Main fire station (Munich)
The main fire station in Munich , also known as the main fire house or central fire house , is a fire station of the Munich fire department . Both the main building and an annex built shortly after it are registered as architectural monuments in the Bavarian list of monuments.
location
The main fire station is located on the street named after it, “An der Hauptfeuerwache”, on the corner of Roßmarkt, in the south of the Angerviertel in Munich's old town in the city district No. 1 Altstadt-Lehel . The street passed as "Mühlgasse" directly within the city wall . After the wall was demolished, it became part of the Blumenstrasse, which was separated into two lanes by a green area between Angertor and Sendlinger Tor , until it was named after the main fire station in 1995.
In the green area that is still present today, the Old Catholic Church of St. Willibrord is opposite the main fire station, and to the south-east of it is the Munich Marionette Theater .
history
The main fire house of the city of Munich, built on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in 1795, had become too small for the growing city in the course of the 19th century. Therefore, from 1902 to 1904, the current main fire station was built on the edge of the old town. The design came from the then building inspector and TH professor Carl Hocheder , the execution followed under his successor, the municipal building officer Robert Rehlen . Some changes to the floor plan were made due to changes in ownership.
Originally, the fire engines consisted of horse-drawn vehicles. The stables for the horses were directly behind the carriage hall. In the event of an alarm, the stable doors were unlocked electrically, the trained horses ran to the vehicles by themselves and were harnessed to their harnesses in a few seconds thanks to a new type of suspension device. In this way, the fire trucks were able to move out in less than a minute after the alarm occurred.
architecture
The main fire station is a four-story building in the neo-renaissance style . The long side has an eight-arched arcade on the ground floor , the arcades of which are supported by strong Tuscan columns . Behind the arcades are large arched gate exits for the fire engines .
The facade of the three lower floors is flat with only flat frames for the arched windows and arcades. The upper zone is more structured: on the third floor there are three-arched loggias with rectangular double windows, on the fourth floor dormer windows with gable gables . The two ends of the long side and the short side on the Roßmarkt show seven-storey tail gables .
The high, multi-storey saddle roof has an oval roof lantern with a glass roof and large oval windows on the north, east and south sides. Two further light shafts are covered with glass at an angle.
At the back of the building, a sloping connecting wing leads to an extension building at Unteren Anger 8/9 that was built between 1906 and 1907 . A narrow three-storey, three-axis connecting building on Roßmarkt connects to the neighboring baroque New Landscape Building , which was built from 1774 onwards . A gateway leads from here into the inner courtyard of the main fire station.
The largest interior space is the equipment hall behind the arcade on the ground floor. It is designed as a three-aisled , eight-bay hall with two rows of massive columns and groin vaults . The ready-to-use fire engines are ready to leave here.
In the east end of the building there is an oval staircase that receives light from the roof lantern. In the west end there is a two-storey gym, which can be recognized from the outside by the arched windows that extend over two storeys.
use
The main fire station, as Fire Station 1, is one of ten fire stations in the Munich Fire Brigade . The main fire station recorded the highest number of missions of all ten Munich guards. In the service building , the agency management, the management staff and the five departments of the fire department are housed.
The Munich Fire Brigade Museum was set up in the building and opened in 1979 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Munich Fire Brigade.
For more information on use, see Munich Fire Department # Fire Department 1 - Main Fire Department / Fire Department
literature
- Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: State capital Munich - center (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 , p. 78-79 .
Web links
- Fire station 1 - main station in the city portal muenchen.de
- Fire stations Professional fire brigade: District administration department (KVR), Main Department IV Fire Department Munich in the service finder of the city portal muenchen.de
- Munich's oldest fire station , video from the Academy of the Bavarian Press - ABP on Youtube
Individual evidence
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↑ List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, main fire station in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
- ↑ Fire stations professional fire brigade: District administration department (KVR), Main Department IV Fire Department Munich in the service finder of the city portal muenchen.de, accessed on June 12, 2016
- ^ Fire station 1 - main station in the city portal muenchen.de, accessed on June 12, 2016
- ↑ Munich Fire Brigade Museum in the city portal muenchen.de, accessed on June 12, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 57.7 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 10.2 ″ E