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Structure-ID: s0003333
Created on: 05/23/02
Modified on: 10/23/07


Galeria Kaufhof an der Königsalle

Warenhaus Tietz
Built: 1907 - 1909
Status: in use
Address: Königsallee 1
Location: Stadtmitte, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Galeria Kaufhof (Königsallee), Düsseldorf
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Structural Type:
Frame structure
Function / usage:
Department store

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Architect Otto Engler floor plan
  Joseph Maria Olbrich
  Philipp Schäfer
  Hermann Wunderlich parking garage

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Owner Warenhaus Leonhard Tietz AG (1909)
  Kaufhof AG (today)
Architecture Dietrich und Hermann parking garage façade

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Chronology
1906
A competition is held for the design of the new department store. Joseph Maria Olbrich wins based on a floor plan design by Otto Engler.
1908
Architect Joseph Maria Olbrich dies. His student Philipp Schäfer completes the building.
1959- 1960
A parking garage is added by architect Wunderlich.
1985
A postmodern façade with direct reference to the original façade is added to the parking garage by the team Dietrich und Herrmann.

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* Kanz, Roland   Architekturführer Düsseldorf, Dietrich Riemer Verlag, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3496012323, 2001; pp. 35.

 
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