Lahnstein town hall
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| Lahnstein town hall | |
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| place | Oberlahnstein |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 18 '6.5 " N , 7 ° 36' 18.8" E |
| owner | City of Lahnstein |
| operator | City of Lahnstein |
| start of building | 1971 |
| opening | May 24, 1973 |
| Renovations | from 2005 to 2019 |
| costs | 6.5 million marks |
| architect | Jürgen Jüchser and Peter Ressel (Planning Ring Wiesbaden) |
| capacity | approx. 1200 places |
| playing area | Large hall, small hall, 3 conference rooms, foyers |
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Meetings, congresses and other events |
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The Lahnstein town hall is an event center in the town of Lahnstein in the Rhein-Lahn district . The largely unchanged building is considered a rare testimony to the 1970s architecture in Rhineland-Palatinate and received an award from the Rhineland-Palatinate state prize " Art in Architecture" in 1975 . In 2007 the building was classified as a cultural monument by the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate due to its high-quality artistic design and high-quality architecture .
Premises
The Lahnstein town hall consists of a large hall with a gallery and a small hall, which together provide around 1000 seats. Three conference halls, which can also be combined, have around 200 seats. In addition, foyers on the various floors and a restaurant can be used.
History and architecture
In the course of the amalgamation of the previously independent towns of Ober- and Niederlahnstein to the town of Lahnstein in 1969, a joint town hall was to be created as a sign of togetherness. For this purpose, several houses were laid down in the area of the then still small-scale Salhofplatz to make room for the new hall.
According to plans by the architects Jürgen Jüchser and Peter Ressel from the Planungsring Wiesbaden office, a new reinforced concrete building was built, the foundation stone was laid in June 1971, the topping-out ceremony in December of the same year. The building protruding into the square consists of precast concrete parts and is subdivided by horizontal strips of windows and concrete. Parts of the old city wall were integrated into the new building, a passage runs through the building so that the hall can also be reached from the rear.
outer facade
The outer facade was initially planned as a pure exposed concrete facade in Dyckerhoff white , later the idea of an artistic design for parts of the facade was implemented by the Stuttgart artist Otto Herbert Hajek (1927–2005). Hajek created a relief of primary colored geometric patterns for the main facade in order to respond specifically to the historical city fortifications opposite in modern forms. Only at a kink in the facade was the color concept broken for the building edge by recessed gold-plated fields.
Interior design
Inside, too, Hajek continued the colourfulness and ornamentation of the exterior facade in the wall, floor and ceiling design. Right in the foyer, the colorful carpet with its typical 1970s patterns catches the eye of the visitor, who stretches across all floors as well as the conference and sanitary rooms. A two meter high obelisk designed by Hajek, the “Lahnstein” made of local Lahn marble , divides the stairways.
Repairs
From 2005 renovations took place in various sections. a. used for fire protection . For this reason, Hajek's construction sculpture “Zinnenfeld” in the upper foyer had to be removed. In 2007 the carpet and the ceilings, which were meanwhile badly damaged, were replaced. The garish carpet was rewoven by the former manufacturing company according to the old original patterns and colors and relocated in September of that year.
After damage to the concrete appeared on the outer facade and the original color was barely recognizable, the city considered renovating the outside of the hall in 2015. An initial plan provided for the facade surfaces including Hajek's relief to be provided with a complete coating and, after a smooth filling, to recreate the original colors through painting. These measures would have irretrievably lost the entire look created by architects and artists. After interventions by monument protection and the Institute for Stone Conservation, the German Federal Environment Foundation was won in 2017 to support a careful renovation of the town hall with only minimal interventions in a funded model project for the renovation of concrete buildings in line with historical standards and thus to preserve the original appearance of the building.
gallery
foyer
Great Hall
Gallery
Small Hall
Conference room
Washroom
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- Model-like, careful fair-faced concrete restoration at the listed town hall in Lahnstein , IFS report 56/2019, Institute for Stone Conservation eV, ISSN 0945-4748
- History of the town hall ( Memento from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the city of Lahnstein
- Careful concrete repair of the exposed concrete facade of the listed town hall in Lahnstein ( Memento from September 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Association of Restorers
- Otto Herbert Hajek - Works in Public Space ( Memento from September 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) World of Form
- Otto Herbert Hajek ( Memento from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Online finding aid for the architecture-related inventory, Southwest German archive for architecture and civil engineering
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 55 (PDF; 6.2 MB).
- ↑ Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt: Reconstruction of concrete buildings in line with historic monuments using the example of the town hall in Lahnstein. Annual report 2017 ( Memento from September 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
