Junior house

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Junior house
Junior house in the evening (with illuminated staircase)
The junior house during construction
View from 1952

The junior house is a 1951 built, striking building on Kaiserplatz in the city of Frankfurt am Main . Its architect is Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984), who also designed the Rundschau House , which was built in 1954 and demolished in 2005 .

The junior house is named after its client Kurt Junior, who ran Jacob Carl Junior property management. For more than 50 years , Mercedes-Benz operated a representative showroom in the basement, and from 2010 onwards there was a brief restaurant there. The roof is still adorned with a large Mercedes star.

Until it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944 , there was a house with a café on the site, which Jacob Carl Junior bought and remodeled around 1890.

The nine-story building is almost 35 meters high. With its round, glass staircase, which is symmetrically accompanied by office wings at an acute angle to the left and right, the corner building between Kaiserstraße and Friedensstraße opposite the traditional hotel Frankfurter Hof is one of the most important buildings of the reconstruction period.

Today the building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

literature

  • Peter Cachola Schmal: ... getting on in years. Junior house in Frankfurt am Main, 1951. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 134th year 2008, No. 8.
  • Monument topography Frankfurt am Main. (= Materials on monument protection in Frankfurt am Main , volume 1.) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1986, p. 48.
  • Wilhelm Opatz , Deutscher Werkbund Hessen (Ed.): Frankfurt 1950–1959. Niggli-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7212-0906-8 .

Web links

Commons : Junior-Haus (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 36.8 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 30.1 ″  E