List of cultural monuments in Pirmasens core town

In the list of cultural monuments in Pirmasens all cultural monuments in the Rhineland-Palatinate city ​​of Pirmasens are listed. The basis is the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (as of May 4, 2020).

Monument zones

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Monument zone of the old cemetery with a Jewish cemetery	Buchsweilerstraße and Friedhofstraße location	19th century	numerous grave monuments from the 19th century in the cemetery, which was closed in 1927; former consecration hall s. Buchsweiler Strasse 15; on the eastern edge of the cemetery war memorial 1870/71, war memorial 1914/18, sarcophagus, marked 1924, grave field of the Second World War, modern memorial for the three wars of 1870/71, 1914/18 and 1939/45; on the northern edge (Ottostraße) Jewish section : received 17 tombstones from the first third of the 20th century and a memorial stone	more pictures
Monument zone Bahnhofsviertel	Bahnhofstrasse 39, 40, 41, 43 and 45, Poststrasse 2, Schützenstrasse 7–13 (odd numbers), 16 and 18, Teichstrasse 6, 8, 9, 11 and 13 location	1880s	From the 1880s onwards as a result of the construction of the train station, residential and commercial buildings and a post office (Poststrasse 2) were built, facades with above-average lavish design, mostly in the neo-renaissance style	more pictures
Jewish cemetery monument zone	Zeppelinstrasse and Gefällerweg Lage	1813	Laid out in 1813, closed in 1876, 95 gravestones from the 19th century in heavily sloping terrain	more pictures
Landauer Strasse monument zone	Landauer Straße 46–56 (even numbers) location	first decade of the 20th century	Row of seven larger, two- to three-storey residential buildings, behind small front gardens, some of which were originally fenced in, varied historicist plastered facades, first decade of the 20th century	more pictures
Monument zone Strobelallee	Strobelallee 96/98, 100/102, 104/106 location	1924	Group of three symmetrically arranged double houses, partly reform architecture with expressionist details, plastered buildings with hipped roofs, probably from 1924, civil servants' houses	more pictures
Monument zone Turnstrasse	Turnstrasse 31–39 (odd numbers) location	around 1900	Group of five smaller semi-villas, apart from No. 31, each grouped into two; partly one and partly two-storey buildings with plastered or clinkered wall surfaces and sandstone structure in historicizing forms, around 1900; Small front gardens in front of all houses with original fencing (iron fences, sandstone gate pillars)	more pictures
Monument zone Zweibrücker Straße	Zweibrücker Straße 14-20 (even numbers) location	around 1890	Group of four three-storey residential buildings from around 1890 with partly particularly elaborate sandstone facades in the neo-Renaissance style	more pictures
Monument zone Waldfriedhof with Jewish cemetery	east of the city in the Dankelsbachtal location	1924	Opened in 1924; Jewish department in the southwest corner : opened in 1927, 56 tombstones from the 20th century	more pictures

