Mannesmann house
The Mannesmann House - also called Behrensbau to distinguish it from other buildings belonging to the same company - is a former administration building in Düsseldorf and stands on Mannesmannufer in the Carlstadt district . It was built from 1911 to 1912 according to a design by the architect Peter Behrens for the headquarters of Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG and is one of the early large administrative buildings in Düsseldorf.
From August 1946 to April 1, 1953, the Mannesmann House served as the state chancellery and the official seat of the first state governments in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is since October 23, 1982 under monument protection .
description
Stylistically, the Mannesmann-Haus belongs to the reform architecture before the First World War; it is often interpreted as an anticipation of the New Objectivity , but references to neo-renaissance and neoclassicism can also be recognized. Typologically it is an office building with the external shape and proportions of a city palace .
The design by Behrens emerged victorious in an architectural competition held in 1910 , the earthworks began in January 1911, and the acceptance test was certified on November 6, 1912. The plastic jewelry comes from the sculptors Eberhard Encke ( Hephaestus relief above the main entrance) and Joseph Enseling . The building and its interior cost around 1.65 million marks .
About the foundations and the basement of stamped concrete , there is a 67 meters wide and 42.5 meters deep building in the core of a skeletal structure in wrought iron with hollow stone ceilings and solid walls in brick - masonry . The outer facades on the base with an ashlar from limestone and the upper floors with tuff dressed while the facades of the building is enclosed by the halos with light glazed facing bricks were provided. The massive roof was covered with slate . In the eastern corners of the building there are two side staircases, each equipped with a paternoster ; the representative main staircase in Untersberg marble in the middle of the west wing was assigned a conventional elevator system .
In addition to the iron skeleton construction, which was still quite unusual at the time of construction in Germany, the building had another progressive idea: The office rooms of the single- level floor plan are on the outside, the straight, solidly brick partition wall to the corridor running around the inside (at the atrium) is in provided with doors at regular intervals. The partition walls between the office rooms, which were at right angles to the outer wall and the corridor wall , consisted of light, but soundproof shear wall constructions, so that small or larger office rooms could be created by removing or relocating as required. This meant that the room structure could be adapted to a changed organizational structure of the administrative work.
Condition and use
From 1937 to 1938, the building to the east on Berger Allee was extended by an extension ("Väthbau") by the Mannesmann architect Hans Väth . The Mannesmann high-rise was built in the immediate vicinity from 1956 to 1958 .
The company Vodafone as the legal successor of the building owner sold the building to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, pulling end of 2012. From October 2015 to January 2017, the extension on Berger Allee was used as refugee accommodation. The building has been empty again since 2017. The Behrensbau is to be the future seat of the House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Web links
- Mannesmann house. In: Structurae
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
literature
- Fritz Hoeber: Peter Behrens administration building of the Mannesmann-Röhren-Werke in Düsseldorf on the Rhine . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt . Volume 24 (1913), pp. 186–189 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-7700-0408-6 , object no. 28.
- Brigitte Ingeborg Schlüter: Administrative buildings of the Rheinisch-Westfälische steel industry 1900–1930. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , 1991, pp. 120–166 (as well as tabular building data in the non-paginated appendix).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Gierschner: This is where the fathers of North Rhine-Westphalia sat. The first cabinet room of the state government in Düsseldorf. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland , issue 3/2011, pp. 135 ff.
- ↑ Kurt Düwell: "Operation Marriage". British obstetrics in the founding of North Rhine-Westphalia . ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2012 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. (PDF) Speech manuscript from September 14, 2006, p. 10
- ↑ Local office in Düsseldorf . Posted October 6, 2015
- ↑ Law on the establishment of a foundation "House of History North Rhine-Westphalia", p. 17, explanatory statement, dated November 19, 2019 ( online , accessed on June 26, 2020.)
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '15.9 " N , 6 ° 46' 5.1" E