Werdohl town hall

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Aerial view of the town hall in Werdohl

The Werdohl town hall is a listed building in Werdohl .

history

Old building

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.

New building with connecting passage

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

  1. ↑ Werdohl-marketing.de: Sights (PDF) accessed on May 21, 2017
  2. ↑ 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@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.regioport-siegerland.de  
  3. ↑ 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

Commons : Rathaus Werdohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 52.1 ″  E