Rosenhof (building)
The Rosenhof is a building in Hamburg that was built in 1910 in the style of the Hamburg Castle . The Rosenhof is the only building of its kind in the Bergedorf district , one of seven city districts.
Design and equipment
The building is a three-wing structure that is U-shaped open to the street and includes a courtyard . It has four full floors as well as a basement and an attic. The cellar served both as a coal cellar and as a storage cellar for the tenants. Each apartment had both a basement and a floor space. A laundry room and a drying floor were available to six tenants.
A total of 40 apartments were designed. The apartments had three to four rooms, full baths , toilets , kitchens with walls made of artificial marble, pantries and mostly cloakrooms and balconies. Each apartment had its own hot water heating system, the boiler of which was installed in the kitchen stove and fired with gas. The lighting in the apartment was electric. The other furnishings of the building were also opulent: the entrances were covered with terrazzo floors , the walls of the stairwells were veneered with artificial marble , the stairwell windows were stained glass and decorated with rose basket motifs. In addition to the main staircase, there was also a supplier staircase for each entrance. Next to each staircase there was an elevator for coals and laundry to make housework easier.
history
The building was designed as a residential building for solvent tenants with high demands in the city of Bergedorf , which at that time belonged to the Hamburg state territory and later became a Hamburg district . The Hamburg architects Kugelberg & Matthiesen planned the house in 1909. The Landherrschaft's office responsible for building permits, the Bergedorf Building Police Department , granted permission on the condition that flushing toilets with a connection to the sewer system and direct light and air supply for the bathrooms can be guaranteed - conditions of this kind were a novelty at the time. The house was built the following year. The client and first owner was the commercial nursery Struß & Noack . In an advertising brochure to the corresponding tenant clientele it says full-bodied with regard to the architecture :
“ In the soft and yet so characteristic lines of the Baroque it plays about an inner life, and the beautiful silhouettes of the gables and roofs form an effective conclusion to the structural dimensions. The windows are divided by bars and with the turrets and the wooden balcony railings give the house the impression of a castle. "
There were larger open spaces around the building, which also belonged to the owner company. In 1911 the owner applied for a separation of the rest of the site in order to sell it as building land , so that there was brisk construction activity in the neighborhood in the two following years. The owner company sold the building in 1923 to a Bergedorf timber merchant who continued to run the house as an apartment building. In the 1920s, at times of inflation and the crisis, there were vacancies and financial problems for the new owner, who was exposed to a foreclosure auction of the building, but was able to avert this.
During the Second World War , a fire bomb caused partial destruction of the roof structure, which is still visible today. The repair took place only in 1949, after the currency reform . However, no other major structural changes have been made until the present day. The three shops on the ground floor - a milk shop and two small shops - were converted into apartments from 1969 onwards.
The building is a listed building . The Hamburg Monument Preservation describes the building as "a locally significant building testimony to the reform architecture before World War I."
monument
- Soltaustraße 24 / 24a, Arnoldistieg 8
source
- Geerd Dahms, Culture & History Office (ed.): Bergedorf. 3. Edition. Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9806996-6-2 , pp. 135-138.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of recognized monuments SZ, Hamburg.de (PDF; 2.8 MB)
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '56.4 " N , 10 ° 13' 15.7" E