Town hall Burg an der Wupper
| Town hall Burg an der Wupper | |
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 Town hall Burg an der Wupper |
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| place | Solingen - Castle on the Wupper |
| Client | City of Burg an der Wupper |
| Architectural style | Brick |
| Construction year | 1889 |
The town hall Burg an der Wupper is the former town hall of the once independent town of Burg an der Wupper , which is now a district of Solingen . The listed brick building was erected in 1889. After the city of Burg was incorporated into the city of Solingen in 1975, the building was a branch of the Solingen city administration and the seat of the burger police station until the city of Solingen put it up for sale in 2011.
prehistory
In the Freiheit Burg there were frequent changes in the mayors , especially between 1753 and 1826. Until the construction of the town hall, the mayors' offices were in their respective apartments in Upper or Lower Castle, so that the inventory often had to change its location. In 1846, with the beginning of Mayor Uesseler's term of office, the official inventory returned to the old parent house of the Fischer family on Eschbachstraße in Unterburg (later pretzel bakery Gustav Hens), where the office was already under Mayor Johannes Fischer or his son from 1810 to 1820. The city administration stayed there until 1889, when Mayor Wilhelm Uesseler left office. As early as 1859, Uesseler had recognized that the castle on the Wupper, which was elevated to town status in 1856, needed its own town hall building, but the construction did not come until 30 years later, at the end of his term of office.
Construction of the town hall
At the end of the 1880s, the city councilors were almost always split into two camps when it came to pending decisions. With regard to a town hall, some wanted to buy a private house, while others wanted to build a new building above the former pharmacy on Eschbachstrasse. A majority came about when the spokesman for the new warehouse, the paper manufacturer Friedrich Forstmann, offered to give the city a building site on the outskirts of Solinger Strasse. Thereupon the city council decided on May 1st, 1888 the new building, which the building contractor Sassenhausen from Remscheid built. In the summer of 1889 the newly elected mayor Meyer was able to move in. In addition to the construction costs of 21,400 marks , there was an additional demand of around 1,800 marks for unforeseen costs. The city was able to cover the total costs from current funds without outside financing . A building with twelve rooms on 368 m² building area was built on the 920 m² property.
Architecture and architectural decorations
The town hall has a simple rectangular plan. Due to the sloping property towards the Wupper, the building has two floors on the street and three floors on the rear. The mayor's office, the meeting room and two administrative offices as well as the city treasury and the police station in the entrance area were on the ground floor . The mayor's official apartment was upstairs.
The gable roof has no extensions. The massive brick building is adorned by the multi-profiled eaves cornice and the triangular gables sitting on it , which crown the two risalits on the sides of the street facade. While the right risalit emphasizes the town hall entrance, the left one without function only serves the symmetry of the facade. Between the risalits, each storey has four windows, of which the two middle windows are pushed together. On the ground floor, these two middle windows are linked by a large segmental arch . The side facades and the back do not have any special structuring elements. As a massive brick building, the town hall differed considerably from the old Bergisch half-timbered buildings in Unterburg. However, it was outside of the town center on the other side of the Wuppertal.
The Burg Sparkasse and the municipal library founded in 1904 were temporarily housed in the town hall. The official apartment was occupied by the respective mayors until 1945, and the city managers from 1948 .
Use after incorporation
After the city of Burg was incorporated into the city of Solingen in 1975, the building was a branch of the Solingen city administration and the seat of the burger police station. To make room, some furniture was moved to the Solingen city archive . The building was already registered in the list of monuments of the city of Solingen in 1986. On June 14, 1999 it was listed as a historical monument. The two-leaf wooden entrance door and the original ornamented Mettlach floor tiles are still preserved from the interior from 1889 . The rear staircase including some separating doors and the wooden staircase with ornamentally designed approach posts and balusters is also original . In 2004 painting and carpentry work was carried out on windows, eaves cornices and verge cladding . The citizens' office closed at the end of 2006 . In 2008 the statistics office and a police station were still in the building. In 2011 the building was no longer used and offered for sale by the city of Solingen for 212,000 euros .
literature
- Beate Battenfeld : Town halls in Solingen, past-present-future , history (s) current volume 4, publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Abt. Solingen e. V., 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Solingen, Findbuch RS 2.1.1.1., Holdings Burg an der Wupper 1653–1975 p. 5f. ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 887 KB) at www2.solingen.de , accessed on November 21, 2015
- ↑ a b c d Beate Battenfeld : Town halls in Solingen past-present-future , history (s) current volume 4, publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Abt. Solingen e. V., 2008
- ↑ a b Solingen: City has a lot to sell Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from August 6, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2015
