Technical Town Hall (Herford)

Technical town hall, view from the southwest

The Technical Town Hall in Herford is a former hospital that is now used as a municipal administration building. The building, erected in 1927 and 1928, is stylistically a brick expressionist building and has been a listed building since 1985 .

History and description

The building was built as an extension of the Herford City and District Hospital (Herford Clinic since 1995 ) in the vicinity of the old Friedrich Wilhelm Hospital in Radewig . It was opened in 1929 with 144 beds. In 1973 the district hospital moved to a new building outside the city center, since then the building has been used by the Herford city administration as the technical town hall.

The four to six storey building was planned by the Berlin architects Carl Mohr and Paul Weidner , who specialize in hospitals . The outer walls are made of dark brick , the gable and decorative elements show the style of Expressionism .

On May 29, 1985 the building was listed as a historical monument.

See also

• Town Hall (Herford)

literature

• Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 436.

Web links

• herford-stadtführung.com: Technical Town Hall , accessed on June 1, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Technical Town Hall. herford-stadtführung.com, Mathias Polster City Guide, accessed on June 1, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dehio manual (see literature )
3. ↑ List of architectural monuments in the city of Herford (PDF; 78 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 2.3 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 59.5"  E