State House of Münster
The state house in Münster on Freiherr-vom-Stein-Platz is the headquarters of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the venue for the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Assembly . The building, which is protected as a historical monument and characterizes the cityscape, originates in its current form essentially from the 1950s, but includes parts of a previous building.
History and architecture
Between 1896 and 1901, the previous building was built on the same site in the neo-renaissance style for the Westphalian Provincial Association . The construction took place on a trapezoidal plot.
During the air raids on Münster in World War II , the building was massively damaged and large parts of it were destroyed. Immediately after the war, the temporary restoration of a few less damaged premises began.
The decision to build a largely new building had something to do with the unclear situation of the provincial association after the dissolution of Prussia and its provinces in 1946. This uncertainty was only ended with the 1953 landscape association regulations. In this respect, the building was in the meantime also an attempt by the ongoing administration and the governor Bernhard Salzmann to create facts. The link to the past was also emphasized by the architectural focus on the basic elements of the previous building.
The plans for the reconstruction came from the architect Werner March . He had previously built the Olympic Stadium in Berlin . Work began in 1950 and was largely completed in 1954.
Some less destroyed parts of the building were included in the new planning. Although the architect was partially based on the previous building, there were considerable differences in terms of both the external design and the room layout. The rather conservative formal language was based on ideas of homeland security architecture, such as that represented by Gustav Wolf . Historical building types were abstracted and simplified. The petrol station in the garage yard is based on the Hannover- type petrol stations developed by March for the Reichsautobahnen with certain borrowings from the New Objectivity .
The building was made of light local sandstone . The high rectangular windows, the hipped roofs and the clock tower with its carillon that plays four times a day on Fürstenbergstrasse are striking . Inside, the arcade-lined atrium with a glass roof is remarkable. The parts of the building complex are grouped around a park-like inner courtyard. The plenary hall of the landscape assembly is adjacent to this. This and the community hall in front of it was completely renovated and modernized a few years ago.
Since 2010, parts of the complex have been entered in the monuments list of the city of Münster. These include the building wing at Fürstenbergstraße 15, the main building on Freiherr-vom-Stein-Platz with forecourt, the building wing at Karlstraße 3, the garage courtyard at Karlstraße 19-29, open spaces and a statue in the inner courtyard.
Web links
- "Insight" into the monument Landeshaus Westfalen-Lippe and its garage yard
- Flyer for the Open Monument Day 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 44.5 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 9 ″ E