State House (Wiesbaden)

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The architecture of the State House from 1907 is based on the baroque palace. The building is the dominant motif on the lower Ringstrasse in Wiesbaden.
The portico of the state house: four colossal columns with Corinthian capitals support the mighty gable triangle
The open structure of the extension of Bangert / Jansen / Scholz / Schultes (1990/1991) allows a view of the historic main building
The back of the state house with the semicircular and cubic extension from 1990/1991. Together with the Luther Church , Gutenberg School and Dreifaltigkeitskirche , it forms an ensemble of buildings (from top to bottom).

The State House in Wiesbaden is a neo-baroque building built by Friedrich Werz and Paul Huber from 1903 to 1907 , which has housed the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and State Development (HMWEVL) since 1953 . It is located on Wiesbadener Ringstrasse , not far from the main train station and in the immediate vicinity of the Luther Church . The state house was sold to the Austrian company CA Immo in 2007 - exactly 100 years after its completion - as part of a sale of several properties of state-owned real estate , which in 2014 sold it to Patrizia AG . The state of Hesse has been a tenant since then.

architecture

The building was built as the administrative headquarters for the Hessen-Nassau Provincial Association . The architects emerged as winners from a competition with 51 participants; Friedrich von Thiersch , among others, sat on the jury . They created a representative building in the neo-baroque style. A mighty central projection with colossal columns that extend over three floors lies with its portico in the obtuse angle of the side wings. With its elaborate facade made of red Main sandstone , the wide gable triangle, whose allegorical group of figures represents the "Land of Nassau", and the high mansard dome , the building forms an urban focal point on the rising terrain and at the same time the entrance to the historicist ensemble of the Wiesbadener Ringstrasse.

Interior

The main staircase, the oval foyer and the conference room are located in the central axis of the building. Its valuable interior consists of mosaic floors , columns made of marble and granite , and oak paneling with relief motifs . The windows on both sides show 50 coats of arms of Nassau cities in stained glass . There is a mural by the Wiesbaden painter Otto Ritschl above the speaker's platform .

Extensions

In 1929 the building was extended to the west in the direction of Gutenbergplatz. The angular wing looks just as reserved in relation to the historical part of the building as the south-eastern extension from 1990/1991 (Architects: Bangert / Jansen / Scholz / Schultes , Berlin). The cube-shaped extension was connected to the existing building by a cylindrical staircase, as it were a hinge. The supplementary building at the rear, which was built at the same time and lies axially behind the portico, encloses the conference room in a semicircle. The ventilation of the underground car park deliberately cites the spire of the neighboring Luther Church . The material and the proportions of the extension are based on the existing structure.

Historical events

The desk perpetrators of euthanasia had been sitting in the Landeshaus since the summer of 1934 . The "Office for Heritage and Race Care" organized the murders of mentally ill people or of people who were classified as "inferior" in the Nazi language. As a result, over 10,000 people were murdered in Hadamar near Limburg. According to conservative estimates, 360,000 people in the entire German Reich were forcibly sterilized by 1945 , many of them with direct death.

See also

literature

  • Gottfried Kiesow: The misunderstood century - Historicism using the example of Wiesbaden , German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-936942-53-6
  • The architecture of the XX. Century. Magazine for modern architecture. 8th year 1908, no. 4, p. 41ff.
  • The secular building. 4th year 1908, p. 93ff.

swell

  1. ↑ http://www.wiesbaden.de/tourismus/sehenswerte/bauwerke-gebaeude/Landeshaus.php
  2. ^ Sattler, Siegbert (1993): The old and the new state house in Wiesbaden, in: Nassauische Annalen (NassA) 104, p. 257.
  3. ^ Karl Baedeker : Baedeker Wiesbaden Rheingau , Ostfildern-Kemnat 2001, ISBN 3-87954-076-4 , p. 44
  4. ^ Austrians buy Hessian Ministry of Economics , accessed on August 15, 2012
  5. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Wiesbaden - Through the City of Historicism , German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-936942-71-4 , p. 192 f
  6. ^ Lothar Bembenek and Axel Ulrich: Resistance and persecution in Wiesbaden 1933-1945, a documentation , Anabas Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-87038-155-8
  7. ↑ Searching for traces of the Nazi past in Wiesbaden ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Murder Center of Nazi Euthanasia ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 16.4 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 19.2 ″  E