House Maurer, Wolfurt

Excerpt from the statutes of the street: The Obere Straße essentially follows the intersection of slope and valley. Where required by the topography, retaining walls up to 1.50 meters high trace the course of the street on the slope side. The sidewalk on the west side is basically not significantly separated from the roadway and is part of the traffic level. Frequently, fountains are found at the transition from public to private road space. The buildings from the 19th century, which consist of farmhouses (the so-called Rhine Valley Houses), follow the curved course of the road by placing the large-volume structures close to the road and placing the ridge lines parallel - in curves sometimes slightly turned out - were aligned to the road. House entrances and service entrances open directly onto the road. This open, not fenced off forecourt has a hard surface and appears as an extension of the road space. The roof landscape shows a uniform picture without dormers and roof cuts. Where cross roads branch off it comes here and there to Coverages of houses with Cross gables. In front of the residential part there are utility gardens, which are separated from the street by low base walls with attached fences. The few residential houses that were added in the first half of the 20th century are to be classified as special buildings, which appear as representative villa buildings of that time in the midst of typologically corresponding garden plots. Only the residential buildings from the 2nd half of the 20th century, which are usually set back from the street and have a front garden zone are often oriented with the gable façade facing the street and have untypical volumes and roof shapes.

The building in the Hofsteigstrasse belongs to an area in Wolfurt in which the buildings are regulated by a statute to protect the building culture in their construction and changeability.