Bergischer Löwen

The NRW LEP provides for the settlement of essential municipal, social and cultural facilities in Bergisch Gladbach. In the first phase, the model project “community centre” is to be realised. The location in the city centre was the former “Bergischer Löwen”, a former society house dating from 1904, which was ready for renovation. Goals: El LEP de Renania del Norte-Westfalia prevé el asentamiento de instalaciones municipales, sociales y culturales esenciales en Bergisch Gladbach. En la primera fase, se realizará el proyecto modelo “centro comunitario”. El emplazamiento en el centro de la ciudad era el antiguo “Bergischer Löwen”, una antigua casa de sociedad de 1904, que estaba lista para ser renovada. Objetivos: The “Bergischer Löwe” complex consists of two parts. The commercial part (old building and new building part to axis A) with a dining restaurant, a pub, the central kitchen, several retail retail outlets as well as offices and and flats on the upper floors. It also includes the two-storey two-storey café underneath the “Kleinen hall”. The cultural part with a 750-person theatre with a central stage, the three-storey foyer in front of it for various uses such as a meeting place for the elderly, reading, exhibitions, children's games, a “small hall” for around 200 people on the 2nd floor as well as group rooms and a discotheque on the 3rd floor, cloakrooms and bowling alleys on the basement level. The community centre façade above the ground floor consists of a rear-ventilated, colourfully lacquered sheet metal façade. The ground floor zone and outer wall sections along the path over the building as well as the theatre and foyer walls inside are clad with brick panels. El complejo “Bergischer Löwe” consta de dos partes.