Friedenstrasse School (Böckingen)
The building of the Friedenstrasse School (also known as the "Old Town Hall") at Schuchmannstrasse 2 in Böckingen was built in 1878 as a schoolhouse. After Böckingen received town charter in 1919 , the schoolhouse was converted into the town hall in 1925/26 and was then the seat of the Böckingen city administration until it was incorporated into Heilbronn in 1933. The building was badly damaged in World War II and temporarily rebuilt after the war. In the 1980s it got its present form. Today there are u. a. a police station and club rooms.
history
Built as a school in 1878
In the 19th century, the school and town hall in Böckingen were in a building on the corner of Rathausgasse and Heilbronner Straße (today: Rathausstraße / Stedinger Straße). In the middle of the 19th century, the population in Böckingen grew strongly due to the influx of foreigners, so that the classrooms in the old town hall were no longer sufficient. The three-storey building with six classrooms on the corner of Friedensstrasse and Schuchmannstrasse was then built as a Friedenstrasse school in 1878, following a municipal council resolution under Mayor and council clerk Christian Friedrich Bartenbach . The school was inaugurated with a festive ceremony on May 25, 1878, with the schoolchildren receiving a pretzel on the day of the festival and the construction workers receiving a mark as a gift. The construction costs amounted to 82,393 marks. In 1879, 469 students were looked after in five classes at the Friedenstrasse School. By 1887, the number of students in the Friedenstrasse School grew to 702 and in 1899 to 913, with these being taught in seven classes. Since 1884, due to a lack of space, some classes had moved back to the town hall. After the Weststrasse school was built in 1899/1900, almost only girls 'classes remained in the Friedenstrasse school (grades 3–7), while on Weststrasse mostly boys and girls' classes 1 and 2 were taught. The term girls' school for the building comes from this time .
Conversion to the town hall in 1925/26
Due to the further increase in population in Böckingen around 1900 and the granting of town charter in 1919, the administrative tasks also grew, so that the old town hall was soon no longer sufficient. Since the Allenschule was also built in 1912/13 and there was enough classroom, the first parts of the administration moved into rooms in the Friedenstrasse School in 1919. Finally it was decided to move the entire administration to the Friedenstrasse School and to convert the building into the town hall. The renovation was carried out in 1925/26 under the Böckingen mayor Adolf Alter by town planning officer Karl Tscherning , taking into account that the building should be used again as a school after a possible incorporation of Böckingen into Heilbronn. The inauguration as the town hall took place on April 24, 1926. The Böckingen administration worked in the building until the town was incorporated into Heilbronn in 1933, but it was temporarily occupied by two auxiliary school classes.
A special piece of jewelery in the time as the town hall was the portal, in a mixture of Art Nouveau and classicism in the eclectic style, which carried the Böckingen coat of arms in a cartouche .
Helmut Schmolz describes the architectural details of the portal in detail:
“ One of the new things about the building is the portal [...] It echoes the Art Nouveau style that has been used here in the mix with classicist elements. The door jambs are squeezed in between two tastefully crafted wall pillars, projecting into consoles in the upper part, which carry an equally narrow architrave on two narrow cover plates, on which in turn an equilateral, multi-profiled triangular gable rests: two square pillars support a stilted portal arch above a bulging capital with an ornate keystone. A beam inserted between this keystone and the Archtirav bears the inscription: '1925 Rathaus 1926' . In the gable, which is accompanied on both sides by floral vases that have been strongly modified in the direction of Art Nouveau, the Böckingen coat of arms - the rising ibex - is depicted in a cartouche surrounded by vegetal ornaments: The double-winged door has a lunette-like window as a skylight: Above the artfully barred windows to the left and right of the portal, a water maiden (left) and the sea god Neptune are depicted as plastic figurines in raised blind arches . "
Use after 1945
The building was destroyed in the air raids on Heilbronn and temporarily rebuilt after the war. In the course of the creation of a new town center, which began with the construction of the nearby Böckingen community center in 1973/75, the building was given its present shape from the mid-1980s. Today u. a. the local police post in it.
Due to its former use as a town hall and because it is the only remaining town hall in Böckingen, the building, like its predecessor on Stedinger Straße, is also known as the "old town hall".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schmolz / Weckbach 1967, p. 59.
literature
- Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 37).
- Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. Vol. 2: Photos from 1858 to 1944. , Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1967, p. 59 [No. 95: Böckingen. Inauguration of the new town hall on April 24, 1926]
- Renz, Alexander / Schlösser, Susanne, chronicle of the city of Heilbronn. Volume VII: 1952–1957 , Heilbronn 1996: Rathaus (Bö), p. 108, 422.
- State Statistical Office: Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1903
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 33.8 ″ E