House Hindenburg

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Haus Hindenburg - north-west view (2015)

The Haus Hindenburg is under monument protection standing monument in Cologne District Old Town North . The office building at Schildergasse  113–117 at the corner of Neumarkt was built in 1914 and 1915 based on a design by Cologne architect Hermann Eberhard Pflaume .

history

Until the years before the First World War , access to Cologne's Schildergasse from its end at Neumarkt was much narrower than is the case today. This changed first on the north side with the new construction of the police headquarters on the corner of Schildergasse and Krebsgasse, which was set back behind the old escape , and then with the demolition of the Blankenheimer Hof (1914). Its facade - after the construction of Zeppelinstrasse (1910) - now protruded several meters into the street space as a corner building. As well as the preservation of the Blankenheimer Hof, there was a dispute about the new alignment on the south side. If the building had been relocated too heavily into the old buildings, there would hardly have been any land that could be newly built economically - given the small-scale basic division typical of Cologne's old town. Finally, the escape was sloped slightly so that the traffic could flow from Neumarkt into Schildergasse via a funnel-shaped entrance.

With the demolition of the old buildings on the Schildergasse 113 to 117 property, which belonged to the Dutch businessman Dirk Lindhout, who worked in Düsseldorf, and his partner, the Cologne businessman Paul Malkowsky, the construction of the four- story Hindenburg building began before the First World War . After four months of construction, the shell was completed under the direction of the architect and contractor Karl Alsdorff , and completion was imminent in February 1915. The builders followed the tradition of giving the house its own name. With the consent of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg , they named it Haus Hindenburg based on the time it was built . The keystone above the main portal was provided with the following verse :

"In Germany of great times I was built,
I looked at heroes a lot and sacrificed courage,
Hindenburg is recognized as the victor,
and I was named so in his honor."

After the First World War, Haus Hindenburg developed - not least thanks to its café on the first floor , which advertised itself as the finest in Cologne, and later also through the school for stage dance by Araca Makarowa alias Elisabeth Linfert, née. Simons (1905–1964) - to a well-known Cologne meeting place. During the Second World War , the building suffered only relatively little damage. Outwardly, these were essentially shown in the absence of the original mansard roof , which was not restored. In addition to the Hamburg cigar store "Gustav Geber", which had been located there since 1926, the ground floor was home to the family-run "Seidenhaus Schmitz" since 1946, whose previous business premises in Zeppelinstrasse could no longer be used due to the war. After several renovations and extensions, the company used the Hindenburg house alone from 1956. In the course of the latest changes, a passage from Neumarkt to Schildergasse was built on the ground floor . As a result of further changes in tenants, the passage has meanwhile been closed again. The Hindenburg House is still used by companies in the clothing industry.

The entry of the House of Hindenburg in the list of monuments of the city of Cologne took place on April 13, 1993 (monument no. 6779).

architecture

The four-story Haus Hindenburg , designed in the neoclassical style , had two basement floors, a ground floor used as a shop and the café above when it was completed . A “photographer's studio” was located in the attic. The building, with six axes on Schildergasse and three on Neumarkt, has largely been preserved in its stone facade . From the third floor there are also some of the original windows. On the first floor, a 19th century Madonna was attached to the corner of the Hindenburg house.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e City Gazette No. 59³ of February 5, 1915: Changes in the Cologne cityscape. The Neumarkt.
  2. ↑ Dirk Lindhout. Retrieved April 11, 2013 from correlje.com.
  3. ↑ a b City Gazette No. 62 5 of February 7, 1915: Hindenburghaus.
  4. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau No. 210 of September 8, 1956: Seidenhaus Schmitz has rebuilt. Substantially changed by extensive renovation.
  5. ^ Text of the protection of the city curator in Cologne on the Hindenburg house.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 58.5 ″  E