Disch house

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Disch-Haus is the name of an office and commercial building in the Cologne city center district , Brückenstraße 19 / corner of Herzogstraße 36.

The Disch House in Cologne

History of origin

Fritz-Gruber-Platz - Disch House

It takes its name from the “Hotel Disch”, originally built on this site according to a design by the Cologne architect Josef Felten and opened in October 1848 by the Cologne art collector Franz Karl Damian Disch (* 1821, † November 6, 1880 in Cologne). The Cologne address book from 1846 named Disch as an innkeeper. The magnificent building, with its Rococo hall suitable for chamber music, was one of the most internationally renowned hotels in Cologne, because in its category there was only the Dom Hotel . After the death of its owner, the hotel was auctioned off in May 1881 by the restorer Joseph Christoph from Frankfurt / Main. On February 8, 1890, he founded the operating company “Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG”, on whose supervisory board Peter Werhahn was. The first renovation was carried out in 1890 by the famous team of architects Heinrich Joseph Kayser and Karl von Großheim . Another renovation of the hotel took place in 1912, but it was closed in April 1929. The hotel has hosted famous international guests and hosted important gatherings. Here on December 20, 1859, the first honorary citizen of Cologne, Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, died of phlegm fever . In May 1914 the delegates' meeting of the “Central Association of German Industrialists” took place in the hotel.

  • Hotel Disch (lithograph; January 1848)

  • Hotel Disch (1912)

  • Hotel Disch, dance hall (1912)

  • Hotel Disch, lithograph (October 15, 1912)

Disch Hotel und Verkehrs AG shares from December 1929

The "Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG" belonged to the circle of interests of the banker Martin Sternberg, who lives in Amsterdam. When Disch-AG went bankrupt, the Martin Sternberg bank owned a package of Disch shares, which had sold its shares to the Düsseldorfer Baubank to cover a debit balance. The city acquired the hotel in 1928 from the bankruptcy of Disch AG, which expired on October 5, 1929.

In the meantime, in July 1928, the architects Bruno Paul and Franz Weber had won a competition for the construction of a monumental municipal administration building, which was still advertised by the “Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG”. The corner building was designed in the New Objectivity style as a rotunda, which provided for transverse banding of the window areas and included a striking staircase. The ribbon windows result in a horizontally structured arched facade, while the ground floor is completely divided into shop windows. It is considered the most important testimony to the New Objectivity in the cathedral city and one of the main works of the architect Bruno Paul. The building was also one of the first structures in which thin natural stone slabs were hung on a large scale. The inauguration took place on February 1, 1930. The top floor fell victim to an air raid during World War II, so that today there are only 5 floors left. The building is now a listed building .

Change of ownership

In the restored building, the city of Cologne successively housed the property office, later the city curator, the city center town hall, the social welfare office and the auditing office. In November 2005 the city of Cologne sold the Disch-Haus to a consortium consisting of the Swiss real estate fund UBS, Colonia Real Estate AG and Redos Real Estate GmbH for 18.3 million euros. The consortium then fundamentally refurbished the building and rented the 7,700 m² of office space. The Westphalian mail order company Manufactum was acquired as the anchor tenant . The base-driven Schindler paternoster elevator installed in 1952 is one of five paternosters still approved in Cologne and survived the renovations in the Disch building. In December 2008, the building became the property of the Bavarian Supply Chamber for 40 million euros.

Web links

Commons : Disch-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fuchs (ed.): Chronicle of the history of the city of Cologne . Volume 2, 1991, p. 211.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hagspiel (ed.): Cologne - An architecture guide . 1999, No. 47.
  3. ↑ German Natural Stone Association e. V. (Hrsg.): 100 years of associations of the natural stone industry, natural stone, claim and obligation . Marktheidenfeld 2000, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Thomas Deres, Joachim Oepen, Stefan Wunsch (eds.): Cologne in the Empire - studies on becoming a modern city . sh Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89498-163-1 , p. 117.
  5. ↑ List of monuments. City curator of the city of Cologne, accessed on October 8, 2013 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 17 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 14.9"  E