City high-rise (Munich)
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The old technical town hall , officially called Städtisches Hochhaus , is a municipal service building of the city administration of Munich and today the seat of the department for urban planning and building regulations of the state capital Munich. It is the oldest skyscraper in Munich and is still referred to as "Das Hochhaus" by long-established Munich residents, although there are now more, and above all, taller skyscrapers.
location
The old technical town hall (Blumenstraße 28b) is located in the historical old town south of the Sendlinger Tor on the Altstadtring / Blumenstraße, junction “An der Hauptfeuerwache”.
history
The technical departments of the city administration of Munich gained in importance, especially after the First World War ; this also meant an increase in the number of specialists and increased space requirements. As part of a competition for the development of the urban property between Blumenstrasse and Unterer Anger, which was announced in 1919, the idea arose to concentrate all technical departments in one building. In the course of this competition, an intensive discussion about building a high-rise in downtown Munich began. This discussion found its conclusion in the decision of the city council of February 1, 1921, which basically allowed the construction of high-rise buildings , provided that the designs take the local environment into account and the high-rise building is lower than the towers of the Frauenkirche (99 m).
In the 1919 competition, Hermann Leitenstorfer won first prize for his design for the Technical Town Hall. Leitenstorfer increased his design for the municipal administration building by four to twelve floors. The building, which can now be classified as a high-rise building, was decided by the jury in 1928 to be executed, as in their opinion it would create a “ welcome dominant feature in the cityscape ”.
The foundation stone was laid in 1928, and the high-rise building was ready for use as early as 1929. Together with the neighboring building begun in 1924, the old technical town hall forms an organizational and structural, but not an architectural, unit.
Soon, however, the technical departments of the city administration needed more rooms, so that further offices were set up outside the old technical town hall. It was not until the opening of the Technical City Hall in Berg am Laim in 2000 that all technical departments were again combined in one building complex. Since then, the building, previously known as the “ Städtisches Hochhaus ”, has been called the “ Old Technical City Hall ” in public awareness and in semi-official use .
architecture
The old technical town hall is architecturally divided into three units: the base, the eight main floors and the four upper floors , one of which is an attic floor .
The eight main floors are simply designed. The frameless window openings create the impression of a perforated facade . The upper floors are structured by flat buttresses, the edges are bevelled and have historicizing design elements. The attic storey with its protruding console stones visually frames the building. The building, which is completely clad with facing bricks , corresponds to the Frauenkirche .
The stone plinth from Nagelfluh looks like a fortress with its passages and at the same time seeks a connection with the polygonal ends of the upper floors. In this way, Hermann Leitenstorfer is reminiscent of the Angertor , which was demolished in 1869 and on the ground of which the high-rise was built.
Stylistically, the old technical town hall can be assigned to the new building and is considered the most important example of the Munich Sonderweg in the new building.
Technical specifications
- Height: 45.5 m
- Floors: 12
Others
- The old technical town hall is still equipped with a paternoster lift . This elevator is very popular. As a result, the “Association for the Rescue of the Last Circulating Circulating Elevators ”, founded in Munich, was able to change the elevator ordinance , which originally provided for the paternoster elevators to be decommissioned by 2004. Due to a new version of the Industrial Safety Ordinance by the Federal Government on June 1, 2015, the paternoster was taken out of service on May 29, 2015. Due to violent protests, this part of the regulation was withdrawn on June 24, 2015. Shortly afterwards the paternoster was opened again, but was out of order for almost a year due to a technical defect. In 2019 it was shut down for general refurbishment; recommissioning is planned for 2020.
Individual evidence
Web links
- muenchen.de: Old Technical Town Hall
- Steffen Krämer: Technical City Hall Munich in: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria, online edition
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 55.8 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 14.9 ″ E