Wedding Town Hall

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Wedding Town Hall
Town hall Wedding old building

Town hall Wedding old building

Data
place Berlin-Wedding
architect Friedrich Hellwig ,
Fritz Bornemann
Client District Office Wedding
Architectural style New objectivity , post-war modernity
Construction year 1928-1930, 1964-1966
Coordinates 52 ° 32 '51 "  N , 13 ° 21' 23"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '51 "  N , 13 ° 21' 23"  E
particularities
The ensemble consists of an old building from 1930 and a new building from 1966

The Wedding Town Hall is a communal building ensemble in the Berlin district of Wedding ( Mitte district ) near Leopoldplatz . It consists of the original building, which was completed in 1930 and is now a listed building , and a high-rise building with a pavilion in front of it, which was added in 1966. The administrative complex is located at Müllerstrasse  146/147.

Building from 1930

The founding of Greater Berlin in 1920 led to the formation of the Wedding district from the previously existing districts of Alt-Berlin , Wedding, Gesundbrunnen and parts of the Oranienburger Vorstadt and Rosenthaler Vorstadt . Since the newly founded district had neither a town hall nor its own administrative facilities, the Wedding District Office ordered the construction of the building, which was built between 1928 and 1930 according to plans by the Magistrate's senior building officer Friedrich Hellwig . In the period before that, the district administration departments were distributed in 25 locations in the district. From 1918 until the inauguration of the town hall building on November 18, 1930, the main seat for the district and city council assembly in Wedding was the single dormitory at Schönstedtstrasse 1. The council meeting room was on the top floor.

Stone coat of arms of Berlin

As one of the few administration buildings in Berlin, it was built during the Weimar period in the tradition of New Objectivity . The construction costs were planned at 2.2 million marks, only two million were actually needed. The mayor at the time, Carl Leid , put the amount not used back for the repair fund.

The approximately 60 m × 50 m large building adjoining the neighboring development on one side is a five-storey grid brick building , the two façade sides visible from Müllerstraße are divided by evenly lined up rectangular windows. For cost reasons, a tower that is common in town halls was dispensed with. Except for a small stone coat of arms on the street corner, the building is completely unadorned. The complete absence of decorative elements is unique among Berlin town halls, only the 'RATHAUS WEDDING' lettering above the entrance portal is a further concession.

Entrance hall with candelabra and coffered ceiling

The slightly emphasized entrance on Müllerstrasse leads into the low entrance hall, which is only designed as a distribution room and in which the strict objectivity of the exterior construction continues. The walls are clad with yellow and green ceramic tiles, while a mosaic with the Berlin coat of arms can be seen in the floor . Here, too, the window grid of the exterior building continues with the coffered ceilings. The candelabra on the side staircases, which consist of luminous staggered towers and an attached spherical lamp, deserve attention . In the inner courtyard is the historic hall of the district council meeting named after Walther Rathenau . The windows in the base zone were renewed after the Second World War and are no longer in their original condition.

New building

New building from 1966
Pavilion of the former BVV

From 1964 to 1966 arose as a supplementary building the freestanding twelve-story building, designed by Fritz Bornemann as reinforced concrete - skeleton with curtain precast concrete. In order to enable a transition between the old building and the new building, Bornemann added an extension to the old building. In front of the skyscraper is the elevated meeting room of the district council, which is one of the outstanding examples of modern post-war architecture. The cubic structure, supported by concrete pillars, conveys the idea of ​​a transparent democracy in that the walls are completely glazed on three sides. After the district reform in 2001, the hall had become useless because the former Wedding district in the Mitte district had opened up as a district. The listed solitary building housed the Schiller Library from 2006 to 2014 .

The old and new buildings grouped around a spacious square on Müllerstraße mark the administrative center of the district diagonally across from the Old Nazareth Church .

use

  • In the old building: The Office for Social Affairs and Citizens' Services, the City Development Office, the Wedding Gallery, shops, a Coffee Star coffee roastery and the Ratskeller are located here.
  • In the new building: until the move in October 2014, the citizens' office was housed here. After the district ceded the building to the state for cost reasons, it has been used as a job center since mid-2015 .
  • Pavilion: The former district ordinance hall was used by the Schiller Library from 2006 to December 8, 2014 . After the closure, preparations began for a move to the new central library that was built next to it. At the end of 2015, the Central Job Center took over the pavilion, which had previously been used for meeting rooms and offices.
  • The Wedding Gallery has been located in the old town hall building since March 2009 and focuses on solo and group exhibitions on the subject of migration and foreignness . The target group of the exhibitions there are mainly residents of the immediate vicinity and the district of Wedding.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Wedding  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Architectural monument of Wedding Town Hall, Müllerstrasse
  2. ↑ a b Carl-Peter Steinmann: Sunday walks 2 . Transit-Buchverlag, Berlin, 2013. ISBN 978-3-88747-286-3 ; P. 24.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin , 3rd edition, 2006, Deutscher Kunstverlag, pp. 202/203.
  4. ↑ Coffee roastery in Wedding Town Hall
  5. ↑ Cafeteria in Wedding Town Hall ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2017 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 / www.rathaus-kantine.de
  6. ^ Relocation of the Schiller Library in Wedding. In: press release. District Office Mitte, November 21, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Dirk Jericho: There is now support on the Leo: On August 19, the job center opens in the former town hall tower. In: Berlin Week. August 10, 2015, accessed November 29, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Jobcenter Müllerstraße 147 , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  9. ^ Jahn, Mack & Partner: Preparatory Investigations Berlin Mitte - Müllerstrasse. Draft report , November 2009, p. 118