Remscheid town hall
The Remscheid City Hall is the city hall of the independent Bergisch city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The town hall is 365 m above sea level. NN on one of the highest points in the city of Remscheid. It is surrounded by the Rathausstrasse , the Hochstrasse and the Konrad-Adenauer Strasse . In front of the town hall, the Theodor-Heuss- Platz with the stone monument of the Bergischer Löwens on a pedestal, inaugurated on May 1, 1939 and created by Professor Willi Meller , extends to the Allee Center opposite .
history
After the city was founded in 1808, the mayors initially exercised their office in their own house on the Schüttendelle (Johann Gottlieb Diederichs) or on the Hasten (Georg Heinrich Sonntag). It was only possible for the third mayor, Abraham Hering , to rent a building on the market near the town church for this purpose. Since it was no longer possible to store the community files, an appropriate meeting room and the administration and police offices in these rooms and the resources of the community allowed it for the first time, the community council decided in November 1835 to build its own town hall, which began at the end of April 1839 on Elberfelder Strasse, roughly on the site of today's Ernst Moritz Arndt Grammar School, was inaugurated. In the first year, rooms had to be created here for a newly created factory court, comparable to a trade court . 1844 also the be housed after much pressure from the community delivered approved and free of the community to be provided to border areas came peace court added. After the calibration office had to be accommodated in 1858, the half-timbered house had to be supplemented by an extension for three more offices in 1874, in which there was also space for a town hall clock.
The cramped conditions already led to the purchase of the shooting range from the shooting club four years later during Ludwig von Bohlen's tenure . On this square, which later was to be called Kaiser-, then Adolf-Hitler- and today Theodor-Heuss-Platz, the shooting club held the fair every year , on its west side was the shooting hall. After tough negotiations, the club left this hall to the city and in exchange received the site of today's Schützenplatz, where the city built a new shooting hall for it. For this, the city was able to have the old rifle hall closed and build a representative town hall on this property. The mayor at the time, Otto Nollau, is seen as the driving force behind the new building .
The foundation stone was laid on October 18, 1902, the birthday of Emperor Friedrich III. and Memorial Day of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , and a good three years later it was inaugurated on May 29, 1906 with great sympathy, including the President of the Rhine Province and the District President from Düsseldorf. The building had a width of 86 m, the tower was 62 m high, inside and outside it was richly decorated (frescoes, pictures, stained glass windows) typical of the time. The previous official building on Elberfelder Straße was demolished in 1911 in favor of the new building of the Realgymnasium , today's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium. In the beginning, the Sparkasse also had its headquarters in a wing of the new town hall; in the 1930s it erected its own building on the opposite side of the square. The - partially simplified - reconstruction of the building, which had been badly damaged in the war, could be fully used again from 1954 with the inauguration of the conference room and the fire station in the rear and northern part of the building. The restoration of the tower was not completed until 1961/1962.
building
The town hall of Remscheid is a three-and-a-half-story, almost "U-shaped" building with a natural stone facade . The overall picture is shaped by the 58 meter high town hall tower.
today
The town hall is the official seat of the Lord Mayor (currently Mast-Weisz ), the meeting place of the city council and the official seat of several authorities of the Remscheid city administration. The town hall, together with the nearby Remscheid water tower , the “Waterbölles”, shapes the silhouette of the city of Remscheid.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ What this regional landmark has to do with Adolf Hitler
- ^ Lorenz: 50 Years of the City of Remscheid , City of Remscheid, 1979, p. 55
- ^ Hans Jürgen Roth: History of our city, Remscheid with Lennep and Lüttringhausen , RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-01-5 , pp. 58–60, 82–84, 248
- ↑ Lorenz: 50 Years of the City of Remscheid , City of Remscheid, 1979, p. 57
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 6 ″ E