Hofgärtnerhaus Düsseldorf
The Hofgärtnerhaus is located on Jägerhofstrasse within the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf . It is built in the baroque style and houses the former Dumont-Lindemann archive, today the theater museum of the state capital. The Baroness von Kö uses the Hofgärtnerhaus as the starting point for her city tours.
History of the building
The Hofgärtnerhaus goes back to the Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach . It was built in the courtyard garden between 1769 and 1770 based on plans by Nicolas de Pigage . As the name suggests, it served as the official residence of the acting court gardener , whose task was to look after the court garden.
The first expansion took place in 1780. During this time, the representative building not only served as an official residence, but also became a venue for balls, concerts and private plays. In 1796, as part of the First Coalition War , the French artillery Jean-Baptiste Klébers blew up the court gardener's house in order to create a clear field of vision and fire around the occupied city. In 1802, Elector Max Joseph von Pfalz-Bayern arranged for the building to be rebuilt, which from then on became the official residence of the court gardener. The reconstruction was carried out under the direction of the court architect Kaspar Anton Huschberger . Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe , who led the expansion of the court garden into an English landscape garden , also lived here . From 1821 the Hofgärtnerhaus was then used as an official residence for various servants of Prince Friedrich of Prussia as well as for painters from the Düsseldorf School (including Alfred Rethel ). At the same time, a garden bar, Hilger's widow's coffee house, was run in the building. From 1872 on, it housed a magazine and library.
The Hofgärtnerhaus was completely destroyed again during the Second World War. The reconstruction took place in 1955, with a second expansion. First the Goethe Museum was set up here, which was later relocated to Jägerhof Palace . In 1988, the Düsseldorf Theater Museum finally moved into the Hofgärtnerhaus.
architecture
The Hofgärtnerhaus was originally a single-storey corner building with a quarter-circle mansard roof , with the entrance in the middle. The plans came from the Lorraine builder Nicolas de Pigage. With its late Baroque emphasis on classicist elements, the building resembles the earlier Malkasten-Haus on Jacobistraße. The first expansion by master builder Peter Köhler (* July 25, 1748 - January 2, 1837) in 1780 included a lateral extension and an increase in the building. The Hofgärtnerhaus experienced a second expansion on both sides during the reconstruction after the Second World War in 1955.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Klaus Müller: Under the Palatinate-Neuburg and Palatinate-Bavarian rule . In: Hugo Weidenhaupt: Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Schwann in Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 . P. 260
- ^ Richard Klapheck : Die Baukunst am Nieder-Rhein: By Jan Wellem and the architecture of the century Karl Theodors von der Pfalz , second volume, 1916, p. 174
- ^ Willibald Rheineck: Rhine trip from Mainz to Düsseldorf , Kupferberg, Mainz, 1826, p. 484
Web links and sources
- City of Düsseldorf
- Waggadoo.de
- City Museum Düsseldorf
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 52.8 ″ E