Rheinstrasse 1 (Linz on the Rhine)

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Linz am Rhein, Rheinstrasse 1 at the corner of Burgplatz (2013)
Linz am Rhein, Rheinstrasse 1, entrance
Linz am Rhein, Rheinstrasse 1, architect's engraving, to the right of the entrance

The Rheinstrasse 1 building is a residential and commercial building in Linz am Rhein , a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied , which was built in 1913. It is located in the city center on the corner of Rheinstrasse and Burgplatz. The building stands as a cultural monument under monument protection .

history

The building was created for the client Hermann Hirsch, a Jewish businessman, as a department store for his textile goods store (“Textilhaus Hirsch”) on the site of the previous business based on a design by the architects Mattar & Scheler . They had received the order on the recommendation of the "Rheinische Bauberatungsstelle" in Düsseldorf , to which Hirsch had turned after other architects had insufficiently planned for him and to whom Mattar had sent a draft with a request for revision. It was the first construction project of the architecture office in Linz am Rhein. The newly built department store was the city's first reinforced concrete structure .

The department store temporarily had 16 employees, for whom there was a separate dining room in the basement. From 1914 it was run as a "manufactory, clothing and fur shop" and remained in the possession of the Hirsch family until 1931. Today the building has been changed in detail compared to the original state and continues to serve as a fashion house .

architecture

The building stands at the gable facing Burgplatz and facing the Rheinstrasse leading up to the market square. It is a three-and-a-half- storey reinforced concrete skeleton structure that appears as a filigree functional structure on the lower two floors and, especially in the roof area, is designed in rural, baroque forms and can be assigned to the reform and homeland security architecture . The roof contains mid- houses and has a slate gable triangle with a three-pass window . The portal facing Rheinstrasse accommodates a two-winged door, the frame of which is made of ashlar , and is closed at the top by the head of a twelve-fender .

“Because of its good proportions (...) the voluminous structure does not seem overwhelming, but skilfully fitted into the historical structure of the town and square on this dominant side of Burgplatz. It is precisely the subtleties (...) that give the building, in addition to its overall expressive exterior, an individual note, which from now on should characterize all buildings by the two architects. "

- Reinhard Lahr : 2001

literature

  • Neuwied district administration, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): H. Mattar & E. Scheler. Architects of the "Heimatstyle" and their buildings in Linz and Neuwied. Neuwied 2001, ISBN 3-920388-95-X , pp. 6, 12.

Web links

Commons : Rheinstrasse 1  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 31 (PDF; 6.4 MB).
  2. ^ A b c Paul-Georg Custodis : The architect Heinrich Mattar . In: Neuwied district administration, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): H. Mattar & E. Scheler. Architects of the "Heimatstyle" and their buildings in Linz and Neuwied.
  3. ↑ Textilhaus Hirsch on myheimat.de , accessed on January 3, 2014
  4. ^ District administration Neuwied, Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): H. Mattar & E. Scheler. Architects of the "Heimatstyle" and their buildings in Linz and Neuwied. 2001, p. 12

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 45.9 ″  E