Town hall, old town hall in Hilden
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The Mansion in Mittelstrasse 40 in Hilden in Mettmann ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a listed secular building. The town hall of Hilden was housed in it from 1900 to 1990.
In 1899 the foundation stone for the construction of the old town hall was laid. The architect was Walter Furthmann (1873–1945) from Hilden, who was then based in Berlin . The building was constructed in the late Renaissance style from Weiberner tuff and Lautertal sandstone. Today it serves as a community center and is used, among other things, for cultural events.
history
On November 18, 1861, King Wilhelm of Prussia elevated the municipality of Hilden to the status of a city. Hilden at the same time left the mayor's office of Hilden , which now only consisted of the municipality of Eller and had its administrative headquarters there. After Hilden had received city rights, the political representatives of the 5,000 residents agreed that Hilden needed its own town hall. Both citizens of the upper and the lower town offered land for a town hall. Two enemy camps were formed. In 1862, Friedrich August Reyscher applied to Mayor Albert Koennecke to build a town hall in the Upper Town on the Kuhle (today at the corner of Hochdahler Strasse and Mittelstrasse). But that angered the Lower Towns around the Evangelical Church. They offered a plot of land on the corner of Mittelstrasse – Marktstrasse. The discussion about the really right place heated up the minds and a solution to the problem did not seem in sight for a long time. After heated discussions, council meetings were held in the Zur Krone inn , Mittelstrasse 17, and the mayor lived at Mittelstrasse 20/22. Then in 1873 the businessman Jonathan Schimmelbusch died. His house was conveniently located exactly on the border between Upper and Lower Town on today's Mittelstrasse 40. In 1874 the town bought the property and house. But in the meantime, the textile manufacturer Adolf Spindler (1865–1956) lived there and did not want to move out because he had a five-year lease. The city council meetings therefore took place in the newly built Rector's School at Heiligenstraße 13 from 1875 onwards. From December 1877 they were moved to the house of the brickworks owner Fritz Felder at Benrather Straße 50-52. After that, the city used the half-timbered house from 1878 to 1899 as a town hall and community center.
After the Mittelstrasse was paved in 1888, the noise of the increasing road traffic annoyed the iron-clad wheels of the carts. The city councilors and mayor Karl Wilhelm Heitland were so tired of it in 1898 that they put the demolition of the administration building and the construction of a real large town hall in the same place. The old half-timbered building was sold to the innkeeper Theodor Holterbusch for seven hundred marks in 1899, dismantled by the buyer and rebuilt at Hochdahler Straße 51/53.
After several drafts by district builder Kohlhage and city engineer Arthur Koppenburg, the jury decided on the overall design and especially the facade design by the architect Walter Furthmann (1873-1945). Walter Furthmann was born in Hilden and lived in Berlin at the time. Numerous other buildings at home and abroad were designed by Walter Furthmann, including the town hall of the then still independent neighboring town of Benrath and the Henkel administration building in Düsseldorf-Holthausen . In Hilden, Furthmann later built the Kampf & Spindler administration building on Klotzstraße, today the Hotel am Stadtpark, the building on Kirchhofstraße 73, from 1977 to 2018 the tower pharmacy, and the Wilhelm-Ferdinand-Lieven grave in the main cemetery.
In July 1899 the foundation stone for the construction of the "Old Town Hall" was laid. The company C. Nebel (formerly Hackenhof , Mittelstrasse 70) was signed as the construction company of the "Old Town Hall" . The facade of the building was constructed in the late Renaissance style from Weiberner tuff and Lautertal sandstone. The sculptures and carvings on the doors of the conference room were made by the Hilden sculptor Ernst Paul Nebel (* 1874), a son of the building contractor Carl Jakob Nebel (1831-1893). The Hilden manufacturers Richard Heimendahl, Emil Keller, Albrecht Gottschalk and Julius Gottschalk donated the three colored windows of the conference room on the second floor. The central window sash shows life in agriculture and in industrial operations. Various coats of arms are painted on the side window sash. A window in the stairwell that no longer exists today with a portrait of Wilhelm Fabry was donated by the manufacturers Paul and Adolf Spindler.
- Window in the old council chamber
Agriculture
City arms
Industry
The "old town hall" was a black building. Two weeks before the official inauguration on December 18, 1900 (Hilden now had 11,000 inhabitants), the invited district administrator Friedrich von Kühlwetter discovered on November 30, 1900 that there was still no building application and no building permit. Mayor Heitland provided the documents discreetly until the inauguration. The previously approved construction costs for the magnificent town hall were exceeded by 20 percent (from 130,000 marks to 163,633 marks).
