Rheinterrasse (Düsseldorf)

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Rhine terrace

The Rheinterrasse (often also in the plural: Rheinterrassen ) is a building with restaurants and meeting places , which was built from 1924 to 1926 according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis for the GeSoLei exhibition . It is located at Joseph-Beuys-Ufer 33 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort .

architecture

Historical view of the Rhine terrace as part of the GeSoLei exhibition , 1926
Double tower facade on the east side of the Rhine terrace

The Rhine terrace was planned for the GeSoLei exhibition as a “large restaurant” with several cafes and meeting rooms . Your inner and outer walls are made of brick. On the other hand, reinforced concrete (1,200 t iron Portland cement ) was already used for the load-bearing ceilings and beams .

The center of the building is the 470 square meter Rheingoldsaal with a shell-shaped umbrella dome resting on buttresses. Further motifs that characterize the expressionist interior are the "hanging keystone" and the "double arcade". On the street side, the hall, which appears as a convex curved wall with vertical windows, is flanked by towers. The twin-tower facade was at the time of the exhibition GeSoLei the view point of an east converging on them wide axis, which today largely with a road in north-south direction, and office buildings of Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG is built and thus disappeared.

Rhine terrace from the Rhine side, Robert-Lehr-Ufer

The rear facade, which faces the Rhine , shows a concave swinging outer surface. Here is a terrace planted with plane trees, which is part of an open space concept several hundred meters long consisting of embankment walls, ramps, parks, terraces and stairways (→ Rheinpark Golzheim , Rheingärtchen ). In the exterior architecture - based on motifs from brick expressionism - the neoclassical design language of the art museum in the courtyard was largely adopted.

Middle part of the east facade

The windows, especially those of the central axes of the main facades, are framed by strips of tuff and sand-lime stone. Stylistically, its design refers to the geometric window frame of the street-side central risalite of the art museum and the NRW forum . The neoclassical “temple-like corner pavilions” of the NRW Forum are used again as “motifs in the art museum on one side and in the base of the Rheinhalle on the other”.

In 1994 the Rhine terrace was rebuilt by Helmut Hentrich (HPP architects). The so-called Radschlägersaal was built in a steel frame construction with large glass surfaces. The Rheinterrasse was placed under monument protection in 1982 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architects HPP shape the cityscape of Düsseldorf , article from September 21, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on September 23, 2013
  2. ^ Katrin Bollmann, Peter Lyhs, Peter Bilgeri, Ramona Ritter: The Rhine terrace in Düsseldorf. Use of iron Portland cement 80 years ago . PDF file in the beton-informationen.de portal (issue 1/2, 2006), accessed on September 23, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 51 and p. 52, object no. 68.
  4. ^ Rheinterrasse am Robert-Lehr-Ufer , article in the architektur-finder.de portal of the Association of German Architects (BDA), accessed on September 23, 2013
  5. ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 32.
  6. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 50, object no. 66.
  7. ^ A b Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 30.
  8. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 50, object no. 66.

Web links

Commons : Rheinterrasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16.7 ″  E