Rheinpark House
The house Rheinpark is a multi-storey residential building group on the west side of the Kaiserswertherstrasse and on both sides of Uerdinger street in Dusseldorf - Golzheim . In addition to the six-storey perimeter block development, the layout in the architecture of New Building contains two symmetrically designed, eleven-storey corner and tower houses, which are early examples of the construction of high-rise apartment buildings in Europe.
History and description
In March 1928, the Salz & Schmitz construction company began building the complex, which contains more than 200 apartments. The two monumental residential towers of the complex were turnkey within seven and a half months and after being artificially dried they were ready for occupancy. The apartments were three, four, five and six-room " medium- sized apartments " with comfortable, tiled bathrooms, cellars and " girls' rooms"“Designed. A "centralized low-pressure hot water heating" supported by pumps provided the heating of the apartments. Running cold and warm water was not only available in the kitchens and bathrooms, but also in the bedrooms. In view of the large number of apartments, laundry rooms and drying floors were not installed and a laundry and "drying facility" equipped with special machines were set up. In addition, the complex had several garages and a uniformly designed garden with several children's playgrounds. Two elevators were provided for each of the upper apartments in the tower houses .
The architecture shows an elaborate facade design. Polychrome brick facades with three- dimensional attic storeys rise above the tufa and shell limestone clad ground floors with an ashlar cornice at the top . The door reveals of the portal-like house entrances are partially covered with green ceramic panels with floral motifs. Three-storey bay windows on a triangular floor plan or small balconies emphasize the axes of some house entrances.
The architect of the facility was the Swiss William Dunkel , who, after studying at the Technical University of Dresden, worked for the Düsseldorf architect and university professor Wilhelm Kreis in 1917 and 1918 and later opened his own studio in Düsseldorf. His planning referred to an urban planning concept, according to which the Uerdinger Straße had been extended to 65 meters to accommodate the axis of a planned second Düsseldorf Rhine bridge, which was planned to relieve the Oberkasseler bridge . Dunkel referred to this planned bridge by designing the 38 meter high corner and tower houses of the complex as an "urban portal" symmetrically on both sides of the bridge axis. The bridge was only completed in 1957 in the form of the Theodor Heuss Bridge .
literature
- Richard Oelmann: "House Rheinpark". A modern block of flats in Düsseldorf. In: Moderner Wohnbau, monthly issue of the Deutsche Bauzeitung , year 1929, No. 2 (from February 1929), p. 13.
- Wilhelm Schmitz, Paul Joseph Cremers : Salt & Schmitz. (= Neue Werkkunst .) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
- Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, object no. 40.
- Holger Rescher: Brick architecture of the 1920s in Düsseldorf . Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn 2001, p. 129. ( online ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) as PDF)
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 58.2 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 53.1" E