Old Town Hall (Weißenburg)

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The old town hall in summer 2011

The old town hall (also called the imperial town hall ) of Weißenburg in Bavaria , a large district town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , is located on the market square within the listed old town . Not far is the Ellinger Tor , the Am Hof square and the town church of St. Andreas and the Lebküchnerhaus in the immediate vicinity . The Schweppermannsbrunnen from the 16th century is right in front of the building . The old town hall stands in the geographical center of the northern old town, at the intersection of the long-distance trade routes that ran through Weißenburg. The building with the address Marktplatz 1 is registered under monument number D-5-77-177-258 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list.

history

Illustration by Pleickhard Stumpf (1852)

The building was built from 1470 to 1476 at the height of Weißenburg's heyday as the town hall of the then imperial city . The Söller was built in 1545. The building's archive tower was built in 1567. There were several commercially used rooms on the ground floor.

In 1805 there were demolition plans that never came to fruition.

From the middle of the 19th century, renovations were planned several times, but they were never carried out either. Extensive renovations took place from 1963 to 1964 and from 2002 to 2004. The building is no longer open to the public. The Weißenburg Council Library was located in the building until the 1970s .

The New Town Hall has been on the other side of the market square since 1920, the geographical center of the entire old town.

  • Old town hall, view from the market square

  • 1957

  • 2008

description

Relief on the town hall with the coat of arms of the city and the Holy Roman Empire

The three- story pitched roof building consists of sandstone blocks and is kept in the Gothic style . On the second floor is the historic boardroom that served the city's Internal and External Council. On the first floor there is a reconstructed stone block painting in the style of the Renaissance in the festival and reception hall . On the long side facing the market square was the entrance of the building, which had to be relocated to the unattractive north side with the construction of the tower. The richly structured east gable is lavishly designed. At the level of the ground floor there is a grimacing head and a figure in the form of a mythical animal . The central axis is reinforced by a sloping, flat pillar that ends in an octagonal tower. There is an eye-catching window arrangement on the second floor.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Imperial City (Old) Town Hall: Historic Weissenburg! : www.weissenburg.info, tourism portal of the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria, accessed on March 22, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e D-5-77-177-258 Marktplatz 1. Reichsstädtisches Rathau. In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Region Middle Franconia - Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen - Weißenburg i.Bay. Architectural monuments. ( geodaten.bayern.de PDF, p. 33 - as of October 31, 2019).
  3. ^ Taken from: Bavaria. A geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom ; Current city: British Library
  4. ↑ belocal.de , accessed on March 22, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 20 ″  E