Peacock house
The apartment building at Luisenstrasse 5 in Offenbach am Main is a listed residential building and is known as the Pfauen-Haus .
The building
The four-story tenement house was built from 1902 to 1903 by the architect Karl Steuerwald for the master white tailor Karl Roosen (1858–1910), Sprendlinger Landstrasse 19.
The large apartment building contains two apartments on each floor, each with three or four rooms, a kitchen, bathroom and toilet. There are two more smaller apartments in the attic.
The house stands out with its beautiful Art Nouveau facade with slightly protruding side risalits . While the ground floor has a relatively simple design with a profiled base and richly decorated iron courtyard gate, the piano nobile is decorated with convex window parapets and floral window bars on the middle two axes. There on the parapet area of the second floor are the eponymous peacock reliefs and roofs in floral, very filigree wickerwork. The two side projections show tree reliefs, the branching roots of which begin above the first ground floor. There are two tall, slender trees that come together on the second floor and are crowned by a large peacock relief. Here a leaf frieze forms the upper end. In addition, the house has a floral painted frieze above the third floor as a cornice. The roof area is decorated with elaborately crafted curved dormers with oval windows and lead glazing with leaf motifs. The house shows a building decoration that is unique for Offenbach.
At the same time, the client had another tenement house built on the neighboring property by the architect Max Schroeder . This also had a magnificent facade decoration. However, this facade was kept in the style of the Renaissance . Until this building was destroyed in 1944, two completely different houses stood next to each other. This was, so to speak, a “sample exhibition” of the white binder and building decoration business Karl Roosen.
literature
- Angelika Amborn-Morgenstern: Catalog of the exhibition in the Offenbach City Museum, November 26, 1987 - May 1, 1988: Home-style living in Offenbach around 1900: architecture, furnishings, objects of daily use: Exhibition in the Offenbach City Museum, November 26, 1987 - May 1, 1988, Pp. 46-47, DNB 890126941
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Luisenstraße 5 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 59.3 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 34.2" E