Technical center location

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Technical center location
Street Front (2011)

Street Front (2011)

Data
place Location (lip)
architect Brothers Richts
Client Wilhelm Quest
Architectural style Neoclassicism
Construction year 1924-1926
Coordinates 51 ° 59 '17.9 "  N , 8 ° 47' 50.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '17.9 "  N , 8 ° 47' 50.6"  E
Technikum Lage (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Technical center location

The Technikum Lage is a neoclassical building erected in the mid-1920s in Lage , Lippe district , in North Rhine-Westphalia . It contained a private polytechnic and from 1971 to 1981 a department of the Lippe University of Applied Sciences as one of the forerunner institutions of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Technology . In 1988 the building was added to the list of architectural monuments in the city of Lage. After several changes of ownership, years of vacancy and renovation, the building serves as a cultural center . It is used by the Lage Music School , the Lippe-West Adult Education Center and the Dotti Foundation.

history

Predecessor institution

The forerunner of the technical center was a construction and engineering school that the architect Johann Berger from Detmold ran in Lage from 1906. For this he bought a building at Langen Strasse 117 in August 1903. The Strelitz technical center served as a model . Its director Max Hittenkofer had failed with plans to set up a branch in Lage due to resistance from the magistrate ; Berger was known to the magistrate and received approval. One of the students was Wilhelm Quest, whose father Adolf Quest in Lage was First Councilor, Brick Master and Factory Owner. Wilhelm Quest later taught himself as a lecturer and also gave driving lessons at the school . Bergers building and engineering school failed, however, in 1913 the school building was foreclosed and went to the pensioner Georg Stolte.

Lippe Polytechnic Institute

Wilhelm Quest founded the construction and engineering school in Lage in autumn 1911 , which he soon renamed the Lippisches Polytechnisches Institut . He rented the building in Langen Strasse from Georg Stolte and initially taught together with two teachers. Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, the clay industry, civil engineering and architecture, reinforced concrete and its construction, heating and ventilation were taught. The training lasted two to two and a half years. A chauffeur school was attached . Adolf Quest, the founder's father, used his good contacts to find employment for the graduates.

Lessons were largely idle during the First World War . Wilhelm Quest had to give up the school building on Langen Strasse. Lessons were held in the Quest family's house on Plaßstrasse. On the side Quest worked in the used machine trade and gave officers driving lessons. He was exempt from military service because of a weak heart.

The renewed upswing came at the end of the First World War in the winter semester of 1918/1919. Quest returned to Lange Straße, but soon there was not enough space because there was a military facility on the ground floor until April 1920. Quest bought the building in 1919 and the Siekmann Hotel opposite three months later. During this time, the Polytechnic Institute was given an administrative council, which during the Weimar Republic also included government representatives from the Free State of Lippe .

Quest planned a new building in the early 1920s, but came into conflict with the municipality of Lage about the terms of a loan for it. Thereupon he, as director, and the college publicly discussed in 1922 about moving the institute to Detmold or Rinteln . Quest was finally able to solve the financing problem independently of municipal support.

Technical center

In the years 1924 to 1926, Quest had a three-story building with a loft in the style of neoclassicism built according to the plans of the renowned architects Gebrüder Richts in Lage. It contained large, bright lecture halls, spacious laboratory halls and a representative entrance hall. The management and the secretariat are located above the entrance portal. The cafeteria was still located in the main building on Langen Strasse , and Quest also lived there.

After the completion of the new building, the annual student frequency rose from 450 to 700 to 800. In 1924, the Technikum Lage was included in the Association of Higher Technical Educational Institutions in Germany. In October 1926, at the request of the Lippe government, Quest set up the "Clay Industry Engineering School" again as the successor to the brick-making school that had been abandoned during World War I.

Wilhelm Quest died of a heart attack on June 14, 1930 in Thale at the age of 45. State President Heinrich Drake praised his energetic successful work, which had benefited the city of Lage and the entire state of Lippe . Karl and Paul Quest, two Wilhelm Quests brothers, took over the management of the technical center. During the global economic crisis , the number of students fell to 132 in the summer semester of 1935. The closure of the Lemgo technical center in the winter semester of 1936/1937, which had been in economic difficulties, contributed to the upswing.

As of May 1937, a decree issued by the Reich Governor in Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe applied to teaching staff, which required teachers at private schools to hold a teaching permit, which required them to stand up for the Nazi state without reservation. It was also only issued on presentation of an " Aryan certificate " for yourself and your spouse.

In 1938 the engineering and construction school was entered on the list of the German technical college of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education . For this, the technical center had to be divided into an engineering school, a construction school and the brickworks engineering school. The separation took place in October 1939. In the same year the building school received a new building in Bleichenweg. More than a thousand students registered, but many of them were drafted into the Wehrmacht before the start of the semester at the start of the Second World War .

In the winter semester of 1942/1943, 367 students and more than 100 technical draughtsmen were taught at the technical center , plus 28 interns. After the declaration of the " total war ", the Reich Ministry of Education imposed a decree according to which the technical center had to be closed. Karl Quest achieved that the aircraft industry commissioned him to train 150 technical draughtsmen. A construction department of the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf was also housed in the technical center, and an aircraft construction research institute was housed in the construction school.

