Hanauer Hof
The Hanauer Hof (French Hôtel de Hanau ) in Strasbourg was the city palace of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg .
Requirements and construction
The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg were bailiffs of Strasbourg. Since 1573 they owned the court of the noble von Ochsenstein family there . In 1728 Count Johann Reinhard III began. with the construction of a new city palace. The architect was the Hanau court building director Christian Ludwig Hermann . Johann Reinhard III, the last male representative of his family, died in 1736 and never saw the completion of the work. The main building was largely completed at that time, but the rear side wings were still missing. Heir to the new hotel was Louis IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . It is therefore also known as the Hôtel de Hessen-Darmstadt . After the death of Johann Reinhard III. Joseph Massol , from Langedocue (Montpellier?) , master builder of the Strasbourg cathedral chapter , took over the construction site and completed the remaining parts of the complex in simplified forms.
The building
Count Johann Reinhard III. had a typical French aristocratic hotel built: a three-wing complex, which is grouped around a courtyard . The fourth side with the main entrance to Brandgasse ( Rue Brûlée ) received a lower level of development. The Corps de Logis is two-story towards the main courtyard, and three-story towards the lower-lying place Broglie at the rear .
The complex was classified as a Monument historique on June 20, 1921 .
Further use
In the course of the French Revolution , the building was expropriated and national property . In 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte handed it over to the city administration of Strasbourg, which needed a new town hall , as the old one had been destroyed in the revolution. Since then, the Hanauer Hof has served as Strasbourg's town hall, but today primarily as a backdrop for weddings and the registry office. The city administration itself has been located in the Center administratif de Strasbourg at the Parc de l'Étoile since 1976 .
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Gerhard Bott : Castles and public buildings in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, pp. 35ff. (here especially pp. 75-80).
- Fried Lübbecke : Hanau. City and county. Cologne 1951, p. 267 ff.
- Daniel Zimmer: Christian Ludwig Hermann's activity in the planning and execution of the Hanauer Hof in Strasbourg (1728–1736) . In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2017, pp. 84–89.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Zimmer, p. 89.
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 4.7 " N , 7 ° 45 ′ 2.5" E