Hotel de Ville (Metz)
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The Hôtel de Ville (German town hall) in Metz , the capital of the French department of Moselle in the Grand Est region , is an early classical building from the 18th century. The Hôtel de ville on the Place d'Armes has been protected as a monument ( Monument historique ) since December 15, 1922 .
history
Construction of the new building by construction director Gardeur-Lebrun, planned by the architect Jacques-François Blondel , began in 1761 and lasted ten years. Part of the building on the site of the former Saint-Gorgon church was not completed until 1788.
The main facade of the three-story building, built in ocher-colored Jaumont stone, is 92 meters long on the southeast side of Place d'Armes. The facade has twenty-three axes and is divided by two risalits , the gables of which were designed by J.-C. Rollier with allegories of war, flags, spears and shields, as well as an allegory of the city represented by trade, architecture and justice .
Inside the building after the peristyle there is a monumental staircase in the entrance hall, the railing of which goes back to Joseph Cabossel and Pierre Janin. The door and window frames are assigned to Claude Louvart and Louis Laforet.
Among the interior decorations, the two statues «Justice» and «Wisdom» on the monumental staircase and the stained glass by Laurent-Charles Maréchal in the Salon de Guise can be considered relevant.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '10.9 " N , 6 ° 10' 34.6" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hôtel de Ville (Metz). In: Structurae
- ^ François-Yves Le Moigne, Gérald Collot, Jeanne-Marie Demarolle, Alain Girardot, Claude Lefebvre, Gérard Michaux, Michel Parisse, François Reitel, François Roth: Histoire de Metz . Toulouse 1986 ( ISBN 2-7089-4727-3 ).
- ^ Hôtel de ville de Metz on the Moselland Tourism website