New building (Ulm)
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The so-called New Building in Ulm was originally built as a warehouse at the end of the 16th century. Today the Renaissance building , which was largely destroyed by a major fire in 1924 and again severely damaged in the Second World War, is the seat of the Ulm Police Headquarters .
Architecture and history of use
The new building in Ulm's old town was built from 1584 to 1593 mainly as a municipal warehouse for grain, among other things, instead of previous buildings, including the Strölinhof , named after a patrician family of the city (the rulers of the empire also lived in part of the Strölinhof when they Ulm visited). The area of the new building (area around 2,700 m²) is located on the northern corner of the former Palatinate , the core from which Ulm developed.
The primary purpose of the new building as a grain store - but it also had representative rooms - reveal several rows of dormer windows for ventilation . In the vaulted lower rooms was u. a. Salt and wine stored. The originally only temporary designation "New Building" for the building, which was also referred to as " an Ehrsamen Rats Neuerbau " during construction , was permanently retained as a proper name. The irregular pentagonal building from the brick viewpoint has an inner courtyard (walls there with painted ashlar, originally the outer sides also had ashlar plaster) and two gables facing north and south. In the south-west corner of the inner courtyard is a stair tower, in the middle of the square is the Hildegard fountain created by Claus Bauhofer in 1591 . The fountain column with a statue of Hildegard - wife of Charlemagne and the Alemannic ducal house, to which Ulm presumably belonged - should probably remind of the earlier use of the area as a royal or imperial court (today a copy from 1912).
Since 1648 Ulm was the meeting place of the Swabian Imperial Circle . As long as the district deputies were meeting in Ulm City Hall , the council members moved to the new building, which also contained a splendid wood-paneled renaissance room (which survived the major fire in 1924, but was changed during the reconstruction). Parts of the building were temporarily used as a prison and registry . Bear and bull hunting as well as circus performances took place in the 900 m² inner courtyard.
From 1802, after the Imperial City time, Ulmer Council met again temporarily in the New construction, also there pulled the Kameralamt one, later the royal. Main Customs Office and other authorities, the old granary now served military purposes.
On February 19, 1924, a major fire destroyed essential parts of the building, which was restored in 1927 with enlarged windows. The Württemberg Police Department then moved into the new building, since 1938 as a sole user. A Gestapo office also resided here during the Nazi era. It was established in autumn 1933 as the "external headquarters" of the Württemberg Political Police - later the Gestapo - and with around 15 officials and employees it formed the largest branch of the Stuttgart Stapo control center . In 1944, a bomb attack again caused serious damage, especially in the roof area. After the Second World War, various offices moved in again, later the new building again became the seat of the police headquarters. Since January 1st 2014 it has been the seat of the Ulm Police Headquarters .
literature
- Hans Koepf : Ulmer profane buildings . Research on the history of the city of Ulm (Ed. Stadtarchiv Ulm), Volume 4, 1982, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-17-007078-9 , pp. 151–152.
- The new building ; Flyer, Ed .: City of Ulm, Central Services, Public Relations and Representation 2002, Text: Henning Petershagen
- Henning Petershagen: Ulm. The city guide . South German Verlagsges. Ulm, 3rd edition 1996, ISBN 3-88-294-219-3 , p. 10
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier (eds.): The Secret State Police in Württemberg and Hohenzollern . Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-89657-145-1 , pp. 84-89.
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '50.8 " N , 9 ° 59' 24.6" E