Düsselschlösschen

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Street side of the Düsselschlösschen, before 1904

The Düssel castle was in the first half of the 20th century, a popular wine bar and landmark on Düsseldorf Rhine.

Located at the level of Burgplatz and opposite the castle tower (address Schloßufer No. 1), it was built in 1902 by the Düsseldorf city planner Johannes Radke in the form of Art Nouveau and Historicism . As part of the "Rheinufervorschaltung", which served the flood protection and the port development of the city, which grew rapidly through industrialization at the turn of the century , Radke had the three- story building , playfully modeled on a castle, as a tourist attraction of the Rhine bank promenade in the bank wall, which jumps in height to the "Lower Shipyard ”, integrated. Radke submitted the plans for the bank wall and the Düsselschlösschen, including detailed descriptions of the promenade railing and the superstructures (including level clock, patio with pilasters decorated with candelabras) in July 1901. The castle, which was the most prominent building on the new Rhine promenade, only took up a small area by building a tiny arcade over the pavement of the higher riverside road. The precious -looking architecture showed a play of protruding and recessed components in natural stone and industrial brick, crowned by a miniature roof landscape made of a crooked hip roof , onion domes , battlements, decorative gables and wrought iron ornaments. A decorative beacon was also installed on the roof .

For a long time the leaseholder was the well-known Düsseldorf wine wholesaler Eduard Hauth .

The name of the restaurant referred to the Düssel, which flows into the Rhine not far from the building . In the form of the diminutive Schlösschen , the name was also reminiscent of the Düsseldorf Palace , which was once located on the same spot , which burned down in 1872 and whose south wing, which was initially left, was torn down in 1896. For two generations, the wine bar, which contemporaries saw as an “old German wine house”, was the epitome of Düsseldorf cosiness and, alongside the “leaning tower” of St. Lambertus and the castle tower, was the city's third landmark and a popular postcard motif. In advertisements from the 1920s, the restaurant was touted as a “first-rate restaurant” where “mocha and evening concerts” were held.

Hans Reichert and Leo Hedler even wrote a hymn to the Düsselschlösschen : “At the old castle tower in Düsseldorf on the Rhine, there lives a little, blond girl. A quiet wine house just across the street. I will never forget the nice hours there. "

It was damaged by the bombing in the Second World War in August 1941 and immediately after the war it was demolished at the instigation of Walter Köngeters and Friedrich Tamms , also to make room for a new, wide Rheinuferstrasse ( Reichsstrasse 1 , later Bundesstrasse 1 ). Parts of the historic interior of his “Jan Wellem Hall” were saved and now form the furnishings of the Tante Anna's old town restaurant . After the construction of the Rhine bank tunnel and the Rhine front, which is now used again as the Rhine bank promenade , at the beginning of the 1990s, calls were made to rebuild the Düsselschlösschen. In March 2006, the FDP parliamentary group made the proposal to examine the reconstruction plans of the architect Helmut Hentrich . In January 2018, the Junge Union pushed the reconstruction debate back on.

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  • Advertisement in the Düsseldorf address book from 1902

  • Postcard view of the Burgplatz with the castle tower, Düsselschlösschen and the steel construction of the old Oberkassel Bridge , 1908

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Karnau: The Düsseldorf harbor. Economic policy and urban development in the Wilhelmine era . Studies on Düsseldorf Economic History, Vol. 4, Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 978-3-7700-3034-7
  2. ↑ Oliver Karnau: Düsseldorf on the Rhine. The architectural and urban redesign of the banks of the Rhine around 1900 . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, pp. 13, 48, 70
  3. ↑ Junge Union: Should the Düsselschlösschen go back to the Rhine promenade? , Express, February 14, 2018

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 39.2 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 14.5 ″  E