Regional and district court Mönchengladbach
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The building ensemble of the regional and district court Mönchengladbach is located in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Hohenzollernstrasse 157, Rheinbahnstrasse 18 and Scharnhorststrasse 1.
The building at Hohenzollernstrasse 157 was built between 1902 and 1912. It was entered together with the other two buildings under No. H 022 on February 6, 1985 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach . The buildings Scharnhorststrasse 1 and Rheinbahnstrasse 18 are also entered in the list of monuments under the number Sch 005.
architecture
The main facade of the courthouse on Hohenzollernstrasse is 124 meters long. The corner risks are formed by wing structures that border the property. The central building encloses a courtyard that provides light to the main staircase and the surrounding corridor. The rear of the facility consists of the prison with the attached office manager's house, which was designed accordingly with regard to its later location on a residential street.
The building complex is plastered and structured using sandstone . Erected in neo-baroque forms, the main building looks like a palace. It is three-storey with a basement , a high mansard roof , a strongly accentuated central projection with a protruding portico and corner projections. The facade is structured by horizontal plaster strips in the base zone, simply highlighted window frames, colossal pilaster strips and pilasters , tail gables of the risalits and neo-baroque window crowns on the upper floor of the central section.
The main room of the building - the jury courtroom - is emphasized by high neo-baroque crowned windows and the curved gable with a relief field and the representation of two larger than life female figures with the attributes of tablets of the law, sword and helmet or book, staff and oath gesture.
The four to five-storey prison wing was built for 100 prisoners , in accordance with the ministerial regulations for new prison buildings at the time. The facades facing Rheinbahnstraße with corner and central projections are richly structured.
The attached two-storey residential building with office leader plaster façade and hipped roof has inside despite some changes on the ground floor nor original ceramics - tiles , over the wooden staircase as well as the original door frames and door panels.
The regional and district court Mönchengladbach forms a structural and historical unit with the judicial prison and the associated office manager's house. The maintenance of the building complex is in the public interest for artistic, scientific, in particular architectural, local and social history as well as urban planning reasons.
See also
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
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- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 11.2 " N , 6 ° 26 ′ 25.7" E