Ostend garage (Hanau)
The Ostend garage, built in 1928 in Hanau , Dettinger Strasse 6, is a historic garage and filling station from the early days of motor vehicle traffic . The architects of the garage were Georg Clormann (1883–1958) and Georg Deines . Stylistically, the complex belongs to the New Building or the New Objectivity architecture .
building
The Ostend garage is a collective garage with a gas station . These systems, which are intended for parking and supplying automobiles, are generally referred to as large garages . Structurally more or less elaborately designed systems of this type were implemented in Germany in the number of hundreds in the interwar period. At the end of the 1920s, for example, there were several comparable companies in Hanau: Auto-Schäfer (Kleine Hainstrasse 6), Heinrich Seitz II (Frankfurter Landstrasse 2), Hankel & Schlegel (Lamboystrasse 32), Kraftwagen-Zentrale Hanau GmbH (Bruchköbler Landstrasse 4), etc.
The Ostend garage consists of two tower-like buildings that flank the entrance and exit of the garage on the street side like a pylon . The tower-like corner buildings contain living and office space. Behind the entrance and exit there is a rectangular courtyard bordered by row garages . As is often the case with large garages of this type, the publicly accessible petrol station was in the middle of the courtyard.
During the Second World War , the plant was badly damaged in the air raids on Hanau, and the garages and the central petrol station were destroyed. The latter was rebuilt in 1958, but demolished in 2001 and the rest of the facility rebuilt. The buildings of the gate towers, which survived the Second World War, are a cultural monument due to their artistic execution in the forms of classical modernism and their technical-historical importance as a testimony to automobileism according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Müller: Big City Garages. Publishing house Deutsche Bauzeitung GmbH / Klasnig & Co. GmbH, Berlin 1925.
- ↑ Krumm, p. 181.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Caroline Krumm (Editing): City of Hanau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ) Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , p. 180 f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 29.3 " N , 8 ° 55 ′ 46.5" E