Schierenberg House
The house Schierenberg is a listed building in Cologne Neustadt-Nord .
description
The neo-Gothic building located at Theodor-Heuss-Ring 10 with a richly structured red sandstone facade, which is rare among residential buildings, was built in 1893–95 based on designs by the architects (Alfred) Müller & (Otto) Grah. The parapets and gables have elaborate tracery structures and figural reliefs.
The client was the Cologne contractor Heinrich Schierenberg (1869–1938). The lavishly designed stone facade consists of red Main sandstone. The structure and sculptural decoration of the facade are mainly borrowed from the formal language of the Gothic. The left axis of the building, in which the gate passage is also located, has been particularly emphasized by the balconies optically combined with pilasters and the magnificent gable. The two-storey central bay on a trapezoidal floor plan with an attached balcony and the portal-like entrance situation with the outside staircase set additional accents. Corresponding to the facade, the vestibule and hallway with the vaults have been kept in echoes of the Gothic style.
location
The new town planned by Hermann Josef Stübben is still considered the most important urban expansion of the German Empire at the end of the 19th century. It lies in a semicircle around the old town, following the old ramparts. The centerpiece of the Ringstrasse, a tree-lined "splendid boulevard" with public green spaces, consisting of ten sections of different widths and designs. The Theodor-Heuss-Ring, formerly the Deutscher Ring, forms the last northern section of the ring towards the banks of the Rhine and encloses a spacious park over its entire length. The Schierenberg house is one of the few to have survived from the development of this representative residential street, which was essentially built between 1895 and 1900 and consisted of multi-storey lordly residential buildings with front gardens on the southern side.
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literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 1: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 759.
- Hiltrud Kier , Werner Schäfke : The Cologne rings. History and splendor of a street. 2nd updated edition. Vista-Point-Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-88973-066-3 , plate part 19.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 35.2 ″ E