The city hall Bochum belongs to the most important buildings of representative of the Ruhr district.

Starting from 1697 the old city hall of the city Bochum at the old market was opposite the Propsteikirche pc. Peter and Paul and starting from 1886 in a former hotel at the avenue road. After the incorporations 1904, 1926 and 1929 the administration of Bochum with now should be centralized over 200.000 inhabitants in this new building.

With the building of the today's city hall 1926 were begun, in the year 1927 took place the Grundsteinlegung and to 20. May 1931 took place the opening. The building of city halls cost the high sum of 9.25 million realm Marks.

The architect professor Karl Roth created a highly modern office building with 329 areas in the historical garb of the Spanish monastery in El Escorial (1562-1584) and thus in the style of the ornamentationless Spanish Renaissance. The building exhibits a symmetrical sketch. The exterior is simply held the entrance portal as well as the two-story porch and at the right front is the only front decorative fixtures. The base of the building consists of hard granite stone, for which front shelly limestone and for the roof slates became used.

The city hall received artful bronze lattices, sculptures from bronze as well as masterful stone mason works by considerable German artists: August bird (1887-1932), Paul Wynand (1879-1956), Richard of long ones (1879-1928), Richard Guhr (1873-1934) and Augusto Varnesi (1866-1944). In the corridors and representation rooms of the house marble, copper, bronze and dark wood panels were used.

The 40 x 46 m measuring inner court by four sides completely one encloses. In the symmetry axis of the advice yard also the advice hall with trusting rooms of the register office furnished under it around 1980 lies, so that to its two pages developed. Here are to today bell play and two wells. In the inner court originally lay banking halls, which before the introduction of traffic by transfer the steering wheels, wage, social and other payments served.

Because of allegedly exaggerated splendour at the city hall the national socialists attacked the Jewish mayor at that time Dr. Otto Ruer (1879-1933) and drove it into the suicide. Ruer had stopped many decoration work on the city hall because of the attacks on its person. The national socialists let melt 1943 the bronze sculptures for arms purposes, by war damage were lost the stone mason works with exception of small lion heads over the portal.

The war damage from the Second World War to the city hall was repaired to 1951. In the years 1980 and 1982 further buildings were established. With the education and administrative centre (BVZ) (architect's office Bahlo, Stosberg and partner) and surfaces in the rented city hall center was added further area.

Well and bells

Remained - beside specified many beautiful interiors the above - in the yard "„the wells of the beauty manufactured from Travertin and bronze "“and "„wells of the luck "“, as well as "„florentinische "“Hauptportale, which bring up for discussion Christian faith and industriellen diligence under the slogan "„into laboratories Honos "“(in work honour lies). From the gilded figures of the well of the luck the Putte with marriage ring and slipper marriage luck (not received) symbolizes, the Putte with apple fertility, the Putte with empty purse the optimist (not received) and the Putte with the Seifenblasen the illusion. The wells are work of professor August bird from Berlin.

The bell play consists of 28 casting steel bells with a total weight of 2.300 kilograms. The individual bells weigh between 4 and 375 kilograms. The original bell play was the first bell play of the world, which became made of casting steel, and in the war was destroyed. The current bell play was given to the city 1951 by the Bochumer association.

Worth seeing is also the bell before the city hall, which was 1867 as the largest of four bells an attraction on the world exhibition in Paris. It one rang at that time for opening. It has a diameter of 3.13 meters and a weight of 15.000 kilograms. Poured it was set up handed over to 1979 of the city by the Bochumer association for mining industry and casting steel production, after the exhibition as monument on the work area of the Krupp steel AG and and set up at the place. Their - a steel ball hanging on four ropes - in addition, is since the removal verschollen, the bell can because of a damage suffered in the Second World War any longer not be rung.

By the company Krupp was donated likewise the well Fontana before the education and administrative centre. The well was sketched by the sculptor and commercial artist Erwin preserving man from Hagen, made from high-grade steel and titanium and inaugurated in September 1985.

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