State Parliament building North Rhine-Westphalia

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Circular shapes determine the NRW state parliament building (2008)

The state parliament building of North Rhine-Westphalia (also called: House of the state parliament ) is located near today's media port on Stromstrasse in the government district of the state capital Düsseldorf . The building is the seat of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Until the move to the new state parliament on Stromstrasse in 1988, the state house served as the seat of the state parliament from March 1949. The conditions there were cramped from the start, so there were plans to build on the Ständehaus. However, these plans were abandoned in view of the historic value of the old building and the park surrounding it ( Kaiserteich , Schwanenspiegel ). The Düsseldorf architect and urban planner Edmund Spohr suggested building a new state parliament building at the so-called Rhine knee . In 1979 the state parliament launched a nationwide competition . The jury of the competition, which met under the direction of Günter Behnisch , awarded the first prize to the design by the architects Eller , Moser , Walter + Partner. In the 1980s, this office had already gained experience in the conception of meeting places as a complex of round buildings - with the so-called "cookie jars" of today's University of Duisburg-Essen on the campus in Duisburg-Neudorf , which became trademarks there. On April 30, 1981, the main committee of the state parliament decided on the basis of the architectural competition to build the new building.

Location of the Düsseldorf state parliament building in the new government district

The new building lasted from 1981 to 1988. On October 2nd, 1988 the inauguration took place. After Bremen and Stuttgart, the building was the third state parliament building to be rebuilt in the post-war period. The construction costs amounted to 280 million marks . The new building of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia formed the impetus for a fundamental redesign of its surroundings through the projects Rheinufertunnel , Rheinuferpromenade and Rheinpark Bilk . In May 2010 an extension with 84 new offices was completed. The 725 square meter plenary hall was barrier-free and air-conditioned from summer 2012. Today the outlines of a government district are emerging, the center of which is the state parliament.

architecture

Chamber dome
Seating arrangement in the plenary hall
Area of ​​the parliamentary presidium with the plastic coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia
Octocopter flight in the plenary hall. You can see the seating arrangements for the 16th electoral term.
Visitor area in the foyer
Small boardroom

The state parliament building was built according to a design by the architects Fritz Eller , Erich Moser , Robert Walter + Partner in the style of structuralism in an "entire circular structure". According to the architects, the “game with circles” on which the design is based is intended to express that in parliament “the wheels mesh like a clock”. When viewed from above, the special effect of the circular shapes becomes apparent. Circles and segments of a circle shape the architecture of the building complex: In the middle is the circular plenary hall. The meeting rooms, which are also circular, are grouped around the plenary hall “like satellites”. In “wider circles” there are visitor lifts, ramps for parliamentarians and committee rooms in between. As a three-quarter circle, the main entrance of the state parliament opens up to a forecourt. This area, which flows smoothly into the Rhine embankment promenade , is designed with the sculpture “ Tzaphon ” by the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan , which corresponds to the structuralist architecture of the parliament building in the form of a large, round cast iron disk. The building complex is completed by wings with parliamentary offices in the form of circular segments.

The contrast between large, transparent glass and copper facades as well as massive pillar and wall structures clad with sandstone slabs characterize the external appearance. The plenary hall is covered by a concentric folding roof with ribbon windows. It is supported by copper-clad monumental steel trusses that converge over the middle of the plenary chamber. The open, modern architecture with a reduced design language and choice of materials emphasizes functionality and proximity to the citizens. The building offers information areas and in the plenary hall a grandstand for more than 336 spectators. Almost all the rooms required for the state parliament, the members of parliament and the state parliament administration are - unlike before in the state house - housed in a single building complex. The plenary hall, which is bright as day and dominated by light-colored wood, was originally designed for 214 members. The interior design of the plenary hall with its circular arrangement of the seats was modeled on the plenary hall in Bonn and the Reichstag in Berlin , together with that of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . The sculpture Landeswappen Nordrhein-Westfalen , an abstract-structuralistic representation of a serially repeating coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia made of colored round metal pins, created by Ferdinand Kriwet in 1988 , designed as an artistic decoration element the back wall of the parliamentary presidium.

The state parliament has a non-public underground car park with 787 parking spaces on two levels and an also non-public restaurant with 380 seats indoors and outdoors.

The Landtag offers a virtual tour of the building on its homepage.

Main entrance and forecourt of the state parliament on the Rhine promenade , in the foreground the sculpture “ Tzaphon ” by the sculptor Dani Karavan

Web links

Commons : State Parliament Building North Rhine-Westphalia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Round buildings of the University of Duisburg - biscuit jars for research and teaching . Article from February 9, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on August 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Haus des Landtag , website in the landtag.nrw.de portal , accessed on August 27, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d e Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 80, object no. 109
  4. ^ The delegates in the glass house: The new building of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia . Article from September 5, 1988 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on August 27, 2016
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotos-von-duesseldorf.de
  6. ↑ Landtag NRW (Ed.): House of the Landtag
  7. ^ Manfred Sack: Architecture: The new state parliament building of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. The house of the sovereign. A difficult big task - happily solved. In: Die Zeit, September 16, 1988 No. 38.
  8. ↑ Der Spiegel: The Members of the Glass House. The new building of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia. 6/36. 5th September 1988.
  9. ↑ Three slices up, up, up! Fritz Eller turns seventy . BauNetz Media GmbH. February 28, 1997. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
  10. ↑ Virtual tour

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 8 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 49 ″  E