Town house (Mainz)
In the town hall in Mainz , several offices of the Mainz city administration have been located in two parts of the building, the so-called "Lauteren wing" (citizens' office, social welfare office, etc.) and the "Kreyziger wing" (registry office, among others). The building section at Kaiserstraße 5 is a listed building .
history
In 1888 the administration building of the Hessian Ludwigseisenbahn (later: Lauteren-wing ) was built according to a design by the architect of the main train station , Philipp Johann Berdellé .
The large private railway companies soon lost their importance. Their time ended with the nationalization of the Hessian Ludwig Railway in 1897. The building was now the seat of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz . After 1922, it became the Mainz Railway Directorate , and in 1953 it became the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate .
In 1938 the building was expanded with a new building on the central axis of Kaiserstraße , today's Kreyssig wing of the town hall (after Eduard Kreyssig ). Both administration buildings were connected with a closed bridge. The Deutsche Bundesbahn used this bridge during the Rose Monday procession as an advertising space with a large banner depicting a railway wagon with the inscription Only Rose Monday trains are more beautiful .
During the Second World War , the older building complex fell to rubble and ashes after being bombed. The new building erected in 1955 at the same location shows the very three- dimensional grid facade made of gray travertine that is characteristic of the 1950s .
The name town house has historical roots. With the loss of city freedom after the archbishopric feud of 1462, the first Mainz town hall on the fire lost its actual function. In 1526 the Archbishop and Elector of Mainz moved the town hall to the mint building on the market. The lack of space in the 18th century led to the move to the baroque brewery "Zum spitzen Würfel" in Stadthausstrasse. From then on it was not called the town hall, but the town house - as a result of the loss of urban freedom and the resulting broken bourgeois self-confidence.
After the town house was destroyed in 1942, large parts of the city administration moved into the former art school at Am Pulverturm 13 . In 1973 a representative town hall was inaugurated on the banks of the Rhine for the first time in 511 years .
Until 1998 the building housed administrative offices of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and later the Deutsche Bahn AG . With the new use as a Mainz town house, 110 years of railway history in Mainz came to an end.
Namesake for the Lauteren grand piano
The Lauteren family of wine merchants was one of the leading representatives of the Mainz civil society, the notables , in the 19th century . As a member of the city council, the Hessian state parliament and the Chamber of Commerce, she had a great influence on politics and the economy. Christian Lauteren (1755–1843) was a city councilor and commercial judge, his son Clemens Lauteren (1786–1877) was one of the five founders of the Hessische Ludwigsbahn AG , then initially vice president, later president and finally honorary president of the board of directors of this company. His son Christian Ludwig took over the chairmanship of the administrative board of the Hessian Ludwig Railway in 1888. He was president of several banks and was appointed a lifelong member of the first chamber of the Hessian state parliament by the Grand Duke in 1851 . Christian Ludwig Lauteren made a name for himself in the course of the plans for the embankment of the Rhine and played a key role in relocating the railway line from the bank of the Rhine to the western side of the city.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Mainz. Mainz 2020, p. 26 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
- ↑ Angela Schumacher, Ewald Wegner: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 2.1 = City of Mainz. City expansions in the 19th and early 20th centuries . 2nd edition: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1997. ISBN 978-3-88462-138-7 . P. 84.
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 8 ° 15 ′ 40.4 ″ E