Ronsdorf Rector's School
The former Ronsdorfer Rektoratsschule is a historic school building in Ronsdorf , since 1929 a district of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia . The school building , which has been a listed building since February 27, 1998, is located in the residential area of Ronsdorf-Mitte / Nord at Scheidtstrasse 36 .
history
The two-storey building with seven classrooms was built in 1901 for the Ronsdorf Rector's School founded on December 6, 1852 , the first building of which proved to be too small as Ronsdorf grew. The rector's school eventually turned into a high school in the former small town of Ronsdorf. After being incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal, it later became a branch of the Siegesstraße grammar school in Barmen .
On the night of May 29-30, 1943, Ronsdorf was badly hit by an Allied air raid on Wuppertal . The townscape in the center of Ronsdorf was characterized by uniform two- to three-storey slid-up residential buildings, which were largely destroyed in this air raid. In addition to the rectorate school, the post office , the tapestry school , the Luther Church and the Reformed Church are worth mentioning from the preserved building fabric .
The building was used in this function until the 1980s. Today the youth and culture center Ronsdorf is located here .
architecture
The building with a basement and the attached Rector's residence consists of four cubes , each covered by a hipped roof. The sanitary area with flat roof attached to the north comes from a later period . A symmetrical, three-axis central projection with wide, three-lane windows and a hipped roof bay dominates the front of the building.
There were two large classrooms on both the ground floor and the first floor, separated by a central corridor. The entrance and the stairwell for the students are in the northern, recessed side building, the teacher and the director in the southern counterpart. The teacher's and rector's rooms were also in the southern wing . A separate, small entrance porch enabled the teaching staff to have separate, protected access.
The students' wing is entered via an entrance arbor, which is raised by a few steps , with a wrought-iron railing and a coffered entrance door . The barred viewing windows have a fighter window . Above the entrance is the Latin motto “ Non scholae sed vitae discimus . “-“ Not for school, for life we should learn ”. Two pilasters on high pedestals flank the entrance and optically support a pent roof with carved beams . From the top plate of the pilasters capitals , the arch rises Supraporte with keystone and aphorism. The rear exit to the school yard is less accentuated with a single flight of stairs.
The facade is on the visible sides of the street with square plaster provided, the rear facade with smooth plaster. The lights in the basement consist of ornamentally latticed segmental arched windows that are embedded in a bulbous base cornice. The ground floor also has segmented arched windows. They have uniformly sills , fluted jambs and Keilstein -Fugenschnitte, only the wider classroom window of the central block are different from them something by a pronounced keystone .
The upper floor is optically separated from the ground floor on the facade by a surrounding parapet cornice . Here the windows have a rectangular shape and are emphasized by parapet areas with a toothed frieze as well as by highlighted lintels and relief arches. A decorative strip, which is interrupted in the area of the central risalit, runs around the building under the roof, above which there is a cornice . This too is interrupted by the roof bay of the central risalit. An oculus breaks through the roof bay .
A small roof house with carved lugs and pointed arched windows stands above the southern teacher's wing . The strict roof geometry of the northern students' wing is also loosened up with a hipped roof bay window with coupled windows. In contrast to those in the classrooms, the windows in the student wing have bars in the combatant windows .
Monument protection
The protection as a cultural monument took place due to its quality as an important testimony to the development of the city of Ronsdorf and the typical school architecture at the turn of the 20th century. In particular, the lavishly designed stairwells are worth keeping as a particularly high-quality equipment variant.
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Information about the youth center on the official homepage of the city of Wuppertal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the Johannes Rau all-day high school in Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 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.
- ^ District Ronsdorf - Cronenberg - Müngsten , newly accessed on October 6, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 47 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 56" E