Individual monuments

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Agricultural school	Adam-Müller-Strasse 69 location	1929/30	former agricultural school; symmetrical three- and four-story three-wing system, 1929/30	more pictures
Residential and commercial building	Alleestraße 5 location	1890	Seven-axis residential and commercial building, mixed forms of late classicism and neo-renaissance, marked 1890
Administration and school building	Alleestraße 20 location	1956	former state central bank, later secondary school and adult education center; four-storey cube, flat roof, 1956
school-building	Alleestraße 22 location	1906	former high school for girls, now junior high school; Three-wing system, street-side neo-late Gothic, 1906	more pictures
Methodist Zion Church	Alleestraße 23 location	1898	Saalbau 1898, simply restored in 1950; associated with the rear parish hall	more pictures
school-building	Alleestraße 24 location	after 1900	formerly supposed to be a bank building; stately new baroque sandstone building, probably shortly after 1900
Residential building	Alte Häfnersgasse 8 location		single-storey house, plastered and slated
Stretching bridge	At the stretching bridge Lage	1927/28	Concrete building with a wide central arch and a filigree elevated roadway, erected in 1927/28 by Wayss & Freytag AG based on a design by Emil Mörsch and Paul Bonatz
sculpture	Bahnhofstrasse location		Group of lions; strong three-dimensional relief of two Bavarian lions
Factory building	Bahnhofstrasse 11 location	1907-11	former L. Kopp shoe factory; irregular system of five predominantly three-storey wings, 1907–11	more pictures
District Office Pirmasens	Bahnhofstrasse 19 location	1882/83	former Royal Bavarian District Office Pirmasens, now Pirmasens-Land Association of Municipalities ; three-storey baroque mansard roof, built in 1882/83, extension in 1913/14, architect Ludwig von Stempel	more pictures
Labor court	Bahnhofstrasse 22 location	around 1880	Former residential building, today the seat of the Foreign Chambers of the Kaiserslautern Labor Court ; Villa-like late classicist building, around 1880	more pictures
Plaque	Bahnhofstrasse, next to No. 22 location		Iron memorial plaque for the victims of the storm on the separatist-occupied district office on February 12, 1924
Residential and commercial building	Bahnhofstrasse 39 location	1886	stately mansard roof building, neo-renaissance, marked 1886	more pictures
Residential building	Bahnhofstrasse 40 location		late historic house	more pictures
City Building Office	Bahnhofstrasse 41 location			more pictures
Villas	Bahnhofstrasse 43/45 location	1889	Entrepreneur's villas: stately clinker brick buildings, neo-renaissance, No. 45 marked 1889	more pictures
Signal box	Bahnhofstrasse, at No. 50 location	1930	Command signal box II at the main train station ; two-storey plastered building with wooden cladding and hipped roof, 1930; mechanical positioning technology	more pictures
Residential building	Bergstrasse 3 location	at the end of the 19th century	Elongated late classicist house, historicizing individual forms, end of the 19th century	more pictures
Saalbau restaurant	Bitscher Strasse 1 location	at the end of the 19th century	two-and-a-half-storey late classicist house and restaurant building with ballroom, end of the 19th century
Residential building	Blocksbergstrasse 18 location	19th century	Half-timbered house, partly solid, plastered, 19th or possibly 18th century
Residential building	Brunnengasse 11 location	in the middle of the 19th century	single-storey plastered building, probably around the middle of the 19th century, possibly older in the core
Carolinensaal	Buchsweilerstraße 15 location	1880	single-storey former sanctuary of the old cemetery, with portico, probably from 1880	more pictures
Villa Kaiser	Buchsweilerstraße 38 location	around 1920	cubic tent roof construction, reform architecture, probably around 1920	more pictures
new town hall	Exerzierplatzstraße 17 location	1879	former parade ground school; three-storey, late classical plastered building, side elevation, marked 1879	more pictures
Residential building	Friedhofstrasse 44 location	around 1880/85	stately three-storey late classicist house, around 1880/85
Rheinberger	Fröhnstrasse 2 location	1905/06	former shoe factory; extensive complex around several courtyards, western half 1905/06; Administrative building (?) With two additional, stepped set-back storeys, influence of modernity and reform architecture with classifying elements	more pictures
Factory building	Gärtnerstrasse 29 location	1922 ff.	former Behrens shoe last factory; classifying, tower-like structure, attic floor, 1922 ff.
Wolff's villa	Gasstrasse 8/10 location	Early 20th century	Late historical plastered building designed as a stately semi-detached house, early 20th century	more pictures
Ecksteinsau	Hauptstrasse, corner of Schloßstrasse location	early 20th century	Staircase with baroque sandstone parapets, early 20th century	more pictures
Bismarck Monument	Hauptstraße, corner of Bahnhofstraße Lage	1912	Stone sculpture of Saint George slaying the dragon, 1912	more pictures
