Town hall Lüdenscheid
The town hall of Lüdenscheid is the seat of the city administration of Lüdenscheid . It is located in the western part of downtown Lüdenscheid , not far from the Wilhelmstraße shopping area. The building was built from 1956 and moved into in 1964. It was created at what was then the main traffic junction of the city, the "Street Star", today Sternplatz . With the construction, a decade-long provisional arrangement, namely the division of the city administration into more than a dozen locations, was ended. The old town hall , built in 1874, had not covered the space requirements for a long time, which increased with the unification of the city and Lüdenscheid-Land in 1969 . On the site of the new town hall, the baroque two-winged merchant's estate Haus Dicke from around 1700 was demolished as early as 1951 .
From 2001 onwards, the building was redesigned and renovated, and the surrounding area has been redesigned since 2006. Designs by the architects' office WES + Partner were implemented. The façades, originally designed with different colored mosaic-like wall tiles, were covered with larger opaque frosted glass elements. Apart from the grid-like windows, there is no visual structure of the building of considerable size. The cool impression is enhanced by installing the windows with horizontal sun protection flaps in the style of the rest of the facade. The ground floor was largely redesigned: around half of the area for the city administration and the old main entrance on Sternplatz have been given up in favor of the now integrated restaurants and shops. Architectural equipment from the time the town hall was built was also lost, for example by the Lüdenscheid artist Marie-Luise Quade . The old doors of the council chamber, sophisticatedly designed by KT Neumann with reliefs depicting the city's history, have been replaced by simple new models. Among other things, it was only after public protests in 2010 that the works of art were revised and placed near their actual destination. During the redesign of the building, a memorial plaque for the victims of the National Socialist regime with the option to place a wreath was removed.
Individual evidence
literature
- Heimatverein Lüdenscheid eV (1992): "Lüdenscheid yesterday and today", Märkischer Zeitungsverlag GmbH Co KG
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 46 ″ E