Old Town Hall (Rehna)

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Old town hall in Rehna

The old town hall in Rehna in the north-west Mecklenburg district is a listed half-timbered building with a plastered facade. It is located near the market square at Mühlenstrasse 1 and was used as the town hall and seat of the Rehna Office until 1998 .

Building description

The building is a two-story, gable-independent half-timbered house with a fieldstone base and mansard roof . On the latter there is a lantern tower .

The framework is lined with bricks. The pre-faded, plastered and three-storey facade has five axes on the ground floor . A six-step staircase with wrought-iron railings leads to the central door, which is framed by pilasters (wall pillars) and an architrave (horizontal beam). There are six window axes on the first floor. Above this begins the two-zone curved segment gable with two windows and a central clock in the lower zone and a horizontal segment window in the upper zone.

The octagonal, open lantern tower with a bell is covered with a baroque tail hood on which there is a compass rose.

history

Originally the building erected in the 18th century ( Dehio estimates the construction time at the end of the 17th century) was a granary , which was owned by the Hoyer family until 1791. When the Zeiss'sche Haus, previously used as the town hall, became too small for the city, it bought the building for 3,500 Reichstaler. The renovation, which lasted until 1810, resulted in a further 3272 Reichstalers. The building contained rooms for the magistrate, apartments for the mayor and councilors and later also prison cells in the attic.

After a major fire in 1831, the roof tower and a clock were added in 1833. The facade was plastered around 1900, the service rooms enlarged in 1903 and a fire-proof filing room created. In 1998 the city and municipal administration moved from the town hall to the long house of the Rehna monastery complex . After the extensive renovation of the old town hall in 2003, there is now an educational institution and apartments in the building.

Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '53.9 "  N , 11 ° 2' 57.2"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de, p. 276 (PDF; 956 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Description of the house on the website of the Rehna Office (PDF; 153 kB)
  3. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 441.
  4. ↑ a b Description of the monument on geoport-nwm.de