Von-Werth-Straße 59 / Hansaring 20
Former Cologne corner building in the Historicist style, with a clinker brick façade and ornamental gables featuring scrollwork and strapwork. Demolished in 1972.
Two architects from Düsseldorf designed this residential building in Cologne in the 1880s. It stood on the corner of two streets, and after its demolition a new building was erected on the same site.
Source: Wikipedia
At a Glance
- Type
- Former residential building (corner building)
- Location
- Altstadt-Nord district, Innenstadt borough, Cologne
- Built
- 1886–1887
- Architects
- Hubert Jacobs and Gottfried Wehling
- Style
- Historicism with Renaissance forms
- Storeys
- three
- Demolished
- 1972
The villa at Von-Werth-Straße 59 / Hansaring 20, built in 1886–1887, featured gables with scrollwork and strapwork in the Dutch Renaissance style, but it was demolished in 1972 and replaced in 1973/1974 by an eight-storey building.
Architecture
The building was constructed as a corner house. Its design followed Historicism, which here drew on Renaissance forms. The exterior walls were clad in clinker brick.
The Ornamental Gables
The building featured ornamental gables. They displayed scrollwork and strapwork in the style of the Dutch Renaissance.
Demolition and Replacement
The villa was demolished in 1972. On the same site, a building with eight storeys was erected in 1973/1974.
Timeline
- 1886–1887Corner building constructed by architects Hubert Jacobs and Gottfried Wehling
- 1972Villa demolished
- 1973/1974Eight-storey building erected on the same site
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