High Presidium of the Rhine Province
The Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province was the seat of the Upper President of the Prussian Rhine Province in Koblenz . Today it is the seat of the Structure and Approval Directorate North and the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz . The former Prussian government building for the Koblenz administrative region is in the immediate vicinity .
history
The building was built from 1907 to 1910 according to drafts by the building councilors Richard Saran and Thielen on the basis of preliminary drafts by the building councilor Alfred Bohnstedt (1851–1906). The executive builder was government builder C. Loewe. The railing for the main staircase and the main door (not preserved) were the work of the workshop of the Godesberg blacksmith Georg Gernhard (1860–1943). A very narrow area in the north of the grounds of the Electoral Palace was used for the construction . The Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province was previously located in the Electoral Palace, where space became too narrow. Kaiser Wilhelm II therefore campaigned personally for a building of its own for the high presidium.
From 1920 to 1929, during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , the building was the official seat of the High Commissioner of the Inter-Allied High Committee for the Rhineland, Paul Tirard . The building, which was damaged in a heavy air raid on Koblenz on November 6, 1944 , was rebuilt in different ways from 1947 onwards; the curved gable above the central pavilion has not been preserved.
The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate moved into the building between 1947 and 1950, followed by the Koblenz district government until 1999 . Since 2000 it has been the seat of the Structure and Approval Directorate North . The former service villa of the Upper President to the left of the main building on the Rhine is used by the Koblenz Higher Regional Court .
construction
The castle-like building, structured by pavilions in southern German baroque shapes with Art Nouveau influences , was inspired by works by Balthasar Neumann and Johannes Seiz . It should allude to the elector's past and is stylistically related to the south wing of the Electoral Palace in Trier by Johannes Seiz.
It consists of bricks and pumice stones and shows the type of floor plan with a relatively shallow depth, which is characteristic of a castle building. As with the neighboring Electoral Palace, it consists of a central and corner projections. The total length of the three-storey building is 170 meters. Adjacent to this in the east is the square former service villa of the head president, which is connected to the main building via a passage. The entire facade is partly with Terranova, partly with extensive ashlar surfaces made of red sandstone . The windows are segment-arched on the first floor (round-arched in the risalits) and on the second floor straight with “ears”. The portrait medallions of the first eight upper presidents were placed between the first and second floors, five of which have survived today. The high mansard roof is emphasized in the central projection by a curved and richly decorated architrave . The interior of the building is decorated with baroque stucco on the ceilings and walls and has a wide imperial staircase.
Monument protection
The former Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located at Stresemannstrasse 1–5 .
The former Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
literature
- New building for the Oberpräsidium Koblenz . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Vol. 63, 1913, Sp. 1–10 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
- Fritz Michel: The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The mundane monuments and the suburbs. (= The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 1). Munich / Berlin 1954, pp. 176-180.
- Press and Tourism Office of the City of Koblenz (Ed.): The Rheinanlagen Koblenz. From the beginnings till now. Koblenz 1992. (Brochure with articles by Willi Hört, Franz-Josef Heyen, Katharina Richter, Detlef Wahl and others)
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Herbert Dellwing , Reinhard Kallenbach (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 3.2 .: City of Koblenz. Downtown. Speyer 2004, ISBN 3-88462-198-X , p. 180.
Web links
- Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province in: regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Heidermann : The blacksmith Gernhard . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Volume 54/2016, Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2017, p. 32–52 (here: p. 41– 45).
- ^ A b Udo Liessem: Buildings and monuments between the castle and the German corner . In: Press and Tourism Office City of Koblenz: The Rheinanlagen Koblenz. From the beginnings till now. Self-published, Koblenz 1992, p. 21.
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz. Mainz 2020, p. 14 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 26.7 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 7 ″ E