House Matthias Steingens

Josef Kleesattel : Giebelhaus Kurzestraße 6 (Source: Josef Kleesattel: Alt-Düsseldorf in the picture , Düsseldorf 1909)

The Matthias Steingens house at Kurz Straße 6 in Düsseldorf was an example of the transition from stepped gable to volute gable in brick construction on the Lower Rhine : “ This is how the gradual transition from stepped gable to volute gable in the area of the Lower Rhine brick building was originally. “So the house showed a stepped gable, which filled with a quarter circle from step to step. House no. 6 belonged to the mouth cook Matthias Steingens in 1657. The preserved building is now a listed building. Heimeshoff describes the building as follows:

“The narrow house with a brick facade dates from the middle of the 17th century. The facade was plastered from the 18th to the 20th century. The house is accessed through a door with a separate skylight on the right in the facade. To the left of it two windows open. A segmental arched cellar hatch is installed below the central opening. To the left there is a small cellar window. The 1st and 2nd floors are illuminated by two windows each. A two-part window illuminates the stepped gable. All openings have natural stone walls [...] On the 1st floor there are Rhenish ceilings with cuffs and profiles [...] "

Drawing by Paul Sültenfuß
Drawing by Paul Sültenfuß

Individual evidence

^ Paul Sültenfuß : The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . Dissertation, Technical University of Aachen, 1922, pp. 32–33
^ Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1889. Reprint: Triltsch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, Part I, p. 86. [Kurzestrasse]
^ Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and district of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1894, p. 66
↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
^ Jörg Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf . Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , p. 153

51.226944444444 6.7729166666667Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 37 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 22.5 ″ E

[1] Paul Sültenfuß : The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . Dissertation, Technical University of Aachen, 1922, pp. 32–33

[2] Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1889. Reprint: Triltsch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, Part I, p. 86. [Kurzestrasse]

[3] Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and district of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1894, p. 66

[4] Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation

[5] Jörg Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf . Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , p. 153