Girardethaus (Hamburg)
The Girardethaus is a historic office building in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Neustadt . It is located on the south side of the Gänsemarkt with the address Gänsemarkt 21 to 23. The property is designated as a cultural monument with the property ID 12662.
Building history and use
The architects Harry R. Puttfarcken and Emil Janda built the house in 1896 for the Essen publisher Wilhelm Girardet (publisher: Girardet & Co). The building was mainly used for the General-Anzeiger for Hamburg-Altona , later for the Hamburger Anzeiger . The newspaper's offices, typesetting and paper storage were arranged around a central courtyard. Inside there were elevators for the transport of people and goods, as well as a paternoster elevator for the public. Due to the skeleton construction , the floors could be freely divided. Organizationally, a printer's building on the nearby Poststrasse also belonged to the publishing complex.
Today the building is used in many ways, with retail and service businesses as well as restaurants on the lower floors.
Compared to the original building, the picture is now slightly different: The roof zone has been simplified, the original onion dome above the central axis no longer exists. In addition, the base zone has been modernized and parts of the ornamentation have been removed.
In the course of the redesign of the Gänsemarkt in 2015/16, the Girardet House will become part of a newly designed Girardet quarter, which consists of five individual buildings. The passage “Neuer Gänsemarkt” behind the Girardethaus will not be re-established. It was built in 1980 and connected Poststrasse and Gänsemarkt.
Building description
The stone pillar facade has five wide window axes . High overlapping arches summarize the rows of windows on the upper floors. The subdivision of the windows as well as their parapets and lintels are mostly made of cast iron . The central axis is emphasized by the entrance portal and a flat box bay with a special, richly decorated window design. The bay window is crowned by an ornamental gable, above which a sweeping onion dome originally rose.
The ground floor and the mezzanine floor are separated from the upper floors by different windows. The demarcation is reinforced by a cornice above the mezzanine floor, which contrasts the vertical structure of the building with a horizontal element.
The decorative elements of the facade are influenced by the Baroque and Renaissance periods . However, formal elements from the 19th century are mixed in, typical of a historic building from the turn of the century.
Ornate consoles support the box bay on the central axis
Decorative elements on the main cornice, on the right the crowning of the box oriel
See also
literature
- Gisela Schütte: Hamburger Kontorhäuser until 1914, Volume 1 , edited on behalf of the Monument Protection Office with a grant from the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Hamburg 1975 - Construction files District Office Center II 5387, appendix. 25 f floor plans
- Ralf Lange : The Hamburger Kontorhaus - Architecture, History, Monument , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-067-7
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '17.3 " N , 9 ° 59' 19.2" E