Gützkow town hall
The Gützkower Town Hall is an administrative building in the town of Gützkow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It has been the seat of the Züssow building department since 2005 .
history
Citizens' books, chronicles and traditional documents have been reporting on a town hall building since the 13th and 14th centuries, the location and shape of which has not been passed down. It was not until the 16th and 17th centuries that the location and appearance became tangible. The depiction of Gützkow in the Stralsund illuminated manuscript from 1615 and the resulting map of Lubin from 1618 shows the town hall building at its current location opposite the parish church of St. Nikolai . A new building of the house was registered in the magistrate's protocols and the archival documents in 1650.
A new building had been planned since 1748, as evidenced by the correspondence between the city and the Swedish provincial government in Stralsund. The sharp protests against the building by the then very numerous craftsmen in the city were noticeable. The councilors (4) were merchants, the eight people (8) were craftsmen. Both bodies had to agree and so this conflict dragged on for a long time. In the application of the craftsmen and guilds, they refer to the planned construction costs of 11,000 Reichstalers and the intended “town hall tax” for craftsmen of 24 Reichstalers each and 2 Reichstalers each for wage workers and day laborers. This stalemate between the magistrate (representatives) and the eight people (citizenship) lasted for over 100 years. In the meantime, Vorpommern and Gützkow had been transferred from the Kingdom of Sweden to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 .
In a police report in 1858, Mayor Rühs wrote to the Stralsund government : “The town hall is in a very poor structural condition.” A few months later, the government asked about the condition of the house and Rühs reported: “The ailing beams of the storeys in the town hall were with Beam supported. "
The new mayor Ritter then also submitted a report to the Stralsund government on July 22, 1861. It complained about the worrying state of the town hall. Ritter stated that the town hall threatens to collapse in a strong storm. The government now asked for a building survey. On August 5th, the magistrate commissioned a building report on the state of construction of the Gützkow town hall. The town hall was a half-timbered building that dates back to 1650; it was only slightly damaged in the town fire of 1729.
The report of December 2, 1861 states:
“The building is 46 feet and 6 inches long (= 13.58 m) and 37 feet deep (= 10.81 m) and has two floors. The half-timbering is lined with stone on the outside and the inside walls are glued (straw-wrapped stakes covered with clay). The roof is covered with tiles. The thresholds on the foundation are partially already "crumbled", the associations (beams) are loosened, the rear wall is bulged and is only held by the fire wall and the kitchen extension, the walls are cracked everywhere. "
A decision should be made at the request of the Stralsund administrative district. The construction was voted on on June 2, 1865: Mayor Ritter and councilors Jaede and W. Jaede were in favor, councilor Heß against. After delayed negotiations, the civic college rejected the construction of the new town hall on July 4th, citing the city's poor financial situation as the reason.
The royal district architect K. Westphal summarized all the reports and his own view of the state of construction of the Gützkower town hall on September 20, 1865: “Town hall is in danger of collapsing, only 2 rooms can be used to a limited extent, the structure and especially the beams are so bad that a repair impossible. ”The new building, 55 feet long (= 16.06 m) and 40 feet deep (= 11.68 m) would cost around 9,000 Reichstaler.
Despite clear instructions from the government in 1866, the civic representatives again refused to make a positive decision to build the new Gützkow town hall.
Despite the refusal of the citizens, the demolition of the old Gützkow town hall began on October 28, 1869. On March 17, 1870, the magistrate gave Gützkow craftsmen the orders to build the new town hall. The government of the administrative district of Stralsund handed over the approval for 7,900, - Reichstaler grant money, thus the refusal of the citizenship became obsolete.
On April 23, 1870, the foundation stone was laid for the Gützkower town hall. The construction progress was good after the winter break, the interior plaster was finished, the exterior plaster partially. The building was accepted in September. The costs were estimated at 6,500 thalers.
On October 1st, 1871, the new Gützkower Town Hall was officially inaugurated and given its intended purpose.
The jewelry dungeon from 1871 at the Gützkower town hall was demolished on November 10, 1949 because it was not repairable. The girders were completely rusted through. The house thus lost an important design element.
