Old Technical Town Hall
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The Old Technical Town Hall (German: Altes Technisches Rathaus, officially Städtisches Hochhaus), is a communal service building of the city administration and headquarters of the section for the planning and building regulations of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is the oldest high-rise building in Munich and is still referred to as "Das Hochhaus" by old-established Munichers, although there are now more and higher high-rise buildings.
Location
The Old Technical Town Hall (Blumenstraße 28b) is located in the historic old town south of the Sendlinger Tor at the Altstadtring / Blumenstraße, in junction with the "An der Hauptfeuerwache".
History
The technical departments of the city administration Munich gained in importance, especially after
Within the framework of the competition of 1919, Hermann Leitenstorfer received first prize for his design of the Technical Town Hall. Leitenstorfer increased its design for the municipal administration building from four to twelve stories. The building, which was now to be classified as a high-rise building, was permitted by the prize court to be executed in 1928, as they believed it would create a "welcome dominant focal point in the townscape".
In 1928, the foundation bricks were laid, and as early as 1929 the high-rise building could be handed over for its purpose. Together with the neighboring building, which begun in 1924, the Old Technical Town Hall created an organizational and structural, but not architectural, unit.
Soon, however, the technical departments of the city administration needed more rooms, therefore additional offices were erected outside the Old Technical Town Hall. Only with the opening of the Technical Town Hall in Berg am Laim in the year 2000 are all the technical services combined into one building complex. Since then, the building previously named "Städtisches Hochhaus", has been called the "Old Technical Town Hall" in the public consciousness and in the semi-official use.
Building
The Old Technical Town Hall is architecturally divided into three units: the base, the eight main floors and the four stories, one of which is the
The eight main floors are simply designed. The frameless window ribbons give the impression of a perforated
The stone trim in Nagelfluh, works well because of the art that it is formed, and how it simultaneously searches for a connection with the polygonal ends of the upper story of the building. This reminds Hermann Leitenstorfer of the Angertor, which was demolished in 1869, on the grounds which the high-rise building was erected.
Stylistically, the Old Technical Town Hall is assigned as a New Construction and is regarded as the most important example of Munich's options for New Constructions.
Technical specifications
- Height: 45.5 m
- Stories: 12
Others
The Old Technical Town Hall is still equipped with a popular
References
- ^ "Paternoster-Aufzüge in München". muenchen.de (in German). Retrieved 10 February 2017.
External links
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