Lahti Cityhall - Lahti, Finland
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N 60° 58.812 E 025° 39.356
35V E 427263 N 6761328
The City Hall of Lahti is one of the notable Finnish monuments designed by the architect Eliel Saarinen.
Waymark Code: WMFHB7
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 10/20/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
Views: 67

FIN:
"Lahden kaupungintalo on arkkitehti Eliel Saarisen 1911 suunnittelema myöhäisjugendia tyyliltään edustava rakennus. Talo on rakennettu tummasta punatiilestä, ja siinä on korkea kellotorni.

Valmistuessaan kaupungintaloon sijoittui kaupungin yleishallinto: maistraatti, sen kanslia, julkinen notaari, raastuvanoikeus, kaupunginviskaali, rahatoimikamari, kaupungin vouti, pastorinkanslia, kaupunginvaltuusto, lautakunnat ja palolaitos. Pohjakerroksessa, kivijalassa, olivat lisäksi myös poliisilaitos, lukusali ja kirjasto.

Suomen sisällissodan aikana kaupungintalon torni kärsi vaurioita Suomen kansanvaltuuskunnan tykkitulesta, joka oli kohdistettu osasto Brandensteinia vastaan. Lahden kansalaisopistolla toimivaa Lahden sotilassairaalaa vastaan ohjatusta tulesta saksalaiset lupasivat vankien teloituksia, joita lienee suoritettu kaupungintalon seinää vasten.

Kaupungintaloa laajennettiin 1934, jolloin sen avoimesta pihasta tuli sisäpiha. Laajennuksen suunnitteli arkkitehti Kaarlo Könönen. Lahden kaupungintalo joutui ilmapommituksen kohteeksi 27. tammikuuta 1940, jolloin se kärsi huomattavia palovahinkoja. Kaupungintalon tornissa oli kahden ilmavalvontalotan ylläpitämä ilmavalvonta-asema.

Pommitusten jälkeen virastot ja poliisilaitos siirrettiin Lahden yhteiskouluun. Kaupungintalon ullakko paloi 1981. Sen jälkeen talo korjattiin sekä saneerattiin. Töiden vuonna 1985 valmistuttua on kaupungintalon neliömäärä 5 160 m² ja tilavuus 19 950 m³.

ENG:
Lahti City Hall by architect Eliel Saarinen in 1911 designed late Art Nouveau style representative building. The house is built from dark red brick, and has a high bell tower.

When completed, the City Hall was placed in the general administration: the magistrate, the Prime Minister's Office, notary public, County Court, Town representatives, the money in its chamber, the city's steward, the pastor's Office, City Council, Boards, and fire department. On the ground floor, basement, were in addition to the police department, a reading room and a library.

Finnish Civil War, the town hall tower suffered damage to the Finnish delegation to the People's cannon fire, which was directed against the Department Brandensteinia. Bay of the community college operating in the Gulf of the military hospital, against the Germans promised to fire guided executions of prisoners, which probably made ??the city hall against the wall.

Town Hall was expanded in 1934, when it became an open courtyard patio. The expansion was designed by architect Kaarlo Könönen. The Bay City bombing forced air 27 january 1940, when it suffered substantial fire damage. The City Hall tower was a two-run air control Lotan air monitoring station.

After the bombing the offices and the police department was transferred to the Gulf of the school. City Hall attic burned down in 1981. After the house was renovated, and repaired. The work is completed in 1985, is the town hall square number 5 160 m² and 19 950 m³ volume."

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