Junior-Haus by Wilhelm Berentzen, 1951
Kaiserplatz
Frankfurt, September 2024
“The Junior House is a striking building on Kaiserplatz in downtown Frankfurt am Main, built in 1951. Its architect is Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984), who also designed the Rundschau House, built in 1954 and demolished in 2005. The Junior House is named after its builder, Kurt Junior, who ran the Jacob Carl Juniorsche Liegenschaftsverwaltung (property management company). Mercedes-Benz operated a prestigious showroom in the basement for over 50 years, and a restaurant briefly operated there in 2010. A large Mercedes star still adorns the roof. Until it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944, there was a house with a café on the site, which Jacob Carl Junior bought and converted around 1890. The nine-story building is almost 35 meters high. With its circular, glass staircase, flanked by office wings on both sides at an acute angle, the corner building between Kaiserstraße and Friedensstraße, opposite the traditional Frankfurter Hof hotel, is considered one of the most important buildings of the reconstruction period.” (Junior-Haus, Wikipedia)
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