Leopoldstrasse 5 (Detmold)
| City library | |
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 West side |
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| Data | |
| place | Detmold, Leopoldstrasse 5 |
| builder | Ferdinand Wilhelm Brune |
| Construction year | 1832 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 55 '56 " N , 8 ° 52' 51.2" E |
The classicist house at Leopoldstrasse 5 is a listed building in Detmold in the Lippe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Originally the seat of the Leopoldinum , the city library is located here today.
history
When the Marienanger nunnery in Detmold was dissolved as a result of the Reformation, Count Simon VI from Lippe decided . 1602 the conversion of the monastery church and outbuildings in order to set up a secondary school: the Detmold provincial school and the Detmold grammar school.
In 1806, under Princess Pauline , the two Lippe grammar schools with their seat in Lemgo almost came together. The princess considered the maintenance of two high schools in a small country like Lippe to be unnecessary. But that did not happen because the city of Lemgo neither wanted to take on the financial obligations for the expansion of their school, nor did the Detmold citizens want to come to terms with the loss of their grammar school. But the former monastery proved increasingly unsuitable in the following years: the buildings were dilapidated, there was a lack of space, the rooms were too dark and there were problems with heating in winter. Government councilor Friedrich Simon Leopold Petri proposed again in February 1831 that it should be merged with the grammar school in Lemgo. The councilors and district president Eschenburg decided against it with a large majority. Therefore it was now planned to demolish the building with subsequent reconstruction at the same location.
Prince Leopold II , however, made a plot of land available on "Neue Straße" that allowed for much more generous planning. The planning was entrusted to the Lippe master builder Ferdinand Wilhelm Brune. His first draft was rejected in January 1832, and so the task was transferred to the builder Kühnert, who had previously completed the new town hall . But even his plans did not turn out to the satisfaction of the commission, which is why Brune had them revise them. According to the design, the building was finally built for around 18,000 thalers and inaugurated on October 2, 1833. In addition, a smaller teacher's house for 4000 Taler was built north of it (demolished in 1983 for the expansion of the district government).
Materials from the former school were partially used for the new building, including bricks and well-preserved sand and rubble stones.
After Carl Weerth founded the Natural Science Association for the Principality of Lippe in 1835 , its collection of natural history objects was temporarily housed in the premises of the grammar school until a small museum building was finally built in the backyard in 1861.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the growing number of schoolchildren again caused a lack of space, so that the new building on Hornschen Strasse began, which was ready for occupancy in 1907. The building on Leopoldstrasse subsequently served different purposes, was the seat of the police in the 1960s, was renovated in 1983 after being entered in the list of monuments and has since been home to the Detmold city library .
architecture
The building is a basement, two-story, neoclassical stucco building with stone outline . On both long sides there is a central risalit with a double flight of stairs. The roof beams are decorated with consoles . A square roof turret with a bell rises centered on the hipped roof , an element that was already in a similar shape on the previous building.
literature
- Natural science and historical association for the state of Lippe (Hrsg.): History of the city of Detmold (= special publications of the natural science and historical association for the state of Lippe . Volume 10 ). Maximilian-Verlag, Detmold 1953, p. 229-240 .
- Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum - Gymnasium zu Detmold 1602–2002 (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 64 ). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 197-210 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilhelm Hansen : The cultural history collections of the Lippisches Landesmuseum - their origins and their beginnings (= Lippe messages from history and regional studies . Volume 54 ). 1985, ISSN 0342-0876 , p. 15 .
- ↑ Otto Gaul : Stadt Detmold (= architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 48 / I ). Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1968, p. 376 .