Guaita garden stairs

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Guaita'sche garden stairs in the city garden of Aachen

The Guaita'sche garden staircase is a rococo - staircase plant in Aachen . It stands in the city ​​garden behind the New Kurhaus building on Monheimsallee. Most of the staircase is attributed to the Aachen architect Jakob Couven .

history

Guaita'sche stairs before 1905 in Rosstrasse 46-48
The railing of the Guaita stairs
Detail: railing

The staircase was originally built in the garden of a villa at Rosstraße 46-48, which was built for the dyer Josef Schweling at the end of the 18th century. The villa came into the possession of the Guaita family in the 19th century . The Guaita family, who originally immigrated from Italy, were among the most influential needle manufacturers in Aachen in the 18th and 19th centuries. The stairs were in the garden, with the left side of the stairs leaning against the house, in order to overcome a jump in terrain.

The attribution and the period of origin of the staircase has not been clearly clarified. While it is ascribed to Johann Joseph Couven (around 1750) in the list of monuments , other sources assume a work by his son Jakob Couven around 1780.

In 1905 the houses on Rosstrasse were closed in order to create a new connection route to Löhergraben. The valuable from Blaustein -made staircase was in the wake of the new plant to the spa gardens in the city garden Aachen translocated . It formed the focal point of the special garden designed by gardening director Weßberge behind the New Kurhaus, which mediated in terms of landscape architecture between the Kurhaus terraces and tennis courts.

After the relocation in the spa gardens, originally forged ornamental grilles framed the double-flighted staircase made of polished bluestone, which is laid out around a shell-shaped fountain shell. The outer decorative grille as well as the grille crowning with the initials of Cornelius von Guaita were lost in the post-war period. The lattice crowning with the initials is probably of more recent date, as the house with the stairs in Rosstrasse was not owned by the Guaita family during Couven's lifetime. The fountain bowl, also made of bluestone, was used for a long time as a planter in a flower bed.

The entire staircase is currently in need of renovation. It has lost its function as a connecting staircase and a horticultural decorative element. The entire accompanying gardens and access roads were dismantled so that the staircase is now isolated in the area.

The Guaita'sche garden staircase stands as a single object in the city garden under conservation .

Web links

Commons : Guaita'sche Gartentreppe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold : The Altaachen house. Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1930, p. 125.
  2. ^ A b c Günther Borchers (Ed.): Landeskonservator Rheinland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter . Edited by Volker Osteneck with the assistance of Hans Königs . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Bodo von Koppen: Old Aachen Gardens . Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Georgi, Aachen 1987, ISBN 3-87248-049-9 , p. 35.
  4. ↑ Marcel Bauer, Frank Hovens, Anke Kappler, Belinda Petri, Christine Vogt & Anke Volkmer: On the way on Couvens tracks . Grenz-Echo, ISBN 90-5433-187-9 , p. 59 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Weßberge: The public facilities and the Aachen forest . Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI) 1925, Berlin-Halensee, pp. 76–77.
  6. ↑ Bodo von Koppen: Old Aachen Gardens. Aachen 1987, ISBN 3-87248-049-9 , p. 35.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 54.3 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 38.8"  E