New Linden City Hall (Hanover)
The New Linden Town Hall is a building in the Linden-Mitte district of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover . It is located on the Linden market square.
Emergence
The village of Linden at the gates of Hanover had grown into a city during the industrialization period that was independent from 1885 to 1920 before it was incorporated into Hanover. During this time, the city initially had a town hall on Deisterstraße / corner Ricklinger Straße, which was inaugurated in 1884 and is now known as the Old Linden Town Hall . It soon became too small for the rapidly growing industrial city of Linden. In 1896 a new market square was created for the city. It was to become Linden's new calling card: with sophisticated architecture, bourgeois residential and commercial buildings and the new town hall, which was built in the splendid Wilhelminian era should be appropriately representative.
The chosen architect Emil Seydel had designed a historic brick building with oriel towers, a basement divided by a series of flat pointed arcades, stepped gables , ornamental bands and a roof turret with a baroque tower dome. 495,000 gold marks . The new town hall was opened in 1899.
Within two months, the entire city administration moved from the old town hall around 500 meters away and other buildings. The new town hall not only housed all of Linden's offices, but also the meeting room of the Linden magistrate and the official residence of the Linden mayor. On the ground floor, several rooms were initially rented as shops before the Sparkasse der Stadt Linden took over the rooms.
After the war
Built in the style of medieval brick Gothic , the town hall was rebuilt in a simplified manner after the destruction in World War II and supplemented with concrete framework.
In 1979 the Sparkasse left the building. In 1981, a Ratskeller was set up in the building for the first time after the war, a dignified, bourgeois mixture of bar and restaurant. A new tenant changed the concept of the restaurant in 1991 and changed the name to GIG (English: appearance of musicians), from then on it was a mixture of bistro and event center.
After a renovation in 2012 and 2013, the New Town Hall with a mix of historical brick architecture and modern red and white glass facade is one of the most striking buildings in Linden.
Since the renovation, the Volkshochschule Hannover has a “learning center” in the town hall: classrooms, IT training rooms, an exercise room and a teaching kitchen with dining room. In addition, the New Town Hall houses the Linden Citizens' Office , the municipal social service, the Linden branch of the city library and a room for the Linden district mayor .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 51.5 ″ E