Laypersons (Ditzingen)

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The layman is a place in the center of the city of Ditzingen . The complex is the location of the New Town Hall and a number of listed half-timbered buildings and forms the core area of ​​the city center redesigned from 1989 to 1993.

Surname

The originally probably Germanic term Lay , Lee referred to a court in the Middle Ages . In 1363 and 1367 there is evidence of a court on the Leo . Even if the name is historical and has been used as a location name since the Middle Ages, it was only taken up again as the street name Am Laien in the course of the square-like redesign in 1989.

Location and historical development

The layman arose away from the castle located directly on the Glems on the periphery of the rural settlement core at the intersection of the roads to and from Leonberg , Gerlingen and Münchingen . The old town hall from 1738 on the north side of today's square (today the city museum) marks the administrative center of the former village, while the church in Konstanz , situated opposite it on Gerlinger Straße, is the spiritual center. In 1759 a new schoolhouse was built next to the town hall (Am Laien 4, today used by the city administration). Representative farmhouses followed along Leonberger and Gerlinger Strasse, including the houses at Am Laien 3 (so-called Dreigiebelhaus , 1715/63) and the former Knappsche Hof, which had to give way to the construction of the New Town Hall at the end of the 1980s.

As early as November 1976, the local council had decided to initiate the development plan procedure for a new town hall, which became legally binding in October 1977. In 1978 the Stuttgart architect Friedbert Breuninger and his colleagues Maximilian Otto and Ursula Hüfftlein emerged victorious from a competition. However, in December 1981 the new town hall was initially removed from the medium-term financial and investment planning. The municipal council decided to stop all planning. In April 1982 the administrative and finance committee of the municipal council commissioned the city administration to develop a feasible planning concept with alternatives for the whole area of ​​"lay people". The concept, designed by Head of Construction Sieglinde Stickler, was presented in October 1982. The earthworks began in June 1986, and the foundation stone was laid on November 14, 1986. In September 1989, the New Town Hall with the Citizens' Hall was inaugurated as part of a week of festivities.

In 1992/93 the three-gabled house was converted into the city library and a new building was added in the area of ​​the former farm buildings (opening on December 11, 1993). Part of the historic old building was taken up by the municipal gallery on the Laien.

gallery

  • Ditzingen, 1831. 1: Laymen; 2: town hall; 3: Constance Church; 4: school building; 5: courtyard; 6: courtyard ("three-gable house"); 7: Town hall fountain

  • Old Town Hall

  • Old school house

  • Three-gabled house

  • Constance church, access by laypeople

  • new town hall

literature

  • Herbert Hoffmann: Historical city tour . Ditzingen 1994
  • City of Ditzingen: Our town hall. Festschrift for the inauguration in 1989 . Ditzingen 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Hoffmann: Time leaps Ditzingen (= Ditzinger Schriften 3), Erfurt 2012.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Epple: Field names of the Ditzingen mark . In: Heimatbuch Ditzingen . Published by the municipality of Ditzingen for the urban survey in 1966. Ditzingen 1966, p. 177.
  3. ↑ Winner of the "New Town Hall Ditzingen" competition . In: Ditzinger Anzeiger, November 24, 1978.
  4. ↑ With the opening of the city library, the new city center of Ditzingen was completed . In: Ditzinger Anzeiger, December 16, 1993.

Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 34.6 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 1"  E