Ständehaus (Karlsruhe)
| Karlsruhe Estates Building | |
|---|---|
 Karlsruhe Estates Building |
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| Data | |
| place | Karlsruhe |
| architect |
Friedrich Weinbrenner , Friedrich Arnold |
| Construction year | 1822 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '31.5 " N , 8 ° 24' 1.2" E |
| particularities | |
| First new parliament building in Germany | |
The Ständehaus Karlsruhe was the first new parliament building in Germany. From 1822 to 1918 it housed the Baden Assembly of Estates and from 1919 to 1933 the State Parliament of the Republic of Baden .
The building was designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner and Friedrich Arnold and opened on November 2, 1822, after the laying of the foundation stone on October 16, 1820. On that day, the Baden parliament moved from the castle to the Ständehaus and met there for the last time on May 16, 1933. On October 14, 1933, the Baden state parliament was dissolved by the National Socialist government. In 1944 the Ständehaus was badly damaged in an air raid and finally demolished in 1961. In 1979 a Catholic deanery center was built on the vacant site and a third was used as a parking lot.
In March 1991 the city decided to rebuild the Ständehaus, which opened after two years of construction on August 21, 1993 and now houses the city library . The new building was designed by Jürgen Schroeder and architecturally modeled on the old Ständehaus from 1822. Today, a “Ständehaus memorial” commemorates its former use as a parliament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Chronicle Karlsruhe .
- ↑ Susanne Asche, Ernst Otto Bränche: The road of democracy. 2007, ISBN 9783881904834 .
- ↑ Karlsruhe: History of the Ständehaus . Website of the city of Karlsruhe, as of November 2, 2005, accessed on September 28, 2013.
- ^ Helmuth Bischoff: Karlsruhe. DuMont Reiseverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783770165056 , p. 111.