Old town hall Grünstadt
| Old town hall Grünstadt | ||
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 Facade of the old town hall |
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| place | Grünstadt | |
| Architectural style | Plaster construction; Historicism, Renaissance | |
| Construction year | around 1600 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 33 '58.3 " N , 8 ° 9' 47" E | |
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The old town hall is a renaissance building in Grünstadt , in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim, converted in the style of historicism .
Building stock
It is a four-storey, rectangular secular building with a gable roof and a central turret, which is located in the northern area of the pedestrian zone and has the address Hauptstraße 84. At its height, the street widens to the west and forms the town's original market square.
In the basement, the old town hall has large arched windows and an arched portal with the city's coat of arms stone from 1906 above. While the arched windows and the main portal of the facade are from the renovation of 1906, there are still round Renaissance windows with bar or back in the gable walls and in the back . Karniesprofilierung and decorative pedestals. These are clogged in the lower area and originally formed access to an open market hall on the ground floor of the building. On the upper floors, the old town hall has arched windows with apex stones, which come from a renovation in 1811. At that time it got a similarly shaped main entrance with the corresponding year, which was replaced in 1906 by the current arched portal. The old lintel from 1811 is now installed in the courtyard on the back of the house.
Until December 24, 1944, the old town hall was the seat of the city administration, which moved to its current location after the building was damaged by aerial bombs that day. The city's tourist information office is currently located in the northern part of the ground floor, and the historic council chamber from 1906 in the southern part. Today it is a popular wedding room due to its ambience. Its establishment was donated by Count Karl Emich zu Leiningen-Westerburg and Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg , whose dedication inscription adorned with coat of arms is embedded in the main table. The upper floors are the seat of the City Museum Grünstadt, called "Museum in the Old Town Hall" , which is run by the local antiquity association and has a considerable collection on the history of Grünstadt and the Leininger Land . In the stairwell hangs u. a. an approx. 4 meters long and 2 meters wide, artfully, colorfully painted family tree of the Leiningen family , made in 1830 by the later Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Florian von Macchio , for his regimental commander, Count August Georg zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen , who came from Grünstadt .
history
The old town hall was built around 1600 on the market square in the main street of the city. As mentioned, there was an open market hall in the basement, with a large flight of stairs at the front that led to the offices on the upper floor. According to an epitaph for Mayor Johann Conrad Fabritius , on the south side of the local Martinskirche , the latter fell to his death on the stairs in an accident in August 1722. In the 1st coalition war , the area around Grünstradt was often fought over. It has been handed down from this time that the later Marshal Blücher rode up the stairs in the town hall in 1794 on his white horse and gave a speech to the population.
During the French occupation of the city, the town hall was rebuilt in 1811, whereby the outside staircase apparently disappeared and the main entrance was moved to the middle of the street side of the basement. A small clock tower came up on the roof, directly on the front over the main entrance. There is a photo from around 1900 which shows the house in this condition.
During the renovation in 1906, the facade was changed to its current form. The rectangular entrance door from 1811 was removed and a large arched door with flanking arched windows was installed instead. The roof turret with clock was placed in an enlarged form in the middle, on the gable of the gable roof. There are two bells in it today; a larger one for the hour strike, from 1906 and a smaller one for the quarter of an hour, from 1751. The latter was originally a church bell and hung in the old bell tower before 1906. It is the oldest bell in Grünstadt, probably came here in the French era and is said to come from the Dirmstein Jesuit monastery .
literature
- Anton Eckardt: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Pfalz , Volume VIII. City and District Frankenthal , Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1939, p. 269.
Web links
gallery
Renaissance window east side
Renaissance window east side, detail
Renaissance window south side
Renaissance window south side
Renaissance window south side, detail
Coat of arms stone from 1906
Old lintel from 1811
Council chamber, historical photo, 1907
Historic council chamber from 1906
Historical council hall, donor inscription from the Counts of Leiningen
Leininger family tree, made by Florian von Macchio , 1830
Bell from 1751
Bell from 1751; IHS monogram
Old tower clockwork, around 1870
Epitaph Schultheiss Johann Conrad Fabritius († 1722), who threw himself to death here
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Lampert: Grünstadt in old pictures , Volume 2, p. 77, Grünstadt 1980
- ^ Walter Lampert: History of Grünstadt , Sommer Verlag, Grünstadt 1992, p. 101
- ↑ Joachim Specht: In 1751 Joh. Caspar Schrader poured me into Worms . In: The Rheinpfalz , Unterhaardter Rundschau . Ludwigshafen January 18, 2003.