Residential building Josefsstraße 12 (Mainz-Neustadt)

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The building with the white stucco facade

The House Josef Strasse 12 is a 1902 by the architect Heinrich Roos built cultural heritage in the district Neustadt of Rheinland-Pfalz capital Mainz .

layout

The stucco facade of the five-story building is richly decorated. Elements from Romanesque , Gothic and Renaissance appear here . Art Nouveau decorations dominate , especially sunflowers in different shapes. The street-side windows of all twelve residential units are designed differently, so that no unit has the same window design as another. The brick facade facing the courtyard is not plastered and has balconies from the first floor . The apartments on the right side of the building have two to three rooms and on the left side four rooms. From the first floor the apartments have a bay window . The bay window ends in a suggested tower on the fourth floor.

history

The red and white facade from the 1970s was designed in white in 2005

The architect Heinrich Roos designed the building and built it until 1902. In the courtyard of the building he planned an extension that he used as an office with an attached apartment on the ground floor. In the 1930s the building became the property of the Rödner family. During the Second World War , almost all the buildings in Josefsstrasse were destroyed, only the building with number 12 and its neighboring building, which is also listed, with number 14 remained (→ air raids on Mainz ). Minor war damage was repaired in the post-war period. The tower top that closed off the bay windows at the top was lost in the air raids.

At the beginning of the 1970s, a facade renovation was carried out in which the previously gray facade was painted red with white windows in accordance with the requirements of the State Monuments Office . At the end of the 1990s the house was divided and the apartments sold individually. When the facade was restored again in 2005, a beige-white coating was applied and damage repaired. In the course of the last renovation, the front garden was newly laid out and closed to the street with a historicizing gate. The original fencing has been preserved on the western property line.

use

The building is primarily used as a residential building. In the one-story courtyard extension there was first an architecture office and later a cobbler's shop , which closed in the 1970s. The commercial space has since been used as a storage room. Since the house was one of the few habitable houses in Neustadt after the war, it was inhabited by many bombed-out families. Each family only had one room, so that the three- and four-room apartments were inhabited by up to four families.

photos

  • Facade detail year of construction

  • Decoration of the bay window

  • Facade detail above the entrance door

Web links

Commons : Josefsstr12 (Mainz-Neustadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2.1: City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-590-31032-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Exemplary facade restoration of the house at Josefsstrasse 12 in the Mainzer Neustadt Mainzer Wochenblatt from August 11, 2005 ( Memento from February 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '21.3 "  N , 8 ° 15' 25.8"  E