Merseburg old town hall

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Old town hall in Merseburg

The old town hall in Merseburg is a monument in the city of Merseburg in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Location and history

After a fire in 1444, the town hall of Merseburg was built over older remains on what was then Marktstrasse (this section is now Burgstrasse). Today it is referred to as the Old Town Hall because later a market square was created to the southwest and thus diagonally opposite, where the New Town Hall was also located, but which no longer exists. Later renovations resulted in a town hall in Gothic and Renaissance forms, a combination that can also be found in Halle or Eisleben, for example . The otherwise common tower was dispensed with, creating a simple, yet attractive building with a roof turret and numerous facade details.

The windows and portals belong partly to the late Gothic, partly to the Renaissance. The heraldic panels on the west facade are also evidence of renovations, date from 1478 (north building), 1529 or 1692. The Halle architect Nickel Hoffmann was responsible for the most important renovation, which essentially gave the town hall its current appearance, by creating the southern part and from which the two Renaissance portals (1559, 1568) and the bay window (1561) originate. Inside, in addition to another Renaissance portal, the Ratskeller still bears witness to this time. Otherwise a lot was modernized and the building at the south end was shortened by a few meters in 1913 and 1914. The south gable, the roof turret and the dormer windows only come from this conversion. So they are works of historicism. The building was damaged in World War II .

Today the town hall houses, among other things, the citizens' and public order office as well as the youth and sports office. The building is under monument protection and is registered in the monument register with registration number 094 20121.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
  • List of monuments of Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 6.1, Merseburg-Querfurt district (1). Altkreis Merseburg , developed by Falko Grubitzsch and Marina Meincke-Floßfeder, Flyhead Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 3-910147-66-6 .

Web links

Commons : Altes Rathaus (Merseburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio, pp. 560-561; List of monuments, 6.1, p. 111.
  2. ↑ See air raids on Merseburg .
  3. ↑ Ämter , merseburg.de, accessed on November 16, 2018. All institutions listed at Burgstraße 1–5 .
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 59 ″  E