Town house (Osnabrück)
As townhouse two buildings ( Stadthaus I and II townhouse ) in the district of Westerberg in Osnabrück referred. The town house I was built in 1928–1929 as a municipal hospital. Stadthaus II was opened in 2000 as a service center for the municipal social welfare office.
Town house I
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prehistory
The Osnabrück city hospital was in 1865 in the so-called Stüve house on the mountain road, near downtown, resident. The clinic complex included other buildings on Bergstrasse and Lürmannstrasse, or in the area of the historic ramparts between the Hohe Mauer in the west and the Bocksmauer in the east. Over time, however, the hospital's space requirement exceeded the offer, so that after the First World War, plans were made for a new central building on the area along the Natruper-Tor-Wall (at that time "Wiener Wall"), which is higher than the old town. Max Bürger , the head of the internal medicine department at the time, was responsible for the construction project . The new building was realized in 1928/29.
building
The building was the former city architect designed Friedrich Lehmann and is a rare representative of the New Objectivity is in Osnabrueck. It is a seven- disc high-rise building designed with a flat roof, the longitudinal side South-north-oriented. In the central area, a striking, block-like, one-and-a-half-story structure was implemented as a machine room , which is about 1/5 of the depth from the eastern front side. The facade is made of brown-red clinker . With the exception of the ground floor, each full storey has fourteen rectangular window openings on the front side, which, apart from two wider bands on the outer areas of the facade, are arranged strictly regularly. The basement has smaller window openings and its facade structure differs from that of the upper floors. The structure has round window openings in the upper area. On the western back there is a standing bay window with balconies in the north , the openings of which, however, were closed during a later renovation.
This sober design without major adornments was chosen for financial reasons. On the roof to the north and south of the structure there was originally a sun terrace for the patients before a stacked floor with nurses' apartments was added here in the 1950s .
Use and renovation
After its construction, the building was the seat of the city hospital for decades. Ancillary buildings were to be erected to the north and south in order to create a representative courtyard structure as an entrance area towards the old town, but were never implemented. After the space requirements of the city clinics continued to increase, despite the construction and inclusion of other buildings such as the former Protestant primary school on Rißmüllerplatz, it was decided in the 1980s to relocate to the outskirts. In 1991 the clinic moved to a new building on Finkenhügel, where it is still located today.
Even before the hospital moved out, various subsequent uses were discussed for the building and the surrounding area on the Natruper-Tor-Wall. Demolition was out of the question as the building is a listed building. Investors wanted u. a. convert it into a hotel or integrate it into a newly built shopping center. In politics, uses as a cultural center or student residence were discussed. Since the city was planning to build a new administrative center during the same period in order to bring together the city offices and offices scattered across the city, the new building was abandoned and the decision was made to convert the city hospital into a city hall instead. The construction of a hotel (today's Remarque-Hotel ), a service center , an underground car park and city villas on Lürmannstrasse were determined on the surrounding area.
The renovation was carried out by an investor from 1992 to 1994, with two four-storey building wings being added to the north and south. The investor then rented the building to the city. After the company went bankrupt in 2002, the city bought Stadthaus I back. Due to construction defects during the renovation, the building had to be completely renovated from 2012 to 2015.
Town house II
Stadthaus II was originally called a service center and was supposed to be built by an investor, but in the end the city itself acted as the client . The location is between the two former clinic buildings, Stüvehaus in the south and Stadthaus I in the north. The functional building with postmodern elements was designed by the architect Klaus Scholz and combines the social services of the city administration. It was completed in 2000.
Bunker system
During the Second World War , a tunnel system was built from 1942 as a bunker for the city hospital and the surrounding neighborhood. The access was below the hospital on Wiener Wall, from there the tunnels were driven westward into the slope of the Westerberg. An expansion for over 3,000 people and the establishment of an operating theater bunker were planned, which would have made it one of the largest bunker systems in the city. Before the end of the war, however, the tunnel system no longer reached its planned size. At the time of the Cold War, the tunnel system was dedicated to the federal civil defense system , but it was in a poor structural condition and was partially filled. In the run-up to the conversion of the site in the 1990s, it was given up as a civil defense facility and the entrances were closed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Christian Kämmerer: Volume 32 - City of Osnabrück. Braunschweig 1986. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation. Hanover 1986. ISBN 3-528-06209-6 . P. 95
- ↑ a b c d Explanation (PDF, 1.5 MB) for the development plan No. 474 - Zentrum am Natruper-Tor-Wall, osnabrueck.de, accessed on June 30, 2020.
- ↑ a b c 25 years ago, the ex-clinic high-rise in Osnabrück became the “Stadthaus I” , noz.de, July 9, 2019, accessed on June 30, 2020.
- ^ Joachim Dierks: Osnabrück's oldest elementary school. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from March 1, 2017.
- ↑ "It doesn't always have to be marble and granite" , noz.de, June 21, 2000, updated July 7, 2010, accessed June 30, 2020.
- ↑ Wiener Wall air raid shelter ("Krankenhaus-Stollen") , osnabruecker-bunkerwelten.de, accessed on June 30, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 40.5 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 12.9 ″ E