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Wing house

The Flüggerhaus is an office building in Hamburg's old town . The building is a registered monument .

Location and description

The building is located on Rödingsmarkt at number 19. It is divided into an interconnected front and rear building, which together enclose an inner courtyard. It has 5 floors as well as a tier and an attic . The facade facing the Rödingsmarkt is designed with Rochlitz porphyry and shows elements with a maritime theme. The gusset on the 1st floor shows vine leaves and grapes as well as the Flügger company emblem (dragonfly) and the initials of the former company owner Joachim Daniel Flügger. The name "Flüggerhaus" and the year of construction are also recorded here. The inner courtyard facade is clad with split bricks, the rear facade facing the Steintwietenhof with clinker bricks. The ground floor is equipped with a particularly robust channel clinkers, as this page to a originally directly Fleet , the Deichstraßenfleet, was located.

history

The Flügger company was or is a manufacturer of paints, varnishes and brushes. The company needed larger premises and bought the houses on lots 19 and 20 in 1901. From 1907, the previous buildings were demolished and a new building, today's Flüggerhaus, was built. Franz Bach provided the first draft. The Frejtag & Wurzbach office ( Leon Frejtag , Hermann Wurzbach ) worked on this design. They had the building built from 1907–1908 for the then managing director Eduard Friedrich Flügger. The office building was built by Flügger for his own purposes, but the company only used the premises on the ground floor and on the 1st and 2nd floors. The remaining area was rented. In 1912, 16 other companies were named in the Hamburg address book at this address. Among other things, Gustav Oelkers, manufacturer of the Michel hat, had his seat here from the 1930s to the 1960s. The rear building not only served as a warehouse, but also as a production facility. A caretaker's apartment was housed on the 6th floor.

The building received richer furnishings in the rooms that could not be adapted by the tenants (stairwell, toilet rooms). Flügger himself designed his rooms with wooden partition walls and wood paneling. All other areas could be freely designed by the tenants (cf. Kontorhaus ). The marble stairs and the wall tiles in the stairwell are still preserved today. The building was also equipped with a paternoster , an external freight elevator in the inner courtyard, a small goods elevator inside and a winch elevator to the former canal. During the construction period, there was also a freight elevator directly on the street, more or less in the (shop window) facade. However, it only connected the basement and ground floor. The construction time design can be reconstructed from the building description of the fire box, which is located in the Hamburg State Archives.

In 1913, Lundt & Kallmorgen relocated the shop entrance on the ground floor from the street to the passage on the side - to where it can still be found today with the door from 1913. The door skylight relates to Flügger and shows painters at work.

Due to the effects of the war, the rear building burned out and most of the roof structure was lost. This was due to two explosive devices during Operation Gomorrah , which exploded in the area of ​​the Deichstraßenfleet. Presumably afterwards, possibly for static reasons, the large window to the canal was reduced in size.

In the 1990s, changes were made to the inner courtyard by the architects von Bassewitz, Patschan, Hupertz, Limbrock . The work was carried out in 1996. In 1998 the building was placed under protection.

In 2019, SIGNA acquired the Flüggerhaus and neighboring buildings, which are known as "Flüggerhöfe". The buildings are to be jointly renovated and thus counteract long neglect.

paternoster

The paternoster was used to transport people and was installed in an open construction by the Gustav Adolf Koch company. This means that the cabin is open at the top and to the stairwell (for boarding). It has not yet been conclusively clarified whether the paternoster preserved today is the paternoster from the construction period. Otherwise it could be one of the oldest known paternoster elevators in Hamburg, possibly the oldest of its type. The design is similar to that of the paternoster in the no longer preserved Gertig House (also planned by Frejtag & Wurzbach).

See also

Web links

Commons : Rödingsmarkt 19  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Ralf Lange , The Hamburger Kontorhaus - Architecture, History, Monument, ISBN 978-3-86218-067-7
  • Hans Meyer-Veden, Hermann Hipp, Hamburger Kontorhäuser (Berlin 1988)
  • Architects and engineers association, Hamburg and its buildings 1890 and other editions
  • Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg (ed.), The Hamburger Kontorhaus (Hamburg 1909)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.flugger.de/über-flügger/eine-moderne-handelskette/. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ After World War II, part of the company was taken over by Brillux Farben. The other part went to Denmark, where the company already had branches.
  3. ↑ Hamburg address book. SUB Hamburg, accessed on August 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hamburg: Signa buys FlüggerHöfe from Cresco Capital. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg (ed.): The Hamburg office building . Hamburg 1909, p. 6 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 12 ″  E