Hamburger Rathaus (City Hall of Hamburg)
The Hamburg Rathaus is located in the Altstadt quarter in the centre of Hamburg, Germany, near the lake Binnenalster and the central station. It is the seat of the government of Hamburg. Constructed from 1886 to 1897, the city hall still houses its original governmental functions with the office of the First Mayor of Hamburg and the meeting rooms for Hamburg's parliament and senate (the city's executive).
After the old city hall was destroyed in the great fire of 1842, it took almost 44 years to build a new one. The present building was designed by a group of seven architects, led by Martin Haller. Construction started in 1886 and the new city hall was inaugurated in 1897. Its cost was 11 million German gold marks, about €80 million. On October 26, 1897 at the official opening ceremony the First Mayor Dr. Johannes Versmann received the key of the city hall.
The city hall took center stage at many historical moments for Hamburg. On May 3, 1945 the Nazi commander in chief General Woltz surrendered Hamburg to the British Army. Heads of state visited Hamburg and its city hall, among them were Emperor Haile Selassie I, the Shahanshah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1955, and in 1965 Queen Elizabeth II. An emotionally moving service of remembrance was held on the market-square for the victims of the North Sea flood of 1962. Happier moments were the celebrations of the German football champions Hamburger SV.
In 1971 a room in the tower was only discovered accidentally during a search for a document fallen behind a filing cabinet. So there is a probability that there are even more rooms than the currently counted 647 rooms. Wikipedia
ساختمان ِ شهرداری ِ هامبورگ در مركز ِ شهر و در فاصله ی كمی از درياچه ی زيبای ِ آلستر قرار دارد. كشور آلمان دارای شانزده ايالت است كه در ميان آنها سه شهر برلين، هامبورگ و برمن شهرهای خودمختار هستند، يعنی مانند واشنگتن در آمريكا، بخشی از هيچ ايالتی نيستند و يا خود ايالتی مستقل هستند، برای همين به آنها در زبان ِ آلمانی
Stadtstaat
می گويند، يعنی شهر- كشور
اين شهرها برخلاف ساير ايالتها مجلس ِ سنا و طبيعتاً سناتور دارند...
ساختمان ِشهرداری ِ هامبورگ، محل استقرار دولت ِ مستقل اين شهر و جلسات ِ نمايندگان ِ مجلس با مجلس ِ سنا هم هست.
برخلاف شهرهای ديگر ِ اروپایی كه بافت مركزی و قديمی اونها قرن ها قدمت دارند، در هامبورگ نميشه براحتی بناهای چند صد ساله پيدا كرد. علت اين امر آتش سوزی ِ مهيبی هست كه در سال ِ ١٨٤٢ تقريباً تمام ِ شهر رو با خاكستر يكسان كرد. بعد از اين آتش سوزی، چهل و چهار سال طول كشيد تا تجديد ِ بنای ِ ساختمان ِ شهرداری در سال ِ ١٨٨٦، توسط يك گروه هفت نفره از معماران، به سرپرستی ِ مارتين هلر آغاز و يازده سال بعد به پايان رسيد.
اين ساختمان شاهد حوادث تاريخی زيادی بوده و توسط شخصيت های سياسی بزرگی مورد بازديد قرار گرفته، از جمله پادشاه حبشه، هايله سلاسی و همچنين شاهنشاه محمد رضا پهلوی در سال ِ ١٩٥٥
۱۳۸۸ فروردین ۱۵, شنبه
Hamburg Rathaus