Old Town Hall	Hauptstrasse 26 location	around 1770	Stately mansard roof building, around 1770, foreman Rochus Pfeiffer , Tyrol, probably based on plans by the Saarbrücken building director Friedrich Joachim Stengel	more pictures
Sculptures	Main street, in front of No. 26 location	at the end of the 19th century	two lion sculptures, late 19th century	more pictures
Inscription panels	Main street, at No. 35 location	1739	Inscription tablets, sandstone, marked 1739 and 1740
Evangelical rectory	Hauptstrasse 58 location	around 1760	former garrison school; Hipped roof building, red sandstone, around 1760	more pictures
Evangelical Luther Church	Hauptstrasse 60 location	1757/58	Saalbau, 1757/58, foreman Schweighofer, Zweibrücken, restored in 1949	more pictures
Residential and commercial building	Hauptstrasse 95/97 location	at the end of the 19th century	stately three-storey building, neo-renaissance, end of the 19th century	more pictures
gable	Hauptstrasse, at No. 102 location	1780	Triangular gable of the former landgrave officer's mess; Emblem of Louis IX, inscribed 1780
Pillar attachments	Hauptstrasse, corner of Sandstrasse location		Essays on the two former southern city gate pillars
Pillar attachments	Hauptstrasse, corner of Schloßstrasse location		Essays on the two former northern city gate pillars	Image wanted
Horeb School	Herzogstrasse 41 location	1904/05	three-storey plastered building, mixed forms of neo-late Gothic and neo-stirring renaissance, 1904/05; Gym; Art Nouveau retaining wall, possibly a little younger	more pictures
Factory building	Hügelstrasse 7 location	around 1925	former Christian Ohr shoe factory; three- and four-storey two-wing complex, influence of modernity, probably around 1925	more pictures
Frescoes	Husterhöhstraße, in No. 25 position	1921	A cycle of frescoes by August Croissant in the gym of the Husterhöhschule, 1921	Image wanted
Grenadier house	Kaffeegasse 12 location	1758	small single-storey solid building, 1758 under Ludwig IX. of Hesse-Darmstadt built
villa	Kaiserstraße 8 location	around 1900	One-storey brick villa with rich neo-baroque sandstone ornamentation, around 1900
Residential building	Kaiserstraße 39 location	around 1900	Clinker brick building, neo-renaissance, around 1900
Factory building	Kaiserstraße 53 location	around 1900	Entrepreneur's villa of the former H. & A. Kraft shoe factory, stately historicizing mansard roof, around 1900
War memorial	Kanzelstrasse, in the cemetery location	1922	War Memorial World War I, 1922	more pictures
Evangelical Peace Church	Kirchstrasse 2 location	around 1950	four-axis hall building, in the entrance facade a large circular field with relief representations, probably around 1950	more pictures
Catholic parish church of St. Pirminius	Klosterstrasse 2 location	1897-1900	neo-Gothic brick basilica, 1897–1900, architect Wilhelm Schulte I , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, modern reconstruction by Wilhelm Schulte II.	more pictures
Residential building	Kreuzgasse 4 location	1904	Residential house, type of row villa, mixed forms of late Gothic / early Renaissance, marked 1904	more pictures
front door	Landauer Strasse, at No. 10 location	around 1890	Front door, around 1890
villa	Landauer Strasse 30 location	1897	Semi-villa; stately new baroque mansard roof building, sandstone, marked 1897	more pictures
Residential building	Landauer Strasse 32 location	1909	Corner house, plastered building with neo-baroque forums, 1909
Residential house with restaurant	Landauer Strasse 41 location	around 1890	stately three-storey, late classicist building, neo-renaissance, around 1890	more pictures
Residential building	Landauer Strasse 50a location	around 1910	three-storey late-historical mansard roof building, three-storey standing bay window, reform architecture influences, around 1910
villa	Landauer Strasse 63 location	Early 20th century	small late-historic villa, markedly asymmetrical, early 20th century	more pictures
signpost	Lemberger Strasse at the corner of Volksgartenstrasse Lage	1771	Obelisk, sandstone, 1771
Stadtbad	Lemberger Strasse 41 location	1926-1934	Building of early modernism, 1926–1934, senior building officer August Härter; Fresco cycle by Hermann Croissant , 1934	more pictures
Villa Sertel	Lemberger Strasse 45 location	around 1920/30	stately hipped roof building, classifying reform architecture, around 1920/30, stairwell glazing from the construction period	more pictures
villa	Lemberger Strasse 226 location	around 1905	small, high-plinth plastered villa with sandstone structure, around 1905
Ruhbank	Lemberger, corner Beck Hoferstraße location	1948	1948 based on the model of the bank that disappeared before 1811	more pictures
Wittelsbach School	Maler-Bürkel-Straße 24 location	1910	three-storey mansard roof building, short transverse wings, reform architecture, 1910	more pictures
Nagelschmiedsbergschule	Nagelschmiedsberg staircase 8 layers	after 1950	Elongated, three to four storey flat roof building, arbor-like vestibule with figural mosaic, after 1950	more pictures
