Old Town Hall (Stadthagen)

Old Town Hall Stadthagen (south side, towards the market square)

The old town hall in Stadthagen (Am Markt 1) is an elongated former town hall built from Obernkirchen sandstone in the Weser Renaissance style .

Although the building is called "Old Town Hall", it is already the second town hall in Stadthäger. The first one, at that time at Niedernstrasse 1, on the east side of the market, no longer met the demands placed on public buildings, and a suitable replacement was found in the armory on the northeast corner of the market square. This so-called "Rhumhus" (or "Rhumhaus") was mentioned as early as 1529. This building, which was newly chosen as the town hall, was expanded by a western part from 1595 to 1602 according to plans by the master builder Jörg Unkair and modernized in the style of the Weser Renaissance.

The front sides are structured with Welschen gables . The eastern Utlucht is covered with a sandstone slab with Latin scriptures (Psalm 127, Solomon chap. 8). The two eaves- facing dwelling houses on the south side of the market also close with such gables. The three bay windows are richly crowned and show the watchman's heads of the Flemish Johann Robin. Below the middle one is the jawbone of a whale from around 1500. Probably taken from the first older town hall and hidden in the back of the old town hall, a sandstone relief (15th century) depicts a naked reveler or monkey - as an allegory of the Gluttony - pictured. Two coats of arms of the older town hall can still be seen on the front.

In the old town hall, the tourist information office is located in the left part of the building on the ground floor and the registry office's wedding room on the first floor and the council cellar with restaurant on the first floor and a ballroom on the first floor. The town hall of the city of Stadthagen is today in the Rathauspassage 1.

literature

• Horst Masuch, Anna Masuch: The town hall of Stadthagen, a renaissance building , Schaumburger studies, booklet 7, Grimme, Bückeburg 1964

Web links

Commons : Category: Altes Rathaus (Stadthagen)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The old town hall , stadthagen.de
• 15. Am Markt 1 (Old Town Hall) , In: Historischer Stadtrundgang Stadthagen (PDF; 2.2 MB), City of Stadthagen, April 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The whale rib at the town hall is a 500 year old jawbone. Schaumburger Wochenblatt of August 24, 2011. Accessed on May 10, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 20 ″  E