Wire house
The wire house at Kaiserswerther Straße 137 in Düsseldorf - Golzheim was built from 1951 to 1952 according to plans by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser for the professional association of the wire industry. Employee was Hubert Petschnigg (HPP). It is an exemplary post-war building which, with its "dissolved filigree facade, was trend-setting for the architecture of the 1950s in Germany".
description
The outer front is divided into four floors. The façade is divided into a front layer and a rear layer. The front layer consists of tubular steel columns that form the supporting structure of the steel frame construction. The rear layer is set back from the front and shows glass walls with composite steel windows that are large, have three lanes and extend over the entire height of the storey. Steel frames were attached to the tubular steel supports, which stood "free in front of the glass walls with composite steel windows," which were braced in a zigzag shape with wire and used as parapets. This wire is to be understood as a reference to the client, the professional association of the wire industry.
In the green area, on the right in front of the main front of the wire house, there is the larger than life sculpture Standing Young Man by the sculptor Georg Kolbe . Another sculpture by Kolbe, the Rising Youth , was set up a few hundred meters south in the main courtyard .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 122, object no. 178.
- ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 35.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 45 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 9.8" E