New law firm (Heilbronn)

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New office, drawing by Conrad v. Dollinger, 19th century

The New Chancellery in Heilbronn goes back to the house Marktplatz 7 in Heilbronn, which was the house of the patrician family Erer in the first half of the 16th century . Acquired by the city in 1589, the city had the house demolished and the new chancellery built on this site in 1600 as an eastern extension of the old historic town hall. It was particularly known for its elaborate interior design. The wedding room was on the ground floor, decorated in the Art Nouveau style by Adolph Amberg , the first floor was known as a historical meeting room for the convents of the Protestant Union , whose renaissance furnishings are described by Eduard Paulus in monuments of art and antiquity . The city's coat of arms eagle from the gable was recovered and is now in the large council hall of Heilbronn town hall .

history

Previous building: Erer patrician house

The eastern building next to the town hall belonged to a branch of the Erer patrician family in the first half of the 16th century. In 1559 the house passed into bourgeois hands. In 1589 the imperial city of Heilbronn bought it to expand the town hall and had the old patrician house demolished. In its place, the city built the New Chancellery as a fully representative, three-story building.

New law firm

Exterior architecture

New office, Zwerchgiebel

On March 4, 1593, Hans Kurz received the order to plan a gable building east of the town hall; for this he was awarded a fee of 314 guilders. By 1596 he built a three-story wing structure.

Gable

The upper end of the Renaissance building was formed by a gable facing south, which was adorned with volutes , Corinthian three-quarter columns, and attached obelisks - “a play of forms”. In the gable field there were also busts and an imperial city eagle, which was framed by four figures. The eagle with the four figures was recovered and now adorns the east gable of the Great Council Room . The group of figures has great symbolic value - "The old eagle, which I ... reassembled and which is set up here ... as a symbol in the gable, should remind and remind us that we are not planning for today and tomorrow, but for generations to come. and that today we create the home for tomorrow. "This" maintains ... the constant connection between the old and the new Heilbronn ".

Arched portal
Portal of the new law firm

The New Chancellery received its “special accent” from the arched portal, the pilasters of which were dissolved in cuboids. The pilasters supported an architrave. Above it was a heraldic cartouche with the imperial city heraldic animal, the eagle. The gussets showed round shields with flat relief heads.

Interior design

Wedding room
Signature Amberg
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The wedding venue of the old, historic town hall was located in the New Chancellery and consisted of an anteroom and the actual wedding room. Both received a decoration that was painted by Adolph Amberg .

Mural "Advertisement in the Rosenhag"
In the anteroom was the mural “Advertisement in the Rosenhag”.

In the anteroom was the mural “Advertisement in the Rosenhag”. A “cozy, tender mood” emanated from this painting. A "graceful rose frieze" ran along the wall, over which "butterflies flitted and enlivened the finely tinted gray-green of the wall."

Mural "The Lovers"

In contrast, the mural in the wedding room in cobalt blue spread a tragic mood. A naked couple was the focus here, they pressed against the man who hugged them protectively. The colors ranged from "fragrant and discreet flesh tones" to "matt gold" to blood red :

“ On the other hand, in the wedding room itself, we are surrounded by a solemn, dreamlike cobalt blue, which has an effect on the lyrical mood in the anteroom like the tragedy of the human. Detached from all earthly accessories, we see a wonderful poem on the central wall, man and woman in undisguised, wonderful nudity. The woman, completely devoted, hides her face on the broad breast of the husband, who is free and masculine to preserve and protect his greatest good. Around this grave, poignant central picture with its peculiarly fragrant and discreet flesh tones lined up dramatically intertwined groups of people painted in matt gold, through whose throng blood-red garlands wind from top to bottom, from heaven to earth, a powerful perceived hymn to that in joy and sorrow changeful fate of the people and their always insatiable pursuit of the sun-golden heights, where the eternally cheerful heavenly ones are enthroned; a chaste perceived art, unsuitable to appear offensive if you meet it with a decent disposition "

  • painting
  • Heilbronn, Old Town Hall, New Chancellery, 2nd mural in the wedding room of Adolf Amberg (born July 31, 1874 in Hanau; † July 3, 1913 in Berlin), group left.tif
  • Heilbronn, Altes Rathaus, Neue Kanzlei, 2nd mural in the wedding room of Adolf Amberg (born July 31, 1874 in Hanau; † July 3, 1913 in Berlin), husband and wife
  • Heilbronn, Altes Rathaus, Neue Kanzlei, 2nd mural in the wedding room of Adolf Amberg (born July 31, 1874 in Hanau; † July 3, 1913 in Berlin), group on the right
Hall room
City treasury, decorated column

On the first floor there was the hall room , which consisted of a large hall with a ribless cross vault and took up the entire middle floor of the New Chancellery . The entire vault rested on two finely fluted columns, the bases of which were decorated with angel heads and ornaments. After the OBA of 1904, there were the life-size oil paintings showing Emperor Franz I and his wife Maria Theresa, who came to Heilbronn on October 17, 1745 on the return journey from the Coronation Day in Frankfurt, where the imperial couple prepared a festive reception has been. The paintings were painted in 1774. The fireplace belonging to this room (outside) was designed in Renaissance forms and showed a long-bearded head. The renaissance fireplace, as well as the "rich paneling of the walls, but especially the magnificent door panels" were among the "very noteworthy artistic achievements". The Protestant Union's conventions were held here from 1620-21 , while the Evangelical Alliance with the Swedes of April 23, 1633, known as the Heilbronn Treaty, was held in the Deutschhof. After the restoration under Jassoy et al. Vollmer used the room of the city maintenance and city treasury.

