Tempelhof Town Hall
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 Tempelhof Town Hall |
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| place | Berlin-Tempelhof |
| architect | Hellmut Delius |
| Client | City of Berlin |
| Architectural style | New objectivity , elements of classicism (tower) |
| Construction year | 1936-1938 |
| height | 41 m |
| Floor space | 23,350 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '45.4 " N , 13 ° 23' 9.8" E |
The Tempelhof Town Hall is an administrative building , which in the seventh Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg belonging to the district of Tempelhof is located.
location
The Tempelhof Town Hall is located at Tempelhofer Damm 165 opposite the Old Park . The rear of the building complex borders on Franckepark . The southern wing of the building adjoins the post office at Tempelhofer Damm 171/173, which was built by Otto Spalding between 1915 and 1917 .
It is a 4-5 storey office service building that was built by Hellmut Delius in the 1930s as a multi-wing complex with a 41 meter high clock and bell tower as one of the landmarks of Tempelhof. In 1969 a single-storey extension was added. The Tempelhof Town Hall currently houses, among other things, the Tempelhof Citizens' Registration Office , the Ordnungsamt, the Social Welfare Office and the Tempelhof-Schöneberg road traffic authority.
History and architecture
When the municipality of Greater Berlin was founded on October 1, 1920 , the newly created 13th administrative district of Tempelhof did not have its own town hall. The related plans of the previously independent municipality of Tempelhof, which belonged to the Teltow district , could no longer be carried out as a result of the outbreak of the First World War . After the end of the war, the financial means were lacking to push ahead with the construction of a district administration building. The administrative offices were spread across the entire district. Only after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in 1933 was the money released for building a town hall on the property at Franckepark, which the municipality had acquired in 1911.
The plans were drawn up by the chief building officer Hellmut Delius. The architect Fritz Bräuning , who was originally involved in the planning, was dismissed by the Nazis as politically unpopular. In 1913/1914, Bräuning, as Tempelhof's municipal master builder, designed a monumental town hall in neoclassical style. Delius' design, on the other hand, refers to stylistic elements of the New Objectivity of the 1920s, which renounced any pathos and used conventional materials and construction elements.
The building has simple, gray plastered facades, which are structured by regular rows of rectangular windows. The floor plan and room layout reflect the construction of administrative buildings during the Nazi era. The office rooms are simply designed, a meeting room for the district assembly was not provided after the introduction of the Führer principle , because there was no more local self-government.
The massive and widely visible 41-meter-high bell and clock tower with windowless walls and a square floor plan adjoins the main wing with its attic storey . It marks the center of Tempelhof. The tower was architecturally designed with greater effort than the main wing. The recessed tower top with a tent roof , divided by pilaster strips, and the two-story hall of honor inside the tower show subdued echoes of classicism. The hall of honor with a surrounding gallery serves as the entrance hall. Portrait paintings of the Tempelhof mayors hang on the first floor.
The multi-wing system jumps back on Tempelhofer Damm to leave a forecourt free. In the middle of the main wing on Tempelhofer Damm, the coat of arms of the former Tempelhof district as well as small medallions symbolize craft, industry, science and justice.
The foundation stone was laid on April 20, 1936 and the inauguration took place on August 1, 1938. The construction costs amounted to 2.06 million RM .
In 1969, Willy Kreuer delivered the design for the northern, light-flooded, single-storey extension on concrete pillars, which is directly connected to the old building and which hides the previously unsightly northern facade of the town hall. The roof is accentuated by trapezoidal cut light shafts. With the extension, the previously missing conference room for the district council was added.
The communal gallery in the Tempelhof town hall was on the ground floor.
The concrete sculpture (group of forms) in front of the town hall entrance was installed in 1969 by the sculptor Gerson Fehrenbach .
With the district reform of 2001 and the creation of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district , the administrative tasks and offices in the district were divided between the two town halls of Tempelhof and Schöneberg .
There is a need for renovation and modernization in the building. As part of the Neue Mitte Tempelhof project, there are plans to upgrade the entire town hall area between Götzstraße and Albrechtstraße. The town hall is to be repaired while the business continues; A thorough renovation is to take place from 2022. In a third step, it is planned to replace the existing extension from 1969 with an extensive extension.
In the forecourt there is a three-armed arc lamp candelabra with wrought iron lamp arms.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German Art Monuments Berlin , German Art Publishing House ISBN 978-3-422-03111-1 .
- Matthias Donath: Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945: a city guide , ed. from the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Lukas Verlag ISBN 978-3-936872-26-2 .
- Matthias Donath, Gabriele Schulz, Michael Hofmann: Monuments in Berlin, Tempelhof-Schöneberg district: districts Tempelhof, Mariendorf, Marienfelde and Lichtenrade , ed. from the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Imhof publishing house ISBN 978-3-86568-189-8 .
Web links
- Collection of old postcards from the Tempelhof Town Hall, accessed on April 22, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Donath et al. : Monuments in Berlin, Tempelhof-Schöneberg district: Tempelhof, Mariendorf, Marienfelde and Lichtenrade districts, p. 68
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments Berlin , p. 410
- ↑ Haus am Kleistpark - Tempelhof-Schöneberg municipal galleries
- ↑ District Office Tempelhof-Schöneberg: Press release No. 093. In: berlin.de. February 28, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- ↑ New Center Tempelhof. District Office Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin, accessed on April 8, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Philipp Hartmann: Lighthouse project with great charisma. The New Center is being planned for the district. In: Berlin Week . February 1, 2019, accessed February 6, 2019 . With info graphics.
- ↑ Active urban redevelopment areas Neue Mitte Tempelhof. Status: January 2019. In: berlin.de. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .