hasak in 1888 .

Building description

Lens designed the building symmetrically. The house consists of three floors, six axes and a mansard - hip roof . It has two entrances in the first and sixth axes, the two central axes are emphasized. The center of the Bel Etage is adorned with a two-axis balcony with a massive parapet in front of the third and fourth axis; in front of the first and sixth window axis there are single-axis balconies with a wrought-iron grille .

The emphasized outer and central axes are also provided with gables. The middle stone balcony rests on three heavy consoles , its parapet is decorated with an openwork ornament. The curved, wide and richly profiled gable iron surrounds a cartouche held by two large putti in the middle . Both the ground floor windows and the two entrances close with round arches, while the windows on the upper floors have segmental arches with a high pitch. The windows are crowned according to their position in the axis system of the facade and provided with balustrades .

A comparison of the two adjacent photographs from 1925 and 2012 illustrates the original roof design by Linse, a hipped roof with dormers, helmet crowning on the side axes, ridge grating and crowning in the middle. Under the middle balcony there are two inscriptions, on the left side Built in 1900 and on the right side Eduard Linse Architect .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Dieter Indetzki: economic region Aachen. Verlag Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, 1984, p. 238.
  2. ↑ Directory of the monuments in the area of ​​the city of Aachen (in the version of the 16th supplement) (PDF) aachen.de. P. 37. Accessed August 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Dauber : Aachen villa architecture. The villa as a building task in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1985, p. 69.
  4. ^ Address book of the city of Aachen 1903, p. 676.
  5. ^ Albert Huyskens (arr.): Germany's urban development - Aachen. 2nd edition, Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1925, p. 303.
  6. ^ Address book of the city of Aachen 1930, p. 109.
  7. ^ Address book of the city of Aachen 1933, p. 104.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 20.7 ″  E