The two rooms on the upper floor had “beautifully paneled and coffered ceilings”. The rear coffered wooden ceiling shows the year 1596, a number on a console in the middle of each side.

  • City Treasury

  • City treasury, panel with door

  • City treasury, ribless cross vault on a decorated column

Web links

Commons : Neue Kanzlei  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑

    “Patrizierhaus Erer I / Neue Kanzlei, sold, Marktplatz 7 (UKP nos. 458d and 458 c) The eastern building next to the town hall (HT 43) was demonstrably owned by a branch of the patrician family Erer and in the first half of the 16th century passed into bourgeois hands in 1559. In 1589, the city acquired the building to expand the town hall. Around 1600, the city had the New Chancellery built at this point as a fully representative, three-story building. Renovated around 1900, it was destroyed in 1944. A colored drawing made at the beginning of the 18th century shows the town hall and the New Chancellery to the east with an unrealized painting. "

    - Marianne Dumitrache, Simon M. Haag: Archaeological city cadastre Baden-Württemberg. Volume 8: Heilbronn. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-927714-51-8 , p. 159 No. 401 [Patrizierhaus Erer I / Neue Kanzlei, departed, Marktplatz 7 (UKP nos. 458d and 458 c)].
  2. ↑ Moriz v. Rauch: The Erer in Heilbronn . In: HVH 15, 1922–1925, pp. 13–56, on this p. 50
  3. ↑ Helmut Schmolz: Heilbronn . In: Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg - Explanations . Epithet to Map IV, 8: Outlines of Medieval Towns III, Stuttgart 1976, 10 No. 18
  4. ^ Helmut Schmolz and Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn. History and life of a city in pictures , Weißenhorn 1971, 66 No. 153, 104 No. 299
  5. ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . Weißenhorn 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 14). No. 17.
  6. ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn: The old city in words and pictures , Volume 2, Weißenhorn 1967 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 15). No. 10
  7. ↑ Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 79 .
  8. ↑ Hubert Weckbach: The city archive - the "soul of our state". On the history of the city archive and the management of records in Heilbronn up to the destruction of the city in 1944. In: Christhard Schrenk and Hubert Weckbach, Preserving the past for the future. The Heilbronn City Archives. History - Task - Stocks , Heilbronn 1993, pp. 9–98, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn (published by Statistisch-Topographischen Bureau), Stuttgart 1865, p. 178
  10. ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . (Volume 1.) Konrad, Weißenhorn, 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, 14), p. 17
  11. ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn: The old city in words and pictures , Volume 2, Weißenhorn 1967 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 15). P. 10, No. 1 [New Chancellery].
  12. ^ Renz, Alexander / Schlösser, Susanne: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn. Volume VII: 1952-1957 , Heilbronn 1996, p. 117
  13. ↑ Official Gazette for the City and District of Heilbronn from April 4, 1963 No. 14 13 years of collaboration in the reconstruction of Heilbronn .
  14. ^ Helmut Schmolz and Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn - history and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1973. No. 153 [Reichsstädtischer coat of arms eagle in the large conference room of the town hall, photo 1971]
  15. ^ A b Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn: The old town in words and pictures , Volume 2, Weißenhorn 1967 (Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 15). P. 10, No. 1 [New Chancellery].
  16. ↑ a b c d e f g Association for Tourism Heilbronn [Tourist Association] (ed.): Guide through the town hall and Kilian's Church in Heilbronn , Schell'sche Buchdruckerei, Victor Kraemer Heilbronn, 1907–1910 [Heilbronn city archive, Heuss database, archive signature L006-Hc 2 Fue-1910], p. 18.
  17. ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn: The old city in words and pictures , Volume 2, Weißenhorn 1967 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 15). P. 10, No. 1 [New Chancellery].
  18. ^ Eduard Paulus: The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Inventory [Neckarkreis] , Stuttgart 1889, p. 255 [large-format illustration of the Renaissance fireplace with long-bearded head of the so-called hall room of the New Chancellery ].
  19. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1901/1903, p. 47.
  20. ^ Association for Tourism Heilbronn [Tourist Office] (ed.): Guide through the town hall and Kilian's Church in Heilbronn , Schell'sche Buchdruckerei, Victor Kraemer Heilbronn, 1907–1910 [Heilbronn City Archives, Heuss database, archive signature L006-Hc 2 Fue-1910 ], P. 13.
  21. ↑ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1901/1903, p. 47.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 33.3 "  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 7.1"  E