Old Town Hall (Mannheim)
The old town hall in Mannheim is on the southern edge of the market square in square G 1 . The former administration building, together with the St. Sebastian Church and the bell tower placed in between, forms a baroque double structure built at the beginning of the 18th century . The building ensemble is an example of Mannheim's symmetry .
description
The first town hall building with town scales was built soon after the town was founded in 1607. This previous building was destroyed in the great town fire of 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession . On September 17, 1700, the foundation stone for the new town hall was laid at the same location. The building was built according to designs by Anton Bailleux under Johann Jakob Rischer . The figure of Justitia by the sculptor Heinrich Charrasky was placed on the town hall gable in 1709. Sculptor Michael Bitterich (1679–1720) completed the giant portal in 1711. Two years later, the same sculptor made the coat of arms above the town hall balcony. The plasterer Giovanni Battista Clerici (1673–1736) designed the interior in 1717. Three years later, the bells for the town hall tower were inaugurated. In the years 1866 to 1868, the extension of the Old Town Hall was built on the Breiten Straße according to a design by Friedrich Theodor Fischer . Karl Friedrich Moest completed the figures of the Breiten Strasse portal in 1869.
literature
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the city district of Mannheim. Munich 1982.
- Friedrich Walter : Buildings of the electoral era in Mannheim. Filser, Augsburg 1928, p. 48f.
- Badischer Architecten- und Ingenieur-Verein / Unterrheinischer Bezirk [Hrsg.]: Mannheim and its buildings, "The old town hall on the market square" - Mannheim, [1906], p. 73 ff. (Available online from Heidelberg historical holdings - digital )
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 20.9 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 1.7 ″ E