Red house
The building of the former Hotel Rothes Haus in Düsseldorf , Josephinenstrasse 9, was built between 1887 and 1888 and is a listed building .
description
The house was created according to a design by the Düsseldorf architect J. Görres . The three-storey building has a facade clad with natural stone, which is divided into three axes. The ground floor shows strong rustication , the central axis a portal with columns . Above that there is a semicircular balcony on the first floor; the two flanking axes show architecturally elaborate bay windows . These are flanked by half columns and capitals . Daylight falls through the triplet windows on the first floor. The skylight window zone above the triple windows is remarkable, which shows the use of strict geometric shapes such as squares, circles and round arches, which is typical of the ancient, classicist renaissance of Italy . The facade above the first floor shows strong beams. The bay window is polygonal in shape on the second floor. Arched windows can be seen on the second floor. The two facing gables in the top floor area showed scrollwork and obelisks in the style of the German Renaissance . The building was rebuilt in 1893, 1920 and 1923. The house has been preserved significantly changed, the lavishly designed facing gables have disappeared.
Layout
House Bettermann
A café-restaurant with a beer garden was located on the ground floor. At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenant Paul Bettermann ran a wine house with an attached wholesale business. Since then the building has also been called "Haus Bettermann". From 1907 to 1910, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court rented office space in Josephinenstrasse 9 as temporary accommodation. During the time of the French occupation of the Rhineland in June 1923, all the wine stocks of the "Weinhaus Bettermann" were confiscated. In June 1954 the "Weinhaus Bettermann" became the property of the civil society "Zur Ludwigsburg" (founded in 1833). Bim Reinert, founder of Creamcheese , opened the elegant “better mans club” here in 1973, furnished with wicker furniture, palm trees and fans, in which a stuffed pug welcomed the guests on the outside stairs. Artists like Joseph Beuys , Daniel Spoerri and Gotthard Graubner frequented the club as well as the gallery owner Alfred Schmela or Gabriele Henkel and many more.
literature
- Jörg AE Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf, with garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, p. 128.
- Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings from southern and central Germany. ( Portfolio ) 1st year, Stuttgart architecture publishing house Kick, Stuttgart 1894, plate 61.
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Individual evidence
- ^ Weinhaus Bettermann, Josephinenstrasse 9 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1927
- ^ The history of the court from 1906 to 1933
- ^ From the Düsseldorf period of suffering under the French occupation: Confiscation of all wine stocks in the Bettermann wine house , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1926
- ^ The castle seats: Weinhaus Bettermann Josephinenstr. 9 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '24.3 " N , 6 ° 46' 54.8" E