List of town halls in Thuringia

This list collects the town halls of the cities in Thuringia .

introduction

The first town halls were built in Thuringia at the beginning of the 12th century with the emergence of municipal self-government. Very few town halls from medieval times have survived in their former form, but many younger town halls are built on foundations from the Middle Ages. Examples of medieval town halls have been preserved in Jena as stone buildings and in Waltershausen as half-timbered buildings.

During the Renaissance , new town hall buildings were built across the country, including in smaller country towns. Due to frequent city fires, they were often rebuilt or rebuilt. This development continued into the early 19th century. Significant Renaissance town hall buildings can be found in Gera, Gotha and Altenburg, for example.

With industrialization, many cities grew to many times their previous size, which is why there was an increased space requirement for administration and increased urban self-confidence. This resulted in large-scale new town hall buildings, such as those in Zeulenroda and later in Erfurt and Weimar. This development came to an end with the new building of the Sonneberg town hall in 1928. Later, rather individual departments from the town halls were outsourced to other functional buildings when there was no more space, instead of building representative new buildings. Extensions from the 19th and early 20th centuries can also be found in many places.

In the period that followed, very few new town halls were built. With the rising awareness of monument protection , the renovation of the town hall buildings began. After reunification in 1990, this development accelerated, so that almost all town halls in Thuringia have been renovated since then.

