House "To the City of Rome"

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House "To the City of Rome"
House "To the City of Rome"

The house "Zur Stadt Rom" Kremerstraße 6 (also Altestadt 7) on Stiftsplatz in Düsseldorf was a historical building that already existed around 1600 and was one of the oldest surviving buildings. When a dud was detonated at the Rheinwerft in 1943, the building was damaged and later demolished. According to Paul Sültenfuß and Hans Vogts, it was characterized by its gable design. This showed a vertical division by means of pilasters , which, according to Paul Sültenfuß, was rare in Düsseldorf. The art-historical importance of the building is attributed to both the Renaissance and the Baroque.

Location and surroundings

The building stood next to the St. Lambertus Church , where the street “ Altestadt ” begins, the oldest and in the early days of the city the only street in Düsseldorf. Opposite was the chapel of the Carmelite monastery, built by Matteo Alberti around 1712 . The house "Zur Stadt Rom" originally belonged to Stiftsplatz and, together with the " Douvenhaus ", formed the corner of Krämerstrasse . After the house, which had been damaged in World War II, was demolished, the post-war buildings were severely set back, making it possible to widen the Rheinuferstraße. As with the advance of the Rhine bank, after 1945 the historical building structure was abandoned in favor of traffic.

  • House "Zur Stadt Rom" on the tower of the Lambertuskirche and next to it the "Douvenhaus", around 1909

  • House "Zur Stadt Rom" (left) and "Douvenhaus" (right)

  • Lambertus Church (left) and the house “Zur Stadt Rom” (right) in a painting by Wilhelm Schreuer

  • House "Zur Stadt Rom" and Douvenhaus (right) in a painting by Wilhelm Schreuer

  • House "Zur Stadt Rom" (right), Lambertuskirche (left)

  • Gable drawing by Paul Sültenfuß

history

As early as 1764 the house was called "City of Rome". The Schmitz couple owned the house at that time. The heirs Peter Andreas Schmitz sold it in 1807 to the State Parliament Secretary Joseph Vetter, who was active as a writer on several occasions.

Art historical significance

Horizontal structure of the gable

According to Hans Vogts and Paul Sültenfuß, the house was characterized by the fact that the gable was structured vertically by means of pilasters. This is a rarity because the vast majority of gables in Düsseldorf have a horizontal structure or no structure at all.

Lower Rhine Renaissance style, volute gable of the Renaissance or Baroque building

The style of the house is controversial, while Boris Becker and Hans Vogts attribute the building to the Renaissance, Paul Sültenfuß counts the building as Baroque architecture:

Boris Becker, on the other hand, attributes the building to the “Lower Rhine Renaissance style”.

Hans Vogts describes the gable of the house as a "Renaissance volute gable [which] combined with a pillar structure in the new style".

According to Paul Sültenfuß, it is a baroque building in which the “upper part of the gable, which is divided three times by horizontal bands, is supported by pilasters with diamond patterns. Lion heads adorn the warrior piece above the pilasters, which extend through the entire gable and rest on consoles under the gable entablature ”.

Wilhelm Schreuer also dedicated a painting to the historic house at the Lambertus Church.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early Photographien 1855–1914 , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990. Plate 72.
  2. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/gestern_heute/04_bilddokumentation.shtml
  3. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf ; Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 64f.
  4. ^ Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early Photographien 1855–1914 , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990. Plate 72.
  5. ^ Hans Vogts: Das Bürgerhaus in der Rheinprovinz , Düsseldorf 1929, p. 213, 220 [illustration no. 235. Düsseldorf Stiftsplatz.]. (from the series: Association of German Architects and Engineering Associations (ed.): The community center in the German Empire and in its border areas , printing and publishing house L. Schwann in Düsseldorf).
  6. ^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 54f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16.2 ″  E