Old Town Hall (Schwerin)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old Town Hall

The old town hall in Schwerin was the town hall of the royal seat of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The listed building on the market is in the same place as the previous buildings, which have been occupied since 1338.

architecture

Archway on the east side
Equestrian figure Heinrich the Lion on the central battlement of the facade, Schweriner Markt, city arms

The building consists of two half-timbered gables from the 17th century and further parts of the building covered with four gable roofs to the east and a continuous gable roof to the west, which dates from the 14th to the 20th century. The only relic of the medieval predecessor building is the medieval archway that spans the passage to the Schlachtermarkt , which adjoins the rear (east side) of the house . The two-story facade in Tudor style on the front (west side) from 1835 is crenellated and has two corner projections . The gilded equestrian figure on the central pinnacle from the 18th century shows the heraldic figure of Schwerin, the city founder Heinrich the Lion . The town hall was restored in 1983/85, with two modern gabled houses as functional buildings on the back. A renovation, especially inside the building, took place in 2000/2001.

history

East Side
Demmlersaal

A town hall at the same location was first mentioned in a document in 1338. The year 1351 is mentioned in many cases , including in the Handbook of German Art Monuments by Dehio . It is assumed that at that time there was a Gothic gabled house with two display gables to the west and east and open arcades to the south side. This was largely destroyed in city fires in 1531 and 1558. As a result, a building in the Renaissance style was built in 1567 , the tower of which was completed by 1575. With the exception of a few massive walls, this was destroyed in 1651 in a fire that broke out in a forge behind the town hall and with it destroyed around 150 houses in the city. Due to the financial difficulties of the city, reconstruction dragged on until 1654 and a more modest building with simple, half-timbered gables on both sides and two low pitched roofs was created. The new building was financed from donations collected in the Reich.

Due to the more extensive administrative tasks due to the population growth, another renovation was necessary in 1744. A gable roof that was continuous afterwards on the west side received three pointed gable half-timbered structures, the two outer ones of which carried gold-plated spheres. In 1744, the golden rider symbolizing the Schwerin city coat of arms was placed on the central battlement by coppersmith Albert Paltzoss and gilded by the painter Johann Christian Busch.

Since there was still not enough space for the administration, renovations were carried out again from 1834 to 1836. In addition to adjustments to the rooms, a representative facade in the historicizing Tudor style was fitted in front of the market in 1835 according to plans by Georg Adolph Demmler . The former town house in today's Puschkinstraße , which is located directly north of the town hall, subsequently provided additional relief. The building on Markt lost its actual function as town hall at the end of the 19th century. Plans to build a new monumental town hall from the 1920s and 1936, here in connection with plans to convert Schwerin into a representative Gau capital , were not implemented.

The new, modern gable facades on the back of the Schlachtermarkt were built in the 1980s according to designs by Dieter Zander . During this time, the archway to the former town house was built. On the occasion of the city's 825th anniversary, the mayor moved into his office in the restored building in 1985. A further modernization of the town hall - especially inside - was completed after the fall of the Wall in 2001.

The city administration and the mayor now use the new town house built in 1998 in the street Am Packhof near the main train station as their headquarters. Today, the city ​​marketing company Schwerin GmbH with the tourist information office operated by it has its headquarters in the old Schwerin town hall . In the Demmlersaal (formerly the model hall ) of the building, city representatives meetings are held, among other things.

See also

literature

  • Nils Rühberg: market and town hall. On the history of the Schwerin market development. Schwerin Information, Schwerin 1988

Web links

Commons : Schwerin Town Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de (PDF; 956 kB)
  2. ↑ a b B. Kasten and J.-U. Rost: Schwerin. History of the city. , Schwerin 2005, p. 12. The authors' findings are based on MUB IX, 5905; XIII, 7508.
  3. ↑ Rooster / Polenz / Lösler / Schaeffer / Menzel: Architectural Guide GDR. Schwerin district . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1984, p. 22
  4. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6
  5. ↑ a b box, grate p. 28
  6. ↑ Box, rust p. 29
  7. ^ Nils Rühberg: Market and Town Hall. On the history of the Schwerin market development. Schwerin-Information, Schwerin 1988, 24 pp.
  8. ↑ Preparatory studies "Eastern Paulsstadt" , state capital Schwerin, October 2007 ( digitized ; PDF; 892 kB)

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '44 "  N , 11 ° 24' 55.9"  E