Court administration building
The court administration building in Kassel was a representative official building in the style of the Empire on Friedrichsplatz .
history
The construction
It was built in the years 1826–1829 under Elector Wilhelm II on the north side of Friedrichsplatz between the Museum Fridericianum from 1769–1776 and the Elisabethkirche , built in 1770–1777 , as a counterpart to the Roten built in 1821–1826 in the vacant lot between the White Palace and the Fridericianum Palais , built and thus completed the magnificent north side of the square. It was separated from the Fridericianum by a narrow street, the Steinweg.
The architect was Johann Conrad Bromeis , who had been court architect of the elector since 1821. The construction was partly financed from the sale of the old farm administration building on Steinweg. It was three stories under a flat roof with sloping side roof surfaces on all sides, on which dormers let light into the attic. The facade on Friedrichsplatz was 13- axis , with three-axis central projections under a triangular gable; the side fronts were ten-axis.
In order to balance the color of the entire north side of Friedrichsplatz, the Sankt-Elisabeth-Kirche at the eastern end was given the same white-greenish-gray paintwork as the White Palace in the west, while the new court administration building, as a counterpart to the Red Palace, was painted red with yellow architectural elements ; For cost reasons, red sandstone blocks like those at the Red Palace were dispensed with and a red-painted plastered building with yellow-contrasting architectural parts was built. The Fridericianum in the middle was light gray.
use
A number of court authorities that had previously sat on Steinweg moved to the vicinity of the new residence palace : the court marshal's office , the court treasury , the furniture and canvas chamber, the court chamber and the order commission. In addition, several company apartments were set up.
After Kurhessen after the German war in 1866 by Prussia annexed had been, the building was from 1868 as a military school (military and cadet school) for the training of cadets used. A prominent graduate of the school was the Siamese Prince Paribatra Sukhumbhand , a son of King Chulalongkorn, who was there for six months for training from April 1900.
After 1919 the building was the seat of various administrative institutions and from 1935, when the armed forces began to arm themselves, until 1938 the General Command of Wehrkreis IX was located there . After the General Command had moved to its headquarters on Graf-Bernadotte-Platz, which had been newly built between 1937 and 1938, work began on converting it to become the Senior Presidium of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . However, this undertaking remained unfinished because of the war .
Destruction and demolition
During the heavy air raid on Kassel on October 22, 1943 , the building burned out and part of the facade was destroyed, but the outer and inner walls were largely preserved. Possible reconstruction was practically not considered, and like many other monuments in the city that had been damaged by war but not destroyed, this building was also a victim of reconstruction. It was blown up in 1954. Today Frankfurter Straße, which was turned over after the war, runs over the site of the former court administration building.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 47.5 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 54.2" E