Old Town Hall (Timișoara)

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The old town hall on Piața Libertății (Timișoara), 2008
Turkish inscription on the front of the old town hall, 2010

The Old Town Hall ( Romanian Primăria Veche ) is a listed historical building on Piața Libertății in the western Romanian city ​​of Timișoara .

description

The building has three levels, consisting of a mezzanine floor and two upper floors. Above the monumental entrance gate there is a balcony and four arched windows on each of the two upper floors. The frontal area of ​​the building consists, among other things, of four vertically arranged cassettes , delimited by supporting columns , which each frame two windows on the upper floors. The facade contains stylistic elements from the Baroque and Renaissance periods and shows, in addition to the old city coat of arms, the old seal of the German community, with two towers of the heavily fortified defense system of what was then Timisoara.

On the right side of the entrance area there is a Turkish inscription from the 17th century. The inscription, which was carried over into the wall of the town hall, deals with the construction of a tower, but has been mistakenly translated into Romanian as follows: The construction of this bath falls in the terrible time under Ibrahim Ehan, Heds 1053.

history

After the Habsburgs had conquered what was then Temeswar , German colonists were given the right to settle within the fortress, where they claimed their own town hall. On December 24, 1731, the then mayor Peter Solderer laid the foundation stone on the foundation walls of Sultan Ibrahim's Turkish bath, which was damaged in the Turkish war . By 1734 the old town hall (then the “New Town Hall” or “German Town Hall”) was built according to the ideas of the Italian architect Pietro del Bronzo .

The building has been modified several times since then.

On February 15, 1735, the mayor was elected for the first time in the town hall; the choice fell again on Peter Solderer, who held this office with short interruptions until the end of his life († 1741).

Today it is the seat of the Music Faculty of the University of the West Timișoara , as well as the Agricultural Directorate of Timiș County .

literature

  • N. Illieșiu: Timișoara, monografie istorică, Timișoara , 1943, in Romanian
  • Else von Schuster: Timișoara, “Mica Vienă” de altă dată , in Romanian

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 246 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , 105 TM-II-mA-06142, in Romanian @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gtztm.ro
  2. ↑ Temeswar.info , tips for visitors
  3. ↑ Petru Ilieșu: A tourist in Timișoara - Tourist in Timișoara , Planetarium, Timișoara, 2008, ISBN 978-973-108-154-0 , ISBN 978-973-88331-2-8
  4. ↑ Rumaenien-erleben.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Timișoara (Timisoara) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rumaenien-erleben.de
  5. ↑ Muzica.UVT.ro , Timișoara Academy of Music, Piața Libertății No. 1, in Romanian

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 21 ° 13 ′ 39.1 ″  E