Town Hall (Königswinter)

"Old" Town Hall, Drachenfelsstrasse 9 (2013)

The town hall of Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , consists of several buildings. It is located in the south of the old town on the market square on Drachenfelsstraße (house numbers 3–11), which leads down from the main street to the banks of the Rhine, opposite the parish church of St. Remigius .

history

In 1889 Königswinter was raised to the status of a city according to the Rhenish City Code , thus forming its own (city) mayor's office and leaving the state (mayor's office) of Königswinter . As Hall 1891, the city acquired a built in the second half of the 19th century house (Drachenfelsstraße 9) the city council - in personal union could relate 1892/93 - the management of Landbürgermeisterei. In 1906/07 the town hall was rebuilt and expanded, giving it its current facade. The garden that was previously in front of the house became part of the market square. In 1912, a savings bank building (Drachenfelsstrasse 3) was built to the west of the town hall according to a design by the city architect Heinrich Nachtsheim , which the city administration later also took over.

Since the reorganization of the city of Königswinter as part of the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area on August 1, 1969, the town hall is no longer the only location of the city administration. There is also a town hall in the then new district of Oberpleis . The official seat of the mayor of the city was moved to the opposite Bachem house around 1990 , in whose former coach house the registry office . The old town hall was gutted at the time . The municipal administration complex also includes the building at Drachenfelsstraße 11 ( adult education center ) , which is structurally connected to the old town hall, and a plastered building on Kellerstraße (house number 7) from 1899. Since 2006, the town hall has also been home to a police contact point for the Bonn Police Headquarters .

architecture

Old Town Hall

The old town hall (Drachenfelsstraße 9) forms the eastern end of the market square. It is a two-storey, villa-like plastered building from the second half of the 19th century that appears as a semi-detached house , the left part of which goes back to the expansion in 1906/07. The central axis accommodates the entrance and is projected like a risalit as a tower, which is closed at the top by a roof pavilion . The original, right-hand part of the building is slightly recessed. The side wings are adorned with ornamental gables in neo-Renaissance forms . The structure of the facade with ashlar and ribbon plaster , structured by pilaster strips , can be described as irregular. The coat of arms of the city of Königswinter from 1889 (valid until 1969) is attached to the original building .

Former savings bank building

The part of the town hall (Drachenfelsstraße 3), which was built in 1912 as a savings bank building and extends backwards to Lord-Byron-Platz, which is accessible via Kellerstraße, is a two-storey plastered building with six axes. The central entrance is an elaborately framed portal , crowned by a triangular gable , and is framed by an outside staircase . On the central axis there is a little gabled house with a decorated triangular gable showing the year of construction in a cartridge . The windows on the ground floor are grouped into triple windows with cross-frames in trachyte and wrought-iron bars, on the upper floor they form a row decorated with shutters .

View to the Drachenfelsstrasse
View to Lord Byron Square

Arcade / forecourt

Both buildings are connected by a colonnade ("column hall"), on the eastern side of which the entrance to the old town hall is today. The ceiling is formed by wooden beams . In the wall of the arcade there are several monuments and sunken partly stone slabs, including that of Franz Josef Krings created and (1886-1968) on the initiative of the Member of Parliament Emma Bachem from the Patriotic Women's Association donated Siegfried -Denkmal (1915; originally on the Rhine since 1931 with a stone base and inscription on the town hall), the relief of the former Malteserhof on Rheinallee and a stone slab with a monogram by Clemens August and a chronogram (1761; originally on the way to Niederdollendorf ). The wine fountain, created in 1938, stands on the market square in front of the portico .

Siegfried Monument
Relief of the former Malteserhof
Monogram of Clemens August
Wine fountain and portico

literature

Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , pp. 104, 128.
Herbert Menden: Königswinter in old views. Volume 3, European Library, Zaltbommel 1995, Fig. 70.

Web links

Commons : City Hall - collection of images

Town hall Koenigswinter

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains . Edition Loge 7, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-00-012113-7 , p. 160 .
^ The State Secretary confirms Wolfgang Albers , General-Anzeiger , September 28, 2006
↑ Angelika Schyma : Blow by Blow - The Iron Siegfried von Königswinter: A Contribution to the First World War. In: Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , ISSN 0177-2619 , Volume 31, 2014, No. 3, pp. 101-105.

50.674064 7.193597Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 26.6 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 36.9" E

[1] Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains . Edition Loge 7, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-00-012113-7 , p. 160 .

[2] The State Secretary confirms Wolfgang Albers , General-Anzeiger , September 28, 2006

[3] Angelika Schyma : Blow by Blow - The Iron Siegfried von Königswinter: A Contribution to the First World War. In: Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , ISSN 0177-2619 , Volume 31, 2014, No. 3, pp. 101-105.