Falkensee Town Hall
| Falkensee Town Hall | |
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| place | Falkensee |
| builder | Architect unknown (1918) 1928: Paul Ueberholz |
| Construction year | 1918 1928 (extension) |
| height | approx. 15 m |
| Floor space | 720 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 34 '3 " N , 13 ° 6' 4.3" E |
The Falkensee Town Hall is the seat of the city administration of Falkensee . It is located at Falkenhagener Straße 43-49 on the historic village green , which is now called Rathausplatz. The official building complex, consisting of a main building and other ancillary buildings, is near the intersection of state roads 201 and 20 (Bahnhofstrasse – Schönwalder Strasse). Since 2012, the city administration has also had a newly built citizens' office at Poststrasse 35.
history
When more and more residents moved to the rural community of Falkenhagen at the end of the 19th century , the administration, headed by its first full-time mayor Ernst Freimuth, was looking for a representative office building as close to the center as possible. She acquired the property of the former head forester's office . After the forester's house on top was demolished , a three-story building was built in the neoclassic style. In 1918 the work, delayed by the World War , was completed and the town hall could be inaugurated. However, the old cellar vaults of the forester's house have remained and have been included in the building of the town hall.
Another expansion turned out to be necessary after the two rural communities Falkenhagen and Seegefeld had been merged in 1923 by a resolution of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and the city of Falkensee was created.
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The new municipal administration had a mirror-like extension built on the existing town hall in 1928 according to plans and under the direction of the Berlin architect Paul Ueberholz . The construction was carried out by the Max Schröder company in Bötzow . The free-standing buildings to the right and left of the town hall, a small one-and-a-half-story villa (right) and a residential building (left), were soon added. The interior was rebuilt and a three-part town hall was created. The usable area including the buildings standing on it is about 105 m (north-south) by 98 m (west-east). This includes the fire station , some low-rise buildings and parking spaces in the courtyard.
The granting of town charter in October 1961 made the municipal office the city administration, the seat of the administration remained in the previous buildings.
After the fall of the Wall and German reunification , Falkensee became a popular residential area, the number of residents almost doubled from 1990 to 2017 and completely new residential areas emerged such as the Falkenhöh Garden City , the Parkstadt in the Finkenkrug residential area or Seegefeld-Ost .
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The town hall was renovated and prepared for the new areas of responsibility. After all, the existing premises were no longer sufficient for all employees and, above all, for the large number of visitors. The citizens' office was relocated to a new building on Poststrasse in 2012 and also houses the tourist information office. A connecting component was inserted between wing D and the main building, in which an elevator could be installed. This makes the town hall barrier-free . In 2017/2018 the buildings on Falkenhagener Straße, which are now at least one hundred years old, were extensively renovated , as a result of which the facades were refreshed and modernization work was carried out with regard to the technology.
description
architecture
The main house is closed with a tiled hipped roof. In the middle of the ridge there is an octagonal gray roof turret . It bears the town hall clock and is also a publicly accessible observation tower . The main portal, which can be reached via three steps, is framed with a plaster frame in which and next to it plastic ornaments such as tendrils, animals, people or fruit are depicted. Pilasters and ornamental gables emphasize both portals.
The facade along the street is 40 meters long and around 15 meters wide. On the courtyard side there is an extension that measures eleven meters by eleven meters. The area indicated in the info box refers only to the main building with its courtyard wing, the height to the observation deck of the tower. Solar cells are mounted on the roof facing the courtyard. During the Advent season, Falkensee takes part in the (Stadt) lights campaign, which is popular in other major cities . The town hall is then illuminated in multiple colors and the building details are particularly easy to see.
Interior
During the construction work in the 1920s, the architect and mayor attached great importance to a representative meeting room. The colored windows based on designs by the artist Artur Schalk , executed by the art glassworks Carl Busch from Berlin, are particularly successful . They show a fisherman's wife , a farmer , a designer and a flower woman . These windows are preserved and well restored.
Falkensee residents such as traders and merchants donated additional windows for the town hall building, for which they are immortalized with appropriate notices on the window frame.
Since 2012, the three-part office building has housed the areas of archive , residential road construction , construction , real estate , press office , registry office , taxes and fees , city treasury , fire brigade and the city council office . The former areas of responsibility of the citizens' office were relocated there with the commissioning of a new building at Poststrasse 35. Because the main building of the town hall is also a cultural monument , the city administration regularly participates in the open monument day every September.
Surroundings
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On the site in front of the buildings there is a historic millstone from the mill that was demolished in 1920 on the Falkenhagen mountain and a milestone with the inscription "Kreischaussee after illegible ... (?) 1 km, Paretz 5.5 km, Ketzin 7.8 km" stands next to it.
The Falkensee Museum with exhibits on the city's history is not far from the town hall complex on the same street (Falkenhagener Straße 77). A functional 200-year-old oven has been preserved and exhibited there, which has been used since 1996 for the oven festival organized jointly with the city administration.
Overview of the mayors of Falkensee (selection)
- 1912–1932: Ernst Freimuth ( community leader )
- 1932 – around 1941: Wilhelm Janetzke
- 1961–1989: Gerhard Sowinski
- 1990–2007: Jürgen Bigalke
- since 2007: Heiko Müller
Web links
- Falkensee website. To the town hall
- Marlies Schnaibel: Falkenseer Rathaus turns 100 , Märkische Allgemeine , September 6, 2018.
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e Märk. General with the publication Falkenseer Rathaus turns 100 .
- ↑ Ueberholz, Paul; Architect> Charlottenburg, Wielandstrasse 13 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, 1 (Atelier for Architecture and Building Executions GmbH).
- ↑ Brief description of the Falkenseer Bürgeramt , accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ↑ Building dimensions roughly determined from Google Earth. The solar surfaces are also clearly visible here.
- ↑ Falkenseer Rathaus shines during Advent , pictures from 2018 , accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ↑ Busch, Carl> Südende> Parkstrasse 17 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, 1, p. 412 (art glass and coat of arms painter).
- ↑ Museum and gallery provide information about the 21st Oven Festival in 2017 , accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ↑ Facts & Figures from Falkensee , accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ^ Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders: The German economic and annihilation policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944 . Hamburger Edition HIS, 2013. It is stated here that Janetzke was mayor of Falkensee before his appointment to Minsk.
- ↑ Master's thesis, item 4.2.2: Wilhelm Janetzke, City Commissioner in Minsk 1943 , accessed on January 24, 2019.
- ↑ Klaus Meynersen: "Wahnsinn" and been there in Märkische Oderzeitung , November 6, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2019.