list

city	construction time	style	description	image
Altenburg ( Article )	1561 to 1564	Renaissance	built by Nikolaus Gromann
Apolda ( Article )	1558/1559	Renaissance
Arnstadt	1582 to 1586	Renaissance	built by Christoph Junghans
Artern	1906	Neo-baroque	1905 to 1906 built on the site of the old town hall, a former department store from the 14th century
Auma	1793 1907/1908	Neo renaissance	1556–1557 Construction of the town hall using the existing foundation walls of a previous building, 1792–1793 reconstruction of the town hall and the town church after a town fire, 1907/08 start of construction and inauguration of the new town hall
Bad Berka	after 1816	classicism	built after a city fire by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray as part of the market square ensemble
Bad Blankenburg	around 1750	Baroque	rebuilt after the fire of 1744
Bad Frankenhausen	1833/1834	classicism
Bad Köstritz	End of 17th century	Baroque	Former princely palace, today the seat of the city administration
Bad Langensalza	1742 to 1751	Baroque	rebuilt after the city fire of 1711
Bad Liebenstein	around 1850	Neo-renaissance	Former educational center and country rest home for boys
Bad Lobenstein		historicism	A figure, the "Lommesteener Fässleseecher", can be seen in the clock tower several times a day.
bad Salzungen	1790	Baroque
Bad Sulza	1541/1727	Renaissance	after a fire in 1727, rebuilt in different ways
Bad Tennstedt	1598	Renaissance
Berga / Elster	1844	historicism	Reopened to traffic on May 1, 1844 after a fire in 1842
Berka / Werra	1667	Renaissance	After destruction in the Thirty Years' War rebuilt
Blankenhain		Baroque
Bleicherode	1540/1541	Renaissance
Brotterode	1895	historicism
Bürgel		classicism
Buttelstedt		classicism
Buttstädt	1501 to 1606	Renaissance	The east wing was built in 1501, the south wing in 1565 and the north wing from 1604 to 1606 according to plans by Christophorus German .
Camburg	1888 to 1890	Neo-renaissance
Clings	1856	historicism
Creuzburg	1589	Renaissance	Reconstruction of the old town hall, which was used as a Latin school in the meantime, after its destruction in World War II , on April 1, 1945 by US artillery bombardment; the new town hall from 1825 was also completely destroyed and not rebuilt.
Dingelstädt		Neo-renaissance
Dornburg	1717	Baroque
Life	around 1950	Neoclassicism
Ebersdorf		Biedermeier
Eisenach ( article )	1564 to 1641	Renaissance
Eisenberg	1579 to 1593	Renaissance
Ice field	1836	Biedermeier	Rebuilt after a city fire in 1822. The three-storey building has a round entrance portal, above which there is a coat of arms relief carved from sandstone from 1557.
Ellrich	1879	Functional building	In 1879 the current town hall, the prison (back building) and the district court were housed in a former warehouse in Salzstrasse.
Erfurt ( Article )	1869 to 1882	Neo-Gothic	built by Theodor Sommer . Extensive expansion by Johannes Klass from 1933.
Friedrichroda		Home style	Destruction of a town hall by a large fire in 1634
Gebesee	1806	classicism	Inaugurated on June 21, 1806 as the successor to the town hall from 1540
Fell	1860	historicism	last rebuilt in 1860
Miter		Baroque
Geisa	1859 to 1861	Neo-Gothic	Erected after a city fire in 1858 on the square of the old town hall on the southeast corner of the market square
Gera ( Article )	1573 to 1575	Renaissance	built by Nikolaus Gromann
Goessnitz		classicism
Gotha	1566 to 1574	Renaissance	The old Gotha town hall was built as a department store and used as a town hall from 1665.
Graefenthal	1874 to 1876	classicism	rebuilt after a fire accident
Greiz	1840 to 1842	Neo-Gothic	The old town hall fell victim to a city fire in 1802. The current building was rebuilt between 1840–1842 and an extension was added in 1909.
Greetings	1834	classicism	The free-standing town hall burned down completely in 1491 and 1687. In 1834 the surrounding walls remained standing after the fire and formed the basis for the reconstruction.
Großbreitenbach	1615	Baroque	Slated half-timbering, expansion of the town hall in 1615 proven in a deed of purchase
Great, really	1831	Neo-renaissance
Heiligenstadt	after 1739	Baroque	built by Johann Christoph Heinemann
Heldburg		Renaissance	Henneberg framework
Heroics	1900 to 1901	Neo-renaissance	built by Friedrich Fahro
Herrings	16th century	Renaissance	The town hall experienced an eventful history of construction and use, from around 1970 to 1990 as a restaurant. A complete renovation took place in 2010.
Hermsdorf	1896 to 1897	Neo-renaissance	inaugurated on October 1, 1897
Hildburghausen	1595	Renaissance	Probably the oldest building in the city was built in 1395 instead of a burned-down stone house as a council and department store, rebuilt in 1572 after being destroyed by a hurricane.
Hirschberg		Biedermeier
Hohenleuben	1879	Neoclassicism	built as a district court, used as town hall from 1919
Ilmenau	1768 to 1786	Baroque	built by Gottfried Heinrich Krohne
Jena	1377 to 1413	Gothic
Kahla	1872/1873	historicism	The building is essentially Gothic in origin and has been rebuilt many times. In 1872/73 three neighboring buildings were included and the town hall got its present shape.
Kaltennordheim	1884	Neoclassicism	rebuilt after the fire in 1882
Kindelbrück	1761	Baroque	rebuilt after a city fire
Koelleda	1698 to 1702	Baroque	Replaced a burnt down previous building as the third town hall
Koenigsee	1719	Baroque	The former tower clock, built by an unknown craftsman in 1710, is on display in the foyer.
Crane field	1902	Neo-renaissance	The town hall was built after a city fire and first housed the Weimarischer Hof before the mayor's office was moved here from the Ratskeller in 1917.
Langewiesen	1935	Neoclassicism
Lauscha	1868	historicism	former historical school building, the "new school"; slated half-timbered building
Lehesten		Neo-renaissance
Leinefelde		historicism	The town hall is housed in a converted railway water tower.
People Mountain	1866	Neo-Gothic	rebuilt after a fire in 1865, the first town hall was named in 1486
Lobeda	End of 17th century	Baroque	Half-timbered building instead of the building that was destroyed by fire in 1640. A town hall is attested to at the end of the 15th century, and the first previous building may have been destroyed in the middle of the 14th century.
Lucka	End of the 19th century	Neoclassicism	Historical Ratskeller 1972 due to Dilapidation blown up, today's town hall since the end of the 19th century
Magdala	1570/1571	Renaissance	rebuilt after fire in 1849
