District House Düsseldorf

County house

Floor plan of the district building

on Kasernenstrasse the Great Synagogue , on the left the district building, on the right the AOK main administration building (around 1910)

The Düsseldorf district building , Kasernenstrasse 69 in Düsseldorf , was the administrative seat of the Düsseldorf district and its legal successor, the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district . The building was built between 1901 and 1903 on the basis of the design by the Münster architect G. Wölfer, which was awarded second prize in a previous architectural competition, based on plans by the Cologne architect Friedrich August Küster in the style of historicism and based on models from the German Renaissance . A Küster design was also awarded a second prize during the competition. During the Second World War , the district building was damaged in 1943 and, after being rebuilt in 1958, served as its seat until the district was dissolved on January 1, 1975.

The building was on Kasernenstrasse, with its main gable in the axis of Carl-Theodor-Strasse, which opens at right angles to Kasernenstrasse. It "is distinguished by the grouping of the masses, as well as by the excellent distribution of well-drawn ornament and large, calm surfaces." Since the building was free-standing, all four facades were architecturally designed. The three parts of the facade visible from Kasernenstrasse were made entirely of real material. The base was built with greywacke and Niedermendiger basalt lava . The floors above were designed with tuff facing . The architectural structures and ornaments, especially with fittings and scrollwork, were made in Rheingrafenwald sandstone . The back facade was plastered, the window and door frames and the cornices were made of sandstone. The common rooms, the hall and the district meeting room were specially designed. The panels, doors and the stairs were made of German oak. While the ceiling of the circle meeting room was designed as a coffered wooden ceiling, the other ceilings were designed as vaults with stucco decorations.

Today (2012) the head office of the Kreissparkasse Düsseldorf is located on the property of the district building .

literature

Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 187–189 (Unchanged reprint of the Düsseldorf Architects and Engineers Association, Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980).
Clemens von Looz-Vorswaren, Benedikt Mauer (ed.): The great Düsseldorf Lexicon. Greven-Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7743-0485-7 , p. 419.
H. St. (presumably Hugo Steuer): Competition for a district building in Düsseldorf. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 20, 1900, No. 1 (from January 6, 1900), p. 6 f.

annotation

↑ Note: Carl-Theodor-Straße originally began on Kasernenstraße; there was no cross connection to Schwanenmarkt until 1945. However, there was free access between the District Office and the Great Synagogue, which blocked access to it through the built-up property on Schwanenmarkt. After the Second World War, a new cross connection was created as a western extension of Carl-Theodor-Strasse between Kasernenstrasse and Hohestrasse and named "Siegfried-Klein-Strasse" in memory of Siegfried Klein, a rabbi murdered in the Third Reich.

51.2198 6.7752Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 11.3 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 30.7" E

[1] Note: Carl-Theodor-Straße originally began on Kasernenstraße; there was no cross connection to Schwanenmarkt until 1945. However, there was free access between the District Office and the Great Synagogue, which blocked access to it through the built-up property on Schwanenmarkt. After the Second World War, a new cross connection was created as a western extension of Carl-Theodor-Strasse between Kasernenstrasse and Hohestrasse and named "Siegfried-Klein-Strasse" in memory of Siegfried Klein, a rabbi murdered in the Third Reich.