Gas station (Darmstadt, Teichhausstraße 41)
| Gas station (Darmstadt, Teichhausstraße 41) | |
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| place | Darmstadt |
| Architectural style | Modern |
| Construction year | 1950s |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '13.7 " N , 8 ° 39' 43.5" E |
The gas station at Teichhausstrasse 41 is a listed building in Darmstadt .
History and description
The gas station at Teichhausstrasse 41 was built in the 1950s. Stylistically, the single-storey gas station belongs to the modern age and is the last of its kind in Darmstadt . The petrol station consists of a cash register and an office room .
Typical for the construction period are:
- Structure made of concrete
- slim steel supports
- slightly protruding flat roof
- curved panes of glass
- the cladding of the building with white and dark red ceramic tiles
- Sun protection curtains made of red and white striped fabric panels
There is a car maintenance garage immediately to the right of the petrol station .
Monument protection
The gas station preserved is a distinctive structure of the post-war architecture in the economic miracle . The petrol station is a document of the traffic engineering development of our society and the increasing motorization and the boom in individual transport . For architectural, industrial and urban history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 430.
Web links
- Image at Google-Panoramio
