House Rademacher (Hamburg)

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House Rademacher, Zippelhaus 3

The Rademacher house is a residential and office building in Hamburg's old town with the address Zippelhaus 3. It is designated as a cultural monument with the object ID 12409. Sometimes the building is also referred to as the (new) Zippelhaus in the literature .

Classification in terms of building history

The house was built in 1890/1891 according to plans by Carl Elvers for the publisher FW Rademacher. It was planned as a residential and commercial building. In this respect, the old mixed use of living and working in the community center still existed, but both shop and office operators and residents were already independent tenants. That is why the building is considered an example of the predecessor of the actual office building.

description

It is a building with a basement and four upper floors. It has seven window axes, with the two outer windows each so close to each other that they form a unit. In the basement there are two shops, each with its own entrance door. The central main entrance, flanked by columns, leads to the first floor. A large rose above the door lets light into the entrance area.

The facade in neo-renaissance forms can be divided into two areas: a wide cornice separates the lower two floors from the upper. In the lower part of the building is provided with stone blinded, while the upper three levels brickwork show fanned by stone elements.

The middle windows on the second and third floors are each flanked by figure baths . The lower herms represent two historical figures in the printing trade: Alois Senefelder , the inventor of lithography, and Johann Gutenberg , the inventor of letterpress printing. The figures indicate the purpose of the building as a printing and publishing house.

  • Middle entrance with rose window as a skylight

  • Allegories: seafaring, trade, commerce

  • Hermen figure: Alois Senefelder (left)

  • Hermen figure: Johann Gutenberg (right)

See also

literature

  • Ralf Lange: Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide. , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 .
  • Ralf Lange: The Hamburg office building - architecture, history, monument. Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-067-7 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Rademacher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to § 6 paragraph 1 Hamburg Monument Protection Act of April 5, 2013, (HmbGVBl p. 142), as of October 29, 2012
  2. ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide. 1st edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 24
  3. ↑ Model New York: The office buildings . In: Welt Online from August 25, 2002, ISSN  0173-8437 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 46.3 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 45.3"  E