Neuffer am Park	Neufferstrasse 57 location	at the end of the 19th century	former Emil Paqués shoe factory, later Emil Neuffer; Multi-wing complex of three-storey buildings around two courtyards, probably from the end of the 19th century, expansion around 1920/30, reform architecture, individual forms of Louis-Seize in the central plan	more pictures
retirement home	Pettenkoferstraße 10 location	around 1914	former hospital; three-storey three-wing building, reform architecture, around 1914	more pictures
Old post	Poststrasse 2 location	1893	former Royal Bavarian Post Office; representative neo-renaissance building, 1893, architect Ludwig von Stempel; 2013 after conversion use as Forum Alte Post	more pictures
House of Crafts	Ringstrasse 78 location	1935/36	five-storey building, expressionist echoes, figural wooden reliefs, marked 1935/36	more pictures
Water tower	Rodalber Strasse, corner of Am Wasserturm Lage	1899	Water tower, concrete, 1899 (or 1907?)	more pictures
Residential building	Sandstrasse 9 location	Early 20th century	Residential house, early 20th century	more pictures
Villa Rheinberger	Schachenstrasse 21 location	around 1900	until 1915 Villa Fahr; stately single-storey new baroque mansard roof, around 1900	more pictures
Factory building	Schillerstraße 4 / 4a location	at the end of the 19th century	former shoe factory (?): three-storey late classicist building, end of the 19th century; Residential building: mansard roof, reformed architecture in the Baroque style, inscribed (190) 5	more pictures
Residential and commercial building	Schlossstrasse 20 location	around 1880	late classicist residential and commercial building, around or after 1880
Evangelical St. John's Church	Schlossstrasse 37 location	1750-1758	Hall building, 1750–1758, enlarged with a choir towards the end of the 19th century, restored and extended in 1953	more pictures
Bank building	Schloßstraße 39 location	1912/13	former Bavarian State Bank; Yellow sandstone building, reform architecture in late Baroque forms strongly influenced by the Louis Seize style, 1912/13	more pictures
Residential building	Schützenstrasse 7 location		Residential building	more pictures
Residential building	Schützenstrasse 9 location		Residential building	more pictures
Residential building	Schützenstrasse 11 location	1906	Residential building, neo-baroque, marked 1906	more pictures
Residential and commercial building	Schützenstrasse 13 location	1907	Three-storey residential and commercial building, sandstone and white glazed clinker cladding, neo-renaissance, 1907	more pictures
Main post	Schützenstrasse 14 location	1926 ff.	Hauptpost, 1926 ff .; six-story flat roof building, low intermediate building, three-story hipped roof wing, architect Heinrich Müller	more pictures
Residential building	Schützenstrasse 16 location	1888	stately mansard roof building, neo-renaissance, marked 1888
Villa Rheinberger	Strobelallee 1 location	after 1918	large single-storey mansard roof building, reform architecture in the baroque style, probably shortly after 1918; associated large park with a smaller residential building
War memorial	Strobelallee, between No. 58 and 60 location		War memorial 1914/18	more pictures
Residential building	Teichstrasse 8 location	around 1890	Late classicist sandstone and clinker construction, neo-renaissance motifs, around 1890
Residential building	Teichstrasse 9 location	at the end of the 19th century	three-storey mansard roof, neo-renaissance, end of the 19th century	more pictures
Residential building	Teichstrasse 13 location	1891	four-story house, neo-renaissance, marked 1891	more pictures
villa	Turnstrasse 28 location	Early 20th century	stately mansard roof villa, neo-baroque clinker brick facade, early 20th century
villa	Turnstrasse 33 location	around 1900	historicizing mansard roof half-villa, free chevron, around 1900	more pictures
Catholic parish church St. Anton	Uhlandstrasse 6 location	1923-28	Romanizing three-aisled basilica, 1923–28, architects Michael Kurz and Josef Uhl , restored in 1949	more pictures
Residential building	Volksgartenstrasse 23 location	1913	Stately house, Art Nouveau influence, marked 1913, staircase glazing from the construction period	more pictures
House of Diakonie	Waisenhausstrasse 5 location	1904	former Protestant orphanage; elongated building, short transverse wings, mixed forms of neo-late gothic and neo-renaissance, 1904; until 1972 "Elementary School Orphanage School" / "Elementary School West", then Waldorf Kindergarten; Refurbished 1994–1996
Matzenberg School	Winzler Strasse 36-40 location	1886/87	stately three-storey plastered building, neo-renaissance, 1886/87	more pictures
signpost	Zweibrücker Strasse at the corner of Hügelstrasse Lage	1771	Obelisk, sandstone, 1771	more pictures
Residential building	Zweibrücker Strasse 36 location	at the end of the 19th century	Baroque mansard roof building, end of the 19th century	more pictures
Forester's house Lambsbacher Hof	east of the city near the B 10 location	19th century	single storey lower stable house, 19th century
Menhir	south of the Ruhbank district as an extension of the Alte Landstrasse location		Menhir

