Römerhof housing estate (Brühl)
The Römerhof housing estate is located in the west of downtown Brühl . The construction project of the city was created in 1927 and formed the arcades houses of brick at her east upstream Roman road, one reflected in its architecture from the previous style of historicism refreshingly different, a new residential district of the city.
Emergence
prehistory
The generally poor economic conditions in Germany after the First World War also affected Brühl in many areas. This was particularly evident in the high number of unemployed people and the housing shortage in the growing population. The living conditions in Brühl only improved with the currency reform from 1923 to 1925. With the conversion from the "Mark" to the Rentenmark , the later Reichsmark , the immense inflation could be ended, so that the municipalities also received planning security again and so into the Were put in a position to bring about an improvement through suitable measures.
In the second half of the 1920s, when the United States supported Germany with a loan in 1924 , the financial possibilities of the municipalities also apparently changed. The city of Brühl was now in a position to counteract the economic stagnation through financial incentives and bring about an upswing. It promoted road and housing construction, sought investors from industry and levied the lowest taxes in the region. In addition to the offer of low-interest mortgages for the construction of private homes, the building costs of the Brühl building company, which are 12 percent lower, ensured low rents.
Römerhof housing estate
After the "Rosenhof" settlement built in 1926, the construction of the square of the "Römerhof" residential area on the western edge of the city was carried out in 1927 . The complex was built in the style of brick expressionism preferred by many well-known architects at the time , which the architect Josef Baedorf also implemented in Brühl.
The variant of expressionist architecture implemented by Baedorf in his planning, with the dominant use of bricks or clinker bricks , is evident in the design of the overall complex in many, loosening up variations.
description
Römerstrasse 143
Arcade design
Arcade entrance
Römerstrasse 145
The listed corner houses at Römerstrasse 143 and 145 are located on the downstream access road Römerhof. They are three-storey and have pointed clinker arcades on the front and sides, the arches of which are decorated with sandstone reliefs as keystones in Roman style . Above the ground floor, the massive brick design concludes with a frieze carved in the same stone . The following upper floors, originally plastered in color, have flat clinker bay windows facing the Römerhof and resting on sandstone consoles, while the bay windows facing Römerstraße are acute-angled and allow a view through the windows on two sides. The upper floors end with a circumferential ledge , above the top floor of the two houses developed attic are whose stocked with several windows fronts stepped gables end.
The subsequent development of the Römerhof complex was arranged in a T-shape. The narrow street facing west leads to a short head street running parallel to the Roman street. The development was carried out in a closed manner and consists mainly of two-story single-family houses, some of which have expanded attics. Only the multi-family house on Kopfstrasse, Römerhof 38, which has also been declared a monument, has been built with arcades like the corner houses described above and towers above its outbuildings by a storey height. In the front street, a number of the buildings with the original applications of the facade design by the architect Baedorf have been preserved. Bay windows, door and window frames in clinker have been preserved or restored.
The idea of the urban planning at the time of realizing a coexistence of different social classes became a success that continues to this day thanks to the Römerhof project, which settled a mixture of tenants and owners on a limited area. As in most other settlements of a comparable type, the house facades have been continuously changed over the course of time with new cladding, windows, doors and roofs, so that the settlement no longer corresponds to its original state with the exception of a few houses.
literature
- Wolfgang Drösser: Brühl. History - pictures - facts - connections. Rolf Köhl, Brühl 2005, ISBN 3-921300-05-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Drösser in Brühl “The golden twenties”, page 204 f
- ↑ a b City of Brühl, List of Monuments for Architectural Monuments. Status August 2009. Official list of monuments of the city of Brühl, transferred in February 2011.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 31.5 " N , 6 ° 53 ′ 33.4" E