Galeria Kaufhof (Cologne)
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The Galeria Kaufhof Cologne Hohe Strasse is a historically important department store building . The architect of the building was Wilhelm Kreis , one of the leading architects at the time, who also designed the Tietz department store in Wuppertal.
history
The building was designed in 1911 on behalf of Leonhard Tietz AG as a multi-department store based on the French model and, following an architectural competition that was won by the district, built from 1912 to 1914 as the group's “flagship” on Hohe Straße 41-53. Since 1891 the first Cologne branch with an area of 180 square meters had already existed in the Hohe Straße / corner of Blindgasse (in the area of today's Cäcilienstraße). Four years later, the Tietz company moved further towards the city center, where they moved into a newly built sales house. In 1897, Cologne also became the company's headquarters, and in 1902 Tietz opened a new Art Nouveau arcade between Hohe Straße and An St. Agatha.
Circle enclosed in his design of the five-storey reinforced concrete - skeleton with a classically structured façade. The sculpting work on the facade was carried out by Johannes Knubel , who had also designed the facades of the Tietz houses in Düsseldorf and Wuppertal. At that time the building was provided with a (no longer existing) high slate roof in order to better fit into the structural environment of the old town. In 1925 the first escalator in a German department store was put into operation there; that was considered a special attraction at the time.
In 1956/1957, Hermann Wunderlich, architect of the Kaufhof Group, expanded the building to include sales areas behind an aluminum curtain wall in the company green. On Cäcilienstraße, a multi-storey car park with a ramp in the shape of a spindle was created according to the design by Reinhold Clüser (extended in 1991/1992).
literature
- Alexander Kierdorf (Ed.): Cologne. An architecture guide. Architectural Guide to Cologne. Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01181-5 .
Web links
- Company history Galeria Kaufhof
- Article on the history of Kaufhof , Kölnische Rundschau, March 18, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Knubel (schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de) ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 8.6 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 19.6 ″ E