Viersener Strasse 147 (Mönchengladbach)

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Residential building
Residential building

The residential building at Viersener Strasse 147 was in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the Am Wasserturm district .

The building was built around 1900 and entered into the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on December 7, 1994 under No. V 024 . After a gable wall collapsed in February 2020 due to construction work on a neighboring property and the house was in acute danger of collapse, the demolition of the building began a few days later.

location

North of the water tower on the street section facing out of town, which has an almost closed historical row development on both sides.

architecture

Three-storey plastered building on three axes with windowed jamb under a gently sloping gable roof ; Long extension at the rear , coupled with that of the neighboring house No. 145 . Horizontally structured by a plinth, sill, floor and console-supported eaves cornice . A box-shaped bay window with a balcony attachment as a center-axial accent. Access to the house from the left axis with a deeply cut entrance niche. Windows in regular arrangement; all of them have a uniform, rectangular design and are framed in different storeys; the window openings of the jamb are lying rectangles. Overall, elaborate facade stucco with eclectic use of Renaisassancist style elements. In addition to stucco decorations on the wall openings, ornamental parapet decorations , horizontal plaster strips and decorative shapes on the ground floor that cannot be further derived. The property was worth protecting as a monument for urban planning and architectural-historical reasons.

Damage and demolition

On February 12, 2020, during construction work on the neighboring property, on which the directly adjoining Viersener Strasse 149 building previously stood, the right gable wall of the house sagged by several centimeters, creating wide cracks in the facade. The house and the neighboring house at number 145 were evacuated and Viersener Strasse was closed in this area. On the same day a retaining wall was concreted next to the endangered gable wall, which had to harden by the evening of February 13th. On February 14th, at an on-site meeting with representatives of the city, the owner, the client and structural engineers, the decision was made to demolish it completely. Initially, only the gable wall was to be demolished to restore public safety, and to stabilize it, the neighboring excavation was first to be filled up to street level. For the further demolition, permits and a. can be obtained from the monument authority. On the afternoon of February 14th, however, the gable wall collapsed completely into the excavation and the demolition of about half of the building began immediately. In the evening, a structural engineer determined the stability of the ruins. The full demolition began on March 16, 2020 and is scheduled to take three weeks. [obsolete] The house was last inhabited by four people who were no longer allowed to enter their apartments before the demolition. During the demolition, the workers tried, in coordination with the residents, to recover personal items and documents with an excavator.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 433 kB) City of Mönchengladbach, November 16, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ Christian Albustin: House wall in Mönchengladbach threatens to collapse. In: RP Online . February 12, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Gruhn: The demolition of the collapse house has begun. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. March 18, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Christian Albustin, Andreas Gruhn: Wall of residential building collapses completely. In: RP Online . February 14, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 8.9 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 34.6"  E