Towel house

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Towel house in Eisenach

A towel house is a building that has a narrow, elongated floor plan and a relatively large height. The name comes from the fact that such a house reminds the viewer of a towel . The construction of these houses is mostly due to historical property boundaries. Towel houses are, however, also used in modern urban planning in order to make use of existing construction areas.

Examples

  • Bamberg : In the center of the historic old town of Bamberg there is a shoemaker's house called, listed, towel house, the construction of which dates back to the first half of the 18th century.
  • Bautzen : On the main market in Bautzen there is a listed towel house, built around 1480. It is considered the narrowest house in the city. The building houses a guesthouse and a café called Zum Handtuch . Further listed towel houses in Bautzen are located in the street Unterm Schloß (built around 1520) and in Reichenstraße (built around 1720).
  • Berlin : In Berlin there is a towel house on Adenauerplatz in Charlottenburg . It is considered to be the narrowest office building in the city. The house stands on a plot of land 2.50 meters wide and was built between 1992 and 1994 by the architect Helmut Jahn .
  • Bönnigheim : Next to the former benefice house at the Cyriakus Church there is a towel house first mentioned in 1783. Due to the dilapidated substance of the building, it was announced in 2016 that the house would be torn down as part of the inner city renovation.
  • Eisenach : The towel in Eisenach is a half-timbered house on Johannisplatz and is one of the narrowest inhabited houses in Germany. The construction time is dated around 1790.
  • Freiburg im Breisgau : In Kaiser-Joseph-Straße in the historic old town of Freiburg there is a towel house that has been faithfully rebuilt according to a medieval floor plan.
  • Cologne : On Thürmchenswall in Cologne's old town north there is a towel house called Haus Fox .
  • Löbau : In the old town of Löbau there is a towel house on Innere Zittauer Straße. The construction time is dated to the 18th century.
  • Weimar : The Zum Goethebrunnen restaurant is located in a narrow building on Frauenplan ; in popularly known as "the small towel".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Jaath: City Trip PLUS Berlin Potsdam . Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8317-4743-6 , p. 132 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ A b Martin Boldt: Turiner Strasse in Cologne - House Fox could have a future. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 28, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b office building on Adenauerplatz (towel house). District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  4. ^ Richard Christ: Travel Pictures - Postcards from the GDR . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1974, p. 124 .
  5. ^ Susanne Yvette Walter: End of a historical ensemble in Bönnigheim. Bietigheimer Zeitung, August 30, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ History from 1790. Narrow House Eisenach, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  7. ^ Breisgau history association Schauinsland (ed.): Journal of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland . tape 120 . Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, p. 240 .
  8. ↑ Löbau, Innere Zittauer Straße 4. Löbaufoto, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Heiner Koch: the narrow towel. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .