Hotel de ville
Hôtel de ville is the French term for the town hall (in municipalities without municipal rights: Mairie ).
In France and Luxembourg , the term refers to the building, not the authority.
In Belgium is maire the bourgmestre of (de) Mayor and the Authority the hôtel de ville .
In Romandie use (French-speaking Western Switzerland) cities such as Geneva the concept hôtel de ville , while smaller communities of municipalité or maison communale speak. The top administration is a body headed by a maire or a président de la ville ( city president ) .
Style
A hotel in this case means a palace (and not an accommodation establishment, hotel ). Hôtel described in the French 17th-century town houses of the nobility, and is therefore in the pre-revolutionary period and stately administration building for the urban estates of the nobility, as the country estate and the estate is that of rural. With the time of the republic and the empires the name passed to the civil administration.
The post-revolutionary Hôtel de ville with its historicizing and representative design language can be seen as an independent building type of Francophone architecture. In the inter-war period, it was replaced by the designs of general government buildings.
Examples in pictures
- Pre-revolutionary city palaces of the Renaissance , Gothic and Baroque Classicism periods
Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles / Stadhuis, Grand-Place / Grote Markt ; Jacob van Tienen 1402-1455
Hotel de Ville de Courtrai ; unknown 1420, 1616
Hotel de Ville de Liège , La place du Marché, Liège ; Joseph-Clément de Bavière , 1714-1718
Capitole de Toulouse , Rue Lafayette, Toulouse ; originally 12th century, Guillaume Cammas 1750, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 1873
- Buildings of historicism
Hôtel de ville de Montréal / Montreal City Hall, Rue Notre-Dame, Montreal ; Henri-Maurice Perrault , Alexander Cowper Hutchison 1872–1878
Hôtel de Ville de Paris , Rue de Rivoli 4th Arr .; Théodore Ballu , Pierre Deperthes 1874–1882
Hotel de Ville de Comines ; Louis-Marie Cordonnier 1923
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Further examples
- Town hall article:
- Hotel de Ville (Aix-en-Provence)
- Hotel de Ville (Arbois)
- Hotel de Ville (Coulommiers)
- Hotel de Ville (Dunkirk)
- Hotel de Ville (Lyon)
- Hotel de Ville (Melun)
- Hotel de Ville (Metz)
- Hotel de Ville (Montbeliard)
- Hotel de Ville (Montreal)
- Hotel de Ville (Paris)
- Hotel de Ville (Selestat)
- Hotel de Ville (Sens)
- Hotel de Ville (Thionville)
- Hotel de Ville (Troyes)
- Hotel de Ville (Vannes)
- Traffic:
- Hôtel de Ville (Métro Paris) , a station on the Paris Metro