After US soldiers marched in on the night of April 4, 1945, the technical center was confiscated as a military hospital . It was later used by units of the British Army .

In the winter semester 1945/1946 teaching began again with 256 students in the fields of civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Makeshift quarters for students and teaching staff were set up in the building of the building school. In 1947 the British military government allowed courses in the brickworks engineering school. From 1946 to 1949, there was also the training of junior technical staff at the Post. In 1947 the technical center had around a thousand students. In 1952/1953 a construction building was built behind the technical center. A technician's training in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and construction, which was introduced in 1958, enabled vocational qualification over four semesters.

The educational policy of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia led to a decline in the number of students at the technical center from the 1950s. One of the reasons was the establishment of state engineering schools in Bielefeld , Paderborn and Lemgo , which, unlike the privately run technical center, had no tuition fees. The "Erbengemeinschaft Wilhelm Quest", consisting of Wilhelm Quest's widow and three of her children, who were liable for the technical center with their personal assets, recognized that the private educational institution would not have a long future. She informed the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to close the technical center.

Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Location department

In 1970 the “Association for Friends and Patrons of the Engineering School for Construction in Lage” was founded in Lage, which helped to manage the transition from the technical center to the Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Gerhard Quest, who was originally intended to be the successor to long-term director of the technical center, Karl Quest, moved from the technical center to the Lemgo Engineering School in the 1970/71 winter semester with the mechanical and electrical engineering departments. The structural and civil engineering departments were taken over by the Minden School of Engineering, but remained at the Lage location.

The Lippe University of Applied Sciences was founded on August 1, 1971 . Architecture and civil engineering were still taught at the Lage location, while an interior design department was located at the Detmold location. In 1981, after ten years, the location of the Fachhochschule ended. On February 11, 1981, the last architecture students took their exams there. The departments of architecture, interior design and civil engineering have been combined to form the construction department at the Detmold University of Applied Sciences.

The technical center after the abandonment of the university location

For years no sensible usage concept could be developed for the building complex of the technical center. In August 1971, the Lage Gymnasium moved into the building school for three years. In the 1980s, the construction school, the machine laboratory and the technical school were demolished. Demolition of the main building was also requested in January 1987. The local working group "Monument Protection" of the Lippischen Heimatbund campaigned for the preservation.

On November 22, 1988, the building was entered in the city of Lage's list of monuments. The building remained vacant, although the city council had discussed in 1988 to accommodate local government and create a cultural center. In 1989 the State Development Company of North Rhine-Westphalia bought the complex, and in 1993 it sold it to the city of Lage. In 1991 the city announced an architectural competition for the conversion of the technical center into a cultural center, for which the office “plan + build” from Lemgo was awarded the contract. The two-year renovation cost around eight million marks .

Use since 1995 as a cultural center

Back of the technical center (2011)

The former main building of the technical center has been used as a cultural center since autumn 1995. Since then it has housed the Lippe-West Adult Education Center and the Lage Music School. In the foyer on the ground floor, the Dotti Foundation organizes exhibitions with works by artists from the region. It bears the name of the artist and art educator Sibylle Dotti (1913–2003), who was one of the founders of the artist group Junge westen . From the end of June 2016 to July 2017, the Lage City Library was housed in the technical center.

literature

  • Burkhard Meier (ed.): Technikum Lage - from engineering school to cultural center . (= Contributions to the history of the city of Lage , Volume 8), Lage 1995.

Web links

Commons : Technikum Lage  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The beginnings as a "Polytechnisches Institut" (until 1924) . In: Burkhard Meier (Hrsg.): Technikum Lage - from engineering school to cultural center , p. 7.
  2. The beginnings as a "Polytechnisches Institut" (until 1924) . In: Burkhard Meier (ed.): Technikum Lage - from engineering school to cultural center , pp. 7–30.
  3. The new main building . In: Burkhard Meier (Ed.): Technikum Lage - from engineering school to cultural center , pp. 31–76.
  4. The post-war period (1945–1960) . In: Burkhard Meier (Hrsg.): Technikum Lage - from engineering school to cultural center , pp. 77–110.
  5. From engineering school to cultural center (1970–1995) . In: Burkhard Meier (Ed.): Technikum Lage - from the engineering school to the cultural center , p. 111.
  6. From engineering school to cultural center (1970–1995) . In: Burkhard Meier (ed.): Technikum Lage - from the engineering school to the cultural center , pp. 111–112.
  7. See also: Former technical center building, Lange Str. 124 in the list of registered monuments in the city of Lage from March 20, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2017 (PDF).
  8. From engineering school to cultural center (1970–1995) . In: Burkhard Meier (Ed.): Technikum Lage - from the engineering school to the cultural center , p. 112, p. 119.
  9. Volkshochschule Lippe-West , lage.de, accessed on March 24, 2017.
  10. Musikschule Lage ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 24, 2017.
  11. Peter Bockwinkel: Art and Music in the Technikum , lz.de, September 14, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  12. dotti-kunst-stiftung.de , accessed on March 23, 2017.
  13. City Library Lage , lage.de, accessed on March 23, 2017.
  14. City library location at the new location , lage.de, July 3, 2017.