Old Helmholtz

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 16 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 49.3"  E

"Old Helmholtz" in Hilden

The “ Altes Helmholtz Culture and Further Education Center ” in Hilden , Gerresheimer Strasse 20 / 20a / 20b, was opened on November 6, 2004. It includes the Hilden Music School and the Hilden-Haan Adult Education Center as well as the Hilden City Archives , the City Association of Musicians and Singers , the Disabled and Non-Disabled Leisure Community and the KuKuK youth art school . The music school and adult education center are housed in the former school building at Gerresheimer Strasse 20, which was built between 1913 and 1915 and is a listed building ; For the other institutions, the two adjacent “cubes” Gerresheimer Strasse 20a and 20b were built.

history

Use of the building as a school

In 1912 the Barmer architect Peter Klotzbach won the architectural competition for the construction of a new school . Construction began in August 1913, and on January 26, 1915, the new building on the property at Gerresheimer Strasse 20 was inaugurated as a “planting and care center for the German spirit”. On January 27, 1915, the secondary school , which opened on April 13, 1910, moved into the new building. After its construction, it was initially housed in the building of the Protestant elementary school Schulstrasse and from 1912 in the school building of the former Catholic girls' school on Heiligenstrasse.

As a result of the First World War , Scottish soldiers confiscated the building as part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland and used it as barracks from December 17, 1918 to October 31, 1919 . Only then could it be used again by the municipal secondary school. In 1922 the Realschule was renamed Helmholtz Realschule , from 1923 Helmholtz Upper Realschule . The reason for the name was the 100th birthday of the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz on August 31, 1921. Another renaming took place in 1936, now in "Helmholtz School, municipal high school for boys".

During the Second World War , school operations were interrupted again. The army used the building from 28 February 1945 as a military hospital . After US troops marched into Hilden on May 16, 1945, they used the building as barracks. Lessons at the Helmholtz School took place in the youth center on Hagelkreuz . From October 15, 1945, school operations took place again in the building on Gerresheimer Strasse.

In 1946 the school was named Helmholtz-Gymnasium . After the difficult post-war years, a donation from entrepreneur and later honorary citizen Walter Wiederhold helped the building and the school out of need in 1951 . In 1974 the Helmholtz-Gymnasium moved into a new building on Holterhöfchen .

From 1975 the old building was for a reconstruction of the Theodor-Heuss - Hauptschule used. From September 1987 to August 1, 2001 there was a branch of the Mettmann district vocational school in the building .

Conversion of the building into a culture and training center

In October 1998 the school building was placed under monument protection and thus included in the list of architectural monuments in Hilden . On January 31, 2001, the decision was made to transform the building into a culture and training center . In 2001 the property including the building was sold to the property company of Stadtwerke Hilden , the city of Hilden became a tenant. After renovation, the “Altes Helmholtz” cultural and advanced training center opened on November 6, 2004 .

Culture and further education center "Altes Helmholtz"

Hilden Music School

The Hilden Music School (MSH) can use 21 well-equipped classrooms in the Gerresheimer Strasse 20 building . Orchestra and choir rehearsals as well as auditions and concerts take place in the Heinrich Strangmeier Hall on the top floor of the “Old Helmholtz”, which can hold 199 spectators . The "Old Helmholtz" is the linchpin for music-loving children, young people and adults.

Volkshochschule Hilden-Haan

The Volkshochschule Hilden-Haan (VHS) is a special purpose association that has existed since 1976 , which was formed from the previous adult education centers in the cities of Hilden and Haan . In the “Old Helmholtz” the VHS has two large classrooms, an IT room with 20 workstations and a small classroom. In 2015, the VHS held 800 events with over 15,000 hours of instruction. Almost 10,000 people interested in education took part. The courses are divided into the following subject areas: world views, art full, healthy living, communication, advancement, second chance re-entry, young adult education center and active aging.

Hilden city archive

The Hilden City Archives, established in 1947, moved in 2004 to the first “cube” of the “Altes Helmholtz” culture and further education center , Gerresheimer Strasse 20a. It has historical holdings on the development of Hildens from an agrarian village to an industrial city. Taking over and securing files from its own administration is one of the core tasks of the city archive. The city archive stores the files in two mobile shelving systems in the basement. Most of the files are digitized.

As a knowledge repository and information forum, the archive strives to document all that is happening in the city and collects documents from politics, business, church, club life and the press. The city archive has a reference library with literature on Hilden on historical topics. Since March 2009, the city archive has also taken on the task of providing information from civil status registers, marriage registers, birth registers and death registers.

Youth art school KuKuK

The municipal youth art school Kukuk offers courses in the “Würfel” Gerresheimer Straße 20a for preschool children and for children in elementary school. Other courses target 10 to 14 year olds. In the course “Everyone has playful creativity”, music is used to paint and stories told are translated into pictures. In the “Painting, Printing, Experimenting” course, natural, fairy tale and animal images are created with brushes. In the “Try Paper!” Course, the children draw, paint, glue, cut, tear or fold the paper into individual works of art.

City Association of Musicians and Singers Hilden e. V.

In the city ​​association of musicians and singers Hilden e. V. are the choir 24 , the cabaret group fettweg , the harmonica orchestra Notenzauber and the shanty choir Rheingold . They rehearse in the second “cube” of the “Old Helmholtz”, Gerresheimer Straße 20b.

Recreational community for the disabled and non-disabled

The Disabled and Non-Disabled Leisure Community was founded in 1972 as an association for people with disabilities to help themselves. The threads of the Freizeitgemeinschaft Behinderte und non-handicapped association run in the Gerresheimer Straße 20b office . V. Hilden together. The support of people with disabilities and the provision of barrier-free leisure activities is their central task.

Itter stage

The amateur theater group Itterbühne is an integral part of cultural life in Hilden. In the Heinrich-Strangmeier-Saal she performs comedies and pranks.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Association of Former Students of the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Hilden (ed.): Seventy-five Years Municipal Helmholtz-Gymnasium Hilden 1910–1985. Hertwig & Kirchner, Hilden 1985, p. 120.
  2. ^ Heinrich Pfennig: 25 years Helmholtz-Oberrealschule Hilden 1910–1935. Fr. Peters, Hilden 1935, pp. 17-18.
  3. ↑ a b c d City of Hilden (Ed.): 100 years old Helmholtz. Hilden 2015.
  4. ↑ The "Old Helmholtz" turns one hundred
  5. ↑ Helmholtz turns 100: Spectacular party
  6. ↑ Helmholtz-Gymnasium in Hilden: 100 years of school history (s)
  7. ↑ 100 years of "Old Helmholtz"
  8. ↑ The "Old Helmholtz" tells its story
  9. ↑ "Altes Helmholtz" is 100 years old
  10. ↑ Anniversary, 100 years of "Old Helmholtz"
  11. ↑ Hilden Music School in the "Old Helmholtz"
  12. ^ Volkshochschule Hilden-Haan (VHS) in the "Old Helmholtz"
  13. ^ City archive Hilden
  14. ↑ Kukuk art school for children and young people
  15. ^ Children's and youth art school Kukuk of the city of Hilden
  16. ↑ Choir 84
  17. ↑ Cabaret group fettweg
  18. ↑ Harmonica Orchestra Notenzauber
  19. ↑ Shanty-Chor-Reingold
  20. ↑ Freizeitgemeinschaft handicapped and non-handicapped eV Hilden
  21. ↑ Itter stage