Germany(North Rhine-Westphalia) - Oberhausen

Oberhausen is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg (c. 12 km) and Essen (c. 13 km). 
The Rathaus Oberhausen is since 1930 the seat of the Council and the administration of the city of Oberhausen.
The old town hall was built 1873/1874 at the later Schwartz road, but after a few decades, was enough the three-storey building is no longer the demands of the fast-growing city. Since the beginning of the 20th century there were plans to build a larger town hall in the vicinity of its predecessor, which gradually and increasingly urban planning intended as "City Hall Quarter" to an upscale bourgeois residential area according to the concept "city as a park" developed.  a tendered in 1910 architectural competition was won by the design by Friedrich Pützer, after its plans in 1911 on the corner of Grillo and Schwartz road the first Savings Bank Building was built in Oberhausen. However, his design for the new town hall came not for execution. First, the delayed first World War the realization; after the untimely death of Pützer in 1922 disappeared the plans in a drawer and one first contented himself with a often referred to as "Notbau" extension of the old town hall.