Industriehof (Cologne)

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Industriehof (2009)

The Industrial Yard is under monument protection standing monument in Cologne District Old Town North . The office and commercial building at "Krebsgasse 5" was built in 1922 and 1923 based on a design by the Cologne architect Jacob Koerfer .

history

The so-called Posthof previously stood on the site of the later industrial courtyard. After its resignation in 1913, the 1627 m² property, which is owned by the city, initially remained undeveloped. Repeated attempts to sell it were unsuccessful in 1914. The First World War then prevented a use appropriate to the location and quality of the property, so that the city used the area as a briquette storage area . In 1921, the architect Jacob Koerfer finally acquired the area on Krebsgasse and Glockengasse in order to build a modern office building on his own.

The building, which took a year and a half from September 1921 until its handover on May 25, 1923, provided for exhibition and shop premises on the ground floor and office space on the five floors above. The cuts could vary according to the tenant's wishes. After the Industriehof was still owned by the Colonia property company in 1930, in the 1930s it became part of the DAF , the National Socialist Workers' Union under the leadership of Robert Ley . During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged, particularly in the area adjacent to Glockengasse, which included three of the originally twelve-axis front on Krebsgasse. As a result of ownership by the DAF, the military government confiscated the property and placed it under compulsory administration. The legal succession finally came to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The destroyed part was removed after the war and only reopened in 1958 under the direction of the State Building Department. Koerfer's planning was not used here. The remaining nine axes of the industrial courtyard on Krebsgasse are now closed at the top with a flat roof, contrary to the original hipped roof. Inside, the furnishings largely come from the restoration from the 1950s, the ashlar facade in the area of ​​the shop window system on the ground floor has also been partially changed.

In 1930 the directory lists 28 main tenants and 17 sub-tenants, including several architectural firms. The Cologne branch of “Tuchgroßhandlung Hugo Braunstein AG” and “Kleidstoffgroßhandlung N. J. Berndorff” have rented the first floor. Richard Heinrich Berndorff also operates under the same address as the consul of the "Consulate of the Republic of China for West and North Germany" located in the Industriehof. In addition, the rifle factory and later arms and hunting supplies store "Eduard Kettner" has been located in the industrial courtyard for several decades. The "Hans Aldenhoven furniture store" was also located here before the Second World War. In the 1960s, the Cologne district government maintained, among other things, the reparation department there . Currently one of the main users is the Rhein-Sieg transport association .

The industrial courtyard was entered in the monuments list of the city of Cologne on March 6, 1992 (monument no. 6411).

architecture

When it was completed in 1923, the industrial courtyard comprised a facade of 12 axes on Krebsgasse and six axes on Glockengasse. In the area of ​​the ground floor, around 80% of the land area was built over with approx. 1290 m², the ratio of traffic to usable area was 1 to 8. Koerfer used a motif on the ground and first floor that Paul Bonatz had previously at the Reifenberg house (Neumarkt) - namely to combine these two floors into a base floor using pilaster-like wall pillars . There were two office floors above it. The two uppermost office floors of the six-storey complex were again set back in their full extent in the form of terraces, with a corridor on each offset. At the intersection with Glockengasse there was a larger-than-life male figure on the level of the first floor. The construction of this office and the office building was oriented architectural less than the more recently built by Koerfer Schwerthof the typical Cologne fragmented over giebelten facades . Rather, it corresponded to the demand, which was also pushed by politicians, to develop Cologne into a West German trading metropolis that could withstand comparison with Hamburg.

literature

  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne: Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne. Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , volume 2, p. 868 f. (Jacob Koerfer).
  • Klemens Klemmer: Jacob Koerfer (1875–1930). An architect between tradition and modernity. ( Contributions to art history. Volume 23) scaneg Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-89235-013-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Klemens Klemmer: Jacob Koerfer (1875–1930). An architect between tradition and modernity.
  2. ↑ a b Address book of Cologne and the surrounding area 1930. Grevens Kölner Adressbuch Verlag, Cologne 1930, Part IV, p. 357

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '17.1 "  N , 6 ° 57' 0.3"  E