District Office Hanau

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Entrance side with portal
Back of the building on Eugen-Kaiser-Strasse

The former district office of Hanau in Hanau , Eugen-Kaiser- Strasse 9, was built in 1902–1903 as an administrative building for the district of Hanau in the historicist style and today serves as part of a medical-therapeutic facility.

history

building

The administration of the Hanau district was originally housed in a building on Paradeplatz in Hanau, which at the end of the 19th century had become too small for this purpose. On May 17, 1900 , the district council decided to purchase a building plot and to provide the construction cost of 350,000 marks , which was subsequently increased by another 50,000 marks. Hugo Rudolf von Stumm made the money available as a loan.

The then organized architectural competition was won by architect Friedrich Pützer . Construction began in 1902 and the new building was inaugurated on September 28, 1903. During the planning and construction period , district administrators were Bernhard von Schenck (1851–1934, district administrator in Hanau 1895–1902) and Rudolf von Beckerath (1863–1945, district administrator in Hanau 1902–1909). A building in neo-Gothic forms was built on a T-shaped floor plan . Window walls , portals, corner blocks and part of the ground floor façades were made of red sandstone , otherwise the building is plastered in white. The hipped roof is slated .

During the air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945 , shortly before the end of World War II , the district office was also badly damaged and burned down completely. The administration of the district was temporarily housed one after the other in the Langenselbold town hall, in the Kurhaus Wilhelmsbad and then in former Wehrmacht barracks on the grounds of the district office. The building could only be used again by the administration in 1949 - rebuilt in a somewhat simplified and modified form. The construction was thereby to a projectile increased and thereby changes the roof shape relative to the original state.

For historical, artistic and urban planning reasons, the building is now a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . To the right of the entrance portal is a memorial stone for District Administrator Eugen Kaiser , who died in 1945 under the Nazi regime.

use

From 1903 to 1974 the building was initially the main administrative building of the Hanau district. As part of the district reform in Hesse , the Main-Kinzig district was formed on July 1, 1974 from the three districts of Hanau, Schlüchtern and Gelnhausen and the independent city of Hanau . Its central administration was housed in the building of the former district office in Hanau, the former district offices in Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern remained as branch offices. In 2005, the entire district administration of the Main-Kinzig district was centered in Gelnhausen and the Hanau site was given up. Today the building is used in different ways, including a medical and therapeutic health center and the Paula Fürst School , a school for sick people for patients from the neighboring Vitos child and adolescent psychiatry.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Hanna, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Crooked
  4. ↑ Hanna, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Crooked
  6. ↑ Crooked
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 367 .
  8. ↑ Homepage of the medical-therapeutic health center Vitaltreff
  9. ^ Paula-Fürst-Schule, school for sick people sponsored by the State Welfare Association of Hesse

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 19.8 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 52.4 ″  E