Great Guild (Riga)

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Great Guild, 2018
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The Great Guild ( Latvian Lielā ģilde ), also St. Mary's Guild or Stube von Münster , is a listed building in the Latvian capital Riga . Today it is used especially for concerts of the Riga Philharmonic .

location

It is located in Riga's old town on the north side of Gildstubenstrasse ( Amatu iela ) in a corner at the confluence with Meisterstrasse ( Meistaru iela ) at the address Gildstubenstrasse 6. A little further south is the Kleine Gilde .

Architecture and history

The Great Guild was the guild of mostly German merchants in Riga who operated sea trade. The guild's coat of arms shows a ship. However, the Great Guild also included pastors, senior officials and wealthy citizens.

In the years from 1854 to 1859, today's house of the Great Guild was built according to plans by Karl Beyne , including a historical predecessor building in the neo-Gothic style. Here one leaned in particular on the English Gothic, so there are arches typical of the Tudor style . The vaulted two-aisled guild hall, the so-called Münsterstube, was retained on the ground floor. There was a carved image of Mary from the beginning of the 15th century called Docke . The speaker called the Dockmann was then standing below the dock when addressing the assembly. Other noteworthy pieces of equipment in the guild room were the chandeliers, the remains of an altar shrine, Death of Maria, and the musicians' historic stage, the piper's bench . In the adjacent to the Guildhall bridal chamber is a made of sandstone crafted Renaissance fireplace dating from 1633. In the nuptial chamber had into it until the 18th century after the wedding was celebrated at the guild office, the bride and groom, the wedding night to spend. In the chamber there were also oil portraits of some regents. The guild room and bridal chamber date from before 1330 and are also called the monastery cellars . The Teutonic Order occupied the building in the 14th century . In 1353 the master of the order Goswin von Herike returned the house after a new castle on the Daugava was completed to replace a castle that had been destroyed in 1297 . A glass picture in the stairwell represented the return.

The large ballroom with the coats of arms of the elders is located on the upper floor. The hall is spanned by a wooden ceiling.

In the new building from 1854 to 1859, a richly decorated Renaissance gable originally located above the main entrance was removed. At the same time, the house was expanded beyond its original construction limits and in particular the original course of the Riga city wall .

In 1899 the lower two-aisled hall was decorated with a coat of arms frieze showing the coat of arms of the Hanseatic cities. At times a restaurant was operated in the monastery cellar.

Major parts of the facility were destroyed or lost in wars. In 1963 there was a fire, so that a reconstruction took place in 1965. A new vestibule was added and the furnishings were adapted for the purpose of concerts.

Since October 29, 1998, the Large Guild and the Small Guild have been registered as a complex under number 6534 in the Latvian register of monuments.

Personalities

The following persons held offices in the Great Guild (sorted by date of birth), the list does not claim to be complete:

Simple members also included Adam Hinrich Schwartz (1678–1762), Johann Christoph Wöhrmann (1784–1843) and Christian August Berkholz (1805–1889).

literature

Web links

Commons : Big Guild  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Guild (St. Mariengilde) on www.schwarzaufweiss.de

Coordinates: 56 ° 56 ′ 59.5 ″  N , 24 ° 6 ′ 29.2 ″  E