Roland School
| Roland School | |
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| type of school | primary school |
| School number | 100833 |
| founding | 1961 |
| address |
Rolandstrasse 40 |
| place | Düsseldorf-Golzheim |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '44 " N , 6 ° 46' 35" E |
| student | 260 (2011) |
| Website | www.ggrolandstrasse-duesseldorf.de |
The Rolandschule is a community elementary school at Rolandstraße 40 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim . The building was built from 1957 to 1961 based on designs by Paul Schneider-Esleben . On September 5, 1961, the school was opened as a Protestant elementary school. Today the school has around 260 students (as of 2011).
description
With the strict modular system , the architect is based on the works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . The school building "in its linear and cubic severity represents the Mies tradition in an almost classic way", but it "already hints at the aesthetics of the 1960s". Because of its convincing architecture, the building "quickly caught on and became a model for a whole range" of school buildings. The school was extensively renovated in 2005. The stress of 40 years of use, changed energy concepts, but also the removal of pollutants such as asbestos and PCB made this work necessary. The commissioned architects were able to coordinate with Schneider-Esleben, but the latter did not live to see the completion of the work. The renovation costs amounted to € 6.9 million and were completed in 2006.
Art historical significance
With the building, Schneider-Esleben wanted to create a "unity of visual art and architecture" and therefore included members of the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO in the planning. The result was a series of works of art, some of which are still in their place today, including the three kinetic objects in the foyer - a color organ by Heinz Mack , a grid sculpture by Otto Piene and a shadow play by Günther Uecker (disk balls). Since the school in its "original equipment is important for the history of architecture and the city", it has been a listed building as a total work of art since 1990. The light kinetic objects were restored in March 2011 by students of the CICS under the direction of Gunnar Heydenreich with a budget of 20,000 euros.
In 1961 Joseph Beuys was commissioned by the school's architect, Paul Schneider-Esleben, to make a play sculpture (doll) for the Roland School. Beuys made a nine-part reclining figure from teak, the individual links of which were connected with hemp rope. After Der Spiegel reported in December of the same year that “the heavy skull of the giant toy could kill a child”, the ropes were reinforced with aluminum brackets and the body of the figure was anchored in the ground of the school yard by the Düsseldorf architect Wolfgang Döring . In 1963, on December 20th, the director of the Rolandschule wrote to the building authorities that the doll needed restoration or had to be removed. Thereupon the work, after Beuys considered it to be completely mutilated and did not accept compensation, was picked up by him in 1964. Today it is part of the Beuys block in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt under the title Jungfrau , 1961 .
swell
- Jörg AE Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf, with garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, p. 216f.
- Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1st edition, Berlin 2001, p. 114, no. 165.
literature
- Klaus Englert: A school as a total work of art. Rolandstrasse primary school in Düsseldorf. In: Metamorphosis. Build in stock. Konradin-Medien, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008. Issue 06/08. Pp. 48 to 52 ( PDF of the article )
- Bernd Gruindl: Construction in detail: New facade in the old appearance. In: Metamorphosis. Build in stock. Konradin-Medien, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008. Issue 06/08. P. 57 (PDF of the article see Englert)
- Heinrich Klotz (ed.): Paul Schneider-Esleben. Drafts & Buildings 1949–1987. Viehweg, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-528-08726-9 .
- Ulrike Scheffler-Rother: The Roland School in Düsseldorf . Published by the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscape Protection, editor Karl Peter Wiemer. Published as issue 464 of the series: Rheinische Kunststätten . Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-88094-916-6 .
- Klaus Siegele: Pollution Control. Fight with Asbste and PCB. In: Metamorphosis. Build in stock. Konradin-Medien, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008. Issue 06/08. P. 53–56 (PDF of the article see Englert)
- Heinrich Klotz: Paul Schneider from Esleben. Drafts and buildings , Gerd Hatje publishing house, Ostfildern near Stuttgart 1996, pp. 98-103.
Web links
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
- View in the picture book Düsseldorf
- Report on a project at Department 6 (Social and Cultural Studies) of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with students from the Roland School to research its history
- Report on rp-online on the completion of the renovation work
- “No luck with glass” mirror article from 1961 about the Roland School
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klotz (1987), p. 21
- ↑ Kanz, Weimer (2001), p. 114
- ↑ Kanz, Weimer (2001), p. 114
- ↑ cf. Englert (2008)
- ^ A b Jörg AE Heimeshoff: Listed houses in Düsseldorf, with garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, p. 217.
- ↑ rp-online
- ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/duesseldorf/rolandschule-wattestaebchen-fuer-zero-kunst-1.613610
- ^ Susanne Anna (ed.): Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, September 29 to December 30, 2007, Ostfildern 2008, pp. 46, 48 f.