List of architectural monuments in the city center (Essen)

The list of architectural monuments in the city center (Essen) contains the listed buildings in the area of Essen city center , district I, in North Rhine-Westphalia (as of January 2016). These architectural monuments are entered in the monuments list of the city of Essen; The basis for the admission is the Monument Protection Act North Rhine-Westphalia (DSchG NRW).  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Registered since	Monument number
more pictures	Hotel Handelshof	Am Handelshof 2, Am Hauptbahnhof 2, Willy-Brandt-Platz card	Architect: Carl Moritz	1911-1912	Feb. 14, 1985	5
	former Simon Hirschland Bank	At the Reichsbank 8 / Lindenallee card	Architect: Carl Moritz ; the bank was founded in 1841 by the Jewish banker Simon Hirschland , who is considered the financier of mining in the Ruhr area ; continued by his son Isaac Hirschland (1845–1912) and later his sons Georg (1885–1942) and Kurt Hirschland (1882–1957); In 1938 the forced aryanization followed and the sale far below value	1910	June 25, 1992	762
more pictures	Century fountain	Bernestrasse / Steeler Strasse / Edmund-Körner-Platz map	The fountain, designed by Ulfert Janssen , commemorates 100 years of the unification of the city and monastery of Essen with the Kingdom of Prussia in 1802.	1907	0Dec 9, 1993	231
more pictures	Old Catholic Church of Peace	Bernestrasse 1,3 / Steeler Strasse / Edmund-Körner-Platz map	Architect: Albert Erbe	1914-1916	Feb. 14, 1985	11
more pictures	Kaiser Wilhelm Monument	Burgplatz / Kettwiger Strasse ; at Kettwiger Strasse 36 map	Equestrian statue by the sculptor Hermann Volz , relocated to a new base around 1930	1898	08 Sep 1994	812
more pictures	Burggymnasium Essen	Burgplatz 4, Bernestraße, I. Dellbrügge map	Architect: Horst Loy	1952	13 Sep 2001	916
more pictures	Essen main post office	Hachestraße 2–8 / An der Reichsbank 2–6 / Willy-Brandt-Platz 1–4 map		1924–1933 in several construction phases	Apr. 14, 1988	332
more pictures	Kennedy Tower	Hagen II.7, Hagen III. 24, 26, Vereinstrasse 11 map	former house of the Evangelical Church; 2008/2009 converted into a commercial building, the so-called Kennedy Tower; Before that, the Evangelical St. Paul's Church , which was destroyed in the Second World War, was located on this property .	1962-1965	Nov 20, 2008	952
more pictures	House of technology	Hollestrasse 1 map	Architect: Edmund Körner ; originally the seat of the Essen stock exchange, changed after war damage	1922-1925	Dec 10, 1987	224
	Herald House	Kennedyplatz 3 map	built for the Essen branch of the insurance company “Deutscher Herold” (now the Zurich Group ) by the architect Emil Jung ; redesigned and opened as a Motel One chain hotel since February 1, 2012	1954-1955	0Feb. 4, 2010	955
more pictures	Former America House Ruhr	Kennedyplatz 7 map	Architect: Hermann Gehrig	1951-1952	Jan. 17, 2001	655
more pictures	Eickhaus	Kettwiger Straße 1 / Willy-Brandt-Platz / Rathenaustraße 17 / Kapuzinergasse 3 map	Former furnishing department store (furniture store) of the company A. Eick Söhne , design: Georg Metzendorf	1913-1915	Aug 24, 2000	361
	Commercial building	Kettwiger Strasse 15 map	Built on behalf of the café owner Ewald Overbeck by the architect Wilhelm Koep ; Café Overbeck was located here until December 2014.	1955-1956	April 16, 2015	969
	formerly Hotel zur Post, later Zum Ritter	Kettwiger Strasse 19 map	Architect: Ernst Knoblauch	Early 20th century	May 22, 2006	944
	Glockenspiel bay window on the former Deiter office building	Kettwiger Strasse 22 map	Listed the chimes from the year 1928, which initially is in the Limbecker Straße was and after the Second World War in the Kettwiger road came. This includes the glass mosaic bay window created in 1955/56, to which the game figures were added in 1958 and 1970.	1928	06th July 2017	976
more pictures	Baedeker house	Kettwiger Strasse 33–35 map	House of the former GD Baedeker Verlag , shell limestone cladding with sculptures by Joseph Enseling ; previously there was a residence of the canons of Essen (the so-called Von-Harrach'sche Kuria ), which Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker acquired in 1817	1926-1928	Dec 10, 1987	225
more pictures	Office and commercial building with Lichtburg cinema	Kettwiger Straße 36 / I. Dellbrügge 4–6 / Burgplatz map	Cinema building with the largest cinema in Germany	1928	Dec 17, 1998	901
	Blum House (former Loosen department store, formerly Blum)	Kettwiger Strasse 37 map	The Jewish merchant Gustav Blum (1879–1935) had the building built in 1928 as a textile department store. He had around 600 employees. In 1938 his sons were forced by the National Socialists to sell the business below value in the course of the Aryanization . Then the Loosen department store was located there between 1938 and 1989. Peek & Cloppenburg has been located there since the building was gutted in 1989.	1926-1928	Apr 28, 1995	846
