Bismarckstrasse 47 (Bad Honnef)

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Bismarckstraße 47, street view from the southwest (2013)

The building at Bismarckstraße 47 is a former schoolhouse in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which was built in 1905/06. It is a listed building as a monument .

history

Higher girls' school, street view from the southwest (around 1908)
Higher school for girls, auditorium (around 1907)

The building was built together with a neighboring gym (today demolished) as a secondary school for girls based on a design by the architect and government master builder Wilhelm Freiherr von Tettau . The initiative to build the new school building came from the publisher Wilhelm Girardet , who was the client and who settled in Honnef in the nearby Feuerschlößchen , also designed by Tettau . Girardet donated the buildings of the Evangelical Secondary School for Daughters. On November 27, 1905, the building application for the school building was submitted, on June 18, 1906, the shell was accepted and on September 29, 1906, the final acceptance . The execution deviated from the originally submitted plans in some points. They were documented in a more mature stage by the magazine Der Baumeister . In 1907 Girardet applied in vain to open the school to boys. In 1909 the new building found its way into the collection of exemplary school buildings managed by Ernst Vetterlein . Initially the school had 30 pupils who were taught according to the curriculum of the grammar schools from 1913; In 1919 the number of students had risen to 42.

During the Nazi era , the school was closed and the school building and gym were then converted into a community center and youth center. The facade of the building underwent the first changes in the 1930s, which were followed by more in later decades. Today it is used as a residential building. The building was entered in the town of Bad Honnef's list of monuments on November 23, 1990.

architecture

The building is on an almost square floor plan , which is extended by a lower entrance annex. It has two floors above a broken stone base built and will go up by a verschieferten hipped roof complete, the street facing a mansard gable with stand truss contains. A polygonal bay window hangs below the half-timbered gable ; another on the west side of the ground floor marks the position of the hallway. The extension has a gable roof and was originally attached to the main building via a staircase . Two dormers , the hoods of the bay windows and the window bars (reinserted today, changed) have also not survived. The plastering of the masonry above the base was originally clay-colored (today white), the framework was painted white (today dark brown).

The original interior has largely been preserved. The former (four) classrooms were around 30 m² in size  and had large, three-part windows. On the upper floor and the roof truss is the auditorium , which formerly contained a pulpit within the hanging bay window and is particularly splendidly furnished in the style of the Arts and Crafts movement . These include plaster casts of reliefs from the Renaissance, including one from the pulpit of the Florence Cathedral created by Luca della Robbia , showing women making music and children playing. The stairwell is equipped with iron bar grids and wall cladding with rough clay clinker and a coffered ceiling supported by Atlant and caryatids .

“How sensitive this subtle composition [of window groups, polygonal bay windows, angular dormers and roof areas] is, is also demonstrated by the changes that have been made to the secondary school for girls over the decades. (...) As a result, the facades, on which Tettau completely renounced plastic jewelry, lost a large part of their inner cohesion and their artistic tension. "

- Ulrich Maximilian Schumann : 1999

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ originally Bismarckstrasse 17

Web links

Commons : Bismarckstraße 47  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 146
  2. ^ State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0414-5 , p. 124.
  3. ↑ Der Baumeister , 4th year, 1906, plate 69/70
  4. ↑ a b c d Ulrich Maximilian Schumann: Wilhelm Freiherr von Tettau - 1872–1929: Architecture in the crisis of liberalism .
  5. ↑ J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 286 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  6. ^ Hans Josten: Hundred years of Protestant community life in Bad Honnef . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 166–173 (here: p. 169).

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 57.3 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 32.7"  E