Old Town Hall (north)

Old town hall with local history museum and East Frisian tea museum

The old town hall is a listed building in the East Frisian town of Norden ( district of Aurich , Lower Saxony ). Its address is Am Markt 36. The town's local history association has been based in the house since 1922, and has two museums there, the local history and tea museum . The longest user of the house is the Theelacht , whose members meet twice a year in the Theelacht Chamber on the ground floor. Theelacht is the oldest farming community in Europe.

Building description

The old town hall is a rectangular two-storey brick building from the 16th century with curved gables on the narrow sides. At its core, it consists of a Gothic building from the late 13th or 14th century, which was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in 1539 after it was partially destroyed .

According to a cadastral entry from 1999, the cellar dates from the late 13th or 14th century.

The meeting and ballroom on the upper floor, called Rummel , is largely as it was in the 16th to 17th centuries. The stair tower is the only preserved one in the city area.

history

Board of "Theelacht to Nörden" at the old town hall in the north

The predecessor of today's town hall was probably built in the 13th or 14th century. As far as is known today, it always belonged to the Church. Balthasar von Esens probably severely damaged this building as well as the neighboring buildings of St. Andrew's Church and the Marienthal Monastery at the beginning of the Geldrian feud . In the course of the reconstruction, the building was first mentioned in 1539. The work, during which a stair tower was built in front of the old town hall, dragged on for three years. The house was then handed over to its destination in the autumn of 1542 with a tribute ceremony for Countess Anna and her sons. After that, the building was mainly used by trade and commerce, which was also used as a dance and festival hall for the community, a classroom for the Latin school or as a vocational school . The calibration office was also temporarily housed in the old town hall. During the roll call war , Danish and imperial troops used the town hall from 1724 to 1727 as a guard house.

After the reconstruction, the city received a right of use from the church. The hype (see description) from then on served as a meeting room for the council and citizens. In addition, the city administration and the court were housed in the building. The city prison was at the top of the tower. In 1861 the church ceded the building to the city, which used it as the town hall until 1884. On September 23, 1884, the city administration moved into the New Town Hall , also located on the north market square , which it had only acquired from a private citizen in May 1884. The Old Town Hall is rented to the home club Norderland since May 1922, will continue also used by the Theelacht that her centuries-long conflicts successfully alleged right to use the Theelkammer in 1897 to the land register was entered.

Web links

Commons : Altes Rathaus - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Internet presence of the tea museum

Individual evidence

^ City of the north: List of monuments . Retrieved October 20, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Johann Haddinga , Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 66 f.
↑ ^a ^b Antje Borchert: Theelacht in the old town hall . In: Website Open Monument Day . Retrieved October 23, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b Eberhard Pühl: Old brick houses in East Friesland and in Jeverland. Brick buildings from the 15th to 19th centuries . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 3-89995-323-1 , p. 163.
↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 273.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gretje Schreiber: Old Town Hall (North) ' . In: East Frisian landscape : collection of field names of the East Frisian landscape. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b ^c City north: Around the market square . Retrieved October 23, 2014.
↑ Johann Haddinga , Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 72.

53.59477 7.20238Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '41.2 " N , 7 ° 12' 8.6" E

[1] City of the north: List of monuments . Retrieved October 20, 2014.

[haddinga-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Johann Haddinga , Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 66 f.

[tdot-3] Antje Borchert: Theelacht in the old town hall . In: Website Open Monument Day . Retrieved October 23, 2014.

[pühl-4] Eberhard Pühl: Old brick houses in East Friesland and in Jeverland. Brick buildings from the 15th to 19th centuries . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 3-89995-323-1 , p. 163.

[kiesow-5] Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 273.

[schreiber-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gretje Schreiber: Old Town Hall (North) ' . In: East Frisian landscape : collection of field names of the East Frisian landscape. Retrieved October 23, 2014.

[stadtverw-7] City north: Around the market square . Retrieved October 23, 2014.

[8] Johann Haddinga , Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 72.