At the New Water Tower 3 (Mönchengladbach)

Residential building at the new water tower 3

The residential building at Am Neuen Wasserturm 3 is in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It was built in 1911. The house was entered under No. A 002 on December 4, 1984 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

The three-storey apartment building has a half-hipped roof with a central ornamental gable and a loft . The basement has an imitation of a cuboid. On the upper floors, the smooth facade is finished with high-quality scratch plaster. It is emphasized by a central circular segment-shaped bay window . The stairwell is on the right-hand side and can be read both at window height and through the house entrance door. On the ground floor there is a round arched window with double cross division and upper cross bars in the axis of symmetry. To the left and right of this are two narrow arched windows and a wider single window on the left side of the building with arched arches. In the bay structure, the arched windows with double crosses are repeated on the 1st and 2nd floors, flanked equally by the narrow arched windows accompanying each left and right. The left side of the facade is designed in symmetry to the stairwell window by a vertically bundled window group of two individual windows. The main eaves have a curtain-type gutter and a simple lower cassette partition . The central ornamental gable located in the lower hip area refers to the central bay below and is divided into three windows. To the left and right of this window there are floral displays with a basket. The ornamental gable is also flanked on the left and right by a half-timbered imitation. The left truss arrangement contains a window group.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

Individual evidence

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 4.5 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 33.2"  E