Coffee grinder house

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The coffee grinder in Radebeul in 2006, the mansion Paul Berg from

Coffee grinder house (or cube house ) is a name for a type of residential house built primarily in the 1880s to 1900s . It got its name because its shape is vaguely reminiscent of a coffee grinder . A coffee mill house has a more or less square floor plan , a basement , usually two full storeys and a hipped roof with tile roofing . The facade is often loosened up on the street side by lighting or bay windows .

Since large numbers of houses have been built in this form, they can be found in countless variants, forms and sizes. A typical coffee grinder house has an edge length of about 10 meters. The basement ceiling is often made of concrete , while wooden beam ceilings were used for the other floors . There is often an extension that was used as a stable and / or laundry room . The land on which the houses were built are usually relatively large (around 1000 m²), and crops were often grown here . The houses were mostly built as one or two family houses.

Dresden coffee grinder

Coffee mill houses in the Dresden city map from 1907
Typical Dresdner Würfelhaus

The Dresden coffee mill houses represent a special form . Since open development was required in some districts outside the city center, but at the same time many apartments were to be created, a large number of buildings with mostly three full storeys, one expanded , were built in the Striesen district in particular from around 1890 onwards Top floor and an edge length of always over 16 meters on an almost square floor plan. Since the buildings are always set back from the street by a front garden and are usually also surrounded by gardens, the richly decorated apartment buildings in particular have a villa-like impression, so that the Dresden coffee-mill houses were then referred to as "rental villas", and today in literature as rental villas become. The term "Würfelhaus" or "Dresdner Würfelhaus" can also be found. Some of the large and particularly representative buildings, especially those of Art Nouveau, have been preserved in the west of Striesen, between Haydnstrasse and Stresemannplatz (such as the rental villa at Reinickstrasse 11 ). In the east of Striesen, the simpler type of Dresden coffee mill house characterizes an area several square kilometers from Schandauer Straße to Blasewitz . In this area, however, there are also some examples of particularly representative tenement houses of this type, such as the house at Wägnerstrasse 18 or the so-called “Löwenkopfpalais” .

Coffee mill houses Penzberg

Also in the small town of Penzberg in Upper Bavaria , formerly known for a coal mine that was important at the time, a number of residential buildings known as coffee grinder houses were built after the First World War. On the historical walk through Penzberg, a “station” with an information board was dedicated to this type of house.

  • Information board in Penzberg

  • Coffee mill house in Maistraße

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Starke (ed.): History of the city of Dresden. Volume 3. Dresden, 2006. p. 99.
  2. ↑ Compare Donath: Angels in the hallway. Dresden, 2009 or Helas / Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . Dresden, 1999. On the history in particular Donath, p. 10 ff
  3. ↑ For example at dresden-lexikon.de ; Donath, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Penzberg City Archives: Historical walk through Penzberg (signposted circular route to historical places in the city area)