Heerdt depot
The depot Heerdt is a depot of Rheinbahn in the district Heerdt the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Dusseldorf .
Entrance building
The entrance to the depot at the intersection of Kevelaerer Strasse, Eupener Strasse, Burgunderstrasse and Heerdter Landstrasse is built over with a distinctive residential building. There is a stationery shop with a post office on the ground floor of the left wing. The building was from 1928 to 1929 according to plans of the Düsseldorf architect Eduard Lyonel Wehner and Wilhelm Elmpt for the Rheinische course company AG built in 1997 it was included in the list of monuments entered the city. It is considered an example of expressionist brick architecture in the Rhineland. The assembly consists of a four-storey building with several wings, to the side of the gate-like passage for the trams, a tower sets an urban accent on the street corner. This is structured by pilaster strips and is crowned by battlements . On the four corner battlements there were originally winged wheels as a symbol of rail traffic. They were based on the logo of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft. One of the lions that previously adorned the Ludwig-Loewe -Haus, from 1939 the domicile of the Rheinbahn head office at the main station in Düsseldorf, is still standing on the site .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
- ↑ Marlis Trapitz: Dusseldorf: monument , "Historical depot entrance Heerdt. Designed by the architects Elmpt and Layonel Wehner ”, on lokalkompass.de, on August 18, 2014
- ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, p. 147, object no. 213.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 43.8 " N , 6 ° 41 ′ 54" E