College building I (Schwerin)
The Collegiate Building I (also: Government Building I or State Chancellery ) is a representative, listed building in Schwerin's old town . The building is located at Schloßstraße (Schwerin) 2/4 and is adjacent to the Old Garden . Today it is the seat of the State Chancellery of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
architecture
Collegiate building I is a classicistic , three-winged complex with a terraced courtyard and terrace on a surrounding plinth. This was built according to plans by Carl Heinrich Wünsch and site management by Georg Adolf Demmler in the years 1825–34. The facade structure of the three-storey plastered building is based on the Schinkel style of the Berlin theater . In the middle of the portal with standing on the north side of Altan and located thereabove portico in colossal order out. The two outer wings have triangular gables above the rustic storey . The pillared hall and outer wing are crowned with sandstone figures by Emil Cauer . These represent Zeus on the Schloßstraße (Schwerin) side between Athene and Demeter and on the back Graf-Schack-Allee Poseidon and Hermes . An Artemis statue was destroyed in the fire in 1865. The vestibule with its multi-run cast-iron staircase and parts of the interior design, such as the inlaid parquet , the capped ceiling with stucco work and the stuccoed marble walls of the cabinet room on the first floor and stucco marble in the collegiate room on the second floor date from the time after a fire . In the latter there is a gallery of Friedrich Jentzen's offices in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
The college building II was built as an extension in 1890-92, based on the model of the first building.
history
A Franciscan monastery stood on the site of today's government building from around 1236 , which was dissolved during the Reformation in 1548 and, like the church in 1557, largely demolished in the 16th century. Parts of the building that have been preserved were henceforth used by the Princely School and in the 17th / 18th centuries. Century used as a farm building of the ducal stables .
The construction of a government building was planned since 1819. Johann Georg Barca's plans were discarded and the planning was transferred to Carl Theodor Severin , whose proposals were revised by Carl Heinrich Wünsch from 1823 onwards. After the Grand Duke had approved the construction in 1825, Wünsch commissioned Georg Adolf Demmler to manage the construction. The foundation stone for the building was laid on September 29, 1825, three years later the topping-out ceremony took place and in December 1834 the building was occupied. Construction materials from the former monastery were probably used in the construction. A technical innovation found its way into the building with warm air heating. The college building was destroyed in a fire in 1865 and subsequently rebuilt by 1867.
The college building II was built until 1892. From 1912 to 1928 several renovation and repair work was carried out. In 1916 the copper roof was sacrificed for war purposes. Historical details were destroyed during construction work in 1975. The interior of the building was renovated from 1990 to 2001. The outdoor facilities were renovated from 2002 to 2007.
The building has been used for government and administrative purposes since its construction. Until 1918 it was the seat of the Grand Ducal State Ministry, until 1933 of the bourgeois cabinet and from 1933 to 1945 of the Reich Governor of the NSDAP for the Gau Mecklenburg. After the Second World War, it was used by the state government of Mecklenburg and, since 1952, by the SED district management in Schwerin. During the fall of the Berlin Wall, the regional administrative authority for the Schwerin district came here and in October 1990 it became the seat of the State Chancellery.
literature
The State Chancellery: Numbers, facts, stories , The Prime Minister of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Ed.), Schwerin 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de, p. 381 (PDF; 956 kB)
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6
- ^ Building description on the government portal of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Memento from February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sabine Bock : Schwerin. The old town. Urban planning and house inventory in the 20th century , Helms-Verlag, Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-931185-08-7 , p. 338f.
Web links
- Building description on the government portal of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Memento from February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 34.9 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 55" E