Niederrheinische Bank building

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Schadowplatz 14

The Niederrheinische Bank building is located at Schadowplatz 14 (originally house number 12) in Düsseldorf and was built in 1896/1897 according to a design by the Berlin architects Heinrich Kayser and Karl von Großheim . The Düsseldorf architect Max Wöhler was in charge of the execution .

use

The business premises were on the ground floor, while the first and second floors each had an apartment for the bank executives. In the area of ​​the central axis was the cash desk, around which the main cash desk, meeting and director's rooms as well as the accounting department were grouped.

After the Second World War, the building was the seat of the private bank Schliep & Co. It was listed as a historical monument in 1982 . From 2001 the Garantibank International used the house. At the beginning of 2011, the van Meeteren Foundation acquired the building, which was renovated and redesigned for the Heinrich Heine University into an education, advice and conference center under the name “ House of the University ”. Another foundation, the dependent "Foundation House of the University", in which the city of Düsseldorf is involved with one million euros, the van Meeteren couple with 700,000 euros and the Society of Friends and Supporters of Heinrich Heine University eV with 300,000 euros. enables the ongoing operation of this facility. The architectural office HPP was commissioned with the renovation in accordance with the listed building. The van Meeteren Foundation is making the building available to the university free of charge for 30 years. The opening of the house of the university took place on September 20, 2013.

architecture

The facade is in the style of historicism based on the French Renaissance ( neo-renaissance ): "The street front made of Burgpreppach sandstone shows in monumental proportions the characteristic design language of the artists, based on motifs of the French Renaissance". The house has a usable area of ​​1082 m².

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Real estate newspaper of January 27, 2011: Düsseldorf. Foundation buys a palace . P. 21.
  2. ^ Rheinische Post of January 3, 2011, Düsseldorfer Stadtpost, p. C1
  3. ^ Rheinische Post of February 27, 2013, Düsseldorfer Stadtpost, p. D3
  4. ↑ House of the University: Joint foundation aims to secure the future . Website from July 1, 2013 in the duesseldorf.de portal of the state capital Düsseldorf, accessed on July 2, 2013
  5. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 362.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 34.8 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 51.4"  E