Hotel "Roman Emperor"

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Roman emperor interior
Façade Stresemannstrasse 26, corner of Oststrasse (approx. 1904)
In 2012, vacant at the time (previously tax office, then Sparda-Bank West , then BBBank (approx. Since 2015))

The “Römischer Kaiser” hotel is a former hotel in the center of Düsseldorf , Stresemannstraße 26. It was used as an office and commercial building. It was completed in 1904 and has been a listed building since 1984 .

history

The previous building of the hotel was at Benrather Strasse 3. From 1903 to 1904 Josef Kleesattel built the four-storey corner house with natural stone façades at the corner of Steinstrasse 70 (today Stresemannstrasse 26). The builder was FW Zensen. While the exterior architecture was designed by Josef Kleesattel, Hermann vom Endt designed the beer and wine bars that were then connected to the hotel. The Düsseldorf Yacht Club was founded in the hotel's premises in 1908 .

The building was damaged in World War II and rebuilt in a simplified manner in the 1950s. The gable and turret were reconstructed from 1982 to 1983 largely based on the original condition .

description

Jörg Heimeshoff describes the neo-Gothic details on the building:

“ The facades of the building erected as the“ Römischer Kaiser ”hotel show decorative elements from the late Gothic period. Tracery structures on parapets, balconies and windows, curtain arches and stone cross windows indicate this. Several bay windows, balconies, gables and turrets create a picturesque appearance. Wide, segment-arched openings structure the ground floor . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation.
  2. ↑ Benratherstraße 3, E (= owner) Engels, Karl, hotel owner, Hotel "Zum Römischer Kaiser" , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1903, p. 52
  3. ↑ In an advertisement from 1905, the address “Ost- und Steinstraße-corner” is named (this corresponds to the corner house Stresemannstraße) → advertisement .
  4. ↑ August Zensen is named as an architect. Hotel Zum Königlichen Kaiser, August Zensen (August Zensen architect), Oststrasse and Steinstrasse corner , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices, 1905, p. 358
  5. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 305, p. 315-316 [Fig. 387 Roman Emperor, ground floor plan] [Fig. 388 Roman Emperor, first floor plan] [Fig. 389 Roman Emperor, view] [Fig. 390 Interior of the "Roman Emperor"].
  6. ^ A b Jörg Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf. Nobel, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-922785-68-9 , p. 240.

Web links

Commons : Hotel "Römischer Kaiser"  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 14.1 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 6.7 ″  E