Erbacher Strasse 4 (Darmstadt)
| Residential house and office, Erbacher Strasse 4 | |
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 Frontage of Erbacher Strasse 4, Darmstadt |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| Client | Wilhelm Ganss |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Construction year | 1894/1895 and 1904 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '28.8 " N , 8 ° 39' 43.5" E |
The house and office at Erbacher Straße 4 is a building in Darmstadt .
History and description
The house and office of the Darmstadt building contractor Wilhelm Ganss was built in 1894/1895 and 1904.
The front building from 1894/1895 has a historicizing facade in yellow clinker brick with sandstone decor . The structure was damaged in an air raid in 1944 . After the war there was a low level of reconstruction.
The two-storey rear building - an extension of a Wilhelminian style core - was built in 1904 according to plans by the architect Carl Zimmer . The back building received a contemporary redesign of the facade with an Art Nouveau plaster ornamentation and stucco decoration in the risalit . The decorative blue glazed clinker bricks go back to a collaboration with Joseph Maria Olbrich .
Monument protection
The house and office at Erbacher Straße 4 is a typical example of Art Nouveau at the turn of the century in Darmstadt. The building is a cultural monument for architectural, architectural and city-historical reasons .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen .) Vieweg Verlag , Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 327.