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Spirl Staircase in the Junior House

The Junior House is a striking building built in 1951 on Kaiserplatz in downtown Frankfurt am Main. Its architect is Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984), who also d...
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The Junior House is a striking building built in 1951 on Kaiserplatz in downtown Frankfurt am Main. Its architect is Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984), who also designed the Rundschau House, which was built in 1954 and demolished in 2005.

The Junior House is named after its builder, Kurt Junior, who ran the Jacob Carl Junior property management company. Mercedes-Benz operated a representative showroom in the basement for over 50 years, and from 2010 there was a restaurant there for a short time. A large Mercedes star still adorns the roof.
The nine-story building is almost 35 meters high. With its round, glass staircase, which is symmetrically accompanied by office wings on the left and right at an acute angle, the corner building between Kaiserstrasse and Friedensstrasse opposite the traditional Hotel Frankfurter Hof is considered one of the most important buildings of the reconstruction period. The building is now a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act.
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