On March 24, 1983, all certificates and signs for the listed buildings in Gützkow were officially handed over, including those of the town hall.
On December 19, 1991, the Gützkow city council decided to completely renovate the Gützkow town hall. The funds of 1,400,000 DM were earmarked from the "Fund for German Unity". The two remaining prison cells in the basement of the Gützkower town hall were removed in 1992 when the building was renovated. The last inmates in May 1945 were the NSDAP members from Gützkow who had been captured by the Soviet army . A "Ratskeller" restaurant was set up there, but it closed again before 2000.
On May 21, 1993 the inauguration of the reconstructed town hall of Gützkow took place. The guests from the partner community Bohmte presented the copper letters as a gift
" TOWN HALL "
for the building facade.
During the festival week for the 875th city anniversary in 2003, the new city museum was opened in the council cellar of the city hall.
From January 1, 2005, after 770 years, the city of Gützkow was deprived of self-government through administrative reforms. The town hall became the outdoor seat for the building department of the new Züssow office . The mayor, who has been honorary since then, only has one room there for hourly work. His 36 predecessors in office in uninterrupted order since the introduction of the civil registers in 1673 were full-time and until 1859 even additional city judges.
In continuation of the work on the staircases at Dänholm and City Hall from 2004, the parking area was prepared in 2009. Again, archaeological excavations had previously been carried out, which confirmed the previous excavation results. Then the filling, paving and design measures were implemented. The inauguration took place in 2010.
building
The original building from 1650 was 46 feet and 6 inches long (= 13.58 m) and 37 feet deep (= 10.81 m) and has 2 floors. The outside of the half-timbering was lined with stone and the inside walls were glued (clay and straw). The roof was covered with tiles.
The new building from 1871 was planned to have a length of 55 feet (= 16.06 m) and a depth of 40 feet (= 11.68 m).
The current (2015) measurement is: 18.4 m long; 12.8 m deep and 13.4 m high.
It is a 2-storey plastered brick building on a field-stone-walled basement for the basement. The pedestal on the street side is also plastered, the surface plaster is decoratively cuboid . The building has seven axes and a raised central risalit , the facades are richly structured. There are square columns at the building corners as well as at the risalit corners. All corner and risalit columns as well as the risalit point had pointed onion domes. These were dismantled between 1940 and 1950, probably also due to disrepair. At the top of the central risalit is the colored and profiled coat of arms of the Gützkow counts , who are considered to be the benefactors of city rights. The building has three entrances and exits, the main entrance with stairs, the small rear entrance and the cellar entrance on the west gable. The main staircase was straight with 10 steps, in GDR times it was designed in a semicircular floor plan, but this was returned to the straight pre-war shape during the restoration from 1991 to 1993.
Furnishing
The furnishings of the town hall were originally designed until 1945 in such a way that the mayor's apartment and all the corresponding rooms were on the upper floor. The administration rooms were in the basement. In the attic there were storage and archive rooms and in the basement there were 3 prison cells, the small apartment of the police guard and other archive rooms.
After 1945 the equipment was changed significantly. The mayor's apartment was cleared and converted into administrative rooms, and the caretaker's apartment in the basement was enlarged. This change was necessary due to slowly increasing functional administrative tasks and a significantly increased population (2500 inhabitants and 2000 refugees).
After 1990 there were no significant changes, only communication and computer technology as well as the energy supply etc. changed. This happened above all with and after the extensive restoration of the town hall.
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen , IV. Part Volume II, Anklam 1868, pp. 136-216, Google books .
- Walter Ewert : Gützkow, the count town on the Peene. Gützkow 1935.
- Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen, Karl-Eberhard Wisselinck: Gützkow - 875 years . MV-Verlag, Greifswald 2002
- Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen: Chronicle of the city of Gützkow - update from 1996. 600 p. - digitized in the museum PC - printed form from 1997 350 p. In the museum
- Files of the Greifswald State Archives (LAG):
- Rep. 10 a - files of the Swedish government in Stralsund for the city of Gützkow
- Rep. 38 b - files of the Gützkow city administration
- Rep. 65 c - files of the Prussian. Government of the administrative district of Stralsund for the city of Gützkow
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 15.4 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 33.5" E