Rossertstrasse 21 (Eppstein)
The building at Rossertstrasse 21 in Eppstein was built as a school and is now used as Town Hall II. As a cultural monument, it is under monument protection .
School history of Eppstein
After the Reformation , a first school was founded in 1563/64 by the Protestant rulers, Landgrave Philip of Hesse and Count Ludwig von Stolberg. As a school, a house was used in the farmyard of the castle, the teacher was out repealed church property paid the Talkirche. It was a Protestant school where theologians taught until 1780 before they were given their first parish position. Catholic children were able to attend the Catholic school in Fischbach. From 1780 secular teachers also taught. The school building was rebuilt in 1716 on the site of the first school. Later, additional rooms in the baroque town hall at the talk church were used, later the school was completely relocated there.
In 1803 a Catholic school was founded in Eppstein. In the Duchy of Nassau , the denominational schools were replaced by the simultaneous school . The two Eppstein churches were merged accordingly. In 1928 the new school at Rossertstrasse 21 was used. In 1965, the central elementary school was built in Vockenhausen and the Eppsteiner school thus dissolved. Since 1969, the building on Rossertstrasse has been used as a town hall and a town hall has been added at the same time .
building
The building of the former school was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Weigandt from Wiesbaden. It is a two-storey plastered building on a sandstone base. It is structured by seven window axes with an enlarged central interval and a mansard roof with hipped dormers. Different window designs on the storeys on the front side, round-arched termination on the ground floor, rectangular on the upper floor. Emphasis on the central axis with the rounded arched portal with a former school clock in the skylight, the window above it with flanking pilasters and the three-axis diaphragm with pilaster framing, four windows and frontispiece.
In 1968, according to plans by Robert Kämpf from Frankfurt, the community center was added. The building from Rathaus II has been in use since 1974 and contains the city library.
literature
- Berthold Picard: History in Eppstein: a guide through the districts of Bremthal, Ehlhalten, Eppstein, Niederjosbach and Vockenhausen. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 19955, ISBN 3-7829-0442-7 , pp. 86-87.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Former school In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 42.6 ″ E