College building (Darmstadt)
The college building is an office building in Darmstadt and a Hessian cultural monument .
Architecture and history
After the castle fire in 1715, government and administration were inadequately housed in the old chancellery at the White Tower .
The college building was built in the years 1777–1780 on Luisenplatz as the seat of the ministries according to plans by Hanau's chief building director Franz Ludwig von Cancrin .
According to Franz Ludwig von Cancrin's ideas, the building should be supplemented by two side wings adjoining the main building, which ended in pavilions facing Mathildenplatz . However, this extension proposal was not implemented.
In the years 1825/26, the new office building was instead built on the south side of Mathildenplatz. The new office building was built according to plans by Georg Moller .
The college building was connected to the new chancellery by the west wing built in 1845; in 1889 the east wing was built.
In an air raid in 1944 , the college building and the extensions were badly damaged.
Between 1949 and 1955, the building was rebuilt true to the original by the State Building Office, both externally and largely also internally. Only on the upper floor of the office were there major changes with the addition of a conference room.
The college building today
Since 1953, large parts of the regional council have been located in this oldest administrative building in Darmstadt.
Exhibitions and concerts are also held in the ensemble of buildings.
Others
In the entrance hall of the college building, a plaque from 1953 commemorates the resistance fighters Wilhelm Leuschner , Carlo Mierendorff and Ludwig Schwamb , who were executed by the National Socialists .
literature
- Cultural monuments in Hessen. City of Darmstadt. ed. by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse in cooperation with the City of Darmstadt's Magistrate, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 139
- Marie Frölich, Hans-Günther Sperlich: Georg Moller, Master Builder of Romanticism , E. Roether, 1959, pp. 175-180
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 511
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '24.4 " N , 8 ° 39' 3.5" E