New Town Hall (Pirmasens)
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 The New Town Hall on the parade ground |
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| place | Pirmasens |
| architect | M. Elle |
| Client | Pirmasens |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1879 |
The New Town Hall is a listed late classical building in the center of Pirmasens , which has served as the town's town hall since 1945 . It was originally built in 1879 as a parade ground school with an elementary school. The old-language grammar school, the forerunner of today's Immanuel Kant grammar school, moved in for several decades . The entire building has only been used by the city administration since 1962.
location
The town hall is located in the middle of the parade ground, the former parade ground for the soldiers of Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . Diagonally opposite on the edge of the square are the late Baroque Johanneskirche and the Art Nouveau building of the former Bavarian State Bank.
history
When the city began to grow rapidly due to the loss of the cut off border location after the Franco-German War in 1871 and the connection to the railroad in 1875, the need for a new school building arose. The old school buildings in the city all came from the Landgrave's time and were no longer able to cope with the contemporary requirements.
The parade ground was chosen as the building site, which stretched from the northern to the southern Ringstrasse and had remained completely undeveloped until then. From 1878 to 1879, the city building attorney M. Elle built the building with 24 classrooms and a gym. It was the first representative new building in the up-and-coming city, which was to be followed by many more such as the district office , the main post office or the main train station in the next few years . It was not the last new school building either, because the Matzenberg School , which was officially called the Germaniaschule, was built in 1886/87 .
In the next few years the north and south of the parade ground were also built on and it took on its current size between the north and south parade ground streets. Only the houses at Schlossstrasse 20 and Exerzierplatzstrasse 12 have been preserved from the surrounding buildings that were built at that time.
The north wing of the building was to house the elementary school permanently until 1945, while the south wing was used by changing secondary schools. It all started with the newly founded Kgl. Realschule, today's Leibniz-Gymnasium , which used the southern part of the parade ground school building for the first four years of its existence before it was given its own building in Luisenstrasse in 1892. The primary school had the building to itself again for 18 years before the old-language grammar school moved into the south wing in 1910.
The building was hit by fire bombs during World War II and the primary school in the north wing burned down completely. In the south wing, the two lowest floors were saved from the fire by the work of the caretaker, a high school teacher and a student from the neighboring high school. After the building had been poorly restored, all three higher schools in the city moved to the parade ground for a short time from the end of 1945, although the building still had no roof. Because the previous town hall - today the old town hall - was even more bomb-damaged, the city administration also moved to the school. In the fall of 1946, the upper secondary school and the girls' upper secondary school (today Hugo-Ball-Gymnasium ) were able to move to the Schuhfachschule in Lemberger Strasse, which had been occupied by the French military up until then.
The reconstruction was completed by mid-1947. The old-language grammar school had the south part of the building to itself again, while the north wing was used by the city administration. So the curiosity arose that the building was the town hall and school building at the same time for over a decade. Because the city administration wanted to concentrate their offices in this building, a new building for the grammar school was planned from the end of the 1950s. In October 1962, the new building in Wörthstrasse on the Horeb was completed and the state high school with old language moved out of the old building after 52 years. The use as a school building came to an end and since then it has served exclusively as the seat of the city administration.
architecture
The New Town Hall is a three-storey plastered building with two side projections. The facade is sober and unadorned and has a strict structure that is usual for classicism . In contrast to the buildings that were built a few years later, it was still without historical pomp. Nevertheless, the building has a representative effect, especially due to the prominent position on the central square of the city, whose current design based on plans by Paolo Portoghesi with its surrounding colonnades is essentially geared towards the town hall.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments in the district-free city of Pirmasens (PDF; 6.3 MB). Mainz 2016.
- ↑ a b c Julius B. Lehnung: Beloved Pirmasens . 1st edition. Vol. 5 (1875-1890). Komet-Verlag, Pirmasens 1983, ISBN 3920558049 , p. 128.
- ↑ Julius B. Lehnung: Beloved Pirmasens . 1st edition. Vol. 5 (1875-1890). Komet-Verlag, Pirmasens 1983, ISBN 3920558049 , p. 232.
- ↑ http://leibniz-pirmasens.de/schulleben/historie/ , accessed on January 28, 2017
- ↑ a b c http://www.ikg-ps.de/unsere-schule/schulgeschichte/ , accessed on January 28, 2017
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 12.7 ″ E