The approval of the city arms by the Royal Herald's Office in Berlin on April 2, 1900 came just in time to be able to take it into account when the town hall was being built. The draft came from the draftsman Peter Wymar. The coat of arms could appear in the stone carvings above the main entrance, in the ornaments of the wood sculptors and in the stained glass of the windows of the "old conference room" on the second floor. The city coat of arms of the heraldist Peter Wymer was designed as an allegory of Hilden's history. The red pinnacle bar is reminiscent of the Duchy of Berg , to which Hilden only belonged from 1803 to 1813, while a silver band represents the Itter in the lower green segment . Around 1900, Hilden was roughly equally shaped by agriculture and industry, which should be illustrated by a sickle and a toothed wheel on both sides of the river. The fortified towers on the crest of the coat of arms symbolize the rulership of the Cologne archbishops , which existed until 1803 (according to other sources, they symbolized the city rights of Hilde) Inaugurated in 1900.
The song about Hildens industry around 1900
On the occasion of the celebratory dinner for the town hall inauguration, people sang the song about Hilde's industry in the "Zur Krone" inn. Everything you need is manufactured in the city. Silk fabrics, colorful and chic, are woven in thousands of pieces (1). And for those who do it cheaper, calico is also dyed and printed (2). Sour caps, delicate and fine, can be made by the ton (3). Bucket, from which the horses can drink, you can galvanize here (4). In the mill there is wheat flour (5), on the beaker there they make oil (6). There's nowhere better to get a spoon, fork and knife (7). You can make beautiful book fittings on the Walderwege (8). Doppelkorn is also burned (9) and a lot of amber varnish is shipped (10). Pipes are welded on top of each other, strong for a thousand atmospheres (11). And tubes without seams are also made for Velocipede (12). If you want to buy a carpet, you don't have to walk too far (13). One also makes more diligent hands, bricks, hard-fired (14). Bucket carts cable winches can be found en masse here (15). The Klinkenhus (16) supplies us with steam engines and cast iron . Leather is tanned with coxin (17), one of which makes dextrin (18). With a lot of luck, someone also runs a chicken factory (19). One makes in boot shafts (20), a herb of apple juice (21). And the butcher Oberholz is proud of his sausages (22). There are many other things that one and the other do; The city also makes a gas that burns bluish at the end (23).
(Note in brackets refer to the mentioned factories of that time combined with today's place names) (1) Silk weaving: Gressard & Co. , Fritz-Gressard-Platz; closed in 1956; (2) Calico printing company for the cotton industry Hummelsterstrasse until 1931, transition to Kampf & Spindler and dye works: Schlieper & Laag , Hofstrasse, closed in 1984; (3) Sauerkraut factory : Büren, Hofstrasse-Stadtpark, closed in 1966; (4) Galvanizing plant : Krieger, Düsseldorfer Straße 49, until today; (5) Mill : Gottschalks Mühle, Mühle 64, closed 1980; (6) Oil and barley peeling mill: Kirberg later Frauenhof, Schwanenstrasse 17; closed in 1917; (7) Cutlery factory: Heimendahl & Keller , Eichenstrasse (today Otto-Hahn-Strasse); closed in 1939; (8) Roller engraving facility : Waldeck & Nacke, Walder Straße 9; closed in 1965; (9) including Peter Vogelsang, Benrather Straße 32, closed 1979, and Walter Hoppe, Gerresheimer Straße 9; closed in 1965; (10) Paint factory: Hermann Wiederhold Lackfabriken , later ICI, today AkzoNobel, Düsseldorfer Strasse 96–100; til today; (11) Tube works: Hildener union, later Rheinstahl , Otto-Hahn-Strasse-Telleringstrasse; closed in 1966; (12) Steel goods: Coppelsche factory , later Kronprinz, then Mannesmann, Terrania-Industriepark Ellerstrasse 101, closed in 1972; (13) Plush weaving : Rheinische Teppichfabrik, Neustraße 82, closed in 1902; (14) Ringziegelei : Büren, Eichenstrasse 115 and Felder, Dieselstrasse 6, closed in 1921 and 1935; (15) Black plate & construction equipment factory: Gustav Gerwien, An der Gabelung-Walder Strasse 19, closed in 1907; (16) Machine works: Kirberg & Hüls , Schwanenstrasse 18, closed in 1971; (17) Leather tannery : JH Stürmer, later Max Jüntgen , Mühlenstrasse; closed in 1961; (18) Chemistry, starch and dextrin: Von der Heiden, Am Rathaus-Mittelstrasse 34; closed in 1937; Successor today ASK Chemicals GmbH in Reisholzstrasse 16. (19) Bauer : Hanten, Beckersheide 16a, until today; (20) Stock factory: Frauenhof, Schwanenstrasse 17, Haus auf der Bech ; closed in 1935; (21) Juice & Essence Factory: Johann Nikolaus Reinartz, Lindenstrasse 20, until today; (22) Horse butcher : Marktstrasse 12, closed; (23) Gas works : City of Hilden, Kolpingstrasse (until 1949 Gasstrasse); closed in 1926.
