Office building
Amthaus or Amtshaus is a common name in German-speaking countries for the seat of an authority or comparable state administrative institution. Amthaus is often just a historical name for the house in question, which was retained after a change in function.
Specialized office houses appeared in the Holy Roman Empire from the beginning of the early modern period . With the beginning of the early modern state formation , new tasks arose, the state staff expanded, and new offices and authorities outside the Princely Court were established. Territorial administrations were also expanded and replaced the ruler 's medieval Vogtbezirke through the formation of regional offices .
Where there were no sovereign castles and palaces, new, sometimes very large, special office buildings were built. The building of the authorities represented a significant innovation in manorial action. Unlike castles and palaces, they did not stand for defiance or representation , but for functionality, objectivity and awareness of order and shaped the early modern state character.
Individual buildings designated as office (s) buildings
Germany
Amtshaus in Germany only refers to certain historical administrative or service buildings .
- Old Office House (Ailringen)
- Official house in Annaburg , built in 1578
- Bremisches Amtshaus, built in 1829 for the Hanseatic City of Bremerhaven in Bremerhaven
- Castellsches Amtshaus (1648), Rödelsee, Kitzingen district, Bavaria
- Hannoversches Amtshaus in Bremerhaven - Lehe, formerly the district and higher court
- Amtshaus (Gotha) main part built 1634–1638, u. a. Administrative building for the Gotha office
- Amtshaus (Leipzig) from the 14th century
- Altes Amtshaus Langerfeld , official building built in 1838 in today's Wuppertal
- Altes Amtshaus (Unna) , station on the Route of Industrial Culture built in 1817
- Bone carving office building , Hildesheim
- Amtshaus Schweinitz , administrative center of the Electoral Saxon Office Schweinitz
- Amtshaus Schlieben , administrative center of the Electoral Saxon Office of Schlieben (Electorate of Saxony)
- Old Office House (Vellberg)
- Old office building Wildeshausen , built in 1729/30 for the Hanoverian office Wildeshausen, which existed from 1700 to 1803
In Berlin, these branch offices of the district offices were called “local offices” (without a house) between (roughly) 1871 and 1945, mostly housed in farmhouse-like buildings for local authority administration.
Austria
Switzerland
- Amthaus (Aarau) , Amthaus of the Aarau district
- Amthaus (Baden) , Rathausgasse 3, Amthaus of the Baden district
- Amthaus (Bern) , Hodlerstrasse 7, Kantonales Amthaus
- Old office building (Biel) , Burggasse 21, former office building in the district of Biel (until 1899)
- New office building (Biel) , Spitalstrasse 14, office building of the district of Biel
- Amthaus (Olten) , Froburgstrasse 1 / Römerstrasse 2, Amthaus of the Olten-Gössgen district
- Amthaus I (Solothurn) , Bielstrasse 1
- Amthaus II (Solothurn) , Westbahnhofstrasse 16 (former cantonal savings fund)
- Office building (Muri)
- Muri-Amthof , the former office of the Muri monastery in Bremgarten