Fire station west (Nuremberg)
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The fire station West is a listed building on Reutersbrunnenstrasse 24 in the Nuremberg district of Kleinweidenmühle , which has been used as a fire station since it was opened in 1902 . It forms fire station 1 of the Nuremberg fire brigade .
building
Since the urban area of Nuremberg expanded considerably as a result of the incorporation at the end of the 19th century, the access routes from the central fire station at that time were so lengthened that another fire station in the north-west of the city was necessary. The fire station was set up at Reutersbrunnenstrasse, number 24, as the Johannis Bridge is nearby , one of the few bridges in Nuremberg spanning the Pegnitz , and the location was therefore rated as particularly convenient.
The Nuremberg architect and construction officer Otto Seegy was commissioned with the construction, and he carried out the fire station in the historicizing New Nuremberg style . After about a year of construction, operations began on May 1, 1902. The fire station is a “picturesque group building”, consisting of a three-storey central building, a two-storey vehicle wing attached behind it, a two-storey building with a six-storey tower attached transversely behind it, an associated workshop building and a single-storey front building of the garage building.
The central building is designed as a hipped roof with a gable , on which there are bay windows made of sandstone and roof bay windows made of half-timbered . The vehicle wing is also designed as a hipped roof construction, with roof turrets and dormers . The two-storey building behind it is designed as a crooked roof with sandstone structure, as well as the tower, which is partly made of half-timbered, and the workshop building, which is equipped with risalits , half-timbered gable and elevator bay windows. The single-storey head buildings are also hipped roof buildings, with additional gables on them.
use
Historical use
The fire station was set up for operation with horse-drawn fire engines , the horse boxes were placed behind the equipment parking spaces, so that a release time of less than a minute after the alarm could be guaranteed. Due to the massive construction of the cellar vault, the vehicle wing could continue to be used even after the introduction of heavy fire engines.
On the first floor there was a telegraph room, the feed room and a relaxation room for the coachmen, as well as a sick stable for a horse. The clothing and equipment room, the kitchen, the day room, the washing and bathing room and a large relaxation room with 40 beds were housed on the first floor.
Todays use
In addition to its function as a fire station, fire station 1 serves as a rescue medical training center and specialist department for radiation and measurement technology of the Nuremberg fire brigade; it also houses a fire extinguisher workshop , an image center , the telecommunications department and the clothing store. The fire station also has a carpenter's shop and a locksmith's shop.
New building
A new building for fire station 1 has been under construction since 2017. It is located on the site of the former track construction site , Reutersbrunnenstrasse 63, between Maximilianstrasse and the prison ⊙ . The new guard is more conveniently located on the Westring and is responsible for a quarter of the city area with 160,000 inhabitants. It has 53 parking spaces for emergency vehicles on a property area of 11,500 square meters. The construction costs amount to around 52 million euros. In March 2020, the technical equipment of the new building was handed over to the fire brigade; full commissioning is scheduled for summer 2020.
The previous fire station on Reutersbrunnenstrasse will then be abandoned by the fire brigade. The future use of the listed old building is currently (May 2020) not yet known.
Web links
- Fire station 1 on the website of the Nuremberg fire brigade
- Fire station west at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- Aerial view in the BayernAtlas
- New building of fire station 1 Nuremberg , website of the building authority of the city of Nuremberg about the new building
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- ↑ Hans Wolfram Lübbeke, Otto Braasch: Middle Franconia: Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments ( monuments in Bavaria , Volume V). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1986. ISBN 978-3-486-52396-6 . P. 186
- ↑ New building of fire station 1 Nuremberg , website of the building authority of the city of Nuremberg
- ↑ Millions of buildings: This is Nuremberg's most modern fire station on the Nürnberger Nachrichten website on March 6, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '12.8 " N , 11 ° 3' 24.7" E