Denkstrasse

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Dauphinestrasse
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Street in Linz
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place Linz
District Kleinmünchen
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The Denkstraße is a street in the Upper Austrian capital Linz . It is located in the statistical district of Kleinmünchen-Auwiesen . The street was originally unofficially called Linzer Straße and was named after Robert Blum in Robert-Blum-Straße in 1929 . After the February fights , the street was named Denkstraße in 1934 after the pastor and initiator of the new church building for the parish church in Kleinmünchen, Josef Denk (1846-1916).

Location and characteristics

The approximately 800-meter-long street branches off to the west from Wiener Straße and runs first in a westerly direction, then in a south-westerly direction, roughly parallel to Zeppelinstrasse . At the end of its course, Denkstrasse makes a long curve to the south and joins Dauphinestrasse . The Kleinmünchen police station is located in building Denkstrasse 16.

building

No. 12 villa construction

The two-storey villa building was built in 1928 by architects Anton Estermann and Armin Sturmberger for city councilor Karl Steiger . The villa is characterized by expressionistic forms and a high pagoda-like hipped roof. Further accents were set by polygonal porches on the ground floor and profiled window pillars on the first and second floors.

No. 38 residential building

The residential building from the Wilhelminian era has a simple, symmetrical facade. The ground floor was accentuated by profiled, tubed window frames, on the upper floor there are rosette-adorned parapet fields over a cordon cornice.

No. 41 residential building

The late founding house built in 1903 by Ferdinand Bachbaur for Johann Glas has a simple, historicist facade design with a grooved ground floor. The upper floor windows were designed with tubular frames, sills and parapet fields in panel form.

No. 42 residential building

The simple historicist house was built in 1899 by master builder Breinesberger for the master chimney sweep couple Maria and Josef Felberbauer.

No. 43 corner house

The corner house at Schickmayrstrasse 1 was built by M. Roithner between 1899 and 1900 for Ignaz Wane. The late-historical corner house with a beveled corner has a grooved ground floor facade and was structured on the upper floor by grooved pilaster strips . The window frames are also decorated with masks and volutes .

No. 49 Villa-like residential building

The building was built in 1935 by the construction company J. Müller & F. Paral for the advance fund association for the parish of Kleinmünchen. The free-standing residential building with a hipped gable roof has sill and lintel cornices drawn around the corners, the windows are adorned with arches and wedge stones on the cornice.

No. 52 Josef Schmid department store

see Dauphinestraße 54

No. 53 residential building

see Zeppelinstrasse 58

literature

  • Herfried Thaler, Bernhard Prokisch and others: Austrian Art Topography, Volume LV “The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz”, III. Part: Outside areas, Urfahr, Ebelsberg. Berger & Söhne, Ferdinand, 2001, published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Inventory and Monument Research, ISBN 978-3-85028-343-4 , S: 316 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. linz.at city's history, Linzer street names

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 22.9 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 1.7 ″  E