Presidential House (Parchim)
The Presidential House in Parchim is a 200 year old building in Parchim , Mecklenburg .
history
The so-called Presidential House is located on Parchimer Blutstrasse - named after the Chapel of the Holy Blood, which was demolished in 1798. This original name has been replaced by others over the course of time. For old Parchimers it is still the Lyceum today. Later generations speak of the extended high school. Today the name town house is common.
Home of the President of the Court
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When the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar, the highest court in the Holy Roman Empire , was closed in 1806, each country had to set up a court to clarify its own legal and constitutional questions. The Higher Appeal Court was founded for Mecklenburg in Parchim in 1818 . This was a great gain for the city and everything was done to keep it for the city. Not only was the Parchim town hall made available as a courthouse, but a special dwelling was also built for the court president, the presidential house. In 1818 the city acquired the land of two small residential buildings and built a prestigious residential building next to a school building for 31,800 thalers. Following the road it runs from north to south. The grand ducal government under Friedrich Franz I (Mecklenburg) raised a quarter of the costs.
The construction was led by the state master builder Johann Georg Barca , who designed the Ludwigslust Palace and the Ludwigslust Residence . He built the classicistic plastered building with three risalits that is still standing today . It had spacious living rooms and a high stairway, as well as a gateway in the right risalit. The gardens reached to the Elde . A half-timbered building for stables and utility rooms was built in the yard . Later it became a summer house.
Gymnasium and Lyceum
When the court was moved to Rostock in 1840, the Schwerin government under Paul Friedrich (Mecklenburg) allowed the Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium, founded in 1827, to join a secondary school . As a result of this compensation, the presidential house that had become vacant became the second school building, in which classrooms and specialist cabinets for physics and chemistry were set up. In 1852 an auditorium was created from four rooms in the south wing. The ceiling was secured by a stable roof structure. In the 1880s, a vestibule connected the two buildings. The garden was transformed into a spacious schoolyard.
In 1890 the Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium moved to the spacious school area on the ramparts. Since no one could buy the big houses as a whole, the building was divided. The north wing remained a teaching facility. The headmistress Pauline Hasselmann bought it for a secondary school for girls , later together with Ida Jordan . The girls entered the area from the north side (water mountain). When the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 drove the private school to the limit of its financial possibilities, the city took over the educational institution with all its inventory and debts. She gradually expanded it into a lyceum until 1931 . Since the premises were no longer sufficient for this, the city bought from the lawyer’s widow, Dr. Tiedemann returned the southern part for 45,000 gold marks . This made the whole house home to a school facility again. A generous cabinet was created for science lessons. In the Lyceum girls were from 10 to 16/17. Year of life led to upper secondary maturity. Since the Parchimers were very proud of a second higher school, the name Lyceum for this house became common in parlance.
When the school system was redesigned during the Nazi era , a high school for girls, a household branch , with 6 ascending classes was created. A teaching kitchen was set up on the ground floor for the economic training part. In 1935 the Heimatbund opened the first Parchimer Museum in the garden house . In the Second World War in 1942 a related field hospital of the Wehrmacht the rooms.
High School and Advanced High School
When classes were resumed in October 1945, only the “President's House” on Blutstrasse was available for higher education for boys and girls; because the Red Army had set up a hospital in the building on the ramparts . Already in August 1946 the Abitur could be taken here again. In 1951 the building at Blutstrasse 1 was added as a second school building. The pupils in grades 9–12 have now been led to the Abitur over the years at the Oberschule / Extended Oberschule . Specialist cabinets were also offered for history , geography , German and other subjects in the early 1970s . A language cabinet and a computer room were added later. Since there was not enough space, the presidential house was restored in 1988/89 and a two-story extension was added to the Fischerdamm. Modern specialist cabinets for physics, chemistry, biology, geography and art education moved him.
Due to the reorganization of the educational system after the fall of the Wall (GDR) , the building was no longer sufficient for the grammar school with nine ascending classes. This moved into a building complex in the Weststadt. The premises in the city center were used by the Mitte elementary school for the next few years, until the decline in the number of pupils in 1999 forced it to close. In the basement of the extension, the affiliated after-school care center moved into its quarters. Most recently, until 2003, the classrooms were used as an alternative location when the Weststadt schools were converted.
Rededication to a town house
Around 2002 the city administration wanted to move the scattered offices together in one place and to create a second administrative headquarters next to the town hall. A new building was discarded and moved to the empty presidential house, supplemented by a modern extension. As a result, the area on the edge of the old town was also upgraded in terms of urban planning. The city council decided from an ideas competition in favor of the Brockstedt-Bergfeld-Peters BDA Kiel proposal and entrusted Kröpelin & Spegel Parchim with the construction management . The building, which was completed in 2007, received recognition at the 2008 state building award. In the case of the dilapidated structure, the presidential house was restored for 2.1 million euros and supplemented with a new building attached at right angles. The south wing was given a spacious entrance area on Blutstrasse. It houses the Parchim information center and leads to the extension with the citizens' office. The venerable staircase, the internal structure and the external design of the presidential house have been preserved, so that parts of the old residential and school building can still be experienced today. At the inauguration on March 10, 2008, the old building symbolically received the office space of the Department of Construction and Urban Development. They became the starting point for Parchim's urban planning .
literature
- Parchim State High School for Girls, 1938 annual report.
Web links
- Literature about the Presidential House (Parchim) in the state bibliography MV
- Chronicle of the city of Parchim
Individual evidence
- ^ Based on a manuscript by Dieter Dümcke , Parchim (April 2014).
- ^ Brick Gothic Heritage
- ^ Gerhard Heitz , Henning Rischer : History in data Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Munich, Berlin 1995.
- ↑ a b Fritz Kühl: From the Great City School to the Oberschule . Parchim 1959.
- ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? Bremen 1995.
- ↑ Fritz Kühl: Parchims architectural and art monuments . Parchim 1961.
- ↑ a b c Dieter Dümcke: Parchimer school history from A to Z . Parchim 2004.
- ^ Archives of the city of Parchim: 105a, land register 461.
- ^ High school archive , EOS part.
- ^ A b G. Behrens, I. Dümcke, D. Dümcke: Parchim, Stadtgeschichte in Daten , 4th part: 1989–2010 . Parchim 2011.
- ↑ bbp: architects
- ↑ State Building Prize Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2008)
- ↑ Sabine Braun, Head of Building Construction of the City of Parchim (2014).
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 34.2 " N , 11 ° 50 ′ 47.9" E