Hotel Kaiserhof (Dueren)
The Hotel Kaiserhof was a building erected in 1902 as a bourgeois residential building and only later used as a hotel in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , on the corner plot of Schillerstrasse / Goethestrasse .
The house was built as the third villa in this newly opened building area in 1902 for the entrepreneur Eduard Hinsberg (1857–1917), who was a son-in-law of Christian Ivo Heimbach and therefore a partner in the Thomas Josef Heimbach company .
The house was two-story above a high plinth and had a three-story, tower-like round bay window on the street corner , which originally ended with a polygonal curly helmet , which was replaced as a simple tent roof after war damage . The two street facades were structured asymmetrically and had double gables on the top floor - in the middle on Schillerstraße, on Goethestraße above the right axis. The entrance was on Schillerstrasse, the house was originally enclosed with a high wrought iron fence . The architecture of the house can be stylistically classified in the neo-renaissance .
The villa was damaged in the air raid on November 16, 1944 , but was immediately repaired by the cattle dealer Ludwig Kann, who had bought the building and had it converted into a hotel. After Kann's death in an accident in 1951, the Fischer family bought the house at auction and named it Hotel Kaiserhof . In 1957 Karl Kreutzer acquired the property, which he handed over to the Schröder couple, his niece and her husband after a few months . Under the direction of the Schröders and after renovations and extensions, the hotel became the “ parlor ” of the city of Düren.
In 1974 the house was closed due to fire protection regulations that could no longer be met and demolished in March 1977. In its place there is a new building for the Düren tax office. Two keystones of the old building were integrated into this new building and can therefore still be seen today, one with the intertwined initials of the client "EH", one with the date " AD 1902".
literature
- Rolf Terkatz: From the Villa Hinsberg to the Kaiserhof. In: traces, magazine of the history workshop in Düren , No. 14 (July 2011), p. 4 f. ( online as PDF document; 3.8 MB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 31.1 ″ E