House Finkeissen
| House Finkeissen | |
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 House Finkeissen (2016) |
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| architect | Ludwig Finkeissen |
| Client | Ludwig Finkeissen |
| Architectural style | Post-war modernity |
| Construction year | 1955 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 51 '48.5 " N , 8 ° 39' 14.6" E |
The Finkeissen house at Wilhelminenstrasse 50 is a building in Darmstadt .
History and description
The Finkeissen house was built in 1955 according to plans by the architect and client Ludwig Finkeissen . The style of the building erected at the dominant point belongs to post-war modernism .
Typical details are:
- concave shaped perforated facade
- "Flying" roof protruding slightly to the north over the building corners
- Emphasis on the central axis and the building edges through balconies on extremely thin slabs
- the decorative pushed to the edges of buildings balconies are of round, slender columns penetrated and filigree railings with curved struts surrounded
- a recessed, generously glazed ground floor zone
- multicolored, ornamental sgraffiti work in the parapet fields of the windows and as a structured cornice-like band below the eaves
Today the building houses a restaurant ( Wilhelminenhof ) and apartments.
Monument protection
The Finkeissen house is a typical example of post-war modernism in Darmstadt in the 1950s . For architectural and city history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen .) Vieweg Verlag , Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 150.