Cremonhaus

Façade of the Cremonhaus (partial view)

Sketch of the original floor plan (front building, upper floor)

Ornamental forms over the portal with war damage

The Cremonhaus is a historic office building in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Altstadt . It is on Cremon Street, number 11 on the former Cremon Island .

Building history and use

The house was built from 1905 to 1906 according to plans by the architect Gustav CE Blohm. Together with FX Laub he was also the client. The building originally consisted of two houses, a front building with rentable offices and a rear building. The secret annex has not been preserved. It was used as a warehouse and was located on the Katharinenfleet, which was filled in in 1946.

The facade of the front building is generally well preserved. Only the richly decorated entrance portal shows war damage from the Second World War. The simple top floor is also no longer original. It was rebuilt in a simplified way. Inside, the original furnishings have been replaced by unadorned tiling.

Building description (front building)

It is a four-axis brick building with a sandstone base, which can be seen as an early example of the Heimat style. Light decorative elements contrast with the dark hard-fired bricks. Five upper floors follow over a basement, the upper one in the roof zone.

The entrance axis is particularly prominent on the facade. It is designed as a protruding risalit with square wall pillars and a baroque roof structure. The massive entrance portal extends into the upper floors. It has expansive decorative forms that are influenced by the Baroque , but also contain elements of Art Nouveau . Decorative elements can also be found on some window parapets and on a bay console.

Three-part bulged windows, so-called bow windows, are let into the entrance on the third and fourth floors. These windows can also be found in the next but one axis. There they form a flat bay window that extends from the second to the fourth floor.

See also

• List of office buildings in Hamburg

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• Gisela Schütte: Hamburger Kontorhäuser until 1914. Volume 3, edited on behalf of the Monument Protection Office with a grant from the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Hamburg 1975
• Ralf Lange : The Hamburg office building - architecture, history, monument. Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-067-7

Web links

Commons : Cremonhaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ralf Lange: The Hamburg office building. Hamburg 2015, p. 218

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 43.6 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 18.8"  E