Former air raid shelter (Lürrip)
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The former air-raid shelter Lürrip located in the district Lürrip in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) Neuss road 374th
The building was built in 1941–1943. It was entered under number N 019 on January 14, 2003 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The property is located at the confluence of Am Hülserhof and Neusser Straße, on the border between Lürrip and the northern district of Uedding .
architecture
The former air raid shelter belongs to the type of high-rise bunker with the character of a tower, which was built three times in Mönchengladbach and is most clearly preserved on Neusser Straße. It represents a type of building that was once built in preparation for World War II and the urgent need for civil defense . The former bunker is six storeys high , made of reinforced or reinforced concrete with bevelled corners , a high, hipped end with a massive cornice with a tooth cut . It was erected on a rectangular floor plan on a base area of approximately 16 × 17 m and a height of approximately 19 m. Immediately after the end of the war, the British stationed in Mönchengladbach blew up windows in the tower-like bunker so that it could be used as a home. Furthermore, the gas locks were removed and the street-side entrance walled up.
The bunker is important for human history, especially for the history of civil defense in Nazi-ruled Germany and for dealing with these buildings immediately after the end of the war by the British occupying forces. It is just as important for the history of the city of Mönchengladbach, especially for the location of Lürrip. This building with its defensive function ensured the survival of a large part of the Lürriper population and alleviated the enormous housing shortage in the post-war period. As a building type newly developed in the Third Reich , as a testimony to recent, painful history, the bunker Neusser Straße 374 is to be preserved and used as a monument according to § 2 DSchG NRW for scientific, architectural, social and local-historical reasons .
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 3 , no. 4 ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB).
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 11.1 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 49.9 ″ E