Löwenhof (Dortmund)
The Löwenhof is a building in downtown Dortmund . In the course of its history it housed one of the largest concert cafés in West Germany , was the headquarters of Heinrich August Schulte Eisenhandlung and is now the seat of the Dortmund Adult Education Center .
history
The Löwenhof was built in 1912/1913 according to plans by the architects Paul Lutter and Hugo Steinbach on behalf of the Löwenhof construction company as a hotel with a restaurant. Based on the name Löwenhof, there are two stone lions sitting on a console on the facade facing the castle gate, each lion holding a coat of arms with a paw. The restaurant of the former Löwen brewery , the Löwenhof, was located on the ground floor of the building . The first floor was occupied by the so-called "Elite Café Löwenhof", a concert café with a wine hall and billiard room, which visitors could reach via a marble staircase. The elite café was one of the largest concert cafés in West Germany.
In 1921 the steel company Heinrich August Schulte relocated its corporate headquarters to Hansastrasse and occupied the upper floors of the Löwenhof. From this time on, the lettering "Stahlhaus" affixed above the lion adorned the facade, which was visible from afar. A bomb hit in May 1943 burned the building down, and the Schulte company temporarily relocated to the port area .
After the end of the war, reconstruction began according to the original plans. The British military government claimed the ground floor and the first floor to carry out political education for the Germans under the name “Die Brücke”. From 1955, the Schulte company, which had already returned in 1949, was able to claim the building for itself and also have the lower rooms redesigned as additional office and business premises. After Thyssen AG moved the Dortmund administration from Thyssen Schulte to the corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf in 1991, the city of Dortmund acquired the building five years later and redesigned it for further use by the adult education center.
The Löwenhof is registered as an architectural monument with the list number A0029 in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ No. A 0029. List of monuments of the city district Innenstadt-West. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 17, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 1.6 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 48.2 ″ E