Wedding house (Hameln)
The wedding house in Hameln is a significant Weserrenaissance -Bau in Lower Saxony , which consists Süntelsandstein was built. It is considered to be the last stone building that was built in this style in Hameln . The construction time was from 1610 to 1617.
The wedding house in Hameln was not a place to get married, but served as a festival and celebration house for the citizens. The name wedding (actually: wedding) is derived from "high time", the time of year in which all kinds of festivities were celebrated. However, the registry office of the city of Hameln has been located there since the 1950s.
The wedding house in Hameln had a ballroom, city scales, a courtroom, a wine or council tavern, an armory and a pharmacy. The Ratsapotheke was operated from 1822 by F. W. A. Sertürner , the discoverer of morphine , who worked there until his death in 1841. There is a memorial plaque for Sertürner on the building.
The building made of sandstone is horizontally strongly structured by circumferential cornices . The length of the building is 43 meters. The sandstone blocks are divided by ornamented stone bands with so-called fittings . Based on the design of the volute gable and the mid-houses , a style comparison suggests that the builder of the Hämelschenburg Castle , Eberhard Wilkening , was also the builder of the wedding house.
The carillon at the wedding house with 37 bells has been replacing the clock that was destroyed by the war in April 1945 since 1964 . The carillon figures come from the sculptor Walter Volland based on a model by the art professor Harro Siegel .
Three times a day at 1:05 p.m., 3:35 p.m. and 5:35 p.m. there is a demonstration of the pied piper legend in front of the wedding house. A bronze door opens and the figures and carillon are shown.
After extensive renovation, the so-called "Weser Renaissance Adventure World" was opened in the wedding house in 2005, but had to close again after almost two years due to technical problems and miscalculations. The project was criticized as a "flop" in the 2008 Black Book of the Taxpayers Association .
literature
- Georg Ulrich Großmann: Renaissance along the Weser. Art and culture in north-west Germany between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War . Dumont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2226-7 .
Web links
- Link of the city of Hameln to the wedding house
- Renovation work on the wedding house
- History of the city of Hameln
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bund der Steuerzahler, http://schwarzbuch08.steuerzahler.de/schwarzbuch-laender.php?idcountry=8 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 25.3 ″ E