Factory building of the Röhm company

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Factory building at Kirschenallee / Bismarckstrasse
Darmstadt Bismarckstrasse Kirschenallee Evonik Bau.jpg
Data
place Darmstadt
Client Röhm and Haas
Architectural style Post-war modernity
Construction year 1950s
Coordinates 49 ° 52 '30.2 "  N , 8 ° 38' 7.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '30.2 "  N , 8 ° 38' 7.1"  E

The factory building of the Evonik company, formerly: Röhm is a building in Darmstadt near the main train station . It was built by Röhm and Haas in the 1950s.

Architecture and history

The factory building is made of a pavilion-like circular structure and a multi-storey clinker cube with a geometric steel - glass - window division . The building has a flat roof .

The architecture of the building from the 1950s is typical of post-war modernism . The combination of dark red brick with a functional steel - glass - facade was already common in the 1920s and was named after the Second World War resumed.

Monument protection

For architectural and historical reasons, the building is a cultural monument .

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