Ständehaus (Kassel)
The Ständehaus was built in Kassel from 1834–36 according to the plans of Julius Eugen Ruhl . The early neo-renaissance building originally served the Hessian estates as a conference venue and is now the seat of the State Welfare Association of Hesse .
history
- The new estate as a political issue
After the restoration of the Electorate of Hesse , the estates have not been convened since 1816. The Palais Jungken they had previously used (later part of the residential palace ) was made available to Prince Elector Wilhelm (II.) . The climate in Hessen-Kassel was very reactionary.
The revolution of 1830 therefore broke out in Kurhessen with particular vehemence. Wilhelm II, now sovereign, was forced to convene the estates after a mass petition presented by the Kassel magistrate on September 15, 1830. On January 5, 1831, they passed a new constitution, which was extremely progressive for the time, with a unicameral parliament, a constitutional oath and the possibility of a ministerial indictment, a forerunner of the parliamentary responsibility of the ministers appointed by the monarch.
After the call for a new house of estates became loud, especially through Kassel's mayor Karl Schomburg , to whom the Electorate of Hesse owed its liberal constitution, Elector Wilhelm II made a building site available on Wilhelmshöher Platz . At the end of 1831, Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm took over the government as co-regent. Due to his ambition for restoration in politics, the planning for a new building was delayed considerably. The planned building site was suddenly no longer available because Friedrich Wilhelm wanted to realize his own plans for a palace here. In 1833 an agreement was finally reached on the site as part of a planned city expansion at "Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz", today's Ständeplatz. In the plans of the architect Ruhl there are personally registered changes of the electoral prince. For example, he corrected the name for the room for special consultations in room for me . The inscription on the foundation stone laid on June 24, 1834 also had to be changed. At the inauguration of the new building in November 1836, the reactionary Interior Minister Ludwig Hassenpflug initially refused to hand over the keys to the estates.
Until the end of the electorate in 1866, the Ständehaus retained its function as the Hessian parliament building.
- Later use
After the establishment of the province of Hesse-Nassau by Prussia meetings took place in the House of the Estates from 1868 to 1933 the municipal parliament of the administrative district of Kassel and the county council of the province of Hesse-Nassau instead.
During the Second World War , the building was damaged by incendiary bombs in 1943. After reconstruction, it has served as the headquarters of the State Welfare Association of Hesse since 1953 . For the 175th anniversary of the opening of the estate as the seat of the Hessian state parliament, the state welfare association had the house renovated inside and out and carefully changed so that the building history, including that of the 1950s, remains visible in 2011.
architecture
The original building uses stylized forms from the Italian Renaissance. It is considered to be one of the first neo-renaissance buildings in Germany. The rear of the building was greatly expanded in 1904–1906. After minor damage in the Second World War, the roof was rebuilt in a simplified manner and the conference room was refurbished in the style of the 1950s based on designs by Arnold Bode .
The filigree door of the main entrance from the time it was built is noteworthy. The two cast iron wings were made in the ironworks in Veckerhagen .
literature
- Ole Creutzig, Thomas Fischer: Ständehaus renovation 2009-2011. In: Architecture for Democracy and Self-Administration: 175 Years of the Kassel Ständehaus. Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3933617446 , pp. 147-152.
- Gerd Fenner: “… A visible monument to the constitution” 175 years of the estate in Kassel. In: Hessian homeland. 62/1, 2012, pp. 30-34.
- Gerd Fenner, Christina Vanja (Hrsg.): Architecture for Democracy and Self-Administration: 175 Years of the Kassel Ständehaus. Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3933617446 .
- Gerd Fenner, Christina Vanja: From the “Palais of the Estates” to the modern parliament and administration building. In: Architecture for Democracy and Self-Administration: 175 Years of the Kassel Ständehaus. Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3933617446 , pp. 17-108.
- Jens Flemming: Estates, revolution and parliamentary traditions in Kassel = historical series of publications - small writings 1. Ed .: Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen . Kassel 1999. ISBN 3-89203-039-1
- Jens Flemming, Christina Vanja (ed.): This house is built democracy. The Ständehaus in Kassel and its parliamentary tradition. Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-933617-30-9 .
- Alois Holtmeyer: The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative region. Volume VI. Marburg 1923.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Hesse - City of Kassel I. Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06232-0 .
- Christina Vanja: Bureaus for registry lists, secretaries and technicians - the extension of the estate to the administration building at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Architecture for Democracy and Self-Administration: 175 Years of the Kassel Ständehaus. Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3933617446 , pp. 109-146.
- Christina Vanja: 150 years of the Ständehaus. Parliamentary tradition in Hesse. Self-administration in the municipal association . (Exhibition catalog), Kassel 1986. ISBN 3-89203-004-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A building against the old thrones in: FAZ of June 9, 2011, p. 54; Peer Zietz: Appropriate . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 1/2012, p. 25f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 56 ″ N , 9 ° 29 ′ 28 ″ E