Stuttgart City Hall

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Stuttgart City Hall on the market square

The Stuttgart City Hall is located in Stuttgart-Mitte and is the seat of the Stuttgart city ​​administration.

It has existed in its current form since 1956. The distinguishing feature is the 60.5 meter high clock tower .

history

The historicist previous building, built in 1901–1905 in the Flemish late Gothic style, was designed by the architects Heinrich Jassoy and Johannes Vollmer . It burned down to the walls during the air raids on Stuttgart in World War II in 1944 . Despite the destruction, parts of the two side wings could be preserved during the reconstruction. The modern market square wing was built between 1953 and 1956 by Hans Paul Schmohl and Paul Stohrer .

In 2004 the town hall was renovated under the direction of Walter Belz for 26 million euros and brought up to the latest technical standards.

Location and facilities

Directly in front of the town hall is the Stuttgart market square , and the collegiate church and the old castle are a short distance away . The area of ​​the (former) old town is more towards the rear of the building complex, which essentially corresponds to a four-wing complex . The school road joining the Market Square with the King's Road . In 1953 it became Germany's first pedestrian zone .

Today's town hall has 220 offices and 3 conference rooms, the largest of which has 520 seats. Around 270 people are employed.

At the house there is a tower with a carillon that plays daily at 11:05 a.m., 12:05 a.m., 2:35 p.m., 6:35 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. on 30 free-hanging bells from a selection of 71 folk songs. The Ratskeller restaurant is located in the basement . In 1968 the sculpture of the Stuttgardia from 1905 was placed again on the corner of Hirschstrasse and Marktplatz.

The paternoster in the town hall

Paternoster in the foyer of the Stuttgart City Hall

After the town hall was completely renovated in 2004, the paternoster lifts in the foyer, in the old building and in the market square wing could also be put back into operation. The circulating elevators, which use the four floors of the town hall, are a specialty among the 231 remaining paternosters in Germany, as, unlike most of the other paternosters, they have not been shut down and are open to the public. Most recently, the paternoster was renovated for eight weeks in the summer of 2015 and re-inaugurated on July 28, 2015 with a public ceremony. Since October 2019 they have been shut down after an accident until liability issues have been clarified.

photos

literature

  • Ludwig Krinn (editor): State capital Stuttgart, buildings 1994 - 2004. Munich 2004, pages 55–56.

Web links

Commons : Stuttgart City Hall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stuttgart City Hall. In: Internet presence of the city of Stuttgart. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ City of Stuttgart (ed.): Glockenspiel on the town hall of the state capital Stuttgart . ( stuttgart.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ wolli@flemming-hamburg.de: PatList. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Administration celebrates the restart of the paternoster in the town hall. City of Stuttgart, accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Man suffers breakage - paternoster is shut down as a precaution after an accident. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de , October 22, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '30 "  N , 9 ° 10' 41"  E