House of the Elector

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House of the Elector

The Haus zum Kurfürsten (earlier spelling Haus Zum Churfürsten ) is located at Flinger Strasse 36 in the Altstadt district of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf .

history

According to its anchor pins , the building was built in 1627. It is a relatively early example of the development of the old town. It was mostly run as an inn with changing owners and names. The following names have been handed down for the 19th century:

  • In Hahn before 1809, owner of wine merchant Franz Reicharz
  • The city of Münster from 1809, owner Johann Hansen
  • To the golden elector around 1889, tenant Franz Hauer

The current name of the building goes back to the last restaurant mentioned above, which was later operated under Zum Kurfürsten until the middle of the 20th century and was the oldest restaurant in the city until then.

On May 6, 1898, the Düsseldorfer Spar- und Bauverein was founded here, which later became the Düsseldorfer Wohnungsgenossenschaft eG. The housing construction operated by the Bauverein and the later cooperative still shapes large parts of Düsseldorf today. Today there is a shop in the house and above it offices and seminar rooms.

Art historical significance

The three-storey brick facade, structured in five axes, has a stepped gable . The “Gothic tradition of the (relay) gable” was preserved in northern and central Germany during the High Renaissance period (from the middle of the 16th century). The shape of the cross-frame windows and the stepped gable at the Zum Kurfürsten house reveal the architecture in the “tradition of the 15th and 16th centuries”. The design of the facade in brick corresponded to the regulations of the Düsseldorf building regulations from the year 1554. The mixture of different building materials, brick for the facade and light colored house stone for the ledge, portal and window frames, as on the Düsseldorf house Zum Kurfürsten, are typical for Northern Germany and are stylistic related to the Netherlands. The decoration of individual structural elements is preferred - here at the Zum Kurfürsten house, the portal, which is the only structural element that is not Gothic - so "that they fall out of the overall organism".

literature

  • Theo Lücker: Stones speak. Small signpost through Düsseldorf's old town . Verlag T. Ewers, Düsseldorf 1977, pp. 97-98 [No. 49 “To the Elector”].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c H.Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf from the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein ; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part II, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Düsseldorfer Wohnungsgenossenschaft: Our future grows from strong roots, 1898–1998 Hundert Jahre Düsseldorfer Wohnungsgenossenschaft , p. 29
  3. ↑ Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde - European architecture from antiquity to the present , Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-572-05927-5 , p. 365 [Renaissance […] GERMANY […] High Renaissance , from the middle of the 16th Century]
  4. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, No. 1 on p. 3.
  5. ↑ The monument office in Düsseldorf does not impose any legal obligation on their description. On July 23, 1982, the house was entered in the city's list of monuments in the residential and residential buildings category in the Baroque sub-category, see entry in the list of monuments of the state capital of Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation, as of September 4, 2008
  6. ^ A b Wilfried Koch: Building Style - European Architecture from Antiquity to the Present , Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-572-05927-5 , p. 363 [Renaissance […] DEUTSCHLAND […] Early Renaissance .]

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 31.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 28.5"  E