Werdohl town hall
The Werdohl town hall is a listed building in Werdohl .
history
The Werdohl factory owners needed more living space for workers around 1900 due to the growth of industry. Therefore, a non-profit building cooperative was founded in 1901 . In 1910, a single home was commissioned to accommodate unmarried workers. The structure was completed in 1912. The single home contained 92 rooms with one, two or three beds. A total of 145 workers could live there. All rooms had washing facilities for each resident with running water, central heating, electric lighting, tables and lockable cupboards. A large dining room, reading room and kitchen were on the first floor. A bathing establishment and a machine washing facility, which could also be used by residents, were located in the basement.
The Kugel & Berg company subsequently used the property as an office building for a short time. In 1927 the municipality of Werdohl acquired the building. From that time until 1936 it served as an office building . With the receipt of city rights on April 19, 1936 by the President of the Province of Westphalia, the building became the city's official town hall.
In 1975 a new building was built, which was connected to the old building by a corridor. In this connecting passage, the original coat of arms stone, with the coat of arms of the Neuhoff-Bottlenberg family , from the former Pungelscheid castle was walled in.
architecture
The building in the neo-baroque style, which characterizes the cityscape , was built by the Iserlohn architects Brüninghaus & Helmuth on Goethestrasse. The awesome layered brickwork from Grauwacke was completed in 1912. The construction project cost the construction company around 180,000 marks.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werdohl-marketing.de: Sights (PDF) accessed on May 21, 2017
- ↑ Regioport-siegerland.de: Peter Schmeinta - Werdohl town hall from the single home to the town hall of Werdohl ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 21, 2017
- ↑ Heimatverein-werdohl.de: Stories on the history of Werdohl - Part 13, Before the house became a town hall, accessed on May 21, 2017
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 52.1 ″ E