Citadellstrasse 17

Citadellstrasse 17 building

The door entrance from Citadellstrasse 17

The house Citadellstraße 17 in Dusseldorf is a Grade II listed building .

history

Heimeshoff dates the year of construction to the end of the 17th century. In 1927 the house was partially rebuilt, the cellar ceiling was partially renewed. The passage was newly created. In 1969 the house was modernized again. The main staircase was renewed.

description

Jörg Heimeshoff describes the three-story house with two courtyard wings. The facade is seven axes wide. The entrance is in the central axis, has a stone frame and is emphasized by an entablature. The front door with skylight comes from the time the house was built.

Paul Sültenfuß and Josef Kleesattel pay tribute to the front door with a frame and skylight. A special feature of the Lower Rhine architecture was to reduce the building plastic with brick material. The building sculpture was limited to the central axis - the front door with a frame and skylight.

“ It was an old tradition from the Lower Rhine, namely, as we have already learned from the material of the brick, to distribute picturesque decorations only sparingly over the facade, usually only to give the front door, its skylight and its framing a richer design. […] Citadellstr. 17 shows perhaps the most beautiful design of these house doors (Fig. 126): door panels such as skylights a light scrollwork and shell work [...] "

literature

Theo Lücker: Düsseldorf - around Karlstadt . Verlag Goethe-Buchhandlung Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1990, pp. 111–112 [Citadellstrasse 17. Fritz Gehlen: The last pupil of the Dumont-Lindemann era].

Web links

Commons : Citadellstrasse 17 (Düsseldorf) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Jörg Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf. Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , pp. 73-74.
^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 91
^ Josef Kleesattel (Ed.): Alt-Düsseldorf in the picture. A collection of local art from the Lower Rhine region. Schmitz and Olbertz, Düsseldorf 1909, plate 72 Oberlicht- u. Door decoration.
^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, pp. 90-91

51.223 6.76998Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 22.8 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 11.9" E

[Heimeshoff-1] A ^b Jörg Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf. Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , pp. 73-74.

[2] Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 91

[3] Josef Kleesattel (Ed.): Alt-Düsseldorf in the picture. A collection of local art from the Lower Rhine region. Schmitz and Olbertz, Düsseldorf 1909, plate 72 Oberlicht- u. Door decoration.

[4] Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, pp. 90-91