Bert Brecht House (Oberhausen)

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The Bert Brecht House in Oberhausen in spring 2009

The Bert-Brecht-Haus in Oberhausen is located in the city center between Langemarkstrasse and Paul-Reusch-Strasse and primarily houses urban adult education facilities .

Construction and commercial use

The building was built in 1928 based on a design by the Cologne architect Otto Scheib and is considered an important representative of brick expressionism in Oberhausen, comparable to the town hall, which was built around the same time, and the police headquarters on Friedensplatz . Since it was built on a tapering plot of land, its tapering shape is reminiscent of the Chilehaus in Hamburg that was built a few years earlier .

At first it was known under the name “Ruhrwachthaus” because a large part of the building was used by the publishing house, editorial office and printer of the local newspaper Ruhrwacht . In the front part of the building, which is seven storeys higher, there was a Leonhard Tietz AG department store , which became part of the Kaufhof in the course of Aryanization . After the Kaufhof moved into a new building in 1961 and the Ruhrwacht ceased its publication in 1967, the building was largely vacant.

Remodeling and urban use

In 1978 the building was acquired by the city of Oberhausen for 1.4 million DM. After an extensive renovation, which cost around seven times the purchase price, the building, which is now a listed building, was available for use by several municipal institutions in 1985, including the public order office and the residents' registration office as well as the main office of the city ​​library and the adult education center , which was originally planned the entire building should be available. In the course of the rededication, the name was also changed: Since then, the Ruhrwachthaus has been officially called the Bert-Brecht-Haus after the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht . From April 2010 to September 2011 the Bert Brecht House was rebuilt. It was reopened on September 9, 2011 and has since been a central meeting point in the city center, not only for visitors to the library and those attending the adult education center. The house has been part of the Route of Industrial Culture since 2011 .

literature

  • Frank Eisenhardt: Monument with a secure future. The former Ruhrwachthaus - an example of expressionist architecture. In: Oberhausen '85 - a year book , pp. 70–73.
  • City of Oberhausen / City Library and Adult Education Center (Ed.): Bert-Brecht-Haus 1925 to 2014: a house becomes culture . Laufen, Oberhausen 2014. ISBN 978-3-87468-309-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/oberhausen/Sanierung-des-Bert-Brecht-Hauses-wird-teurer-id3814474.html

Web links

Commons : Bert-Brecht-Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '14.2 "  N , 6 ° 51' 9.3"  E