Direction régionale des Impôts

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Main facade of the building
General view of the building

The Direction régionale des Impôts (German: Regional Direction for Taxes ) was built from 1899 to 1902 and is the fourth of five buildings of German monumental architecture on the Place de la République in Strasbourg . The building was designed by Ludwig Levy as the first ministerial building of the administration of the Reichslande Alsace-Lorraine on the former Kaiserplatz of the Alsatian metropolis.

location

The monumental ministerial building occupies the northwest side of the spacious Place de la République ("Kaiserplatz") , on the northeast side of the avenue de la Paix rises a comparable, somewhat younger building, which was also planned by Levy. The square, laid out at the end of the 19th century, forms the entrance to Strasbourg's Neustadt district , which was laid out during the imperial era .

history

Eleven years after the takeover of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , a temporary building for the members of the regional committee was erected in 1882 at the present location of the prefecture. With its half-timbered architecture, it resembled a “rural train station”. After the western boundary of the square had been fixed with the construction of the Imperial Palace in 1884, the planners called for a competition in May 1886 for the development of the north side with two representative buildings for the Reich Office for Alsace-Lorraine . The winner was building officer Ludwig Levy, professor at the Grand Ducal Badische Baugewerkeschule in Karlsruhe. The main facade and the grand staircase were again the subject of an architectural competition, which was called in April 1898. Six of the 16 designs presented received prizes. Levy's neo-baroque design was confirmed. The sculptor Johann Baptist Rieger made the sculptures and decorations, he had already worked on the library. Albert Muschweck (1857–1919) was responsible for the bronze putti that carry the lamps in the stairwell.

From 1899 to 1902, this western ministerial building, which today serves the regional financial administration, was built. Five years later, construction began on the eastern sister building, but Levy died that same year on November 30, 1907. That building was completed in 1911 by building inspector Schütz. Both buildings survived the bombing of Strasbourg in World War II unscathed. In 1996 and 2014, the tax authorities renovated the roofs and the balcony.

On September 5, 1996, the building was inscribed on the list of monuments. Since 2017 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site with the ensemble of the Strasbourg New Town .

Monumental architecture on the Place de la République

literature

  • Klaus Nohlen : Building policy in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine: 1871-1918. The representative state buildings around the former Kaiserplatz in Strasbourg. Mann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1318-1 .
  • Niels Wilcken: Architecture in the Border Area. Public construction in Alsace-Lorraine (1871-1918) (= publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland. Vol. 38). Saarbrücken 2000.

Web links

Commons : Hôtel des impôts (Strasbourg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Impôts direction Régionale et Départementale (Strasbourg) . (French, accessed on September 24, 2018)
  2. ↑ 55 km linéaires! (et littéraires ..) à Strasbourg (67) . (French, accessed on September 24, 2018)

Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 14 ″  E