A small post-war petrol station with a rounded kiosk under a wide flat roof, protected as a monument in Neuss since 2000.
At a glance
At Volmerswerther Straße 71, in the Grimlinghausen district of Neuss, the architect Philip Schmitz built a petrol station for DAPG in 1948. A rounded white kiosk banded in red sits under a wide flat roof that projects far beyond it. The station stopped selling fuel in 2000, and the same year it was entered on the city’s list of monuments.
Key facts
- Architect: Philip Schmitz
- Built: 1948
- Company: DAPG
- Monument: on the Neuss list since 2000
- Fuel: no longer sold since 2000
- GPS: 51.1742954, 6.7497615 · Open in Google Maps
History
Built three years after the end of the war, the station is documented by Rheinische Industriekultur among the industrial heritage of the Rhineland.
What you see
A low cylindrical kiosk, white with red bands, with windows on the curve. Above it a broad flat canopy, edged in red, projects over the forecourt on one side.
Related
Sources
- Rheinische Industriekultur, Tankstelle, Neuss: Philip Schmitz, 1948, DAPG, monument protection 2000
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