Old Town Hall (Friesach)
The old town hall is located on the southeast corner of the main square of Friesach at Hauptplatz 1.
The building was first mentioned in the middle of the 18th century as a soldiers' guard house and served as the town hall from 1770. In 1837/38 a renovation and a new facade was carried out by the builder Jakob Griewieser according to plans by Valentin Radweger and Joseph Ringer. In 1866 Alois Heinzel restored the town hall clock. In 1867 the town hall building was handed over to the kk district court.
description
The representative corner house with a late classical facade dates from the first half of the 19th century with an older core. The facades are structured horizontally by cordon and cornice. Giant ionic pilasters flank the window axes on the upper floor. A Roman medallion from a grave building is walled in between the windows. The medallion from the middle of the second century shows a woman in local costume with a Norican bonnet. Above it is a stucco relief in an ornate, oval frame with the depiction of Justitia and the city's coat of arms. The windows on the first floor have profiled frames, triangular gable roofs and coin-cut friezes in the lintel areas. The windows on the second floor have simple sill cornices on leaf volute consoles. On the central projection, fascias and a meander frieze replace the roofing of the windows. On the street side, the windows have alternating triangular and segmented gable roofs and have coin cut or meander frieze in the lintel areas. The arched portal has wrought iron shutters.
The ground floor rooms below street level have irregular barrel vaults with stitch caps . In the room facing the square there is a flat groin vault from the 16th century. The rooms on the upper floors have flat roofs. Only the street-side room on the second floor has a Prussian cap .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 173.
- The secular architectural and art monuments of the city of Friesach . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7031-0665-4 , pp. 210-213.
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 2.3 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 22.7 ″ E