Hohenzollernring 56 (Cologne)

House "To the squashed builder" (right)

The house Hohenzollernring 56 in Cologne was built in 1882 for the city master builder Josef Stübben on the Cologne ring . The facade of the house was designed by the architects de Voss & Müller . As a civil servant, Stübben could only afford the smallest permissible parcel of 8 meters wide. Between the wide, tall city palaces on this “millionaire's mile on Cologne's Ringstrasse ”, the city master builder's house appeared so small and narrow that it was nicknamed Zum squeezed master builder . Stübben responded with a saying that he had branded in the first floor window: "Better small and as it suits me than renting in the palace."

The facade showed "essential stylistic features of the French Renaissance". The two upper floors rose above the rusticated ground floor. The upper floors were structured by a central risalit , which combined the windows into groups of three . The middle window of the group of three on the first floor showed a magnificent frame and a semicircular balcony. The hipped roof was curved concave.

The house has not been preserved. Today there is a health food store on the ground floor of the small property. House no.58 has not survived either, but no.54, from which you can see the entrance, is.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hiltrud Kier : Houses in Cologne in the second half of the 19th century. In: Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland. Volume 2: Architecture. Part II: Profane buildings and urban planning. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 413-463, here p. 438 f.
2. ↑ No. 65/58 at bilderbuch-koeln.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 23.6 "  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 24.2"  E