Ratinger Strasse 8

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Düsseldorf, Ratinger Straße, No. 8 with volute gable and pilasters

The house Ratinger Straße 8 in Düsseldorf was a historic building that was first mentioned in 1632 and was one of the oldest surviving buildings. The building was destroyed in World War II. According to Paul Sültenfuß, it was distinguished by its rare gable design. The volute gable with the pilaster arrangement showed a vertical division, which in Düsseldorf only had the “Zur Stadt Rom” building . The art-historical importance of the building is attributed to the baroque.

Location and surroundings

The building was on Ratinger Strasse , which extends the Altestadt street from Liefergasse to Heinrich-Heine-Allee . This road was already built in 1384. The Kreuzherrenkirche is on the street . The building was flanked on the left by the preserved and listed building "Zum Schwarzen Horn" (Ratinger Straße 6). On the right side was the "Kaiserlicher Hof" house (Ratinger Straße 10), which was destroyed in the war.

  • The building in: Hans Müller-Schlösser: The beautiful, old Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1911.

  • The building in: Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, Sign .: 071-370-009.

  • The building in: Josef Kleesattel: Old Düsseldorf in the picture. A collection of local art from the Lower Rhine , Düsseldorf 1909, Fig. 2.

history

In 1632 the house belonged to the Wittib burgraves, where Heinrich Carpenta and Procurator Haewinkel lived in 1663 . In 1715 it was owned by the electoral privy councilor and assessor at the Wetzlar court, a licentiate Somborn. In 1762 it belonged to the captain Philipp Wilhelm von Somborn. It was sold in 1808. In 1810 court councilor Bewer died there . In 1817 August Trost's bookstore and printer was located there. A gentleman from Pampus also lived there.

Art historical significance

Paul Sültenfuß describes the building, emphasizing that Ratinger Str. 8 is one of the few buildings with a vertical structure due to pilasters. This did not apply to the other Düsseldorf gable forms, where more emphasis was placed on the horizontal gable structure. The pilasters are fluted and crowned by Ionic capitals . The above closure represented a segmental arch ; A male bust protruded from the tympanum of the segmental arch ; The segmental arch was crowned by a ball.

“The gable division at Ratingerstr. 8 [shows] here […] fluted pilasters with ionic capitals and the upper end […] a segmented arch […] A bearded male head adorns its surface, a ball above the center of the framed arch. The fact that the central axis of the first floor has its own window frame, larger than the others and adorned with an arched gable, is a first attempt to emphasize the main axis and a symmetrical arrangement that is characteristic of the later buildings. [...]. "

reception

The building is shown by Hans Müller-Schlösser in The Beautiful, Old Düsseldorf , and by the architect Josef Kleesattel in Alt-Düsseldorf in the picture. A collection of local art from the Lower Rhine region . The house is the subject of detailed discussion by Paul Sültenfuß, who counts it as one of the special buildings due to its vertical gable design in the Baroque style. Even Paul Clemen in: The historical monuments of the city and the county Dusseldorf the house mentioned Ratinger Straße 8 "here with pilasters in the gable and a bearded head in the final." However, Clemen counts the building to the Renaissance houses .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/gestern_heute/20_bilddokumentation.shtml
  2. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf ; Published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 37.
  3. ^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 54.
  4. ↑ Hans Müller-Schlösser: The beautiful, old Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1911, illustration at p. 72f.
  5. ↑ Josef Kleesattel in Alt-Düsseldorf in the picture. A collection of local art from the Lower Rhine , Düsseldorf 1909, Fig. 2
  6. ^ Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1894, p. 66.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 45.8 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 26.9"  E