Immeuble de rapport

1, place Broglie et rue de la nuée bleue, Strasbourg in 1900-01 by BERNINGER & KRAFFT Listed monument since 1975

This building has an iron structure (except for the roofing), which allows to offer large glazed sufaces. The architects used the street corner implementation of the building⁽¹⁾ to put an oriel formerly composed by balconies wrapped with wrought iron, except to the last level, initially closed by stained glass windows.
The shop windows were preceeded by an elegant wrought iron balustrade as it can be guessed on an ancient picture.
The iron entrance door on the façade⁽²⁾ to the Broglie place is topped by an impost. If you enter the vestibule, you will see a mosaic covering the floor.
Also worth seeing are the stained glass windows at the third level.
The oriel, covered by a bulb with "whiplash" ribs, will be used as a model by Brejcha for his own villa located at the Neudorf.
The lantern-turret, which is of no use here, may be regarded as a visual echo to that one topping the cupola located on the 2, rue du Dôme.

(1) Erected for Heinrich Flach, hair-net maker.
(2)  Made of french limestone (Morlaix).

Bibliography:

• Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts, n°4, 1902
• Dossier "Architecture 1900" rédigé par l' Ecole d'Architecture, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, Strasbourg
• Dossier de classement, Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, Strasbourg
• Database Mérimée
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