Jakobstrasse 105/107 (Aachen)

Jakobstraße 105/107 was built in 1812 and is a semi-detached house in Aachen .

Building history

This eight-axle semi-detached house is eaves and consists of three floors and a mansard roof . The left two axes belong to house number 105, the presumed servants' house. The main house is said to have been built by a countess. 30 windows are located in the Blaustein - half-timbered façade . Above the entrance to house no. 107 is the year 1812 and a pretzel with two long crossed sticks as a baker's mark . The garden was designed as a residential garden until the beginning of the 20th century.

The Burgundian Cross at Rennbahn 1 is also attributed to the unknown builder .

The house at Jakobstrasse 105/107 and Pontstrasse 127 are the only remaining architectural examples of Aachen's tight stone framework . It is a half-timbered building with brick facing . The bricks have no load-bearing function.

monument

In 1977 the Rhineland State Conservator entered the list of monuments :

“Jakobstrasse 105/107: 1812; 3-storey brick building with mansard roof and facade in bluestone framework, ground floor in bluestone, e.g. Partially changed, mansard roof; contemporary interior "

Individual evidence

^ Eduard Philipp Arnold : The Altaachen house. Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1930, p. 88, Fig. 23 with floor plan.
↑ Bruno Lerho : Old Aachen residential buildings. Their history, facilities and residents. Helios, Aachen 1998, p. 37f. (with illustration and information on changing ownership).
↑ Bruno Lerho: Old Aachen residential buildings. Their history, facilities and residents. Helios, Aachen 1998, p. 37f. (with illustration and information on changing ownership).
^ Arnold, p. 287 with illus. Of the door of the house Rennbahn 1 in: Karl Faymonville among other things: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Aachen. The secular monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province . Vol. 10, Section 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1924, pp. 179, 795 - Fig. 76. Here the same baker's mark can be found as the keystone above the entrance. It does not correspond to today's traditional baker's mark.
↑ Hans Königs: The fate of the profane architectural monuments. In: Albert Huyskens , Bernhard Poll (ed.): The old Aachen. Its destruction and its reconstruction (= Aachen contributions to building history and local art , volume 3.) Aachen 1953, p. 78.
^ Günther Borchers (Ed.): Landeskonservator Rheinland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter . Edited by Volker Osteneck with the assistance of Hans Königs . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, p. 90, fig. 137.

50.7717227 6.0767548Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 18.2 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 36.3" E

[1] Eduard Philipp Arnold : The Altaachen house. Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1930, p. 88, Fig. 23 with floor plan.

[2] Bruno Lerho : Old Aachen residential buildings. Their history, facilities and residents. Helios, Aachen 1998, p. 37f. (with illustration and information on changing ownership).

[3] Bruno Lerho: Old Aachen residential buildings. Their history, facilities and residents. Helios, Aachen 1998, p. 37f. (with illustration and information on changing ownership).

[4] Arnold, p. 287 with illus. Of the door of the house Rennbahn 1 in: Karl Faymonville among other things: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Aachen. The secular monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province . Vol. 10, Section 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1924, pp. 179, 795 - Fig. 76. Here the same baker's mark can be found as the keystone above the entrance. It does not correspond to today's traditional baker's mark.

[5] Hans Königs: The fate of the profane architectural monuments. In: Albert Huyskens , Bernhard Poll (ed.): The old Aachen. Its destruction and its reconstruction (= Aachen contributions to building history and local art , volume 3.) Aachen 1953, p. 78.

[6] Günther Borchers (Ed.): Landeskonservator Rheinland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter . Edited by Volker Osteneck with the assistance of Hans Königs . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, p. 90, fig. 137.