Former cultural monuments

designation	location	Construction year	description	image
Outbuildings	Bahnhofstrasse, at No. 19 location		The one-storey annex building of the former district office, no longer included in the list of monuments since April 26, 2017, had previously ceased to exist	Image wanted
hotel	Bahnhofstrasse 47 location	around 1910	former Hotel Matheis; stately four-storey building, classifying reform architecture, partly Art Nouveau decor, around 1910; Canceled in 2014 due to dilapidation	more pictures
Tunnel portals	north of the city location		Portals of the Old and New Fehrbacher Tunnels ; No longer listed in the list of monuments of May 4, 2020, reason unknown

literature

• General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (publisher): Informational directory of cultural monuments of the district-free city of Pirmasens (PDF; 6.3 MB). Mainz 2020.

Web links

Commons : Kulturdenkmäler in Pirmasens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roland May : Pontifex maximus. The architect Paul Bonatz and the bridges. Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster iW 2011, ISBN 978-3-86991-176-2 , pp. 198-201, 515-517, 599f.
2. ↑ Oskar Schäfer: The Pirmasens Separatist Period 1923/1924 , Verlag Adolf Deil, Pirmasens 1936
3. ↑ ^{a b} Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 37th year 1917, No. 67 (from August 18, 1917).
4. ↑ Yasmin Renges: The city baths of the Roaring Twenties. Municipal prestige architecture between tradition and modernity. Dissertation, University of Cologne . Cologne 2015.
5. ↑ Alte Post (PDF; 9.9 MB). ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) City of Pirmasens, as of November 2012.
6. ↑ Wolfgang Werner: The architect Heinrich Müller and the Bavarian Post Building School in the Palatinate (= materials on building research and building history. Vol. 19). KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-790-5 , p. 196
7. ^ Diakoniezentrum Pirmasens: House of Diakonie. ( Memento of January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 10, 2011.
8. ^ Hotel Matheis - interior photos May 2014. City administration Pirmasens, accessed on August 17, 2014 . 

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