Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar in Koblenz
The Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar was built in 1907–1908 on the Oberwerth in Koblenz . After it was closed in 1925, the building of the teacher’s seminar was continued to be used by various higher education institutions and finally from 1990–2002 by the University of Koblenz-Landau .
history
From the 12th century until the secularization of 1802, there was only one Benedictine monastery on the former Rhine island of Oberwerth . With the construction of the Horchheim railway bridge in the 1870s and the filling of the southern arm of the Rhine, it lost its island character. At the beginning of the 20th century, building activity began on the former island.
Prussia introduced compulsory schooling in 1825 . Up until the Kulturkampf , the upbringing of the children was in the hands of the churches and in 1872 it was replaced by state school supervision. This was accompanied by the reorganization of teacher training , also because the need for teachers increased sharply with the population growth at the end of the 19th century. The Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar was founded in Koblenz in 1903. On behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture, a seminar building was built on the Oberwerth instead of the former Benedictine monastery from 1907–1908 according to plans by the government architects Fleck and Leithold.
The roof of the building was destroyed in a fire on March 26, 1911 . During the Weimar Republic , the attitude towards the concept of simple elementary school teacher training changed. Therefore, the teacher’s seminar on the Oberwerth was closed in 1925 and then used for another purpose. During the Nazi era , the college for teacher training was set up in the building in 1937 , which was converted into a teacher training institute in 1942 . The building was slightly damaged in the air raids on Koblenz during World War II and was restored after the war.
When the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded in Koblenz in 1946, the ministries for finance , economics and reconstruction were housed in the building of the former teachers' college. The French military government ordered the establishment of educational academies , which began work in the building when the state government moved to Mainz in 1950. After the transformation into a teacher training college in 1960, it merged with the Rhineland-Palatinate Educational Science University (EWH), founded in 1969 . In the 1970s, further buildings for the university were built behind the former teacher training college. As the range of courses increased continuously over the years, the University of Education was dissolved and the University of Koblenz-Landau was founded in 1990 . On January 18, 1997, during repair work, another fire broke out in the roof of the building.
The university moved to a new building in Metternich in 2002 . After that, the building was briefly used by the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and has been empty since then. The entire university area was sold by the state to be rebuilt with apartments as a "musicians' quarter". After the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , as the owner of the site, sold the land, BPD Immobilienentwicklung GmbH, which u. a. operates a regional office in Koblenz, redesigning or developing the site under the project name 3Klang. In this context, the building of the teachers' seminar will be given a new use (living).
construction
The complex of the former Royal Prussian teacher conference consists of an elongate three-storey main structure along the Rhine, a transversely mounted auditorium grands in the north, the two-storey residential building director in the south and the cultivation of a gym on the yard side together. Architecturally, the house stands out from the rest with its rich half-timbered gable . The other parts of the building are designed in the neo-renaissance style. The other gables are decorated with scrollwork , as is the Prussian state coat of arms on the south side.
The overall complex also includes three detached houses with hipped roofs , which were built in 1926 according to plans by the city master builder Karl Radeboldt for officials of the provincial school council. Here two semi-detached houses flank a medium-sized single house. The two-storey plastered buildings have standing bay windows on the street side with corrugated corner supports and a balcony on top.
Monument protection
The former Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Oberwerth in Rheinau 3/4 .
The former Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Herbert Dellwing (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.1: City of Koblenz. Southern suburb and Oberwerth. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-590-31033-2
- Reinhard Kallenbach : Koblenz's story retold . Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925180-03-3 .
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
- History of the University of Koblenz-Landau
- Koblenz's story retold - Part 51: The long struggle for better schools in: Rhein-Zeitung , July 22, 2012
- https://www.neubau-koblenz.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1911 Fire in the teachers' seminar on the Oberwerth ( memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: Koblenz fire brigade
- ^ Chronicle of the Ministry of Finance Rhineland-Palatinate
- ^ Fire in the university and church in: Rhein-Zeitung , January 21, 1997
- ↑ Musikerviertel auf dem Oberwerth is for sale in: Rhein-Zeitung , January 25, 2014
- ↑ Musikerviertel auf dem Oberwerth: Construction from spring? in: Rhein-Zeitung , October 17, 2014
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 27 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 37.7" E