Meiningen	1876 ​​to 1878	historicism	The town hall built by Otto Hoppe was destroyed in the Second World War and not rebuilt. Since then, the city administration has been housed in the rotunda of Elisabethenburg Palace.
Meuselwitz	1861 to 1862	Neo-Gothic	Inaugurated with the city charter on July 6, 1874
Mulhouse ( Article )	1256 to 1572	Gothic Renaissance	The town hall of the former free imperial city consists of several buildings, the oldest of which date from the 13th and the youngest from the 16th century.
Münchenbernsdorf	Early 20th century	Art Nouveau	Use as town hall since 1945
Neuhaus am Rennweg		Functional building	Slated functional building, set up as a town hall after the Second World War. The 1933 town hall was destroyed on April 11, 1945 in an artillery attack by the 11th Panzer Division of the 3rd US Army.
Neumark		Renaissance
Neustadt an der Orla ( Article )	until 1464	Gothic	Created after 1464 through the union of two neighboring buildings
Nordhausen	1608 to 1610	Renaissance	The Roland figure on the town hall commemorates the overthrow of the council in 1375.
Oberhof		Neoclassicism
Oberweißbach	1856	Historicism, modernized	Part of the district court building, built in 1831, opened on March 22, 1832, and an annex building was added in 1856. The seat of the administrative association Bergbahnregion / Schwarzatal is today housed in the neighboring administrative building from 1829.
Ohrdruf	1808	classicism	on the southeast corner of the "Iron Michael", an approximately 2.20 meter tall wooden figure from the workshop of the Ohrdrufer wood sculptor Hermann Schmidt from 1916
Orlamünde	1492 to 1502	Gothic	1864 neo-Gothic extension
Plaue	1822	historicism	1856 Roof and upper storey badly damaged in a fire and rebuilt
Pößneck ( article )	1478 to 1531	Gothic	built by master builder Conradt
Ranis	1839 to 1840	Neo-renaissance	built as a school
Rastenberg ( Article )	1663	Renaissance	Built in 1565, burned down in 1663 and rebuilt in the same year in the same place
Remda	after 1945	Baroque, modern rebuilt as a functional building	after destruction in World War II, by US artillery bombardment on April 13, 1945, rebuilt after the end of the war
Römhild		Renaissance
Ronneburg	1529	Renaissance	First mention of a town hall in 1476. According to a year on the south side, today's town hall was built in 1529, in 1665 the roof structure and woodwork were destroyed in a town fire and repaired again by 1674, last renovation in 1928/29.
Rossleben		historicism
Rudolstadt	1908 to 1912	Neo-renaissance	built by Theodor Veil and Gerhard Herms
Ruhla		historicism	After the old town hall was demolished in 1997, the city administration moved into a converted factory building.
Saalburg		historicism	built on medieval foundations
Saalfeld ( article )	1529 to 1537	Renaissance	probably built by master builder Krebs
Schalkau	17th century	Baroque	Slate half-timbered building with hipped roof
Schkölen		historicism	former manor
Schleiz	1879/1880	Neo-renaissance	built by Richard Uebe
Schleusingen	1550	Renaissance	extensively rebuilt several times
Schlotheim	1996	postmodern functional building	Inaugurated on August 3, 1996 as a completely new building on the site where the 251-year-old town hall stood until 1972. In the history of Schlotheim, this is now the 5th town hall.
Schmalkalden	15th century	Gothic	Three architecturally completely different buildings form the town hall complex today: the southern building from 1905, the northern building with late Gothic components and the central building - the "stone bower" from 1419.
Schmoelln	1540	Renaissance	rebuilt after fire in 1772
Sömmerda ( Article )	until 1539	Renaissance	The town hall, which probably already existed in the 15th century, was extensively rebuilt between 1529 and 1539, an extension from 1554 was replaced by a new baroque building in 1725.
Sondershausen	1568 to 1570	classicism	Rebuilt in 1856
Sonneberg	1928	Neo-Gothic / Neoclassicism	The old town hall had the town built in the neo-Gothic style in 1844/45 on the market square near the location of the 17th century town hall, which was destroyed in the town fire in 1840, according to plans by Carl Alexander Heideloff , and was rebuilt by Hermann Schuberth in 1886/87. In 1927/28 Karl Dröner built the New Town Hall on Bahnhofsplatz.
Stadtilm	around 1600	Renaissance	Castle, only used as town hall from 1918
Stadtlengsfeld	1878	classicism	Today's town hall was built as the Grand Ducal Saxon District Court after the city fire in 1878 and was used as a courthouse until 1945. After the war it was a residential building and classrooms were set up at times. It was and is mayor's office since 1880.
Stadtroda	20th century	Art Nouveau	first town hall destroyed in a town fire in 1638, second in bombing during the Second World War on November 21, 1944
Steinach	1948	Neo-baroque	The three-story main building was created by combining the houses at Marktplatz 3 and 4, which were built between 1923 and 1924.
Steinbach-Hallenberg	1900	Home style	New town hall, laying of the foundation stone on March 26th, handover on October 1st, 1900
Suhl	1812 to 1817	Neo-baroque	Facade rebuilt in 1913
Tambach-Dietharz	1919	Neo-renaissance
Tanna		historicism
Teichel	1863 to 1867	Neo-Romanesque	built by Wilhelm Adolph von Bamberg
Thamsbrück		Baroque
Themar	until 1711	Baroque
Treffurt ( article )	around 1550	Renaissance	Tower added in 1616
Instinct	around 1900	Neo-renaissance
Triptis		Neo-renaissance
Truse Valley		Postmodern
Ummerstadt	1558	Renaissance	Henneberg framework
Vacha	1613 to 1614	Renaissance	was built in 1614 as a representative city palace of the Hessian bailiff Caspar von Widemarkt
Waltershausen	1441	Gothic
Wasungen	1532 to 1534	Renaissance	Henneberg framework
Weida	1587 to 1589	Renaissance
Weimar ( article )	1837 to 1841	Neo-Gothic	built by Heinrich Hess
Weissensee	1200 to 1589	Renaissance	The town hall consists of several parts of the building that have been repeatedly rebuilt and overbuilt.
Wiehe		historicism
Worbis	1608	Renaissance	former moated castle and rent office, northwest wing from 1608
Wurzbach		Neo-renaissance
Zella Mehlis	1924 - 25	Neoclassicism	The town hall was built according to the plans of the architect and ducal building director Reinhard Claaßen, Coburg. Construction began on May 19, 1924 and the opening on August 22, 1925.
Zeulenroda	1825 to 1827	classicism	built by Christian Heinrich Schopper
Ziegenrück	16th century	Renaissance

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .