Moosheide 113 (Mönchengladbach)
The school Moosheide 113 is in the district of Venn in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).
The building was built in 1890/91. It was first entered into the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on July 20, 2010, together with the extension building on the schoolyard (house number 109) under no. M 059 . In the meantime, the entry is reserved for the extension building on the schoolyard and the Moosheide 113 building is listed with the number M 061.
location
At the intersection of Moosheide - Stationsweg - Mürriger Strasse is the former school building of Venn, Moosheide 109.
architecture
Today the building consists of a two-storey brick building parallel to the Stationsweg and built in at least two construction phases (1890/91 and 1900), another younger solitary building on the rear schoolyard (1927/28), a schoolyard roofing that connects these two structures - not listed and a modern sports hall on Moosheide Street.
School building (old building, built in 1890/91)
The nucleus of the school in Venn is a two-storey, eaves-standing brick building with a gable roof , which was built in 1890/91. It is located in the middle of a building line and is flanked on the side by a younger school extension or the former teachers' house. The four-axle building is the original building of the school ensemble. In the left axis is the street-side, arched house entrance, which can be reached via a staircase made of basalt lava block steps.
The double-leaf wooden door has been preserved. On the ground floor there are three tall rectangular, arched windows above a slightly offset base with four horizontal cellar lighting . The ground floor is set off from the first floor by a subtle cornice, in which the facade design is repeated. However, the left axis is slightly projected above the house entrance as a risalit on the upper floor and ends in front of the roof area with a stepped gable . The eaves cornice is emphasized by a German band.
The gable roof surface drains into a curtain-type gutter and is covered with Rhineland tiles. The back to the courtyard is smoothly plastered and also shows arched windows. In the right axis is the courtyard-side, modernized house entrance. Inside, the entrance area is covered with red and gray tiles in a checkerboard pattern. The stairwell has been preserved. The eastern extension is also connected via this.
School extension (new building, built in 1900)
To the east, the old building is adjoined by an eaves, two-story brick building under a gable roof as an extension of the school by four classes. On Stationsweg street it has three window axes, the arched windows of which are wider than in the old building. The sills and arches are emphasized by the use of yellow-fired bricks. The sill of the upper floor window is designed as a sill cornice and optically separates the ground floor from the upper floor. It also runs around the gable end where it is laid out stronger. The upper floor is additionally emphasized by four double stripes of yellow bricks that visually frame the window openings. The use of yellow bricks drawn in steps characterizes the strongly developed eaves cornice , which also marks the end of the roof on the gable side facing Moosheide Street. In the attic on the gable side there are two narrow, arched windows, the border of which is also characterized by color-contrasting bricks. The back to the courtyard is smoothly plastered and shows arched windows in three axes.
Former teacher's house (new building, built in 1900)
To the west, the old building is adjoined by an eaves, two-storey brick building under a gable roof as a former teacher's residence. It belongs to the extension of the school. In terms of design, it basically follows the extension to the east. However, it is characterized by lower room heights, which are marked by the position of the windows and an upper floor cornice at the height of the ceiling and sill.
The three-axis building has wider windows in its left axis on the ground floor and first floor, the top floor is accentuated by a wide gable under a gable roof with narrow, tall rectangular double windows. The building depth is less than that of the neighboring school building, which is expressed on the courtyard side by the indentation of the three-storey facade . The right-hand axis takes up a narrow entrance to the house, above which there are storey-offset exposures for the stairwell. Only the gable shows two vertical rectangular windows to illuminate the attic.
Extension building in the schoolyard (1927)
The extension building Moosheide 109 , built in 1927, is a free-standing, two-story school building under a hipped roof with a subtle expressionist design language. Tile base, plastered wall surfaces above, the tall rectangular windows are connected by brick walls on each floor to form a horizontal ribbon of windows. The stairwell is illuminated through a cross-storey rectangular window and marked in the facade. Inside, the stairwell and the corridors including the tile coverings are typical of the time.
Building ensemble as a monument
The buildings have largely been preserved in their original exterior shell and design. The windows were renewed in a way that was not typical of the monument. Few furnishings have been preserved inside. This includes the floor plan structure , the access, the stairwells with the materials that determine them (floor tiles, railings) and the street-side access to the house with the basalt lava block steps and the double-leaf wooden door.
The school building ensemble documents almost one hundred and twenty years of school and local history not far from the parish church in Venn. Parish church, Hochkreuz and school house mark the urban center of the district. The street-parallel building, which is striking in terms of urban planning, characterizes the Moosheide / Stationsweg intersection with its restrained, historicist architectural design and documents the strong settlement growth in the suburbs and outskirts of Mönchengladbach at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century. The third school expansion around 1927/28 then took place in modern, expressionistic forms on the rear part of the school yard.
The object is important for human history, for cities and settlements. There is a public interest in its preservation and use for scientific, architectural, historical, local and urban planning reasons.
Web links
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). City of Mönchengladbach, August 14, 2013
- ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 433 kB) Status: November 16, 2018. City of Mönchengladbach, November 19, 2018, p. 42 , accessed on June 16, 2020 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 6 ° 23 ′ 15.5 ″ E