Office building Vorsfelde
The administration building Vorsfelde is a 1801 for the Office Vorsfelde built office building , which in Wolfsburg district Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony stands. It was later an administration building and seat of the district court of Vorsfelde. Today it is a listed building and is used by local associations. The building was named "Ludwig-Klingemann-Haus" in memory of the Vorsfeld workers' leader Ludwig Klingemann, who was killed by the National Socialists in 1942 .
description
The office building is a two-storey plastered solid building with a crippled hipped roof and a central dwarf house . Bricks from brickworks in Danndorf and on the Rothehof were used as building material . With its simple classical facade, it stands on the street at the eaves. As a state building, it appears representative in comparison with the rest of the Vorsfeld building stock, despite the fact that there are no decorative parts.
Previous construction
Today's office building had a predecessor building as the seat of the Vorsfelde office established by the Brunswick sovereign in 1742. This was a half-timbered building, 36 meters long and 18 meters wide, completed on the official property in 1755 , the compartments of which were lined with bricks . Outbuildings were the courtroom and the registry. The porter was housed in a massive stone gate house in 1759, which contained two prison cells. Since a small farm was part of the official seat, there was a cowshed and a poultry house on the official property. In addition to the bailiff and his family, the household of the office building and the outbuildings included some employees, the servants and a maid. In the Vorsfeld town fire of 1798, the office building burned down, while the outbuildings remained largely intact.
history
The fire insurance reimbursed 6,000 Reichstaler for the office building that burned down in 1798 . The reconstruction, which began in 1800, required 40,000 stones. Although processed demolition material was also reused, the construction cost exceeded the fire compensation by around 500 Reichstaler.
In the office building, which was completed in 1801, the bailiff continued his administrative and legal duties for the office in Vorsfelde. In 1807 it was dissolved by the French occupying forces and incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon . The office of Vorsfelde became the canton of Vorsfelde in the district of Helmstedt in the department of the Oker by royal decree of December 24th, 1807 , which existed until 1813. In the 19th century the office building was transformed into an administrative building. It became the seat of the district court of Vorsfelde, which held this function until the city of Wolfsburg incorporated Vorsfeldes in 1972. After that, the former office building was the seat of Wolfsburg authorities and in 1987 was made available to Vorsfeld clubs. Around the 1990s, the building was renamed "Ludwig-Klingemann-Haus" to commemorate the workers' leader, USPD and SPD local chairman Ludwig Klingemann, who was arrested by the National Socialists in 1942 and beaten to death.
See also
literature
- History of the apron volume 1 . Wolfsburg City Archives, Wolfsburg 1995, pp. 150–152.
- Amtsstraße 35 in: Cultural monuments City of Wolfsburg with city and districts. Edited by Braunschweigische Landschaft , Braunschweig, 2004, p. 53
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '23 " N , 10 ° 50' 12" E