Old Town Hall (Heusenstamm)
The old town hall in Heusenstamm in Hesse was built in 1744 as a schoolhouse with an attached orphanage on behalf of the regent Maria Theresa, Countess of Schönborn (noble family) (1698–1751). In 1919 it was acquired by the municipality of Heusenstamm and used as the town hall until 1979. Today it is called the House of Music.
History of the old town hall
The widow of Count Anselm Franz von Schönborn had a school with three classrooms on the first floor and a teacher's apartment built in Heusenstamm, in the immediate vicinity of the newly built St. Cäcilia Church . The ground floor also was the community level . The socially committed countess also had the orphans of her county housed and cared for in this building. The coat of arms of the Schönborn-Montfort families, the church coat of arms and the year of construction, 1744, were placed above the entrance. Up until 1832 there was a collar on a corner of the house facing Schloss-Straße , with the help of which convicted criminals were publicly pilloried . In 1880 the community built its own schoolhouse, which soon became too small, so that lessons had to be continued in the old, count's school. In 1919 the community bought the building from the count family and rededicated it as the town hall. The building was still used as the town hall until 1979, after which the offices located there moved to the new town hall, Schönborn Palace .
After extensive renovation and renovation work, it found a new purpose in 2008 as the House of Music. Today there are various rooms for choir and orchestra rehearsals as well as an event hall for concerts and similar events.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 35.9 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 23.9" E