Bürgerhaus Böckingen

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Bürgerhaus Böckingen

The Bürgerhaus Böckingen is a community center in the Heilbronn district of Böckingen . It was built from 1973 to 1975 and was supposed to form a new center for the largest district of Heilbronn, which had lost its historical center during the Second World War . The town house was built on the site of the former Schuchmann brewery , of which two ice cellar vaults have been preserved in the current building.

history

The old town center of Böckingen was partially destroyed in the Second World War. During the reconstruction, the village square was created in the old town center of Böckingen, south of Stedinger Straße, but it has never achieved functional importance as it is largely surrounded by residential buildings. The shops in the old part of Böckingen, on the other hand, were along Ludwigsburger and Klingenberger Straße , which run through the town from north to south. The historic Pankratius Church is located in the far east of the town center, while the Catholic Kilian Church is located west of Ludwigsburger Strasse on a hill. With these decentralized facilities, the place remained without an actual town center for many years after the Second World War. In addition, there was soon a structural change due to the migration of the last farmers from the town center and a backlog of modernization, especially since the city of Heilbronn concentrated in the 1960s on the development of large new construction areas such as the Sachsenäcker in the Neckargartach district or the Schanz in the north-west of Böckingen.

The opportunity to create a new town center in Böckingen only arose when the city of Heilbronn was able to buy the former area of ​​the Schuchmann brewery, last used by the Palmbräu brewery, near the Pankratius Church in 1970 . The almost square area bordered by Kirchsteige, Stedinger Strasse, Heinrichstrasse and Dorfgraben had an area of ​​8,269 square meters, the purchase price was 1.1 million DM. The idea of ​​building a community center there came primarily from the Heilbronn's economic, cultural and social mayor Erwin Fuchs , who came from Böckingen, was promoted and oriented himself towards the community building program of the state of Hesse.

The community center was built according to designs by the Braun-Keppler-Stieglitz architects' association by the Böpple construction company founded in Böckingen and inaugurated in April 1975. The construction costs amounted to 7.5 million marks. The center was equipped with a hall, club rooms, a restaurant with a bowling alley, a branch of the Heilbronn city library , a youth club and a social station. The two rooms intended for clubs were dedicated to the brothers Otto and Hermann Rombach , who were born in Böckingen . Two ice cellar vaults have been preserved in the town house from the former Schuchmann brewery . An associated parking deck was erected south of the building , and the northern part of Kirchsteige , between Schuchmannstrasse and Pankratiuskirche, was redesigned into a pedestrian zone, which generously complements the open spaces in front of the community center.

The pirates Fountain of Dieter Läpple in front of the community center

In front of the community center is the pirate fountain , which was created by Dieter Läpple in 1975 . The fountain motif refers to the name of the Böckinger, pirate , which is derived from the former Böckinger See . At the time of the inauguration of the fountain, the then Lord Mayor Hans Hoffmann coined the slogan: “The name pirate equates to an honorary title for every Böckinger.” In all incorporated districts of Heilbronn, such fountains interpreting the respective Utznames were built at suitable locations.

The youth club in the south-western part of the building was initially subordinate to the municipal youth welfare office and was ceded to the Heilbronner Jugendhaus eV in 1991. Until 1991, the local workers ' welfare organization also used the youth café for a weekly senior citizens' meeting before moving into other rooms. In 1978 the Böckinger AWO was awarded a prize in the state competition for municipal citizens' actions for this meeting . The vaulted cellars under the community center became a venue for the Radelrutsch children's theater . Like most of the Heilbronn venues, the large event hall of the community center is managed by Heilbronn Marketing GmbH. The hall is often used for the events of the Böckinger associations, but also for guest performances by national artists. The American country band The Bottle Rockets has z. B. 2005 recorded a live album.

The construction of the community center in 1973/75 marked the beginning of the urban renewal in Böckingen. However, the construction of the community center also coincided with other large city-wide construction projects such as the completion of the school center on the Schanz or the development of the construction area in Sontheim-Ost, so that the town center could not be renewed immediately after the completion of the community center, but around Ten years passed before further measures to create a Böckingen center were carried out. From 1985 the Schuchmannstrasse leading to the community center was included in the new central area with the construction of a large commercial building, the renovation of the former Friedenstrasse school and traffic-calming measures. In 1986, at the corner of Schuchmannstrasse and Dorfgraben, right next to the community center, Dieter E. Klumpp placed a sculpture of the black courtier , which refers to the black courtier , a female figure from Böckingen in the peasant war .

In the years after 2000, the furnishings and concept of the community center gradually got on in years. The restaurant stood empty for years and there was no new tenant. The lack of hospitality had an impact on the attractiveness of the events in the building. Demands for modernization and reconstruction of the building became loud. The youth club was transformed into a youth and family center. In spring 2014 a new tenant agreed to reopen the restaurant in early summer 2015. Since then, Klaus Möhle has been running the Bürgerhaus Möhle Böckingen restaurant in the newly renovated restaurant wing .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Föll, Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn. Volume X: 1970–1974 , Heilbronn 1999, [introduction from XXXVI].
  2. ^ Gabriele Holthuis: City of Sculptures Heilbronn. Guide to art in public spaces. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-930811-57-X , No. 40, p. 84 ( Heilbronn Museum Catalog No. 60)
  3. ↑ Picture gallery Bürgerhaus Böckingen . In: Heilbronn voice . November ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 22, 2009]).
  4. ↑ Helmut Buchholz: Böckinger Bürgerhaus restaurant is threatened . In: Heilbronn voice . September 8, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 22, 2009]).
  5. ↑ Helmut Buchholz: A place of extremes . In: Heilbronn voice . September 9, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 22, 2009]).
  6. ↑ Ulrike Bauer-Dörr: The youth club becomes a family center . In: Heilbronn voice . July 1, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 22, 2009]).
  7. ↑ http://www.cduhn.de/lokal_1_1_211_CDU- sucht-beschränkt-Realisierungsphase-fuer-das-Buergerhaus- Boeckingen.html
  8. ↑ http://www.buergerhaus-moehle.de/

literature

  • Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37).

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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 0.3 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 36.5"  E