Wilhelmshöher Allee 118
The house Wilhelmshöher Allee 118 , former Cafe Germania , (district Wehlheiden, hall 1, parcel 145/5) is a listed cultural monument in the district of Vorderer Westen in Kassel according to § 2 (1) Hessian Monument Protection Act . The monument protection for the corner house consists of artistic, historical and urban planning reasons as an example of apartment building architecture in the style of historicism and art nouveau in the front west.
history
The predecessor building was a residential and commercial building called Cafe Germania, which was operated by the Schöfferhof brewery in Mainz . In 1905 the house on Pestalozzistraße, Wilhelmshöher Allee and Germaniastraße was built by the Rennert & Kipp construction company, which had its headquarters there since 1912.
In 1980 the building was renovated after previous neglect, the facade was renovated in 1998 and again painted after 2010.
Construction features
The four-storey building is asymmetrical in the Renaissance style with stucco decorations in Art Nouveau style. Risalites , bay windows , balconies and corner towers are used to structure the facade . There are also continuous window cornices on the upper floors and another cornice on the ground floor at the level of the window subdivision. All the windows there are arched windows, the layout and design of which are reminiscent of the thermal bath windows of antiquity. This window shape is also included in the upper floors, but not consistently there.
On Pestalozzistraße there is a central projection that ends up in a dwelling with a cross roof . An oriel protrudes from the risalit on the right-hand side on the first and second floors. The facade to Wilhelmshöher Allee also shows this structure through a central projectile with a bay window, but here the bay window extends to the 3rd floor. Supported by a sandstone column, the bay window forms the roof for the house entrance. Like the cast iron lamps and wrought iron ornamental anchors, the column is one of the components that have survived from the construction period. The risalit itself is wider than the one in Pestalozzistraße and is flanked by balconies on the right and left from the 1st to 3rd floors, which are closed to oriels on the left on the 1st and 2nd floors.
The house has two corner towers. The right one adjoins the actual building at a slight angle and its loggias form the entire very narrow facade facing Germaniastraße. Since it does not protrude from the facade and is also directly connected to the neighboring building, it is only recognizable as a tower through the attached tent roof. The left tower, on the other hand, is more elaborate. It begins as a bay window on the second floor and has another floor above the roof edge at the height of the dwelling houses. It is covered with a French hood with glazed bricks.
In a niche under the left corner tower there is a slightly below life-size galvanoplastic reproduction of the Germania from the Niederwald monument . The statue is signed with "AM SIEBRECHT KASSEL 1905", although this was probably not the manufacturer, but only the supplier of the figure, the Kassel master plumber August Siebrecht. Around the niche there are particularly eye-catching stucco ornaments in Art Nouveau style.
literature
- Thomas Wiegand: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Cultural monuments in Hesse: City of Kassel II . 1st edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-8062-1989-0 , p. 415-416 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 57.6 ″ E