Högerhaus (Meppen)
The Högerhaus , completed in 1937, is located on Bahnhofstrasse in Meppen . The name goes back to the architect Fritz Höger , who designed the house.
Archway
Southeast entrance
prehistory
The contract award for the construction is the result of a tender by the Kreissparkasse Meppen and the district of Meppen in 1935. Seven architects submitted designs, among them Fritz Höger, whose project the jury decided on. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1936. In the end, the construction costs amounted to 300,000 Reichsmarks.
Relation to National Socialism
Professor Fritz Höger was one of the leading architects of Brick Expressionism during the Weimar Republic . He sympathized with the National Socialists early on and joined the party as early as 1932. The topping-out ceremony and the inauguration of the building in Meppen turned into propaganda events for the young Nazi state.
Building description
The house is a two-wing, two-story brick building with a floor space of 2200 square meters. The steep hipped roof is provided with dormer bands. Hand-painted Rasteder clinker bricks were used as the bricks . An archway is drawn into the south-east front. Its round arches are supported by massive pillars made of natural stone . In the archway, the windows are also round-arched, while otherwise narrow rectangular windows that are glazed with slug panes predominate .
use
The building originally housed the savings bank on the ground floor and the district administration in the upper rooms. The district office of the old district of Meppen was added later . After the city bought the building from the new district of Emsland in 1982 , the police moved in as a tenant in 1985. In 2015 the listed building was completely renovated.
literature
- Georg Dehio, editing Gerd Weiß: Handbook of German art monuments. Bremen, Lower Saxony. Revised 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0
- Meppener Höger-Haus is being renovated. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from May 21, 2015
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Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 43.7 " N , 7 ° 17 ′ 45" E