Bassenheimer Hof
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The Bassenheimer Hof in Mainz is the seat of the Ministry of the Interior and Sports (in German, Ministerium des Innern und für Sport) is a ministry of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
[edit] Responsibilities
The Ministry of the Interior is responsible for internal security, criminal prevention and the protection of the constitutional order, for civil protection against disasters and terrorism, for displaced persons, administrative questions, and sports. Important offices that belong to the Ministry include the Office for Constitution Protection, the Criminal Police Office and the Federal Agency for Technical Relief.
Further Responsibilities
- Definition of the municipal voting right under consideration of the socio-political change
- Development of the local duties and the right of the economic activities of the municipalities
- Definition of the financial equalisation between the federal state and the municipal authorities
- Responsibility for the legal supervision over the local regional administrative bodies
[edit] History of the building
The Bassenheimer Hof had been created in 1750 according to the plans of the electoral master builder (Oberbaudirektor) Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (also Grünstein) on behalf of the prince-elector as a retirement home for his sister the widow, Gräfin von Bassenheim, proximate to the Osteiner Hof.
The architect had been affected to the facades of the Place Vendome and Hôtel de Torcy (Hôtel de Beauharnais) by occasionally studies in Paris. His main forms of expression were the elegant chary new shapes of the classical french baroque architecture.
Due to the history of Mainz, with his changing fortune, the inner room layout, as well as the garden with his formal garden architecture and the complete interior out of 1755 are declined. Already in 1792 Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine occupied Mainz, nobility and clergy fled.
Since the palais had been sold in 1835 to the military government of the federal fortress Mainz , the Bassenheimer Hof was used as baracks up to 1889. Later verifiable uses were a vienna coffee shop or the manufacturing of embroidered flags.
[edit] Nowadays
During World War II, the building burnt completely down in 1942. On behalf of the french military government it was rebuilt in 1947/48.
Temporarily the Bassenheimer Hof had been the siege of the minister president of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, before das ministry of the interior of Rhineland-Palatinate moved to this place in 1960.
