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The Borkum Town Hall

The Borkum Town Hall is one of the proudest buildings on the island and looks back on over 100 years of history. Completed in 1910 for exactly 56,888.85 Reichsmark, the building in North German brick Gothic style - where the fate of Borkum has always been controlled - is based on the designs of architect Paul Golle. Together with Borkum construction companies and craftsmen, he realised something that seems completely impossible with public buildings today: the Borkum town hall was ready for occupancy within a year, and since then the walls on the former site of the "Gemeinde- und Bade Bureaus" have seen and experienced a lot. A row of shops with a grocery shop and the fire station were once housed here. During the First World War, the High Command wanted to use the town hall as a
letter pigeon station; and yellowed lettering next to a heavy iron door still tells of the "shelter for 50 people", which was intended to protect local residents from the bombing raids of the Second World War. But the
house has also seen many wonderful things and has witnessed countless marriages, which were performed here in the rooms of the registry office and usually lasted a lifetime.