City hall hope valley
The hopesthal town hall is a listed building on Hauptstrasse 229 in Hoffnungsthal , a district of Rösrath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
history
The building was built in 1865 as a “new schoolhouse” with two classrooms, a teaching material room and a teacher's apartment on the top floor. With the rental income from another guest room, the coveted "Kaiser Wilhelm" picture was purchased in 1873. When the number of pupils rose rapidly in the second half of the 19th century and the children in Lüghausen also lost their school building due to fire, a new school building was built on Knipperbach, which today still houses the Hope Thaler primary school.
While the mayors of Rösrath worked in their residence until then - Mayor Franz Wilhelm Gammersbach from 1808 in Haus Steeg and from around 1830 in Haus Venauen , Robert Rohr in Schloss Eulenbroich and Franz Leyhausen in his Hoffnungsthaler residence - the building served as a from the 1880s public "Mayor's Office Volberg". The up-and-coming industry at the former "Hoffnungsthaler Hammer" then also coined the place name Hoffnungsthal and pushed the over 1000 year old name Volberg into the background, which led to some protests.
The "mayor's office", which was initially housed modestly in an adjoining building, became the main administrative seat of the municipality after the school moved to the new building on Knipperbach. In the wake of a everywhere noticeable economic upturn at the beginning of the 20th century, requests were made for a representative renovation. No less a person was commissioned than the well-known architect Hermann Eberhard Pflaume , who had previously rebuilt Eulenbroich Castle. After two years of construction, the building was inaugurated for the second time in 1913.
Building description
The building, which was built in the middle of the 19th century, was expanded in 1912–1913. It is a two-storey, plastered brick building with a mansard roof, a gable-crowned central projection and dormer windows. The six-axis eaves house has lattice windows with shutters, which are missing in the basement. The skylight of the door, which has not been preserved in its original form, is provided with a neo-baroque woodwork grille. The window walls on the ground floor are profiled.
Monument protection
The hopesthal town hall was included in the list of listed buildings of the city of Rösrath as architectural monument no .
reception
The Hope Valley town hall was presented to the public in December 2013 as "Monument of the Month". With the aim of bringing the concerns of monument protection and local historical research into the consciousness of the citizens, the “Monument of the Month” brings ten monuments or objects worth seeing in the city of Rösrath into the public eye every year. The selection of the monuments is made by a committee consisting of representatives of the city council, the city administration, the history association Rösrath and an expert citizen.
See also
literature
- Leaflet: "100 Years City Hall Hope Valley" - Monument of the Month December 2013 ; published by the history association Rösrath; December 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c leaflet: "100 Years City Hall Hope Valley" - Monument of the Month December 2013 ; published by the history association Rösrath; December 2013
- ↑ Kölner Rundschau: City Hall Hoffnungsthal - information also from celebrities , December 10, 2013; Accessed December 11, 2013
- ↑ monument description for: "Get Scenery and Monuments in Rösrath" , Series of the Historical Society Rösrath, 2/80, Rösrath 1980; ISBN 3-922413-07-2
- ↑ City of Rösrath: 100 years town hall Hoffnungsthal ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 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. ; Accessed December 11, 2013
- ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Rathaus Hoffnungsthal - From School to Mayor's Office ; December 9, 2013; Accessed December 11, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '50.9 " N , 7 ° 11' 49.7" E