Merseburg Estates House

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Merseburg State House
Front from the castle park
Hugo Vogel (1898): Arrival of Emperor Otto I and his wife Edith near Magdeburg on Court Day 937 . History painting on the front wall of the great hall

The Merseburg Ständehaus is located in the immediate vicinity of the Merseburg Cathedral and the Merseburg Palace . Erected as the parliament building of the provincial council of the Prussian province of Saxony , it now serves as a congress and cultural center.

prehistory

In 1825, the representatives of the estates (Landtag) of the province of Saxony in the Prussian Kingdom, formed in 1815 , met for the first time in the Schlossgarten Salon in Merseburg . At the second meeting in 1827, complaints were raised that this building was unsuitable. From 1835 the state parliament moved to the Zechsche Palais in Merseburg, which had a suitable hall for plenary sessions. It was the meeting place for the Estates' Assembly until 1894. At the end of the use of the Zechschen Palais, the responsibilities of the Provincial Association were significantly expanded. These included tasks related to the social legislation of the empire. This also increased the space requirement. After arguments about relocating the state assembly to Halle (Saale) or Magdeburg from 1875 onwards , but no agreement was reached, the decision was made in 1892 to rebuild the state house. It was built on a piece of land donated to the Prussian state by the city of Merseburg .

architecture

The foundation stone for the building designed by Franz Schwechten was laid on September 7, 1892. The construction work was in the hands of the Halle architects Knoch and Kallmeyer. There are historical paintings by Hugo Vogel in the large hall . The provincial committee met there for the first time on April 24, 1895.

history

The Ständehaus in Merseburg was the meeting place of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony in the time of the Empire from 1895 to 1918 and the time of the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933. At the beginning of September 1945 the Ständehaus was held by the representatives of all parties in Saxony-Anhalt, under the direction of Walter Ulbricht, the land reform law drawn up. From the late 1940s to the beginning of the 1990s it was used as the »House of Culture«. During this time it housed a library, cinema, theater, clubs, discos, museum and music school. With the political change in autumn 1989 the house lost its users. The Kulturbund der DDR ceased its work and the restaurant on the ground floor was closed. After a few years of vacancy, the city of Merseburg bought the Ständehaus in 1998 for the symbolic price of one mark from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. On October 3rd, 2003 it was reopened as a congress and culture center after extensive renovation. The registry office of the city of Merseburg is also located in the building. A small exhibition on the history of the house is located on the ground floor.

Fountain

Before the south side of the stator house there is a fountain made of granite . It was built in 1895 and its architecture is rather simple. It was last renovated in 2003. The inside diameter is 4.2 meters.

Web links

Commons : Ständehaus der Provinz Sachsen (Merseburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathias Tullner, parliamentary series of publications, issue 26, state parliament building and state parliaments in Saxony-Anhalt from 1825 to 2004, Magdeburg: Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt, 2004, p. 7 ff
  2. ↑ Mathias Tullner, parliamentary series of publications, issue 26, state parliament building and state parliaments in Saxony-Anhalt from 1825 to 2004, Magdeburg: Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt, 2004, p. 14
  3. ↑ cf. Alfred G. Frei, Kaiser and Castro. History work for the Ständehaus, in: MEYER, Gerd, Merseburger Notizen 2003, Merseburg: 2003, p. 56.
  4. ^ Mathias Tullner, parliamentary series of publications, issue 26, state parliament building and state parliaments in Saxony-Anhalt from 1825 to 2004, Magdeburg: Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt, 2004, p. 53
  5. ↑ cf. Alfred G. Frei, Kaiser and Castro. History work for the Ständehaus, in: MEYER, Gerd, Merseburger Notizen 2003, Merseburg: 2003, p. 56.
  6. ↑ http://www.merseburg.de/de/staendehaus-dom-schloss-bereich/merseburger-staendehaus-20000850.html
  7. ↑ Fountain at the Ständehaus , Merseburg in the picture, accessed on November 12, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 34.92 "  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 58.56"  E