Community centre

A village hall ( DGH ) is a project funded by public money building for communal use in rural communities and villages, especially in Hesse. Similar facilities church organizations are the community centers, more term overlap there is a community center and community center.

History of the village community house

Already in the 1920s originated village communal houses in what is now the State of Baden -Württemberg for structural strengthening in rural areas. In Hesse, August Franke (SPD ) took this idea and built in 1950 the first Hessian DGH in Haldorf. Also in Bavaria Hirschaid a village hall was built with the name house of a farmer in September 1950. This contained by September 26, 1950, according to Hamburger Evening Gazette

It became the model for many other village community houses. This spread to the Hessian Minister President Georg August Zinn in 1951 and began implementing a large social reform, the propagated by him Hesse plan. Funding was equal by the community and the country. Other states followed this idea and started village communal houses, also called partially citizens to build houses. Thus was founded in 1957 the first house in Lower Saxony in Offleben and the community Baldramsdorf opened the first in 1956 in Austria.

Situation in Hesse

The establishment of village communal houses ( rural areas), as well as community centers ( small towns ) were a central point of the erected at the beginning of the 1950s, so-called Hesse plan under the auspices of the then prime minister of Hesse - Georg August Zinn. The purpose of this equipment was firstly the creation of spaces for cultural life, which on the one simply could mean a pub, in a broader sense and especially spaces for clubs. Should be named here the so-called rural women's associations that have sprung up almost everywhere from the early 1950s and is now in many places developed by agriculture and household about theater and cinema visits up to the preservation of traditions and local history into a confident and not dusty center of village life.

On the other village community houses were purely practical progress and modernity in rural areas bring ( shared bathrooms, TV rooms, community freezers, as well as kindergartens and - where not or no longer available - simply a " pub" as a communication center ).

In the initial phase of village community centers were set up as independent complexes from the seventies with the start of school reform in Hesse empty drawn village schools were increasingly transformed through renovations and additions to village communal houses. The hundredth village hall was inaugurated in June 1958 in Arnoldshain. Only in 1988 has ended with the expiration of the third funding period of the Hesse plan the establishment of village communal houses in Hesse. Today there are in Hessen coverage about 1,500 villagers houses. Your task has evolved due to the increasing disappearance once pioneering modern facilities such as bath rooms, TV rooms or community freezers which have become household standard in rural areas over the years, an institution similar to the Mansion.

Equipment

They were location for Shared washing facilities, freezer rooms, a sewing room and other communal facilities as well as a venue for cultural and club activities as well as family celebrations. Often a more modern Backhaus was also attached or integrated. Many villagers houses were location of the village library. In many cases they were spatially associated with other Community bodies such as fire bases, kindergartens, etc..