Eickhaus
The Eickhaus is a commercial building in downtown Essen that was built in 1915 according to plans by the architect Georg Metzendorf and is a listed building .
history
Previous building
The following two predecessor buildings existed on the property of the office building between Kettwiger Strasse and Rathenaustrasse, which was built from 1913 onwards :
Hannes Schnutenhaus's inn - he was one of the last two farmers on Kettwiger Strasse - was taken over by Johann Schulte in the middle of the 19th century. He continued to run it as a restaurant and economy and was known to the Essenes as Schultenhännes . The building was demolished in 1894.
Then a representative corner house with Art Nouveau elements was built, in which an upscale beer bar was operated. The Schulte family rented it out to a Mr. Ehrlich in 1901. A little later, J. Neumann's cigar business was established here. After the city of Essen bought the building in 1910, it was later demolished.
Restaurant and economy by Johann Schulte, until 1894
Direct predecessor of the Eickhaus
Eickhaus
The Eickhaus, which has been preserved to this day, was built between 1913 and 1915. After a design competition from 1911, the house was built according to plans by the architect Georg Metzendorf. The client and first owner was the Kettwigerstraße-Grundbesitzgesellschaft mbH, founded by the city of Essen and the Eick Söhne company. It served the shareholders to implement the important urban development project. The first tenant of the house was the furniture and furnishings store of the Eick Söhne company , from which the common name Eickhaus is derived. Before that, the company, still known as A. Eick Söhne , had its business on what was then Gildehofstrasse and Mühlenstrasse (today I. Dellbrügge).
The company Eick Söhne mainly sold home furnishings, carpets and decorations. In the center of the house there was a two-storey, marble-clad carpet room with a gallery. In the shop windows, the Essen spatial art group exhibited spatial art objects it had designed itself. The architects Georg Metzendorf, Edmund Körner and Alfred Fischer as well as the artist Adolf Holub belonged to this artists' association.
With the opening of the new house on Kettwiger Strasse during the First World War , economic problems followed. At the same time, the Schürmann furniture store (now AppelrathCüpper ) opened on Burgstrasse (today Kettwiger Strasse 44) in 1915 , and it developed into a strong competitor. The space rented from the beginning for other shops in the Eickhaus increased significantly, so that offices and practices were also in the house. After the dissolution of the Eick Söhne company, extensive renovation work took place inside the building in 1932/33. In 1938 Raumkunst GmbH , a furniture store as the successor company to Eick Söhne , still owned over half of the total usable area of the building.
After severe damage from the Second World War , the house was rebuilt in different ways. The pagoda-like roof, once covered with copper sheets, was never restored. Instead, a sixth floor with a flat roof was added to the rear. The stone facade was repaired and has largely been preserved. There was also a flat canopy around the ground floor. The windows on the first floor on the south side of today's Willy-Brandt-Platz gave way to a smooth wall after 1957. In the north stood the Derendorf House, which was not part of the Eickhaus and was completely destroyed in the war. During the reconstruction, the new building was adapted to the Eickhaus. In the 1950s, the clothing chain Peek & Cloppenburg moved into the Eickhaus. In 1989, an employee of Peek & Cloppenburg founded the fashion chain Anson's Herrenhaus in Essen, which still operates a shop in the Eickhaus today.
On August 24, 2000 the Eickhaus was placed under monument protection. The scope of protection was extended in January 2018 to include the staircase facing Rathenaustraße. The storey erected after the war and the Derendorf house attached to the north are not protected.
In 2018 the building was sold to a Hamburg project developer. It was previously privately owned in the Netherlands . Starting in 2019, the house is to be completely renovated and then offer space for offices and retail.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Rieth: Essen in old views, Volume 2 . 7th edition. Zaltbommel, Netherlands 1991, ISBN 978-90-288-3097-4 .
- ↑ Eickhaus in the list of monuments of the city of Essen , accessed on July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Janet Lindgens, Martin Spletter: Will the Eick House get its roof back? In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , July 14, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 11.7 " N , 7 ° 0 ′ 45.6" E