General poor house Elberfeld
The general poor house , sometimes also known as the municipal poor house and later as the municipal supply house, was a poor house in Elberfeld on Neuenteicher Strasse (today's street name Neuenteich ). It was designed for around 300 nurses, originally for men, women and children.
description
The three-storey building in the classicist style had a suggested three-axis central projection on the front , which is closed off by a flat gable triangle . On the side of the risalit, the facades have five axes. The ground floor shows blind arcades in ashlar design , the two upper floors are separated from the ground floor by a stronger cornice. The rear of the building also shows a central projection, which is each accompanied by a wing that extends over the three outer axes. The measurements are given as 130 feet long and 50 feet deep, with the two receding wings measuring 38½ feet in length and 31½ feet in depth. The floor height was 12½ feet.
history
The poor relief in Elberfeld was transferred from the parish to the city in 1809, the poor house purchased in 1802 in the Neue Friedrichstrasse was insufficient due to the increasing population. At the beginning of the 1820s, for example, the construction of a new city house was shot at. The building commission was constituted under the chairmanship of Brüning and the members Ball, I. Aders, Eickelberg and Schönian. In 1823 a building plot was acquired on Neuenteich. The building was designed by the builder Werner from Düsseldorf, other plans by local builders were rejected by the government. The building decision was made on July 13, 1825. The construction was carried out by the master builder Christian Franzen from Düsseldorf. The cost at that time was 16,500 thalers. The construction management was entrusted to Wesermann, who succeeded the municipal construction manager Bocksfeld in October. The foundation stone was laid on July 31, in the presence of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm . After two years of construction, the building was ready to move into after its inauguration on May 1, 1827.
In 1833 the plan to add a poor hospital to the building was abandoned due to a lack of financial means. Nevertheless, the Crown Prince's foundation was able to set up a school for the poor , which was designed for 150 orphans. From 1839 the children were housed elsewhere. The building was expanded in 1877, 1887 and 1898 by unknown architects.
The place where the general poor house, which was destroyed in 1943, stood, is now overbuilt with residential buildings.
literature
- Ernst Zinn: Architecture in Elberfeld during the first half of the 19th century. The buildings of the community and the state. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1968 (Aachen, University, dissertation, 1967).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, master builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Pies, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '49.8 " N , 7 ° 9' 23.7" E