Maputo City Hall

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Maputo City Hall

The City Hall of Maputo , officially Edifício do Conselho Municipal de Maputo , is a neoclassical designed municipal building in the Mozambican capital Maputo . It is located at today's Praça da Independência . The building, which opened in 1947, has housed parts of the Maputo city council since the Portuguese colonial era, and it is still today.

history

The town hall and the Praça da Independência form the northern end of the Avenida Samora Machel
Entrance hall of the town hall

On August 9, 1937, the colonial city administration of Lourenço Marques under Mayor José Maria da Silva Cardoso announced an architectural competition for the new construction of a city ​​hall . The Portuguese architect Carlos César dos Santos emerged as the winner of the competition in 1938 . In 1941, the then mayor of the city, Francisco dos Santos Pinto Teixeira , decided to build it. Work began that same year. The building was officially opened in 1947.

Santos designed a building with a trapezoidal floor plan that is slightly elevated on a hill, so that it is automatically an eye-catcher on Avenida D. Luís , today's Avenida Samora Machel . The building, whose facade measures 65 meters, is kept in the historicist manner of neoclassicism and follows the architectural rules of beaux-arts . Santos chose neoclassical architectural forms due to his Brazilian origins, especially there this architectural direction was one of the most important alongside the Baroque and Rococo. The massive construction suggests the choice of natural stone as the material, but it is cement .

The municipality of Lourenço Marques ( Câmara Municipal de Lourenço Marques ) moved in in 1947. Since the independence of Mozambique in 1975, the building of the city council of the renamed Maputo ( Conselho Municipal de Maputo ) resides .

Since 2011 the building has been in the preselection for a list of monuments for the city of Maputo. The building is registered with the number 31708 in the Portuguese monument database Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico , which also includes monuments to former Portuguese colonies.

literature

  • André Renga Faria Ferreira: Obras públicas em Moçambique: inventário da produção arquitectónica executada entre 1933 e 1961 , Master's thesis at the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 2006 ( available online as a pdf).

Web links

Commons : Maputo City Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tiago Lourenço: Câmara Municipal de Lourenço Marques / Edifício do Conselho Municipal de Maputo. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico (SIPA). 2011, Retrieved June 20, 2014 (Portuguese, with photos).
  2. ^ André Renga Faria Ferreira: Obras públicas em Moçambique: inventário da produção arquitectónica executada entre 1933 e 1961 . Ed .: Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra 2006, p. 84–88 (Portuguese, available online [accessed December 20, 2014] Master's thesis at the University of Coimbra). available online ( memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / estudogeral.sib.uc.pt

Coordinates: 25 ° 58 ′ 5.4 ″  S , 32 ° 34 ′ 25.7 ″  E