AUTHOR Wolfgang Teipel
PUBLISHED 21. FEB 2025
The Old Town Hall in Lüdenscheid was the central headquarters of the Lüdenscheid city administration until the new town hall was completed in 1964. The building was completed in 1874.
Its history is eventful. First, 151 years ago, the classes of the secondary school (today: Zeppelin-Gymnasium) moved into the ground floor and the city administration into the first floor of the then new town hall.
During the so-called Third Reich, around 1,000 people were imprisoned here in police detention cells for political reasons. After the war, the district church office found its new home. Since 1973, the Old Town Hall has served as the home of the adult education center – with a few interruptions.
Together with the Old Town Hall, the adult education center has another 17 locations in the city. The former music school on Altenaer Strasse is being expanded as another location.
The head of the Lüdenscheid adult education center is Michael Tschöke. He is supported by a team of twelve full-time employees and a large number of lecturers.
Also noteworthy: After years of commitment by the Lüdenscheid Peace Group, the initiative group and later the Ge-Denk-Zellen Altes Rathaus Lüdenscheid e.V. association, the Ge-Denk-Zellen Altes Rathaus were opened on November 23, 2012. Since then, a memorial to document Lüdenscheid’s Nazi history has been located in the anteroom and two detention cells in the basement of the building.