Eulerhof

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Facade on Lindenstrasse

The Eulerhof is a multi-family residential development in Düsseldorf Flingern-Nord , Dorotheenstrasse 42–60 / Lindenstrasse 185–197 / Degerstrasse 47–55. It was built between 1925 and 1926 and has been a listed building since 1983 .

location

The Eulerhof forms the northern part of a closed perimeter block development , which - with partly older, partly younger buildings - extends south to Flurstrasse. The three wings of the Eulerhof enclose a green inner courtyard in which there are playgrounds and utilities. The inner courtyard is also accessed through a double gate passage in the building wing on Lindenstrasse.

history

The name "Eulerhof" refers to the country house of the Düsseldorf notary Joseph Euler , which already existed here around 1850 , who had created a summer residence in Flingern, which was then still a village and far outside of Düsseldorf. Here painters and musicians came as guests on summer Sundays, including Robert and Clara Schumann . The summer residence was inherited by the son Otto Euler , who continued the tradition of the salon on the Eulerhof. The country house was later sold to the city. The name of the traditional (now permanently closed) restaurant “Euler Hof” in Degerstraße 48 also reminded of the history of the location.

The four- to six-storey residential development was built in the years 1925–1926 by the Düsseldorfer Bürohaus-Gesellschaft mbH under the direction of building director Robert Meyer. The designing architects were Hermann vom Endt , his son Walter vom Endt and Josef Kleesattel .

architecture

Facade on Lindenstrasse
Facade on Degerstrasse
Gate passages on Lindenstrasse

The design of the facility in the sense of brick expressionism was already perceived as "generous" and "monumental" in the 1920s. The uniform overall effect of the strict cubic architecture is mainly due to the alternation between the brick masonry and the horizontal plaster strips between the sill and the window lintel (today in poor condition), which gives the entire building complex a pronounced horizontal emphasis, which is also underlined by the horizontally divided windows becomes. Only the stairwells set vertical accents with their wall templates. On Lindenstrasse, the more pronounced templates are arranged in pairs, here the stairwells on the 6th floor are emphasized by small round windows . The original stairwell windows on Dorotheenstrasse were replaced by glass blocks , thereby significantly changing the facade.

Although the clear, functional lines characterize the structure and the use of decorative associations that are actually typical of brick expressionism has been dispensed with, the architects nevertheless attached particular importance to carefully executed masonry associations . The machine-produced and sanded bricks with flush bearing and butt joints were placed in a rather rare combination of one binder layer and three stretcher layers and thus make a further small contribution to the horizontal emphasis of the architecture.

The entrances to Linden Street are stone emphasizes -Gebälke. The original battlements on the eaves of the four-storey component above the gate passage are only rudimentary. The horizontal structure is also retained in the inner courtyard with the alternation of brick and plaster bands. The plaster tapes are partly in a red-brown color. The stairwells in the inner courtyard of the residential complex, on the other hand, are simply plastered.

The originally staggered flat roofs were replaced by hip roofs .

225 small apartments were available for rent in the Eulerhof, including 115 two-room apartments with 32.12 m² and 98 three-room apartments with 45.2 m². The apartments had a toilet, kitchen-cum-living room and loggias and thus corresponded to the new building standards sought at the time. The kitchen-cum-living-room in the two-room apartment was even larger than the living room. Cross ventilation contributed to the living comfort, as did the central heating, a coke -fired system in the inner courtyard. This offered higher fire protection, increased space and greater comfort due to the elimination of the stoves in the apartments, the coal cellar and the coal transport from the cellar to the apartments - as well as lower smoke and soot emissions. Today the Eulerhof is heated with district heating.

There was a central laundry in the inner courtyard, in which every tenant had the opportunity to wash, dry and iron their laundry. The central bathing establishment attached to the laundry also contributed to the popularity of the Eulerhof; it was divided into women's and men's sections. Today the inner courtyard is partly built with garages and no longer corresponds to the original concept.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorotheenstr. 42-60, Degerstr. 47-55, Lindenstr. 185–197, Eulerhof (list of monuments of the city of Düsseldorf) ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Dieter Kühn: Clara Schumann, piano. A book of life. Fischer, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-596-14203-2 .
  3. ↑ Where the Knights of Flingern once ruled. at duesseldorf.de, accessed on August 17, 2015.
  4. ^ Theodor Hunecke: Düsseldorf. Structural development 1918–1928. Düsseldorf 1928, p. 108.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 44.5 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 41.2"  E