Ernst Cramer's house

Ernst Cramer's house

Layout

Neo-Renaissance, Hofgartenstrasse 6

The Ernst Cramer house in Düsseldorf , Hofgartenstrasse 6/7, was built in 1885/1886 by the Düsseldorf architects Boldt & Frings for the entrepreneur and alderman Ernst Cramer. It was later the seat of various companies and business associations and was redesigned inside by Fritz August Breuhaus and Ernst Aufseeser around 1919 . The building was bombed in the air raid on Düsseldorf on April 23, 1944, and the ruins were later demolished.

Location and surroundings

On the Hofgartenstrasse, planted with maple trees - with the best view of the Hofgarten - "a number of dignified houses from the last third of the 19th century" had been built. Over the years, companies and banks have converted these upper-class residential buildings into office buildings. During the air raid on Düsseldorf on April 23, 1944, most of the houses on Hofgartenstrasse were badly damaged or completely destroyed.

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  Hofgartenstraße, F. Haniel house (front left), Ernst Cramer house (right).

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  Hofgarten (left) and Ernst Cramer's house (center)

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  postcard

History of construction and use

prehistory

Various residents are named for the address Hofgartenstrasse 6 in the Düsseldorf address books : for 1880 the Vogts siblings, for 1883 the city rentmaster Aloys Lücker, a widow Haller nee. Brewer and a Maria Brewer, for 1885 the city rentmaster Lücker, Maria Brewer and a businessman Greven.

• Residents 1880–1885
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  Vogts, Geschw., O. G. (= without trade), Hofgartenstr. 6 (Düsseldorf address book from 1880)
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  Lücker, Aloys, City Rentmeister, Hofgartenstr. 6 (Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1883, first part, p. 113)
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  (Hofgartenstr.) 6
  Lücker, Stadt-Rentm. E. (= owner)
  Brewer, Maria
  Haller, widow b. Brewer
  (address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1883, second part, p. 55.)
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  Brewer, Maria, pensioner, Hofgartenstr. 6 (Düsseldorf address book from 1885)
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  (Hofgartenstrasse) 6:
  Lücker, Stadt-Rentm., E.
  Brewer, Maria
  Greven, Kaufm.
  (Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1885, Part II, p. 57).

The house and its builder

The interior design and use of the house were described in 1904 in the publication Düsseldorf and its buildings . Accordingly, the living and common rooms as well as the kitchen with ancillary rooms were located on the ground floor, the bedrooms were on the upper floor. According to the labeling of the floor plan reproduced there, the “Thorweg” (passage), the vestibule, the reception room, the living room, the salon, the dining room, the smoking room, the covered terrace, the open terrace, the winter garden, the kitchen were on the ground floor , the pantry, the sideboard, the servants' staircase, the billiard room and a closet (toilet). Upstairs were the guest room, the breakfast room, the toilet, the bedroom, the bathroom, a closet, a balcony, the ironing room, two maids' rooms, the servant's staircase, the servant's room, the bleacher, the hall and the loggia.

The entrepreneur Ernst Cramer (born September 27, 1833; † January 22, 1902) was chairman of the supervisory board of the Society for Cotton Industry , formerly Ludwig & Gustav Cramer .

• Ernst Cramer (chairman of the cotton industry) and [Hofgartenstr.] 6/7 Cramer, Ernst.
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  Ernst Cramer (1833–1902)

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  (Hofgartenstrasse) 6 and 7 (Cramer, Kfm., E.) unmoved. (= uninhabited, so probably not ready for occupancy yet) (Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf for 1886, II. Theil, p. 59.)

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  Cramer, Ernst. Factory owner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Society for Cotton Industry, vorm. Ludwig & Gustav Cramer, Hofgartenstrasse 6 and 7 (address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1889, first part, p. 45.)
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  Hofgartenstrasse 6/7 Cramer, Ernst (address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1890, second part, p. 121)
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  (Family name truncated), Hermann, Diener, Hofgartenstr. 6 and 7 (Düsseldorf address book 1900)

The later use

Düsseldorf address book 1911

The house is listed in the Düsseldorf address book from 1911 as the seat of Deutsche Drahtwalzwerke AG with the directors Dr. Buchmann and Carl Cyriax mentioned.

