Disch-House

The magnificent building, with its rococo hall suitable for chamber music, was one of the most internationally renowned hotels in Cologne, as only the Dom-Hotel was in its category.

On 8 February 1890 the latter founded the operating company "Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG",[2] of which Peter Werhahn was a member of the supervisory board.

It was here that the first honorary citizen of Cologne, Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, died of phlegm fever on 20 December 1859.

[4] In July 1928, the architects Bruno Paul and Franz Weber won a design competition, announced by the "Disch Hotel- und Verkehrs-AG", for the construction of a monumental municipal administration building.

[6] The consortium then refurbished the building and leased the 7700 m² of office space, winning the Westphalian mail order company Manufactum as an anchor tenant.