Reichsbank building in Düsseldorf
The bank building of the Reichsbank was at Alleestraße 8/9 (today: Heinrich-Heine-Allee 8/9) in Düsseldorf's old town . The building, which was built from 1892 to 1894 by the Düsseldorf architect Hermann Stiller under the direction of the Reichsbank architect Julius Emmerich , was the “most elegant bank building in the city”.
use
The business premises such as the business hall, the director's room and the cloakroom were on the ground floor. The apartments for the board officials were on the upper floors. In the side building there was an apartment for the cashier above the safes. The safe was two-story and had a freight elevator.
The Rheinische Bahngesellschaft AG was founded here in March 1896 , the founding fathers of which were the Düsseldorf entrepreneurs Franz Haniel , Heinrich Lueg , August Bagel and Friedrich Vohwinkel .
After the war, the building was used as a tax office by the city of Düsseldorf until the 1970s.
architecture
The listed facade was designed in the style of historicism based on Florentine palazzi in the Renaissance style: “The street front is finely structured in splendid Florentine Renaissance forms made of Heilbronn sandstone.” A high ground floor rises above the base floor. This is structured with rustication, pilasters and half-columns. Above it rise two upper floors with rusticated pilasters and elaborate window roofing. A strong cornice closes the facade off at the top.
Todays situation
Only the listed facade of the building has been preserved. This was integrated into the new building of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection (K20 at Grabbeplatz ) in 1986 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 361.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 43 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 36.1" E