The fire on September 6, 1972 destroyed the attic. The fire was caused by flying sparks during welding work. Thanks to the determined help of numerous members of the city administration, all files in the offices were saved.
new town hall
Today's Hilden town hall can be found behind the community center. The new building replaced the old building, which had become too small. In 1988 the first groundbreaking ceremony for the new administration building of the “New Town Hall” took place. The foundation stone for the "New Town Hall" was laid in September 1989. In December 1990, the city officials, who had previously been spread across many offices in the city, were finally able to move under one roof again.
Community center
After the construction of the new town hall, the "old town hall" was redesigned into a community center. On February 16, 1990, the topping-out ceremony for both town halls was celebrated at the same time - out of thrift, according to the city administration. The renovation cost almost five million euros, of which the federal and state governments took over 2.9 million marks. Deviation from the calculation: just under 42,000 euros.
On April 29, 1990, a second fire broke out in the almost finished attic of the "Old Town Hall". It caused damage of around one million marks, for which, fortunately, an insurance company paid.
The community center is available to the citizens of Hilden in particular, as well as clubs and associations. The community center has a public toilet on all floors. It has an elevator. Changing exhibitions take place in the municipal gallery on the ground floor. The offices of the family and education center "Stellwerk" are on the first floor of the community center. On the second floor there is the “old council chamber, old meeting room” with the picture gallery of the former mayors and the painted glass windows. Cultural events, honors, receptions and weddings take place in the “Old Council Chamber”.
The second floor also has their offices: the company doctor, the arbitration office, the ombudsman, the “Treff 50 +”, the Neighborhood Aid Active eV -NaH, the Dementia Info Center Hilden eV. In the corridor of the second floor there are three detailed drawings for planning of the "Old Town Hall" from its construction time in 1900. On the opposite side hangs the oil painting " Freiherr vom Stein and the Stands, Allegory of the Community" by the Düsseldorf artist Paul Bücher (* March 25, 1891; † September 5, 1968) Signed and dated 1933. There is a cafeteria on the third floor. The meeting room of the current city council with auditorium is housed in the attic of the community center. The tapestry "1000 Years Hilden" by Hilden artist Katharina Gun Oehlert also hangs there.
The clinker brick leaked in 2012 and the facade had to be renovated. It turned out that the sandstone facade is only curtained and the iron anchors were rusted. Because they had to be replaced, the renovation took five months. The facade was removed and sandblasted.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Old Town Hall, time track search
- ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Wennig: The Hilden town hall. Its prehistory and its origin. In: From the recent history of Hildens and its surroundings , Volume I. (Niederbergische contributions, sources and research on local history Niederbergs, Volume 23.) Hilden 1972, pp. 7–59
- ^ A b Hubertus Franzen : Hilden, as it was , ISBN 3-7700-0482-5 , Düsseldorf 1977, pp. 30-34
- ↑ a b c Ulrike Unger, Michael Ebert: Dönekes and local history, history and stories from Hilden , Rheinische Post, Museums & Heimatverein Hilden eV, ISBN 3-9804615-2-1 , 1998, p. 14
- ↑ a b c Renovation of the community center 2012
- ^ Hildener Zeitung June 10, 1953, Hilden coat of arms in detail
- ^ Thomas Bernhardt, Werner Kimmel, Christina Görtz, Michael de Clerque, Andreas Stephainski, Roland Ermich: Time travel 1000 years of life in Hilden, 150 years of city rights , ISBN 978-3-9812527-9-8 , Götting 2011, pp. 30–34
- ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: ' History of Hilden Industry, From the Beginnings of Commercial Activity to 1900 , Hilden 1974
- ↑ Hildener Jahrbuch 1981, Volume III, p. 234
- ↑ Stellwerk office for family and education in the community center ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the city of Hilden
- ^ Neighborhood Aid Active eV Neighborhood Aid Active eV
- ^ Dementia Info Center Hilden eV
- ^ German Rheuma League North Rhine-Westphalia eV
- ↑ Katarina Gun-Oehlert
literature
- Hilden in transition, photographs from yesterday & today; Wolfgang Engel 2011; ISBN 978-3-00-030839-0
- Wolfgang Pagenstecher : The history of the origins of the Hilden city arms in: Hildener Jahrbuch Vol. 4 / 1945–1946, Verlag Fr. Peters, Hilden 1950, pp. 5–17
Web links
- Photos and description of the glass paintings at the 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation e. V.
- Picture book Hilden
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 8.8 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 11.1 ″ E