Market 6 (Bad Honnef)

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Old Town Hall, Markt 6 (2012)

The Markt 6 building (also known as the Old Town Hall ) in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , is a residential and guest house built in 1894/95. Until 1983 it was the seat of the city administration as the town hall . The building stands as a monument under monument protection . It is located on the north side of the market square opposite the parish church .

history

The house was built as the first city hall of the city of Honnef, which had received municipal independence and at the same time city ​​rights in 1862 . The mayor's office was previously located on the upper floor of Bahnhofstrasse 26, where the municipal council also met. The city announced an architectural competition , from which the design by the Cologne architect Johann Georg Eberlein (1858–1918; son of Georg Eberlein ) emerged victorious due to the favorable room layout. The council chamber, the meeting place for the city ​​council , was on the first floor. The new town hall was inaugurated on June 30, 1895. After the rooms there became too tight, the half-timbered house from the 17th / 18th In the 19th century (Markt 7) the police station and later the registry office were set up, inside connected to the town hall.

After the city administration was enlarged as a result of population growth and the incorporation of Aegidienberg (1969), it was spread over five office buildings in the mid-1970s. Therefore, the city council decided in 1977 to give up the old town hall building and build a new one. It was based on a design by the architect Joachim Schürmann, southeast of the market square and parish church . The move of the city administration took place after the completion of the new building in March 1983. The previous town hall was then used by a day care center for the elderly, a radio center of the German Red Cross and a dance school; In 1992 a restaurant opened in the neighboring previous registry office , the tenant of which acquired the old town hall from the city in 1997 and established a (related) restaurant there by 1999 after a restoration in accordance with the requirements of listed buildings. Weddings will continue to be held in the former council chamber, identified as a branch of the registry office .

The building was entered in Bad Honnef's list of monuments on November 17, 1986.

architecture

The house is located on a site that rises to the east and is built using a closed construction method . It comprises two full floors and four axes , of which the right one is designed as an entrance axis . The gable of the portal is adorned with baroque ornaments and shows the city's coat of arms and four lion heads. The upper floor has a balcony , the parapet of which is equipped with neo-Gothic tracery . The attic has four hipped dormers including a roof knob . The town hall is crowned by a roof turret with a roof helmet , covered with copper sheet and closed off at the top by another roof knob.

Web links

Commons : Markt 6  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 121
  2. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Bad Honnef: Time leaps . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-560-6 , p. 28
  3. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Bad Honnef am Rhein in old views , Volume 2, European Library, Zaltbommel 2000, ISBN 90-288-6625-6 , Fig. 36.
  4. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Alt Honnefer picture book . Third, greatly expanded edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Karl Werber, Bad Honnef 1983, p. 114 .
  5. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 821.
  6. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 12/13 .
  7. ↑ a b Historic first city hall of the city of Bad Honnef , Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV , 2001
  8. ^ Portrait of the mayor back in his hometown , Honnef heute.de, March 21, 2014
  9. ↑ Ursula Gilbert: Houses for the council: Honnefs town halls . In: Homeland and history association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV: 150 years of the city of Bad Honnef . Edition Blattwelt, Niederhofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-936256-50-5 , pp. 184–188 (here: p. 186).
  10. ^ "The largest building project in the city" ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.9 MB) , Die Bad Honnefer Wochenzeitung, April 5, 2013, p. 1/2
  11. ↑ Jürgen Schwalb (Ed.): Menu Altes Standesamt / Altes Rathaus . Bad Honnef undated (approx. 1999)

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 43.3 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 37.7"  E