Scharoun School Marl

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Auditorium of the Scharoun School in Marl

The Scharounschule Marl is a school designed and built in the style of organic architecture by the architect Hans Scharoun in the city of Marl . It is considered one of the most important examples of modern post-war architecture in North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

Scharoun School

On behalf of the city of Marl, the architect Hans Scharoun created a design for a primary and secondary school in the then new Drewer area between 1960 and 1964 . The design envisaged a school building with 20 classes, a sports hall and an auditorium with 522 seats on Westfalenstrasse. After the foundation stone was laid in 1964, construction work began so that school classes could move into the first phase in 1968. The auditorium and gymnasium followed in 1969. A year later, the entire building, including the outdoor facilities, was handed over and the school was fully operational.

architecture

The "school apartments"

In addition to the Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Lünen , the Marl School is one of only two school buildings that were entirely designed by Scharoun and built according to his plans. When planning the building in the new Drewer-Süd settlement area, the city of Marl did not impose any urban planning requirements on the architect. Scharoun was able to implement his ideas of organic architecture, strongly supported by Mayor Rudolf-Ernst Heiland .

Five wings of the building, in which the classrooms are located, protrude like star rays into the area, centered in the central school auditorium. The auditorium represents the heart of the building and connects the rest of the building. Designed at the same time as the Berlin Philharmonic , this hall also impresses with its unique acoustics. It rises significantly above the single-storey, so-called “school apartments”, each consisting of a classroom, toilet rooms, a cloakroom, a common room and an open-air area for teaching and staying outdoors. Each of these school apartments is honeycombed.

“The principles of organic architecture can be seen, among other things, in the honeycomb-like shape of the building parts, which are modeled on natural organisms, in the pronounced use of irregular and asymmetrical shapes inside, which repeatedly open up new and surprising perspectives, in the use of predominantly natural materials with warm tones and natural light and, ultimately, the consistent orientation of the architecture towards the well-being of the building users. "

- City of Marl, website

Scharoun implemented an educational concept in the special architecture of the school that consistently focuses on the pupils, but provides different learning conditions for lower, middle and upper grades.

Receipt of school

The Scharoun School has been a listed building since 2004 . Initially for economic reasons, according to plans by the city of Marl, it was either demolished in 2006 or used as a retirement home . In 2006, however, architects, town planners, monument conservationists and committed citizens came together to form an initiative group in order to maintain the school with the support of the city of Marl as an architecturally valuable building that is used for school purposes. Today the city music school is located in the Scharoun School. The building with its multitude of individually designed rooms and the acoustically unique auditorium offer the music school and numerous Marl music associations such as the Marl young wind orchestra ideal opportunities as a location for rehearsals and concerts. The renovation work began in autumn 2010. The primary school Aloysiusschule and the municipal music school will then share the premises. On August 19, 2015, the renovated buildings and their new purposes were presented to the public in a ceremony and a gala concert.

Quote

“The most important task of education is the classification of the individual in the community, his development to a personal responsibility with the aim of increasing quality, so that a community arises not of an additive, but of a potentiating character. It is not about increasing knowledge, but about conveying experiences and raising awareness so that the individual can find real contact with public life and a relationship with the political community. ... A school building shouldn't be a symbol of political power or the result of technical or artistic perfection. Like any other building, a school should convey an idea of ​​life that conforms to the universal principle of democracy ”

- Scharoun, 1961

literature

Web links

Commons : Scharounschule (Marl)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scharoun School in Marl . Website of the city of Marl. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
  2. ↑ Jost Schäfer: The primary and secondary school Hans Scharouns in Marl. “Organic building” in post-war modernism. In: Preservation of monuments in Westphalia-Lippe. 1/1996, pp. 21-26.
  3. ↑ Resolution proposal for entry in the list of monuments , Main and Finance Committee of the City of Marl on March 10, 2004, accepted
  4. ↑ From Bauen und Wohnen, slightly shortened at the beginning and the end
  5. ↑ With numerous illustrations, also from the Scharoun School, and a. a 180 ° panoramic image of the central area
  6. ↑ The school from an architectural and architectural-historical perspective. With a German introduction to building history
  7. ↑ Scharoun's other buildings shown: Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Lünen , Scharounkirche Bochum of the Christian Community

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 45.9 ″  E