In 1929 the house was mentioned in the Almanach Handbuch des Demokraties as the seat of the trade association of the German wire industry with the directors Hobrecker (in Westphalian wire industry in Hamm) and Wilhelm Moser. At the same time, the house also housed the sales point of the United Deutsche Drahtgeflecht-Fabriken GmbH with the directors Baldner and Cyriax. In 1933 the house was still the seat of Deutsche Drahtwalzwerke AG

The wire industry played an important role in the Düsseldorf economy: "Almost first place in German industry and far beyond that with the production of [...] steel tubes [...] There are also steelworks [...] and wire mills, wire drawing mills [ ...] "

Art historical significance

Boldt and Frings - Monumental Architecture of the Italian Neo-Renaissance (1885/1886)

The house at Hofgartenstrasse 6 in Düsseldorf was built in 1885/1886 according to designs by the architects August Boldt and Josef Frings for Ernst Cramer in the style of historicist monumental architecture. An elevation and floor plan is from 1885.

"The house at Hofgartenstrasse 6 by the architects Boldt & Frings (Fig. 602) comes from the 80s ... The monumental facade with the wide loggia on the upper floor shows the forms of the Italian Renaissance."

- Düsseldorf and its buildings in 1904

On the upper floor the facade had twin windows structured and gabled by caryatids .

Ernst Aufseeser - interior architecture 1919/1920

In 1919/1920 , Karl Koetschau presented a room decoration by the academy professor Ernst Aufseeser for the club rooms in the Düsseldorf residential building at Hofgartenstrasse 6 in the magazine Feuer - a "Rheinische Kunstzeitschrift of great style". It was distinguished by its modern style:

“The careful redesign of the historical rooms by the architect Fritz August Breuhaus , as specified by the client , was limited to the“ better ”, ie lighter“ colored overall design ”and the furnishing with simple furniture. Only the space provided by Aufseeser with murals can be addressed as consistently modern: lush green ceiling, blue-green curtains, greenish floor covering, light brown velvet curtains in the doors and, above all, light walls in ocher-colored off-white, which were bordered by a framing green border. Here Aufseeser placed his fantastic figures, leaves and flowers, which were essentially made up of spots of the primary colors. (...) Koetschau rightly sees the main advantage in the fact that pure surface decoration is given here while avoiding everything pictorial, all perspectival arts and artisans. Obviously, this turned out to be too modern for certain sedate, middle-class Düsseldorf circles, so that shortly after their completion the bright, shining paintings were again hidden under dark wallpaper. "

- Wolfgang Schepers 1985

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/gestern_heute/data_bilddokumentation_detail/072_2.shtml
2. ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/stadtarchiv/stadtgeschichte/gestern_heute/data_bilddokumentation_detail/072_2.shtml
3. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1883, first part, p. 113.
4. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1883, second part, p. 55.
5. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1885, II. Theil, p. 57.
6. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 388f., P. 393 [Fig. 602 Hofgartenstrasse 6] [Fig. 603 Hofgartenstrasse 6. Ground floor.].
7. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1886, II. Theil, p. 59.
8. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1889, first part, p. 45.
9. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1890, second part, p. 121.
10. ↑ cf. Düsseldorf address books 1888, 1889, 1893, 1895
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11. ↑ Düsseldorfer Adressbuch 1911, second part, p. 96.
12. ↑ Trade Association of the German Wire Industry. Düsseldorf, Hofgartenstr. 6, F. 7051/52. * Dir. Hobrecker, i. Westfäl. Wire industry, Hamm iW; **To you. Wilh. Moser.
    In: Maximilian Müller-Jabusch (Hrsg.): Handbook of public life. Koehler, Leipzig 1929, p. 397, category associations of industry → iron and steel goods industry .
13. ^ Sales point of the United German Wire Mesh Factories, GmbH. Dusseldorf Hofgartenstr. 6, F. 7051/52. * Dir. Baldner; ** C. Cyriax. RDL.
    In: Maximilian Müller-Jabusch (Ed.): Handbook of Public Life , Leipzig Koehler, Leipzig 1929, p. 397
14. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1933, Part Two, p. 103.
15. ↑ Verkehrsverein Düsseldorf (ed.): Guide through Düsseldorf on the Rhine and its surroundings. Düsseldorfer Verlags-Anstalt, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 49.
16. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 388f., P. 393 [Fig. 602 Hofgartenstrasse 6] [Fig. 603. Hofgartenstrasse 6. Ground floor.].
17. ^ Karl Koetschau: Something from Düsseldorf spatial art. In: Feuer, Volume 1 (October 1919 to March 1920), pp. 173 and 174.
18. ↑ Wolfgang Schepers: Ernst Aufseeser and the applied arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In: At the beginning. The young Rhineland. On the art and contemporary history of a region 1918–1945. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, February 9 to April 8, 1985) Claassen, Düsseldorf 1985, p. 79.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 50"  E