House of the iron industry
The house of the iron industry is located on Max-Planck-Strasse / Sohnstrasse in Düsseldorf - Düsseltal and is a listed building .
The building was built from 1934 to 1936 according to designs by Heinrich Blecken and Paul Bonatz for the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research , which has been called the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research since 1951 . It is a reinforced concrete structure with a four-story, elongated main wing connected to a two-story hall building. The windows are grouped into strips, alternating with dark red clinker bricks that create a horizontal layering of the facade.
After severe bomb damage to the building in 1943 and 1944 and reconstruction from 1946, a hall structure was added in 1957–1958 and a laboratory wing was added from 1962–1963 ( architect Walter Köngeter ). In 1999 a general renovation of the old main building began, which was then followed by the renovation of the other buildings. During the renovation, the existing internal organization was basically taken over, as was the design according to the Bauhaus style .
The house of the iron industry is considered to be the “main example of functionalist architecture in the Third Reich” in the area of the city of Düsseldorf.
literature
- Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 102, object no. 143.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
- ^ A b c Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf (buildings of the Max Planck Society) . Ed. VDEh Association of German Ironworkers and Max Planck Society Construction Department, February 2002, 16 pp.
- ↑ http://www.mpie.de/
- ^ Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf . Max Planck Society reports and communications 5/93 (1993), 116 pp.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 22.4 " N , 6 ° 48 ′ 47.6" E