Friedrichshagen town hall
| Friedrichshagen town hall | |
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 Friedrichshagen town hall |
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| place | Berlin-Friedrichshagen |
| architect | Peter Groth, Jürgen Kröger (?) |
| Client | Friedrichshagen community |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic |
| Construction year | 1887-1889 |
| Floor space | 360 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '15.9 " N , 13 ° 37' 29.2" E |
The Friedrichshagen Town Hall , inaugurated in 1899, was the official building of the independent Friedrichshagen municipal administration until 1920. The building is located at Bölschestrasse 87 in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick , Friedrichshagen district . Between 1920 and 2011 it served changing purposes, until 2014 it was empty. A company founded by tradespeople and residents operates the listed building and has been developing it into an open people's house since 2013. The basis is the long-term license agreement concluded in February 2014.
history
For the fate of the up-and-coming town of Friedrichshagen, the municipal, official and registry office administration, which had initially set up in a tenement house at Breestpromenade 12, took care of the fate. Bruno Wille , a local writer, described the needs of the administration as follows:
“The files lay piled up along the walls, in the compartments of wooden racks without a lock, exposed to dust, yellowing, and moths. A few clerks crouched at desks, and when they weren't eating breakfast, smoking or chatting, you could hear their pens scribbling, the swarm of rural flies buzzing in summer and the neighbors cackling chickens. "
In addition, the councilors met "in a room of the restaurateur Franz Lerche here at Friedrichstrasse 81 for the consultations". There it was decided in March 1897 to build a representative town hall with an attached prison and registry office at Friedrichstrasse 85 (later Bölschestrasse 87). The parish had received the property as a bequest from Police Captain Carl Ferdinand Bayer ("for teachers' apartments and for school purposes"). On June 1, 1897, the municipal council decided to “tender”, according to which craftsmen from Friedrichshagen should submit projects for the construction of a town hall. Carpenter Peter Groth won the prizes of 300 and 200 marks for his two submitted proposals. Construction based on the winning design began that same year. The official inauguration of the town hall took place on November 9, 1899. The construction cost 120,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 834,000 euros), which could be made available through a loan from the Niederbarnimer Kreissparkasse. From this sum an amount was left that was used to finance the paving of Friedrichstrasse.
The office building, which has largely been preserved in its original form, was also intended to serve the intended independence of the Friedrichshagen community. The council only met here until the incorporation of Friedrichshagen into Greater Berlin in 1920. Thereafter, the town hall lost its function, but remained the official seat for some areas of administration such as the tax office until the end of the Second World War . From before 1946 to 2011 the building housed a police station .
New use from 1991
The former town hall, which had become vacant when the police moved out, was to be sold according to the will of the district administration. In addition to investors who wanted to convert the building, which has been a listed building since the 1970s, into a noble condominium complex, there was a limited partnership founded by tradespeople and Friedrichshagen citizens ("Rathaus Friedrichshagen GmbH & Co KG"), which sold the property at the market value of around three Wanted to buy millions of euros after a lending bank had already been found. In order to conclude a corresponding contract with a usage commitment for at least 15 years, several shareholders with a respective equity of at least 5000 euros should be won (as of April 2012). The new owners (“council members”) strive for mixed use for cultural, social and commercial purposes. For this purpose, a daycare center , a citizens' office , a coffee shop and a branch of the Treptow-Köpenick registry office will move into the well-renovated rooms . And the Ratskeller is to become a gastronomic facility again. One of the initiators of the citizens' campaign is Tobias Apelt, who already runs the Seebad Friedrichshagen and two beach bars. He was optimistic:
"Our goal is to celebrate the 260th local anniversary next year in our town hall."
In December 2012 negotiations took place between the Liegenschaftsfonds and Rathaus-GmbH, which led to the conclusion of a heritable building lease in February 2014 . This includes a term until the end of 2053 and provides for the opening of a daycare center and the operation of a citizens' meeting place. At the end of June 2014, the SPD constituency office in Friedrichshagen Town Hall opened in the Green House of MPs Renate Harant , MdA, and Matthias Schmidt , MdB. A short time later, the computer meeting point Netti 3.0 , the Friedrichshagener Schirm (the operators of a local portal on the Internet) and the Free School for Music followed . The town hall is open for a variety of activities, such as the Open Monument Day or the Open Studio Day .
architecture
The four-storey building was largely designed in the late Gothic style, elements of the Renaissance can also be found in the building. The facade facing Bölschestrasse, the main street of the district, is asymmetrically divided and made of Cotta sandstone . A bay window follows a pointed arched entrance portal , which ends in a balcony on the second floor . To the left of the balcony, the wide and high multi-part window for the council chamber was incorporated in a striking stepped ornamental gable . It is framed pictorially by a relief that bears the town hall clock in the middle above the window. The side surfaces of the house are also formed by stepped gables. The steep gable roof ends in an attached narrower roof, which in turn carries an octagonal roof turret with a lantern . The pitched roof is loosened up by two rows of dormers .
The interior of the building is richly decorated with stucco . The council chamber with wooden panels , carved doors, a ribbed vault with wall niches and an ornamental frieze is remarkable . During the renovation of the premises in 1999, a mural in the council chamber was uncovered and restored, which shows the namesake of the district, Friedrich II. On horseback during the visit of the colonists in Friedrichshagen. The picture The Old Fritz and the Settlers by Woldemar Friedrich was painted in the council chamber in 1903 and was considered destroyed.
Ratskeller
Until the political change in 1990, the historic Ratskeller was the meeting place for social institutions such as the residential district committee, housing and arbitration commissions, and chess fans of the 'BSG Chemie'.
The basement of the town hall is being renovated and expanded in order to set up a brewery there.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 333 .
- Inge Kießhauer: The “Town Hall” on Bölschestrasse. The building was the seat of the Friedrichshagen municipal council for only 21 years . In: Neues Deutschland , November 12, 1982
Web links
- Website from the town hall Friedrichshagen
- Detailed description of the history of the Friedrichshagen town hall on friedrichshagen.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Kießhauer: The "Town Hall" in Bölschestrasse ...
- ↑ Quoted in The Prussian Eagle Prison
- ↑ Brief information from the Open Monument Day 2011 on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
- ↑ According to another source, the architect Jürgen Kröger provided the building plans: Detailed description of the history of the Friedrichshagen town hall on friedrichshagen.net
- ↑ LDL-Berlin: Monument Bölschestraße 87, former town hall, former police station, 1897–1899 by Jürgen Kröger (?)
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: Citizens buy their town hall. Friedrichshagener want to raise three million euros for a memorial. Your chances are good . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 25, 2012, p. 19.
- ↑ The town hall in Friedrichshagen is hotly negotiated. ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2012 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. on friedrichshagen.net; Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: Citizens lease their town hall . In: Berliner Zeitung of January 10, 2014, p. 18.
- ↑ http://brauerei-friedrichshagen.de/brauerei-das-projekt/
