Hemelingen town hall

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Hemelingen Town Hall, 2011

The Hemelingen town hall in Bremen - Hemelingen , Rathausplatz No. 1, served as the town hall and local office until 2008 .

The building has been a listed building since 2007 .

history

Main entrance, 2013

With the construction of a railway line and the accession of the Kingdom of Hanover to the German Customs Union in 1854, industrialization began in Hemelingen ; this was connected with an increase in the population of Hemelingen . Bremen's delayed entry into the Zollverein in 1888 also favored this development into an important industrial suburb.

In 1902 a market place was created. For the first time since 1904, Hemelingen had a full-time parish council with Alfred Christern . The new construction of a community hall was necessary because of the increased administrative tasks. This parish hall was built by 1906 on the edge of a large open area, which was used for fairs, festivals and sporting events until 1935.

With the incorporation of Hemelingen into Bremen in 1939, the function of the town hall as the seat of the independent municipal administration ended. From 1946 to 2008 it was the seat of the local office and also served for the meetings of the advisory board; in the 1970s there was also a public youth library in the building. In 2008 the local office was moved to Godehardstrasse 19. In 2011 the building was sold to two Bremen investors. Social institutions, advice centers and a restaurant have been using the house since 2013.

architecture

The town hall was built on a 7,294 square meter plot of land based on plans by the architect and building official Wilhelm Mackensen (1869–1955), who worked for the provincial government in Hanover. The representative, well-proportioned two-storey building was kept relatively businesslike despite its side portal risalit. The massive risalit emphasizes the plastered structure. The tail gable was designed in the Renaissance style. The crooked roof is covered with tiles . Significantly withdrawn elements of the German Renaissance can only be found in part in the historicist architecture, which as a whole is closer to reform architecture .

A spacious entrance hall on the ground floor connected the offices, the meeting room of the municipal council and the rooms of the registry office . The first floor used to be the large apartment of the community leader. In 1926 (according to other sources, 1924/1925), after the building was expanded, a large conference room that had been preserved was installed here.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ↑ 8000 books for browsing, Weser-Kurier of January 23, 1980, p. 12, online only for subscribers
  3. ↑ Melanie Öhlenbach: All under one roof in KuBiKo Weser-Kurier, Southeast edition (Vahr, Hemelingen, Osterholz) August 18, 2008
  4. ↑ Service providers move to Hemelingen town hall. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, July 21, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Frauke Fischer: A town hall becomes a council house. weser-kurier.de, November 25, 2012, accessed on December 1, 2012 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 1.5 ″  E