Parliament building (Meiningen)

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The Meininger Landtag

The state parliament building in Meiningen was the seat of the state parliament of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen . The listed building is located in the eastern old town near the main post office.

history

The state parliament building was built in the Italian Neo-Renaissance style in the state capital Meiningen in the years 1880/81 according to a design and under the direction of court building officer Erwin Theodor Döbner . It replaced the landscape building on the market, which was destroyed in the great fire of the city in 1874 . The cost of the new building was around 116,000 marks. The plenary hall took up 125 m² of the 900 m² floor space . It provided enough space for the horseshoe-shaped board of the 24 members of the state parliament, the presidium and 50 listeners. The house also housed a library and the apartments of the President of the State Parliament and the Landtag messenger. On November 1, 1880, the Meiningen Landtag moved into the new, not yet completed building and on November 15, 1880 the first public Landtag session took place.

From 1914, other institutions used the spacious house. In November 1918 the 24 members of the state parliament handled the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen here and in 1919 they decided to join the free state to the newly founded state of Thuringia . On March 23, 1923, the last session of the state parliament, which had been converted into a regional government, took place. In 1931 the Deutsche Reichspost took over the building and set up a telegraph construction office here in 1932 . In 1952 the Meiningen telecommunications office was established in the building . The GDR's Deutsche Post was the landlord until 1990, after which Deutsche Telekom took over . In 2011 it came into private ownership and is used as an office building after renovation.

  • East facade

  • Coat of arms of Sachsen-Meiningen above the entrance portal

  • Stairwell before the renovation

  • Entrance to the plenary hall

Web links

Commons : Landtag of Saxe-Meiningen (building)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen, Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, page 142
  2. ↑ a b c d City of Meiningen / Norbert Moczarski, Media-Custom No. 1226-114-1.
  3. ^ FW Meininger Tageblatt, edition of September 9, 2011, page 7.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 2.5 ″  E