New Town Hall (Wiesbaden)

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The town hall seen from the southern end of the Dern'schen site
The town hall seen from the Hessian state parliament
The New Town Hall and the Palace Square

The new town hall of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden was built in the neo-renaissance style from 1883 to 1887 by Georg von Hauberrisser , who also designed the new Munich town hall and the town hall St. Johann in Saarbrücken in the neo-Gothic style .

location

The building is located on Schlossplatz , opposite the city ​​palace , the seat of the Hessian state parliament , and next door on the left the market church . The old town hall is on the right on Marktstrasse. The two rear sides of the New Town Hall border the Dernsche area and the market square with the market column.

construction

New Town Hall Wiesbaden, around 1900
Souvenir spoon with a view of the New Town Hall and the city coat of arms, around 1890

Externally, the architecture of the town hall surpassed the city ​​palace opposite in splendor. With the picturesque old town appearance in the Renaissance style, the city wanted to demonstrate the representation of the local self-government in the empire. The floor plan is pentagonal and each had a corner tower.

In World War II the building was destroyed in parts. The dominant, artistically designed main gable with its two pointed towers had survived the war. Nevertheless, the front was torn down. Except for the entrance, it has been greatly modified and simplified, and one floor has been added. The arched entrance hall and the stairwell were preserved.

function

In addition to its actual purpose, the official building also has public exhibition rooms and a council cellar operated by Bayerische Gastronomie AG.

The town hall is heated with thermal water. It is connected to the pipeline network with the processing plant of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme .

Ratskeller

In 1890 the Wiesbaden painter Kaspar Kögler was commissioned to paint the Ratskeller . In order to be able to cope with the task, he called in his student Wilhelm Weimar (1859–1914), who was born in Wiesbaden-Biebrich . Kögler decorated the "wine cellar" and the "Ratsstübchen" with witty paintings and provided his paintings with funny texts. His former student Heinrich Schlitt - then 41 years old and now working successfully in Munich - was also involved in the painting of the Wiesbaden Ratskeller. He designed the "beer cellar" with humorous scenes and sayings.

The telling rhyme: "Whether heathen, Jew or Christian, in what is thirsty", which the guest - together with the depiction of a gentleman in tails and top hat , a Jew with Pejes-curls in a caftan and a South Pacific cannibal in a bast skirt - on The entrance to the Ratskeller was obviously the doom of the paintings during the Nazi era . Although under monument protection standing, the most precious were realistic , Wilhelmine frescoes painted over.

During the restoration of the town hall in 1987, consideration was given to exposing the old frescoes. But for “cost reasons” they were not restored, but rather erased and lost a second time.

The then tenant of the Rathauskeller hired the young Wiesbaden painter Eberhard Münch - who was still historically realistic at the time - so that he could redesign the basement rooms in the style of Kögler and Schlitt using old templates.

Today the Ratskeller is operated by Bayerische Gastronomie AG. When asked about the whereabouts of the Münch paintings, the answer is: "The rooms have been renovated!"

In Munich, in the town hall also built by Hauberrisser, people felt committed to history. The Ratskeller paintings by Schlitt were maintained and received there. In this way, a unique memorial of humorous painting was preserved in the Bavarian capital .

history

A competition ("a competition") for a new town hall in Wiesbaden was published by the municipal council in 1882.

literature

  • Kaspar Kögler, Heinrich Schlitt: The wall paintings in the Ratskeller in Wiesbaden: 124 illustrations based on the original hand drawings by Kaspar Kögler and Heinrich Schlitt with accompanying text. Petmecky Brothers, Wiesbaden undated (after 1895)
  • Woldemar Waldschmidt: Kaspar Kögler (1838-1926) In: Karl Wolf (Ed.): Nassauische Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Wiesbaden 1948, pp. 237-242.
  • Bertram Heide: Old-master painting technique in the Wiesbaden Ratskeller, Eberhard Münch reconstructed the paintings of the Wiesbaden painter-poet Caspar Kögler / Illusion painting lifted from oblivion. In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt. June 26, 1987.
  • Marianne Fischer-Dyck, Gretel Baumgart-Buttersack: Stories from the old Wiesbaden, Kaspar Kögler - 150 years, and not forgotten .... In: Wiesbadener Leben. 3/1988, p. 29.
  • Günther Leicher: Kaspar Kögler. Life and work. Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-928085-11-5 .
  • Baedeker Wiesbaden Rheingau. Karl Baedeker, Ostfildern-Kemnat 2001, ISBN 3-87954-076-4 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Neues Rathaus  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Since 1883 overhead line , In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . No. 52, December 29, 1883, p. 486, accessed December 22, 2012.
  2. ^ Berthold Bubner: Wiesbaden, architectural monuments and historical sites. Wiesbaden 1993, p. 37 f.
  3. ^ Stadtgeschichte , Wiesbaden.de, accessed on December 17, 2017
  4. ↑ Heidi Müller-Gerbes: Energy from 26 hot springs - Wiesbaden heats with thermal water. In: FAZ.NET . May 7, 2008.
  5. ^ Leicher: Kaspar Kögler, Life and Work . 1996, p. 22.
  6. ↑ Heide: painting technique of old masters in the Wiesbaden Ratskeller, Eberhard Münch reconstructed the paintings of the Wiesbaden painter-poet Caspar Kögler / illusion painting lifted from oblivion. June 26, 1987.
  7. ↑ Fischer-Dyck, Baumgart-Buttersack: Stories from the old Wiesbaden, Kaspar Kögler - 150 years, and don't forget… . 1988, p. 29.
  8. ↑ atelier-muench.de
  9. ↑ Heide: painting technique of old masters in the Wiesbaden Ratskeller, Eberhard Münch reconstructed the paintings of the Wiesbaden painter-poet Caspar Kögler / illusion painting lifted from oblivion. June 26, 1987.
  10. ↑ You can also read: The current tenant, Andechser Brewery, had the mural paintings that were modeled on them removed. See: Der Verlag Edition 6065, The drawings by Kaspar Kögler, In: Günther Böhme: Wiesbadener Spätlese, Gedichte in Versen. Wiesbaden 2006, p. 78.
  11. ↑ ratskeller.com ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ratskeller.com
  12. ↑ The Münchner Ratskeller and its history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 23, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ratskeller.com  
  13. ↑ Anzeiger vom Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 2 (1882): 11, p. 2.

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 31 ″  E