Old Town Hall (Eckernförde)

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The old town hall Eckernförde 2005
The copper engraving by Braun & Hogenberg also shows the town hall in front of the church at the end of the 16th century
The old town building office to the left of the main building of the old town hall

The old town hall is considered the most important secular building in the city of Eckernförde . The building is on the list of cultural monuments in Eckernförde and now houses the Eckernförde Museum .

history

The main building of the old town hall Eckernfördes was built in the middle of the 15th century either directly as a town hall or initially as an armory . A first expansion of the original half-timbered building took place around 1560 towards the east, through which the double-arched passage between Rathausmarkt and Kirchplatz was created, which replaced the previously open arbor as a roof over the butcher's stalls. In 1588, the 29-meter-long and 210-square-meter Citizens' Hall on the upper floor was expanded. On the map of the city by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg , which was published by 1618 at the latest, an extension branching off at an obtuse angle, presumably a covered staircase leading up to the first floor, can be seen at the westernmost corner of the building. The pillory (also: Ka (a) k ) stood on the Rathausmarkt ( forum near Braun / Hogenberg ). It was adorned with a Roland figure with a sword and rod as a symbol of city rights and was carved by Hans Dirkes in 1612. From around 1760 to 1763 the town hall building was expanded further eastwards to Kurzebrückstraße (today's Kieler Straße). The striking open staircase was built in 1836/37 based on a design by the Eckernförde Senator and painter Hans Friedrich Baasch . A comparison of the Braun / Hogenberg engraving with today's view of the building generates an extension of the council building to the west, but is not described. There is no information about a rear building on the townscape of Braun / Hogenberg facing the church square, which did not necessarily belong to the town hall.

For around half a millennium until 1984, the building served as the town hall and was then converted into a museum building. The citizens' hall, which has been restored to its original size, takes up the entire upper floor of the town hall section, which was built by 1760, with its 210 square meters and previously served the city council as a meeting room for the council, for the all-rounding of the citizens, for the guilds and Guilds, for legal proceedings, for wedding events, etc. The Ratskeller has been located on the ground floor of the building part built before 1560 at least since the 18th century - here the painter Asmus Carstens began an apprenticeship as a cooper or wine merchant around 1770 . According to information, the council scales were originally located on the ground floor . Before World War II, the police station was located in the council building with its own entrance.

Also under monument protection is the former municipal building that is connected to the main building of the town hall (today the entrance area of ​​the museum), in which the registration office was last housed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board on the house wall (including)
  2. ↑ conjecture u. a. here
  3. ↑ information board on the house wall; Eckernförde - A city tour , publication by the Museumsverein Eckernförde eV and the city of Eckernförde, 2015
  4. ↑ to Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde eV and department for regional history of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, ECKernförde-Lexikon , Husum-Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG., Husum 2014, ISBN 978-3-89876-735-4 , page 275 it was a covered staircase to the upper floor room for the gatherings of the citizens for the Allmannsthing
  5. ↑ Willers Jessen: Hans Gudewerdt and the Eckernförde carving school with their masters Ciriacus Dirkes, Hans Dreyer, Hans Gudewerdt I, Hans Gudewerdt II, Hans Gudewerdt III, Lorentz Jories, Jürgen Koberch, Peter Neelsen , JC Schwensen-Verlag, Eckernförde 1931, page 165
  6. ↑ The name Ratskeller is documented in the 19th century, previous name: Ratsweinkeller
  7. ↑ Heinrich Mehl suspects that the Ratskeller could have existed as early as 1600; Ref .: Heinrich Mehl: Zunftzeichen advertise Eckernförde craftsmen In: Yearbook 2014 of the Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde eV, Eckernförde 2014, p. 65 ff., 68
  8. ^ Address book and business manual for the city and district of Eckernförde, page III; Published by C. Heldt's Buchhandlung, 1897
  9. ↑ Weilbach's Kunstnerleksikon 1947
  10. ↑ Photo on bildindex.de

Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 10.4 ″  E