New Town Hall (Limburg an der Lahn)

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New town hall from the southwest
New town hall from the east. On the right is the extension begun in the late 1960s, with Europaplatz in the foreground .

The New Town Hall has been the town hall of the Central Hessian district town of Limburg an der Lahn since 1900 .

The Fischmarkt 21 building had been used as the town hall since 1502 at the latest , but it became too small in the 19th century. From 1865 the administration moved into a school building on Neumarkt, before the city council decided on a new building on December 1, 1892. On October 31, 1895, the city finally bought a piece of land on the recently opened Werner-Senger-Strasse; In 1897 the plans were completed. The Wiesbaden city master builder Felix Genzmer , to whom the greater share is attributed, and Limburg city master builder Joseph Kauter were responsible for the 100,000 mark building . According to the inscription in the gable, the building was completed in 1898 and the move took place from 1899 to 1900.

Between 1968 and 1970 a new building was erected on the north side of the building, which is connected to the old building by a glass bridge. In 1993 two more floors were added. This extension as well as other “concrete purpose-built buildings from the sixties and seventies” in the immediate vicinity impair the “aesthetic and urban look” of the building, which was originally planned as a stand-alone.

In the tower there is a carillon with a repertoire of 33 songs, including the national anthems of the twin cities and traditional German children's songs . The selection of the songs played is changed at irregular intervals. The Glockenspiel received international attention in February 2017 when it was reported that Mayor Marius Hahn , at the request of a vegan citizen who works near the town hall, removed the song Fuchs, you stole the goose from the repertoire. Hahn was then insulted. According to a political internet portal, the citizen received death threats. As a result, Hahn and the citizen made it clear in various interviews that it had been a joking favor; the song will also be resumed if there is another change in the active repertoire. At Easter 2017 Hahn announced that the song would be included in the active repertoire again after the holidays.

The Limburg town hall is regarded as a "supraregional example of an administrative building of late historicism " and is a cultural monument for historical, cultural and urban planning reasons.

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Commons : Neues Rathaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Former town hall In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Fuchß: Cultural monuments in Hessen: City of Limburg. Stuttgart 2007, pp. 426-428
  3. ^ A b c Sebastian Eder: Mayor of Limburg: "I don't want to start a religious war" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 9, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Türk: Limburg changes the town hall glockenspiel after a vegan protest . In: hessenschau.de . February 8, 2017 ( hessenschau.de [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  5. ^ The Associated Press: German Town Stops Playing Kids' Song After Vegan Complains . In: The New York Times . February 9, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Stefan Dickmann: Worldwide headlines: Limburger Glockenspiel-Groteske: Even the Americans are surprised . In: Nassauische Neue Presse . February 13, 2017 ( nnp.de [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Volksverpetzer : The hunt against the vegan from Limburg - It was a joke . In: mimikama . February 15, 2017 ( mimikama.at [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  8. ^ Controversy over glockenspiel: Fuchs-Lied returns to Limburg after criticism of vegans . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 12, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 15, 2017]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '12.5 "  N , 8 ° 3' 40.2"  E