Grupello house

The Grupello House, left, painting by Thomas Rowlandson , 1791

The Grupello house on Marktplatz 3 on the corner of Zollstrasse in Düsseldorf was built by Matteo Alberti in 1706.

Duke Johann Wilhelm donated the house to the sculptor Gabriel Grupello in 1708 . It is a three story building. Originally it showed two ideal female busts made of lead by the sculptor Grupello above the portal. The busts are now in the city ​​museum . On November 16, 2012, two cast concrete replicas were inaugurated. In 1748, Elector Karl Theodor bought the house and rented it to Lambert Krahe, who later became the first director of the academy . From 1769 Governor Count von Efferen lived in the house, which is why it is also called the Governorate House. Later the police office was temporarily housed in this building. In 1818 it became the property of the city of Düsseldorf through a gift from the Prussians. The house damaged in the war was rebuilt in a simplified way. In 1969 a new meeting room in the town hall was opened in the house.

In August 2008, the first notice board was put up on structures that are associated with Jan Wellem as initiator, sponsor or financier in Düsseldorf. The dialect researcher Heinrich Spohr said:

"Lommer jezz op der Maht-Platz jonn, öm för zo kicke, how dr ehschde Börjermeester, Direk Elbers , the ehschde table reveals that baroque brocade dooch is erogner."

The Grupello house in 2010

The Grupello house in 2012

At the end of 2010 the facade of the Grupellohaus was renovated. The blue tone was replaced by a light sand tone, which is based on the historical condition. In addition, the natural stone ornaments were repaired and the Johannes Nepomuk sculpture on the side of Zollstrasse was restored.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst von Schaumburg , in: Historical hike through Düsseldorf , lecture of April 5, 1866, p. [57] 51. Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf
2. ↑ Guide to the buildings "Jan Wellems" (PDF) , in "Jan Wellem", magazine for culture and tradition of the Alte Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft von 1920 eV, 83rd volume, issue 4, November 2008 to January 2009

literature

• Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 190.
• Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 12, object no. 14 [Grupello House / Government House]

Web links

Commons : Grupello House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 32.3 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 18.1 ″  E