District Hall (Saarbrücken)
The Kreisstandsehaus on Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken 's Alt-Saarbrücken district is the seat of the Museum of Pre- and Early History and the Old Collection of the Saarland Museum . It is a listed monument as an individual monument.
history
After medieval houses were demolished, a building was built at the north-western end of Schlossplatz around 1765 as a coach house , lingerie and dressing room . In 1851 the building was given two classical wings. In Prussian times, the peace tribunal met in the house until 1835 . The building was then the seat of the Royal Regional Court for the districts of Saarbrücken , Ottweiler and St. Wendel until it moved to today's Saaruferstraße in 1886. The building was demolished in 1910 at the instigation of District Administrator Walter von Miquel (1869–1945) and a neo-baroque building was built on the vaulted cellar in 1910/1911 according to plans by the Berlin architects Alfred Salinger and Eugen Schmohl . It served as an administration building for the Saarbrücken district and as the district administrator's residence. A baroque railing from Palais Bode (Altneugasse 25) was reused in the stairwell .
During the time of the League of Nations administration in the Saar area after the First World War , the building served as the seat of the President of the Government Commission.
On March 1, 1935, the celebratory reintegration of the Saarland into the German Reich was celebrated in the district hall. During the Nazi era, the building housed the cultural authority, then the district administration and finally, as a party culture house, also a cinema in the district hall.
After the Second World War , the building was used as an emergency church by the Protestant parish of Alt-Saarbrücken for a number of years from 1946, as the neighboring castle church was badly damaged. After that, the district building was used again as a district office and later as part of the administrative headquarters of the Saarbrücken city association. The building then became the seat of the Saarland State Monuments Office .
In 1993 the building was used as a museum for prehistory and early history. It also temporarily took on the State Conservator's Office. In the 2000s, as part of the restructuring of the museum landscape in Saarbrücken, it was decided to use the building entirely as a museum. In 2005, Saarland acquired the building from the then Saarbrücken City Association (now Saarbrücken Regional Association ) for 2 million euros. In 2006 the house became the seat of the old collection of the Saarland Museum. In 2008 the State Monuments Office moved out of the building. After that, the former district building was converted in 2009 for the Museum of Prehistory and Early History. With the glass connecting structure, there has also been a direct connection to the museum in the Saarbrücken Castle Church since then.
architecture
The building, which is adapted to the baroque ensemble of the Schlossplatz, with originally a high hipped roof and turret, is structured strictly symmetrically. Two protruding corner projections with wide corner pilasters and three window axes each structure the building and imitate the castle-like character of the previous building. The prestigious character of the building was originally emphasized by a front garden with a balustrade border, two gates made of elaborately worked grilles and sculptural decorations. The original roof turret, which was crowned by the Prussian eagle, was reworked in the interwar period into a monopteros-like lantern tower, which carried the flag of the Saar area.
The 10 window axes are designed differently on each floor. While smaller angular lattice windows were used on the ground floor, high arched windows were used on the first floor. On the eastern risalit, a small balcony with a wrought-iron railing was placed in front of the middle window. The first and second floors are separated in the facade by a sweeping cornice . In each of the risalits there is a central window, and to the left and right of it there is a rectangular frieze. The six dormers are divided into one each in the risalits and four in the central part. The central entrance is highlighted with a barely protruding central projection.
The back of the building is divided into three parts. The eastern part protrudes as a corner project, the western part is set back a little. A semicircular standing bay dominates the middle part . A modern glass connecting structure leads from the western part of the building to the castle church . The original neo-baroque interior decor was lost in connection with the different uses and multiple renovations. The room structure was also changed. The former district hall originally extended over two floors and was decorated with portraits of Prussian kings and emperors, a picture of Saarbrücken's mayor Heinrich Böcking and a magnificent ceiling painting. Only the wrought iron railing from Palais Bode and the pillars of the vestibule have been preserved from the original furnishings .
literature
- Fritz Kloevekorn : Saarbrücken's past in the picture . (= The Saar's past in the picture, Volume 1), print and publisher Gebr. Hofer, Saarbrücken 1934, p. 229, illustration p. 228.
- Thomas Wagner: The district building . Saarbrücken City Association, 1995.
- Josef Baulig, Hans Mildenberger, Gabriele Scherer: Saarbrücken architecture guide . Historical Association for the Saar Region, Saarbrücken 1998, p. 26.
- Christof Trepesch (Ed.): Saarbrücken . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt, 2000, p. 16.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Monument List Saarland, Sub-Monument List State Capital Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF, p. 24) (Schloßplatz 16).
- ↑ Press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Saarbrücken City Association
- ^ Karl August Schleiden: Illustrated history of the city of Saarbrücken. Dillingen an der Saar 2009, pp. 407–409.
- ↑ Information boards of the Saarland Museum on the history of the building and its architecture in the Kreisstandsehaus, exhibition conception 2009.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 28.9 ″ E