Authority building (Hanau)
The authority building in Hanau is a building that essentially dates from the 18th century. Today it is used by the Hanau tax office .
location
1768 of then was on the east side Paradeplatz (: today Liberty Square ) the Collegienbau built as a baroque geared to a central axis of the building. In its function it replaced the much smaller Renaissance chancellery building on Schlossplatz . The new building dominates the entire width of the eastern narrow side of today's Freiheitsplatz and housed the central authorities of the government of the County of Hanau , which at that time ruled as a secondary school for the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel through Hereditary Prince Wilhelm , who later became Landgrave and Elector Wilhelm IX./I has been.
history
The construction project was part of the infrastructure program for the county launched by the Hereditary Prince. As part of this infrastructure program, numerous construction measures were carried out, such as Philippsruher Allee , Dettinger Strasse, Birkenhainer Strasse and Leipziger Strasse redesigned as avenues and staged as a representative approach to the residential city of Hanau. To the resulting products of this infrastructure program includes the health resort of Wilhelmsbad or column of honor at the Dettinger road.
The new office building was in 1827 to the barracks for infantry - regiment rebuilt and from 1856 to 1858 by Julius Ruhl extended by two wings comprise a closed courtyard. At the same time it was in the style of Gothic Revival completely reshaped.
It was later used again as a government office. In the “ Third Reich ” it also housed Gestapo offices . On September 23, 1937, the Jewish doctor Dr. Otto Schwabe to death by falling out of a window due to unexplained circumstances. A plaque commemorates him today.
In the Second World War in a raid on Hanau significantly damaged, it was 1953 in simplified forms - accounted for the largest part of the neo-Gothic decor - rebuilt and at the corner of Mill Road / Liberty Square was a pedestrian crossing as arcade erupted. Since then it has served as the official headquarters again, including for the Hanau tax office.
meaning
The authority building is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
When the city of Hanau was planning to redesign the Freiheitsplatz, one of the issues up for discussion was to build on the Freiheitsplatz opposite the authority building and thereby cut it off from its historical reference to the square. It was also planned to accommodate the Hanau City Library here , but it was moved to the Hanau Forum opposite . The building and its forecourt were extensively renovated almost at the same time.
literature
- Angelika Cipa u. a .: Hanau city guide . Frankfurt 1983, p. 12.
- Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006. pp. 143f. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9
- Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3. Edition. Hanau 1919, 1978 (repr.). ISBN 3-87627-243-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 238f.
- ^ Gerhard Flämig : Hanau in the Third Reich Vol. II. Published by the Magistrat der Stadt Hanau 1987, ISBN 3-926011-04-1 , pp. 305–309; Monika Ilona Pfeifer / Monica Kingreen: Hanauer Jews 1933–1945. Disenfranchisement, persecution, deportation. CoCon, Hanau 1998, ISBN 3-928100-64-5 , p. 31.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 4.9 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 10.2 ″ E