Queen Luisen School (tub)
| Queen Luisen School | |
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| Front of the Queen Luisen School (2011) | |
| type of school | Comprehensive secondary school |
| founding | 1910 |
| closure | 2013 |
| address |
Wilhelmstrasse 88 |
| place | Herne - Wanne , Bickern settlement |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '51 " N , 7 ° 8' 41" E |
| carrier | City of Herne |
The Queen Luise School in Bickern , the western area of the local part bath of the city Herne , is under monument protection standing school building .
history
The school building was built in 1908/09 on behalf of the Wanne Office based on a design by the official builder Paul Spanier. The institution, built as a primary school for the Wanne Office, which is growing rapidly in terms of its number of inhabitants, was named after the Prussian Queen Luise when it opened in 1910, on the hundredth anniversary of her death .
In 1925, 735 students were taught in 17 classes at the school . It was thus by far the largest of the Office's elementary schools. During the Second World War , the gynecological clinic of the St. Josefs Hospital was temporarily accommodated in the school building, until students could be taught again from 1945. Finally, in 1968 the Protestant Queen Luisen School, which had comprised eight grades , was converted into a community secondary school .
Although the centenary could still be celebrated in 2010, it was already certain that it would be closed at the end of the 2012/13 school year . This marked the end of a long-lasting decline in the number of students. During the last school year there were only five school classes. With the closure, the question of re-use became evident. The use of the lower floors as a day-care center was considered to replace the facility in Michaelstraße. A tenant would still have to be found for the top floor. The calculated costs of the renovation of 5.1 million euros, including 3.1 million for the day-care center, initially proved to be impossible to finance, whereupon demolition of the vacant school building was put up for discussion in autumn 2013 . After protests by the preservation authorities and the local population, in particular the Society for Local Studies Wanne-Eickel, against the demolition plans and the signaling of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to provide extensive financial support for the renovation work, the demolition was prevented in 2014. The state pledged 4.2 million of the estimated total costs of 6.45 million euros in funding.
In September 2015, the comprehensive conversion of the school into a day-care center as well as a school and family advice center with a total of 3800 m² of usable space began. In the end, the total cost of the renovation came to 7.11 million euros. Due to previously saved preliminary examinations and the associated problems during the construction phase, the renovation resulted in additional costs of 1.1 million euros.
Building description
The school property in Wilhelmstrasse covers around 5030 m². Former miners' houses from the neighboring Pluto colliery are on the left, and an allotment garden on the right . The building, which is almost 49 meters wide and 18 meters deep, is around 32 meters behind the street. The three-and-a-half- storey brick-faced solid building in the neo-renaissance style is completed at the top with a hipped roof. As listed value is the part of the lower authority monument the facade with the related at this stone and stucco which and the roof and in the interior hallways classified and gears. The structure of 14 to 4 axes has a two-axis central projection , which also opens up the original main portal with a generous staircase behind it, as well as three-axis side and corner projections on the front sides; the risalites are gabled. The originally partly curved gables are only preserved in a simplified form. The building, which is symmetrically structured in its floor plan, comprised six classrooms per floor .
Since the renovation in 2015–2017, two stair towers at the rear of the building have provided barrier-free access , an additional escape route and the new main entrance. The former main entrance at the front is closed. Inside, the school has changed significantly due to the complex, child-friendly renovation. However, the listed features in the interior were retained and largely linked to the new use.
The school building was entered in the city of Herne's list of monuments on April 9, 1990 (monument no. A 100). In July 2017, it was selected by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia as Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe .
See also
Web links
- Queen Luisen School. at ruhr-bauten.de, accessed on January 28, 2014.
- Archive moments of the Königin-Luisen-Schule Herne (former municipal secondary school in Wanne-Eickel). on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Herne. Architecture in the Ruhr area. Ed. Oberstadtdirektor Herne and BDA, district groups Herne and Wanne-Eickel, Emschertal-Museum, Herne 1987, without ISBN, p. 35.
- ↑ Friedrich Weiberg (ed.): 50 years of office tub. Self-published, Wanne 1925, p. 112.
- ^ Queen Luisen School. The last big anniversary. WAZ dated November 10, 2010, accessed January 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b Building management wants to tear down the Königin-Luisen-Schule. WAZ dated November 3, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014.
- ^ Queen Luisen School reopened after renovation. WAZ dated March 20, 2017, accessed July 4, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Gabriele Podschadli: Monument of the Month: Queen Luisen School in Herne-Bickern - A success story. (No longer available online.) LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , archived from the original on August 5, 2017 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ "A wonderful testimony to contemporary history". Queen Luisen School officially opened. In: inHerne - the city magazine. City of Herne, March 20, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ All dimensions and areas according to http://www.tim-online.nrw.de/tim-online/initParams.do
- ↑ Friedrich Weiberg (ed.): 50 years of office tub. Self-published, Wanne 1925, illustration after p. 152.
