Rolled steel house
The Walzstahlhaus is an office building in Düsseldorf , Kasernenstrasse 36. It is located on the southwestern edge of the center near the Rhine.
Architectural history
The rolled steel house was built from 1938 to 1940 according to a design by the architects Heinrich Rosskotten and Karl Wach with a "form language derived from classicism" ( neo-classicism ). The figure decorations, consisting of statues, heads and the portal, are particularly neoclassical. The portal shows a "monumentalized, three-axis and two storey spanning pillars". The portal is flanked on the side by steel worker sculptures by the Düsseldorf sculptor Erich Kuhn (1890–1967). The sculptures are a little too high on high consoles. The southern axis of the building shows five console heads. The heads each mark the beginning of a new floor. The building is a listed building .
Social and economic history
The rolled steel house was conceived as the seat of a corporate cartel . The Association of German Rolled Steel Entrepreneurs was based there from 1940, as was the rolled steel sales center it controlled. The rolled steel association was a member of the German steelworks association , a complex sales cartel , an industrial syndicate for several product areas. The Walzstahlhaus construction project involved a spatial relocation from the Stahlhof (Bastionstrasse 39), where the steelworks association resided, just one block away.
The representative new building, planned years in advance, was apparently also intended to accommodate the three Düsseldorf offices of the international steel cartel (1933–1939). In this merger, the rolled steel grades heavy plate, medium plate and universal iron were assigned to the German syndicate group, i. H. the worldwide export of these types of products was administered and controlled from Düsseldorf.
Between 1940 and 1942 the German economic system changed from cartels to steering associations . In 1942 the Steelworks Association and the Walzstahlhaus were brought into the area of the Reichsgruppe Eisen , so they lost their private economic independence - with a materially similar function.
literature
- Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 30, object no. 38
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 18, 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.
- ^ Günther Kiersch: International iron and steel cartels. Essen 1954, pp. 70-71.
- ↑ Günther Kiersch: International Iron and Steel Cartels , Essen 1954, p. 87.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 15.2 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 32.7" E