Marlow Town Hall
The Town Hall of Marlow was inaugurated 1,862th It is located in the city center of Marlow , directly on the market square in close proximity to the city church.
timeline
In the 13th century, a small settlement developed at the foot of a Slavic castle (later Marlow Castle). The construction of the town church began in 1210. In 1286 Marlow was still referred to as a town and in 1298 as a town ( town charter ). The city did not gain any supra-regional importance and was at times the smallest city in Mecklenburg .
The first Marlow town hall came from this medieval period. The half-timbered building stood roughly on the site of today's town hall, which it had to give way.
Today's two-storey town hall was built on the market square between 1861 and 1862. The yellow plastered building in the neo-Gothic , historicizing style is divided into three parts facing the market. The old entrance leads through the pointed arched arcades in the central projection. Above is a representative balcony and a slim, pleasing tower with a tall, hexagonal spire . The hipped roof is bordered by the defensive battlements . Dainty fial turrets loosen up the massive building on the corners of the building and the tower . The town hall was completely renovated from 1995 to 1996 as part of general urban renewal . The light yellow town hall received a modern extension with office space on the side, through which today's main entrance leads. Today the town hall is the administrative seat of the "Green City of Marlow" with its 23 districts.
The marketplace was thoroughly renewed at the same time. In front of the town hall is a small fountain designed by the German sculptor Reinhard Dietrich . Three bronze sculptures on three boulders each show scenes from the history of the region. You can see the Slavic wooden castle that once stood on a hill to the west of the church. Next to it, a depiction shows a knight who, on the former trade route from Lübeck to Stettin, is demanding tribute from a trader as he crosses the ford in Recknitz. Finally, a hiker is shown who is looking into the Recknitz Valley with his three grandchildren.
literature
- Hartmut Brun , Theodor Müller: Town halls in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock, 2001, ISBN 3-356-00912-5
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg ; Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 1980
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Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 15.9 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 21.4 ″ E