Breite Strasse 25 (Düsseldorf)

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Building Breite Strasse 25

The building at Breite Straße 25 in Düsseldorf was built as the Düsseldorf main administration building for the Barmer Bankverein from 1911 to 1912 based on designs by Carl Moritz and Werner Stahl in the neoclassical style. The facades of the building are under monument protection .

history

In 1910, the Cologne architects Carl Moritz and Werner Stahl presented a design for the new main administration building of the Barmer Bankverein in Düsseldorf, which was carried out from 1911 to 1912. 1932 took Commerzbank in their merger this building with the Barmer bank association. Today it is home to a branch of Commerzbank and various subsidiaries of the company.

description

The original core of the bank building is a single-storey corner building with a recessed attic storey with Tempietto at the corner of Benrather Strasse and Breite Strasse , which is enclosed on both sides by a four-storey, three-axis angular structure. The ground floor zone of the Tempietto consists of three arched positions with figure niches above, alternating with fluted colossal pilasters. The second floor is a round building ( tambour ) with a domed vault, whereby the substructure has been designed according to the antique round temple model with a column wreath.

The facades of the single-storey corner building from 1912 are divided into three axes on Benrather Strasse and six on Breite Strasse. These show fluted , wide colossal pilasters with recessed window fields and two windows on top of each other on the plinth and ground floor. A surrounding stone balustrade forms the upper end . Two stone figures by the sculptors Georg Grasegger and Josef Moest - resting on pillars - are in front of the parapet.

In 1924 the architects Carl Moritz and Albert Betten extended the four-storey building on Benrather Strasse to the west as far as Kasernenstrasse , so that a symmetrical, thirteen-axis, four-storey facade was created here. In 1951 the building was rebuilt after war damage. In 1956, the roof was expanded into a staggered storey typical of the time , but the seven-axis central section of the wing on Benrather Strasse was increased by two full storeys. In order to expand the building complex, a twelve-storey high-rise was built from 1962 to 1965 on Kasernenstrasse opposite the old building, designed by the architect Paul Schneider-Esleben . The two buildings were connected to one another via a closed pedestrian bridge crossing Kasernenstrasse . The ticket hall was rebuilt in 1966 (by Hentrich and Petschnigg ) and again in 1992 (by Helmut Kohl and Stadler Projekt GmbH).

Art-historical classification

The bank palace originally displayed an ideological pathos, such as allegories of trade, science and the arts. With the new large hall design, this pathos was overcome, the Düsseldorf main administration building of the Barmer Bankverein is regarded as a building "where one (has) refrained from every iconic sign and achieves an aesthetic effect only through the composition of the building materials and shapes" .

It is “a new idea that the architects should also show the function and importance of the cash desk on the outside by emphasizing the corner building adorned with neo-classical forms through the Tempietto”.

literature

  • Svetlozar Raev: Banks and Insurance. In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland. Volume 2. Architecture: II, Profane Buildings and Urban Development. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 255-270, here p. 264 f.
  • Peter Haiko (ed.): The architecture of the XX. Century, magazine for modern architecture. Representative cross-section through the 14 published years 1901 to 1914. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 . (Figure 512)
  • Evelyn Chamrad: Barmer Bankverein . In: Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (eds.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evelyn Chamrád: Barmer bank association. In: Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (eds.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  3. ↑ Raev, pp. 260f.
  4. ↑ Chamrad, p. 33

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 36.3 ″  E