Monumental pair of columns - Cafe and Hotel Monopol Berlin Mitte
No. 5105
B 47cm x H 3,08m x T 41cm
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Description
Origin:
In the entrance area of the Cafe Monopol, as well as in entrance Restaurant of the Hotel Monopol in the Friedrichstrasse No. 100, were each two red granite columns. Inside the building next to the Admiral's Palace was at times a bar of the brewery Julius Bötzow. Continuing the design of the entrance area, the interior was also equipped with numerous red granite columns (see picture postcard from 1903).
Additional picture Hotel and Cafe:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Monopol-Hotel_1914.jpg
Architect of the Hotel Monopol was Ludwig Heim, born on 08.10.1844 in Salzungen, died on 13.11.1917 in Berlin.
The two offered red granite pillars are most likely two pillars of the entrance areas.
Date: 1887-1888
Material:
Red granite, Silesia
Dimensions:
Upper diameter = 41 cm
Lower diameter = 47 cm
Particularities
- To buy only as pair
- no base - no capitell
- The side recesses are former fastening points from afterwaruse of the remaining basement.
Measures and Weight
- Width: 470 mm
- Stärke/Tiefe: 410 mm
- Höhe/Länge: 3080 mm
- Weight: 3000.00 kg
Material
- Granite
Epoch
- Victorian