more pictures	former Hettlage department store	Kettwiger Strasse 44 map	Architect: Oskar Schwer	1913-1914	June 25, 1992	763
	Reliefs on the ceramic house	Kettwiger Strasse 64 / former Flachsmarkt 2 / Fontänengasse map	The original ceramic relief facade of the house, built in 1912, was largely removed in 1934 because it was converted into a Gauwirtschaft building. After the Second World War and while the war damage was being repaired, the house was used as an administration building for the employment office. West Möbel moved in in 1961 and stayed there until 1993. In 1994, during the conversion to an office building, the remains of the relief, which are not visible under plaster today, were discovered. but are under monument protection.	1912	08 Sep 1994	813
	Office and commercial building Stein-Haus	Kettwiger Straße 5 / Kapuzinergasse 2 / Rathenaustraße 15 map	with a facade made of sandstone blocks, named after its architect Anton Stein	1925	Nov 14, 1991	651
more pictures	Essen Minster : cathedral church with cloister and atrium, crucifixion group, St. John	Kettwiger Strasse, at No. 40 map	The nucleus of the city of Essen	1275-1307	Feb. 14, 1985	6th
more pictures	Kreuzeskirche	Kreuzeskirchstrasse 16 / I. Weberstrasse map	Architect: August Orth	1894-1896	May 14, 1987	144
more pictures	Germany House	Lindenallee 10 map	Architect: Jacob Koerfer	1929	Nov 10, 1988	336
	Deutsche Bank, formerly Essener Credit-Anstalt (ECA)	Lindenallee 29–41 map	Architect: Peter Zindel . The building was taken over by the Deutsche Bank AG with the ECA in 1925.	1901–1908 in several construction phases	Feb. 14, 1985	7th
more pictures	Alfred Krupp monument at the Marktkirche	Market card	Alfred Krupp monument by sculptor Fritz Schaper ; Set up in front of the Marktkirche in 1889, no war damage, but knocked over by US soldiers, then deposited on factory premises; Repositioned in 1952, it returned to the city center in 1961 - but to the side of the market church. At the suggestion of Berthold Beitz , the monument returned to its central, old location in 2006.	1889	13 Sep 1990	598
more pictures	Market Church	Market 8 card	first Protestant church in Essen	Origin in the 11th century	Feb. 14, 1985	8th
	former Allbauhaus	Horse market 5/7 / Viehofer Platz 4 card	Architect: Ernst Knoblauch . Originally there were sculptures by the sculptor Will Lammert on the façades , a memorial plaque reminds of this today. Today an office of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Essen district association) and a branch of the Sparkasse Essen are housed here. The tram used to go through the house, the rails of which (considered to be the oldest) are still there.	1927-1928	10 Mar 1997	883
	Former savings bank building	Rathenaustraße 2-4 map	Georg Metzendorf designed the building in the New Objectivity style for the Sparkasse headquarters. Until 1985 it was used by the Association of House of Technology , the Kramm furniture store and the Eintracht department store, among others . The house, located south of the Grillo Theater , was converted into a theater passage with upscale retail in 1985. Another modernization took place in 2005. Only the facade is a listed building.	1929-1930	Feb. 14, 1985	9
more pictures	Former synagogue with rabbi house	Schützenbahn / Steeler Strasse map	Architect: Edmund Körner , today House of Jewish Culture	1911-1913	Feb. 14, 1985	10
	Kolping House	Steeler Strasse 36 map		1858-1859	Dec 10, 1987	226
more pictures	Scenery house of the Grillo Theater	Theaterplatz, Hirschlandplatz 7 map	Built in 1908 as a backdrop to the Grillo Theater, which opened in 1892. Previously, a Catholic school building behind the theater had been bought from the city and used provisionally as a set house. This was canceled after 1908.	1907-1908	26 Sep 2006	946
	Main customs office	Trentelgasse 4 map		1907-1908	Aug 21, 1990	597
	Former single home	Weberplatz 1 card	former Kaiser Wilhelm single home , architect: Oskar Kunhenn ; between 1982 early 2017 disabled by the Association self-help humans and food than was Meeting House out since it is mostly empty.	around 1910	Dec 10, 1987	227

Web links

• List of monuments of the city of Essen in the city's GIS / Geo-Info-System

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial plaque on the object
2. ^ Derwesten.de: Krupp - houses and halls, monuments and street names; December 27, 2011 , accessed April 10, 2013
3. ↑ Theater passage: We about us, history ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ; Retrieved April 10, 2013 
4. ↑ In the exhibition, artists ask questions about urban planning ; in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 29, 2017