Royal High School (Düsseldorf)

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Düsseldorf, Royal High School on Alleestraße around 1890
Düsseldorf, Royal High School on Alleestraße before it was demolished in 1904

The Royal High School on Alleestraße in Düsseldorf was inaugurated in 1833. The educational institution, which was shaped by the idea of neo - humanism and , as a secondary school , led young men to university entrance, was built according to plans by the architects Adolph von Vagedes (a representative of French classicism) and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (a representative of Berlin classicism). The building was popularly known as "the old box". From 1907 to 1909 the Tietz department store was built on the site of the grammar school, which was demolished in 1904 (today Kaufhof ). A new grammar school, today's Görres grammar school , was built on Königsallee by 1906 .

Location and surroundings

Alleestraße with the Royal High School

The building was located at Alleestraße 32, today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee . The school building was flanked by the Hotel Breidenbacher Hof . Originally, the new city theater was to be built in place of the school building. The neighboring Breidenbacher Hof protested against the school building; Breidenbach had hoped for a new theater to be built at this point: “Since the building site intended for the theater was not left fallow, the corner property next to the hotel palace was used for another useful purpose: a high school, of all places, was built there. For Wilhelm Breidenbach this not only meant the end of a dream of an educated and distinguished audience in the immediate vicinity, it also meant, above all, considerable noise pollution for his guests ”. The school yard was pulled up to its elaborately designed facade and sealed off with a wall, against which Breidenbach protested to the royal government on January 7, 1829.

description

Originally, the building was to be built according to plans by the architect Adolph von Vagedes - a representative of French classicism. In 1828, the agricultural inspector Felderhoff and construction manager Werner revised the designs so that the building finally corresponded to Schinkel's design - a representative of Berlin classicism. The exterior of the building was “built in the most sober forms of classicism, without any risalit, with very smooth surfaces, without any architectural ornamentation” .

Only the auditorium was designed according to Vagedes' original plans. Inside was a gallery of columns on 24 columns with rich paintings, a coffered ceiling and wrought-iron railings. The auditorium had a gallery on three sides. The gallery showed a double column position, the lower one was designed in Doric order , above it in Ionic order .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Kordt: Adolph von Vagedes. A Rhenish-Westphalian builder of the Goethe era , Ratingen 1961, p. 93.
    Angelika Masberg: Everyday school life in the mirror of contemporary developments. Studies on the change in the oldest secondary school in Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1985, pp. 261–263 [building description]
    Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855–1914 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88814-376-4 , p. 87.
  2. ^ Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855-1914 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88814-376-4 , p. 87
  3. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt: Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf , Trixtsch publishing house, Düsseldorf 1993, page 409.
  4. ^ The Breidenbacher Hof: a Düsseldorf legend; its art and its history. Published by the Hotel Breidenbacher Hof Düsseldorf on the occasion of its 175th anniversary, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 16.
  5. ^ The Breidenbacher Hof: a Düsseldorf legend; its art and its history. Published by the Hotel Breidenbacher Hof Düsseldorf on the occasion of its 175th anniversary, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 16.
  6. ^ Walter Kordt: Adolph von Vagedes. A Rhenish-Westphalian builder of the Goethe era , Ratingen 1961, p. 93.
    Angelika Masberg: Everyday school life in the mirror of contemporary developments. Studies on the change in the oldest secondary school in Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1985, pp. 261–263 [building description]
    Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855–1914 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88814-376-4 , p. 87.
  7. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 220
  8. ↑ Horst Schmitges: school buildings . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (ed.): Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland: Architecture II, Profane Buildings and Urban Development , Corn / lsen Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, pp. 119–153, on p. 143.
  9. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 220.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 40.6 ″  E