Under Sachsenhausen 37
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.jpg) Eduard von Oppenheim's house, Unter Sachsenhausen 37 in Cologne |
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| place | Unter Sachsenhausen 37, Cologne, Germany |
| architect | Wilhelm Hoffmann |
| Client | Eduard von Oppenheim |
| Construction year | 1870 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '31.6 " N , 6 ° 57' 3.4" E |
The Palais Unter Sachsenhausen 37 in Cologne was a stately city palace for the Cologne banker Eduard Freiherr von Oppenheim on the Cologne banking mile Unter Sachsenhausen .
History of origin
The forerunner of the Oppenheim-Palais was a city palace for Everhard von Groote , who died in April 1864 and whose property Oppenheim had acquired in 1867. It was in 1870, designed by the "French-trained architects" Wilhelm Hoffmann in the French Renaissance style for Freiherr von Oppenheim (1831-1909), banker and founder of the stud Schlenderhan built. It was a “splendid building that contemporaries found to be stately grandeur” and which in Cologne remained “an isolated case” like the A. v. Oppenheim and Mevissen .
The motifs of the facade design of the magnificent Cologne building were "eagerly accepted" in the 1880s and adopted in Cologne residential buildings of all social classes. The motifs adopted were those of the domed hipped roofs with crowning cornices and the wide-spanning triumphal arches. It also served as a model for Wilhelm Leyendecker's town house .
The palace of Baron Eduard von Oppenheim had strongly protruding sides risalite and a central projecting side , which ended with a domed, French hipped roof. In the side elevations, the motif of the triumphal arch appeared on the first floor as the crowning of the twin windows. The central projection showed double columns and stele-like caryatids . There were various statues on the gable parts. They were copies of Michelangelo's figures from the Medici tomb in Florence : “Day and Night”, “Morning and Evening” in the Sagrestia nuova (1519–1529).
Since Cologne was a bourgeois town and not a royal seat, hardly anyone could afford a palace of this size. “Nevertheless, this magnificent design was not completely dispensed with, but was used on the rings, where there was ample space for such wide-spread buildings, for stately apartment buildings” - this is how the castle-like palace served the architect Carl August Philipp as a model for the Cron's group of houses .
Todays use
In June 1914, instead of the city palace in Oppenheim, a commercial building for the fashion goods manufacturer Frank & Lehmann based on designs by Peter Behrens was completed. Walter Gropius took care of the interior. It survived the Second World War and is now used by a branch of HypoVereinsbank .
literature
- Hiltrud Kier : Apartment buildings in Cologne in the second half of the 19th century. In: Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland. Volume 2: Architecture. Part II: Profane buildings and urban planning. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 413-463.