Old Town Hall (Königsbach)
The old town hall in Königsbach , a district of the municipality of Königsbach-Stein in Baden-Württemberg , is a town hall built in the 17th century . The half-timbered house is a protected architectural monument .
history
There are no documents about the construction of the town hall. Since Königsbach was almost completely burned down by imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1622, it is likely that the building was not erected until after that year. On the left long side of the town hall there is a lintel with the date 1522 carved into it, which probably comes from a previous building. A plaque on the town hall commemorates the builder Johannes Schoch (1550–1631), who was born in Königsbach, but who is out of the question as the town hall builder, as he was very old after 1622 and the building has no stylistic features that can be attributed to him.
The town hall was rebuilt and repaired in 1914/15.
When the town hall became too small for the administration in the second half of the 20th century, the municipality acquired the neighboring Dreyfuss building and converted it into the town hall. It was structurally connected to the old town hall.
description
The house, which stands at the eastern end of the market square, jumps out about three meters with the vestibule and the upper floor. Five wooden pillars on a brick foundation with rings and bulges support the upper floor. The council chamber is on the upper floor and takes up almost half of the floor space. In the half-timbered upper floor there are circumferential profiled windows . St. Andrew's crosses , some with diamonds , and other diamonds in negative form can be found as decorative forms in the parapets . The Franconian man can be seen in the lower attic on the collar stands.
On the roof there is an open ridge turret with a baroque hood , in which there is a bell.
This type of town hall is more common in the wider area. The older town hall in the neighboring district of Stein could serve as a direct model .
literature
- Friedrich Sander: Königsbacher Heimatbuch , Gemeinde Königsbach-Stein 1986, pp. 349–358.
- Hermann Diruff and Christoph Timm: Art and cultural monuments in Pforzheim and in the Enzkreis , Stuttgart 1991, pp. 183–184.
- Erwin Huxhold : The half-timbered houses in Kraichgau. A guide to the architectural monuments . Edited by Heimatverein Kraichgau eV, 3rd supplemented edition, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, pp. 147–149, ISBN 3-89735-185-4 .
- Rainer Laun: The Grand Ducal Conservator in Baden and the Königsbach Town Hall. Exemplary monument preservation at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 36th year 2007, issue 2, pp. 98-106 ( PDF ) [not evaluated]
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Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 56.3 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 47.6" E