Town Hall (Bergisch Gladbach)
The town hall is a listed secular building in Bergisch Gladbach in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis , ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz in the city center district .
History and architecture
The three-wing building in the style of the German Renaissance was built from 1905 to 1906 under the direction of Ludwig Bopp , a representative of the Munich School . The central building, in which the council chamber is located, was made of local dolomite limestone. It is characterized by a column portal , two gables and a high hipped roof with a viewing lantern. A wing in the Bergisch Sitl with a half-timbered upper floor and a plain plastered building with a southern German character, which is adorned with a sundial and a mural with the view of the city from around 1800, were added to each side.
Furnishing
- During the renovation in 1983 in the Council Chamber, the beamed ceiling was on the findings in gold and brown caught , the glazing of the large arched windows was reconstructed and the wallpaper were introduced to old patterns.
- 26 oil paintings with biblical landscapes, which were painted in 1883 by Maria Zanders based on the model of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer under the guidance of Carl Ludwig Fahrbach in 1857.
monument
The house is registered under No. 18 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .
literature
- Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the town and the inauguration of the town hall on September 22, 1908 with a report on the administration and the status of communal affairs in the town of Bergisch Gladbach in the years 1856–1906 , printed by Chr. Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach 1906
- Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X
Individual evidence
- ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X . Page 130
- ↑ Festschrift Hundred Years of JW Zanders Paper Factory 1829–1929, Bergisch Gladbach 1929
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 47.7 ″ E
