Friedrich Lueg House
The Friedrich-Lueg-Haus in Bochum was the first skyscraper in Bochum to be designed by the architect Emil Pohle with a height of 32 m and built between 1924 and 1925. It marks a new type of construction in the architectural history of a city with 360,000 inhabitants today.
The client was the company Fahrzeug-Werke Lueg . There was a car showroom on the first floor. The building, known to this day as Lueg-Haus, was the largest exhibition space in Germany when it opened. One wrote about the building “... the Lueg-Haus has the definite character of a personality. Calm and large-scale lines dominate the front. A slightly ornamental accord can only be heard here and there. ” The weight of the six upper floors rested on three surrounding walls and only one central support on the ground floor. For courtyard allowed a supporting structure of storey-high Vierendeel in reinforced concrete , a column-free opening of 18,10 m width. After a bomb hit in 1944, the building was in flames.
The interior and exterior architecture of the building has undergone major changes since it was restored between 1947 and 1949. The cinema company Union Filmtheater Bochum became a tenant. It offers films from the current international range in the seven (formerly ten) cinema halls of the house. The upper floors are rented to service providers such as lawyers and internet companies. Since the beginning of the 1980s, a high density of gastronomy has developed around the cinema building, known as the Bermuda3eck .
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- ↑ kortumstraße.de
- ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung, Issue 105, Volume 61, 1927
- ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: Emil Pohle
- ↑ Friedrich-Lueg-Haus on www.ruhr-bauten.de
literature
- Hermann Seeger: Office buildings in the private sector. (= Handbuch der Architektur, IV. Part, 7th Half Volume, Issue 1a.) 3rd Edition, JM Gebhardt's Verlag, Leipzig 1933, pp. 63–64.
- Walter Müller-Wulckow : Buildings of Work. Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein im Taunus 1925.
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 1 ″ E