New Town Hall (Düsseldorf)
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The New Town Hall in Düsseldorf was built from 1884 to 1888 according to designs by the then city architect Eberhard Westhofen in the historicist style of the neo-renaissance and was connected to the old town hall at a right angle . The focal point of the house was a stately stairwell and a conference room, which was decorated with paintings by Albert Baur , Friedrich Klein-Chevalier and Fritz Neuhaus . 35 other business rooms are grouped around the hall. At the turn of the century the mighty tower was abandoned due to static problems. In World War II damaged, the historicist magnificent building was not reconstructed after the war. The monumental wall paintings are considered a total loss. Finally, in the 1960s, the Wilhelmine building on Marktplatz 2 was completely redesigned, with the former Grupello's house on Marktplatz 3 being included in the building complex.
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architecture
The building was worked as a three-storey brick structure with a conspicuous building structure. The monumental tower, which formed the southern end of the new building and thus became a corner tower, was remarkable. It had "a neo-baroque power that bursts its dimensions with the double colossal columns on its front, the broad gable in front of its high, slated helmet and the upper lantern".
The planning envisaged integrating the conglomerate of buildings around the market square into this new building: "When designing the overly bulky tower, the idea of giving the entire square a summit and the equestrian statue of Jan Wellem a suitable background was possibly alive." A long building was planned, with the monumental tower in the central axis; based on the example of the Hamburg town hall - "Perhaps the corner tower should be a central tower, like the old town hall has a central tower?" So the new Düsseldorf City Hall remained just a torso that caused a sensation among the citizens - the “new City Hall, as the people called it, with its impossible tower and its grotesque column and figure architecture was the greatest thing that architecture has done in Düsseldorf Has". The monumental figures, two female and two male, on the roof of the building above the columns, were made by the sculptor Anton Josef Reiss .
New town hall on the market square, to the left the Grupellohaus
Floor plan of the town hall in Düsseldorf (1904)
The Hamburg City Hall was the model for the New City Hall in Düsseldorf
Column with capital, location Liefergasse in front of house no.9 and 11
former window above the entrance portal (today in the inner courtyard of Marktplatz 3)
Decoration of the New Town Hall, in the inner courtyard
Liesegangstein
Column on the square in front of the houses Merowingerstraße 126a and 126, Düsseldorf-Bilk (2020)
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From the 1960s, the building was redesigned by Eberhard Westhofen, with building decorations and numerous parts of the original building being stored in the municipal building yard. Various architectural decorations have been preserved in the inner courtyard with access to Marktplatz 3. There is a memorial plaque with the following content:
"Architectural parts of the [...] Wilhelmine facade of the town hall on the market square (built in 1884/85 by architect E. Westhofen)"
The columns from the town hall tower with Corinthian capital are made of Oberkirchen sandstone and originally came from the facade of the New Town Hall. Attached to the brick head wall in the inner courtyard are spolias of heads that adorned the five windows on the first and second floors of the show facade of the Wilhelmine City Hall, as well as two columns with busts. Furthermore, a work by Leo Müsch is attached to this wall , which was formerly at the portal of the Alte Kunsthalle .
Based on the resolution of the culture committee in 1984, one of the town hall pillars was erected in the southern old town. This is located in Liefergasse and has been illuminated in the evening since 2008 as part of the city's lighting master plan.
A fragment of a column, called the "Liesegangstein", was erected in 1989 by the municipal building department on Liesegangstrasse. It serves as a memory of the landscape painter Helmuth Liesegang (1858–1945), Cornelius Prize winner 1943.
After 1994, one of the four pillars of the Wilhelminian town hall became a climbing area on the square inside the small housing estate on the Jagenberg site . The architect Peter Müller had dismantled the ten-meter-high column into its components and thus staged a lintel from the base with the head of the Germania (three parts), over the column drum (three parts) to the capital .
Parts of the Wilhelminian town hall (so the “Frauenkopf” ), as well as the “Market Column” , the “Kindertor” , the “Tor Kapeller Feld” and the “Grundstein” were the parts of the facade in the course of the improvement of the living environment Garath Süd-Ost on the Fritz-Erler -Road set up.
Mural
In the large meeting room of the New Town Hall there were paintings by Albert Baur "Takeover of Düsseldorf by the Brandenburgers in 1609", Friedrich Klein-Chevalier (1861–1931) "Jan Wellem inspected the plans for the construction of a palace in the Neustadt" and Fritz Neuhaus (1852–1922) “Festival before Kaiser Wilhelm I in the paint box on September 6, 1877”.
- Mural in the large meeting room of the New Town Hall (total loss)
Wall paintings by Albert Baur, Klein-Chevalier and Neuhaus.
Wall painting by Fritz Neuhaus "Festival before Kaiser Wilhelm I in the paint box on September 6, 1877"
Wall painting by Friedrich Klein-Chevalier "Jan Wellem inspects the plans for the palace in the Neustadt"
Wall painting by Albert Baur "Takeover of Düsseldorf by the Brandenburgers in 1609"
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literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 190.
- Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, p. 11, object no. 13 [City Hall, Marktplatz, 1570/73, 1749, 1884, Heinrich Tußmann / Johann Joseph Couven / Eberhard Westhofen / Friedrich Tamms, H. Heyne].
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 41 .
- ^ Helga Becker: Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900). Life and work . Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3861-1 , pp. 108-109
- ↑ image: column with capital
- ^ "Liesegangstein" on Liesegangstrasse, Düsseldorf
- ^ Wolfgang Funken: Ars Publica Düsseldorf , Volume 2, Klartext-Verlag Essen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0874-1 , p. 914
- ↑ Verkehrsverein Düsseldorf (ed.): Guide through Düsseldorf on the Rhine and its surroundings . Düsseldorfer Verl.-Anst., Düsseldorf 1904, p. 63 [II. Part Sights 1. Tour of the city.]
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 33.4 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 18 ″ E