Jakobstrasse 12

The architecture of the corner building at Jakobstraße 12 immediately catches the eye, as it has two historic facades from the late 18th and early 19th centuries facing Jakobstraße, the right-hand one of which is set back about two meters. The houses facing the street were given a baroque-style mansard roof with traditional rectangular slate roofing and dormers with volutes. However, the other façades have a modern design and indicate that they were actually built in 1976.

The left façade facing Jakobstraße comes from the house at Großkölnstraße no. 7 or no. 9. Unfortunately, this can no longer be determined with certainty. The first floor had been modernized at the old location at an earlier date and was now reconstructed during the transfer to Jakobstraße. The façade on the right is the former house at Jakobstraße 6, also known as "Zum bunten Ochsen". This was one of the few old façades to remain in the same street. The first floor of this façade also had to be reconstructed. A separate front door is only hinted at here with a blue stone wall. It is difficult to tell which stones are really historical and which are new additions.

Two façades of different origins were relocated here, which can be clearly seen from the slightly offset right-hand side of the building.

These translocated brick façades with bluestone elements, mostly from the late 18th or early 19th century, have achieved a high recognition value thanks to the post-war renovation work in Aachen. They are representative of a kind of ideal image of Aachen's old town architecture, which the city administration had conceived for Aachen's city center in the course of the planning processes surrounding the urban design of the post-war period.