[1] Station 1 - Town Hall

Description

New town hall since 1996, old town hall from 1839 to 1996

The old town hall was also a school building, police station and local detention centre

In March 1994, Mayor Rüdiger Scherret created visible facts for the new town hall building with the first ‘excavator bite’. The over 150-year-old town hall on the same site could no longer be sensibly extended and was demolished. Until 1839, the mayor´s office was located in the joint school and town hall in Taubengasse, as the village street was called at the time. Wannweil was a farming village with around 600 inhabitants, a place with around 100 houses, a livestock of around 50 horses, 170 cattle, 200 sheep and 20 pigs. People read in the newspaper that a new railway was running between Nuremberg and Fürth, that Count Wilhelm von Württemberg wanted to rebuild the Lichtenstein and that a wolf weighing 80 pounds had been shot near the Lichtenstein. A population increase from 492 inhabitants within 10 years to over 600 in 1836 made a second schoolroom necessary. In June 1838, the municipal council therefore decided to build a new town hall and immediately acquired the site next to the tithe barn, which at the time stood right next to the church. The new town hall was inaugurated in 1839. The construction costs totalled 5,782 guilders, and bell founder Kurtz from Reutlingen took 174 guilders for the town hall bell. The poet and Tübingen professor Dr Ludwig Uhland, who was a friend of Mayer, the municipal caretaker at the time, provided a not inconsiderable loan of 1,500 guilders at a favourable interest rate of 4%. The teaching assistant hired for the new school class earned 130 guilders a year. For 100 years, official business could now be conducted in the office rooms on the upper floor of the town hall. At that time, the ground floor housed the storage room for the fire engine, the police station and the local lock-up. The attic was only used as a stage. In March 1939, the mayor´s office was temporarily relocated to the newly built town hall and a major remodelling project began. This was completed in September 1939 and cost 51,000 Reichsmarks. Since then, the ground floor has housed the municipal administration, the police station for a time, the residents´ registration office and the registry office. The upper floor housed the mayor´s office and a large meeting and wedding hall. There were rooms for the registry office in the attic, and later offices for the local building authority and notary were also set up. The work was carried out by Wannweiler companies and the construction management was in the hands of foreman Lutz. A further and final remodelling became necessary in 1973. The entrance was moved from the main street to the north-west side, the meeting room was restored and the mayor´s offices were modernised and refurnished. After this remodelling, the town hall stood the test of time for more than 20 years. 

The mayor from 1822 to 1853 was Johann Georg Brucklacher (1793-1862). He was succeeded by his former parish clerk Johann Jakob Mayer, who held the office of mayor until his death in 1877. Parish clerk Heinrich List, born in Pfullingen in 1841, was now mayor, but died a year later. The son Martin of the former Schultheiß Johann Georg Brucklacher now became Wannweiler Schultheiß from 1878 to 1909. After Otto Molfenter and Albert Schäfer, Albert Zanzinger was elected in 1932. Since the German municipal code of 1935, the mayor´s office in the village was now called the mayor´s office. Mayor Zanzinger was killed in action in Russia on Christmas Eve 1942. After the collapse, Wannweil was incorporated into the town of Reutlingen on 25 April 1945. This forced incorporation, which was intended to help improve the town´s food supply, lasted until 1948. Willy Obermüller was elected as the first post-war mayor in 1949. His successor in Wannweil town hall, Rüdiger Scherret, was in office from January 1967 to January 1995. The first female mayor in Wannweil, Ms Anette Rösch, elected on 27 November 1994, was able to inaugurate the new town hall on 11 November 1996 and begin a new era in Wannweil´s civic life. In January 2019, she passed the baton to Dr Christian Majer, who was elected in October 2018. 
Should the current town hall be described in detail?

The Zum Hirsch inn and the old town hall stood on the site of the 2nd Lehenshof. Link: https://simonwolperth.blogspot.com/2009/05/wannweil-und-seine-15-lehenshofe-der-2.html