Viersener Strasse 161 (Mönchengladbach)

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Residential building
Residential building

The residential building Viersener Straße 161 is in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the Am Wasserturm district .

The building was built around 1910/13 and entered under No. V 033 on October 23, 2012 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The building Viersener Straße 161 is outside the medieval town center and still north of the new water tower near Franziskanerstraße on the western side (district Mönchengladbach-Land) of the arterial road to Viersen.

architecture

The three-storey building with a distinctive mid- house under a gable roof , the right half of the house above the gateway to the rear property , segment-shaped bay window on the first floor , which has a small exit on the second floor, one with slate in the old German style on the roof foot and decorative Coquettes cover on the wall surface of the clad second floor and double hollow tiles on the gable roof are part of the modern row development of the street.

The street facade is smoothly plastered, only on the ground floor the plaster strips with horizontal dummy joints are set off in color up to the height of the fighter . The portal is accentuated by a geometrically designed plaster frame with a strong roof, the Art Nouveau front door with letter and separate insert for newspapers made of copper is original. The single, three-part ground floor double-wing casement window with skylight and the drive-through portal with double-leaf door leaves are cut into the façade, slightly upright . On the first floor there are tall, rectangular window openings with the original framing, which are offset by narrow surrounding plaster strips, and which show a crack in the skylights.

The only French casement window on the floor is located above the entrance to the house . The design motif is also repeated on the second floor, but the exits to the small balcony are designed as a double-wing construction. A flat but wide dormer with horizontal window formats is arranged on the roof surface facing the street . In the gable of the dwelling, the window motif is repeated with upright formats.

The garden facade is smoothly plastered and not painted. On the first floor there is a three-sided bay window above the passage, which in front of the neighboring kitchen merges into a balcony with balusters and a subsequent flight of stairs into the garden. All window formats of the garden facade are designed as very narrow, upright rectangular window openings with built-in shutters . Here, too, the original wooden frames, e.g. T. with French casement structures on the wider openings.

The interior has been preserved in its original layout and fittings. This concerns:

  • the floor plan with the respective room sequences,
  • the door leaves and frames,
  • the geometric stucco on the ground floor and first floor ( Art Nouveau ),
  • the stairwell with carved entry post, the railings and the z. Dust blanket over the stairwell , partly preserved as lead glazing ,
  • the entrance foyer with marble cladding on the walls and ceramic floor tiles (checkerboard pattern),
  • a toilet accessible from the hallway with a handle set from the time of construction,
  • a bathroom with a handle set, bathtub and ceramic basin on the second floor,
  • a radiator in the kitchen with a double-door heating compartment,
  • the respective floor coverings (tiles in the kitchen and bathroom (checkerboard pattern on the floors, square tiles on the walls), floorboards in the living rooms),
  • z. T. the lighting fixtures.

The building dates from the beginning of the 20th century. In the documents of the cadastral administration it is first recorded in 1913 for the purpose of building taxation. The builder is the businessman Mathias Barth and his wife Elisabeth born. Esters. Barth first appeared in 1912 as a resident of the building at Viersenerlandstrasse 43, and in 1916/17 he ran a liqueur factory .

In later years it becomes the property of the Protestant cloth wholesaler Walter Hackländer from Bergneustadt near Gummersbach. According to the registration card, he moved into the building in 1918. Hackländer has been married to Mally Blumenthal, a Jew, since April 7, 1921. The marriage was divorced in 1930, Mally Blumenthal-Hackländer probably continued to run the textile business that belonged to her until 1932 and her alleged move to Düsseldorf . (Erckens, 1988: 399)

The publishing director Hans Pepinski, first in the Rheinische Druckerei (formerly: Druckerei des Volksverein) and then in the Druckerei Kühlen, founded in 1825 , bought the building from Walter Hackländer around 1935, according to his daughter, who was born in 1920. His second daughter lived in Viersener Strasse until her death in 1995. At the end of 2012, the building was sold and renovated after a long vacancy.

The building Viersener Straße 161 documents the modern expansion of the city north of the city center of Mönchengladbach along the arterial road to Viersen at the beginning of the 20th century. As a representative of reform architecture (street facade) it shows design forms in construction details (e.g. front door, front door framing, interior stucco) Influence of the Geometric Art Nouveau. The largely original preservation inside and out allows authentic insights into contemporary building activity, the design and furnishings of residential buildings and the way of life of the upper middle class at the beginning of the 20th century.

The object is important for human history and for cities and settlements.

There is a public interest in its preservation and use for scientific reasons, architectural-historical reasons (early document of the style epoch; original interior and exterior preserved), local historical reasons (residential house of the Barth families, the Protestant-Jewish family Hackländer-Blumenthal and the Pepinski family) and for urban planning reasons (an indispensable part of the ensemble in the urban expansion area of ​​the 19th / 20th century north of the city center).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pb.moenchengladbach.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 11.7 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 33.4"  E