The Hotel Römischer Kaiser (English: Roman Emperor Hotel ) is a former hotel at Stresemanstraße 26 in the center of Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , which has more recently been used as an office and commercial building. It was designed by Josef Kleesattel and finished in 1904.
6-456: The previous building of the hotel was at Benrather Straße 3. From 1903 to 1904 Josef Kleesattel built the four-story corner structure with stone facades at the corner of Steinstraße 70 (today Stresemannstraße 26). The building contractor was FW Zensen. Hermann vom Endt designed the beer and wine bars that were connected to the hotel. Its location was touted on advertisements as being only five minutes away from Düsseldorf's main train station, and
12-452: A picturesque appearance. Wide, segment-arched openings divide the ground floor. However, one might argue that the combination of Gothic-revival elements with bulbous domes capping the corner tower and the gables with volutes point more to a Heimatstil (Homeland style) popular in German architecture around 1900. The building was damaged during World War II and rebuilt in a simplified manner in
18-476: The 1950s. The gables and turret were reconstructed in 1982-83 largely based on the original drawings, though the small dormers in between these features were left as skylights. It is currently used as a bank office on the ground floor (since 2015), with offices on the upper floors. 51°13′14″N 6°47′07″E / 51.22058°N 6.7852°E / 51.22058; 6.7852 Hermann vom Endt Hermann vom Endt (18 July 1861 – 27 September 1939)
24-914: Was a German architect. Born in Dusseldorf, Endt studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1876 to 1878. Baufach und Baukunst under Wilhelm Lotz [ de ] and became a member of the Malkasten Künstlerverein . After graduating, he first worked in Berlin as an assistant in the studio of the renowned architects Kayser & von Großheim . Later he travelled to Western Europe, Italy and Denmark for further training. Vom Endt planned more than twenty buildings in Düsseldorf's city centre, mainly commercial and administrative buildings. He also built churches and residential buildings. In addition, he
30-601: Was active as a juror in architectural competitions, on the committee of managing architects of the Association of German Architects . Vom Endt favoured the historicist Architectural style and used a neoclassicist and Baroque Revival architecture Baroque Revival architecture with a tendency towards monumentality. He thus joined architects such as Richard Bauer , Josef Kleesattel , Carl Moritz , Johannes Radke , Traugott von Saltzwedel , Bruno Schmitz , Bernhard Sehring , Ernst Stahl and Karl Wach , whose buildings shaped
36-658: Was equipped with all the modern conveniences of the time, including electric lights, an elevator, and central heating. The Düsseldorf Yacht Club was founded on the hotel's premises in 1908. Jörg Heimeshoff has described the Gothic revival details as such: The facades of the building erected as the Römischer Kaiser hotel show decorative elements from the late Gothic period. Tracery structures on parapets, balconies and windows, curtain arches and stone cross windows indicate this. Several bay windows, balconies, gables and turrets create
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