Osram House (Essen)

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Osram-Haus, hotel since July 2020

The Osram-Haus (since July 2020 Trip Inn Hotel Essen ) is a commercial building built in 1928/1929 in Essen's southern district, which has been a listed building since 1987 . It was built according to plans by the Essen architect Ernst Knoblauch . After renovation, the house has been a hotel since July 2020.

Beginning as a RoBa house

In 1908 the furniture wholesaler Rosendahl & Bachrach (short: RoBa) was founded, which started its furniture production in 1917 by acquiring the former Heymann furniture factory in Essen- Kray . From the end of 1927 to the end of 1928, the company and its architect Ernst Knoblauch negotiated the purchase of the approximately 1,100 square meter property at Kruppstraße 30. In the summer of 1929, the six-storey building in the New Objectivity style on the corner of Kruppstraße / Friedrichstrasse (today B 224 ) completed.

On the ground floor, which is outwardly different from the upper floors with stone cladding and expressionist window bars, there was a reception hall and offices. In the area of ​​the upper floors, the facades are separated into horizontal strips by narrow cornices, the parapet strips with light-colored plaster and the window strips (between the window openings) in exposed brickwork. Apart from the sixth floor, on which there was an upholstery workshop, the upper floors of the furniture company served as exhibition and sales rooms. A striking element of the architecture is the elevated tower of the central staircase, the brightly plastered facade of which is graphically accentuated by narrow cornices and pilaster strips .

The Jewish business co- owner Hermann Bachrach was born on March 10, 1880 in Ziegenhain and was a member of the Essen synagogue community. He and his wife were deported to Izbica during the Second World War in 1942 and murdered there. His tombstone is now in the Jewish cemetery on Reckhammerweg .

Use before the Second World War

Until the Second World War, the house changed hands several times and was redesigned several times. The name Osram House, which is still in use today, comes from a conspicuous neon sign for the lamp manufacturer on the staircase tower of the building, which was installed there from 1931. The Berlin group rented several floors of the building from 1930.

Around 1935, among other things, the top construction management for the construction of the Reichsautobahn from Cologne to Hanover was based here. The building was damaged by bombs during the war. As a result, when it was rebuilt in the early 1950s, the staggered upper floor received angular windows instead of the originally round, porthole-like windows .

Use after the Second World War

The first occupants of the house after the end of the war were trade union associations from the British zone of occupation . The newly founded trade union for trade, banks and insurance has had its federal management here since 1950 . The last owner was Deutsche Bahn until 2007.

Until today it is used as a hotel

Osram house under renovation, 2011

At the end of 2007, the real estate company Westfälische Grundbesitz und Finanzverwaltung bought the building, which had been vacant since 2005. In September 2010, the Ludwigsburg hotel chain acom Hotels , a subsidiary of nestor Hotels , signed a 25-year lease. The Westfälische Grundbesitz und Finanzverwaltung was to have the building converted into a three-star hotel with 144 rooms on a gross floor area of ​​around 7,300 square meters for around 7.5 million euros . The building construction was to be carried out by MPP Meding Plan Projekt GmbH from Hamburg , who wanted to add an additional, glazed stacked floor. The interior design was to be carried out by the Markus-Diedenhofen company from Reutlingen . The building permit was issued in August 2011. The opening of the hotel was planned for the end of 2012, but work had been suspended since June 2012. The scaffolding that had already been erected was removed. The construction freeze was justified with damage for which the Don International commissioned the renovation was responsible and with delays in payment. The contract with acom Hotels was terminated in summer 2012 and a new contract with the Spanish hotel chain Meliá Hotels International was announced. In December 2013, Westfälische Grundbesitz und Finanzverwaltung filed for bankruptcy as the building owner.

After the purchase by a Frankfurt investor, preparatory work began in January 2018 to convert it into a boarding house . After completion in May 2020, the hotel with 109 rooms, each with its own kitchen, was opened with the name Trip Inn Living and Suites on July 1, 2020, after hotels were allowed to reopen after easing the corona crisis . It is part of the Frankfurt hotel chain Trip Inn, which leases the house for 15 years.

The Osram-Haus will be named for the Osram Quartier (also called Literature Quartier) planned behind it , an office and residential area that is planned within Bert-Brecht-, Friedrich- and Kruppstraße. It is the former newspaper district. At the beginning of 2020, the old buildings of the Funke media group were demolished after moving into the new media house on Berliner Platz.

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  1. ^ Advertisement for Rosendahl & Bachrach Aktiengesellschaft from 1925
  2. ↑ Steinheim Institute: epigraphic database ; Retrieved June 29, 2016
  3. ^ Presentation of the Westphalian property and financial administration WGF ; Retrieved November 29, 2011, offline
  4. ↑ MPP Meding Plan Projekt GmbH - Osramhaus Essen project  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved November 29, 2011, offline@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mpp.de  
  5. ↑ Derwesten.de of July 2, 2012: Construction work on the former “Osram House” in Essen is on hold ; accessed on May 17, 2020
  6. ↑ The contract for a three-star hotel in the Osram building in Essen has burst , Der Westen.de of July 23, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2020
  7. ↑ Meliá Hotels International: Innside Essen opened in 2015 in the historic Osram building ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 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. , Hottelling on November 26, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hottelling.net
  8. ↑ Uncertain future for the Osram house in Essen , Der Westen.de of January 2, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2020
  9. ↑ Frankfurt investor switches on listed Osram house ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 12, 2018; accessed on May 17, 2020
  10. ↑ Janet Lindgens: New hotel opens in the Osram building ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 16, 2020
  11. ↑ competitionline.com: Sachsenstrasse / Bert-Brecht-Strasse ; accessed on May 17, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 52 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 11.5 ″  E