Germany House (Essen)

Germany House (Essen)
Basic data
Place:	Essen city center
Construction time :	1928-1929
Architect :	Jacob Koerfer
Use / legal
Usage :	technical town hall, office building, commercial building
Technical specifications
Height :	37.4 m
Floors :	9
Building material :	Reinforced concrete , steel
address
City:	eat
Country:	Germany

The Deutschlandhaus is now an office and commercial building in downtown Essen on Lindenallee. It was built in 1928 and 1929 as a technical town hall and is considered the city's first high-rise . It has been a listed building since 1988 .

history

In the 18th century yet a preferred residential area of the wealthy citizens, the area between Trentelgasse, Kapuzinergasse, Hirschlandplatz and lime avenue in the course of developing local reorganization fast becoming a modern downtown core, especially as the financial district excelled.

According to the will of the city fathers, a technical town hall was to be built on the property of Krupp director Richard Förster . The Cologne architect and real estate entrepreneur Jacob Koerfer received this property on a long lease from the city of Essen and built the Deutschlandhaus there .

After only a year of construction, the city of Essen was able to move into its new technical town hall. Since then, the use has changed insignificantly and this building (now with a modernized exterior facade) still houses the city of Essen as a tenant.

The property was expanded in 1990 with the addition of a shopping arcade, the Lindengalerie, and a parking garage directly adjacent to the property.

building

After construction began on June 1, 1928, the ten-story Germany house with a height of 37.4 meters was completed around a year later. It stands on a plot of 4,214 square meters and includes around 96,700 cubic meters of enclosed space.

The parking garage on the north side of the Deutschlandhaus has 1,931 square meters with 16,183 cubic meters of enclosed space. It was designed by the Essen office of Genheimer & Partner and built between 1989 and 1990.

On October 1, 1990, the extension of the shopping arcade was completed. There is a public paternoster lift in the house . The entire ground floor houses shops. In 1988 the Germany House was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Essen.