A new home:
The Rheinbahn’s Ludwig-Loewe House

Until this time, the company’s headquarters were located in a former department store on Wehrhahn, which was regularly converted and extended to meet requirements. Although a move was long overdue, temporary measures tend to serve their purpose for a long time. In this year, Director Bieber acquired the Ludwig-Loewe building opposite the central station as the new Rheinbahn headquarters. This building was one of the first reinforced concrete buildings in Duesseldorf.

After comprehensive restructuring measures implemented by the architect, Elmpt, the headquarters were relocated to the new building on 24 th August 1939. The building had six storeys with strong concrete ceilings. It cost 1.7 million Reichsmark, including conversion measures and interior finishing, and had a total of 204 rooms. The stone lion sculptures symbolising the German name, "Loewe", on the facade were removed during the conversion. They were dumped, along with the other building waste, at a former gravel quarry on the grounds of the Heerdt depot. In the eighties they were rediscovered during building work. Today, they adorn the entrance to the present Rheinbahn headquarters on Hansaallee.