Neustädter Rathaus (Hanau)
The Neustädter Rathaus is the town hall of the city of Hanau .
location
The Neustadt town hall is located in the center of the former Hanauer Neustadt, on the market square. The national monument of the Brothers Grimm has stood in front of the Neustadt town hall since October 18, 1896 . The building is placed in an axis with the Walloon-Dutch Church , the central church in the Neustadt Hanau. The line of sight is established through Paradiesgasse.
history
Laying of the foundation stone
The construction of the town hall had already been decided in 1606, but was repeatedly postponed for cost reasons. The city administration resided in rented buildings for so long. Only more than a hundred years after the founding of Hanauer Neustadt did it come on June 11, 1725 under the government of Count Johann Reinhard III. for laying the foundation stone for the Neustadt's own town hall.
The Neustädter Rathaus, built in the baroque style , with its hipped roof and mansards , was designed by Christian Ludwig Hermann in 1723–33 . The sovereign supported the construction with inexpensive building materials and by providing scaffolding wood from the construction of the Philippsruhe Palace . Construction was completed in 1733. A few years later - also by Christian Ludwig Hermann - rear buildings facing Langstrasse were built. They contained the archive , the prison and the servant's apartment.
Destruction and rebuilding
The Neustädter Rathaus was destroyed in the bombing of the Second World War except for the surrounding walls. In the 1960s, a new town hall was built in and around the historic building. The city administration used the Philippsruhe Palace provisionally until 1964. For the new town hall, the preserved parts of the facade and surrounding walls of the historic building were restored and reused. In contrast to the pre-war situation, in which the town hall was a building integrated into the closed row of buildings on the north side of the market square, it was now surrounded in a free-form and U-shape with new administrative buildings in the functional exposed aggregate concrete style with flat roofs that was customary at the time. The baroque loft extension of these modern administrative buildings did not take place until twenty years later.
Today there is again a considerable need for renovation. Only the ground floor is still used, for example for exhibitions. Not on the other hand the meeting room of the city council . This is currently (2015) in the Congress Park Hanau .
The building
The facade is made of red Franconian sandstone. The front gable on the roof shows the double coat of arms of Count Johann Reinhard III. and his wife, Dorothea Friederike von Brandenburg-Ansbach . On the right and left it is adorned by two allegorical female figures as a symbol of justice and peace. To the left is Justice with its symbols of scales, scepter and eagle with sword at their feet. On the right hand peace with a golden torch, a book and the crane at his feet. The crane symbolizes vigilance and security. On cast-iron balconies, colored, gilded coat of arms Neustadt is attached with the year 1733rd
The building expresses the self-confidence of the founders of the Neustadt, who placed this very representative building, also a built symbol of their self-government, in the center of the city.
Carillon in the town hall tower
The town hall tower of the Neustadt town hall is a subsequent addition from 1755 and received a clock and a carillon with 18 bells. When the building was rebuilt after the Second World War , a carillon was installed again. The following works are played every day at the given time:
- 10:00 am The golden sun - early chorale by Johann Georg Ahle
- 12:00 noon Who can get music - Canon from op. 45 II by Paul Hindemith
- 4:00 p.m. Minuet - Historical Hanauer Sentence 1755
- 6:00 p.m. Good evening good evening everyone here together - folk tune 1860
Worth knowing
In 1973, as part of the city partnership with Dartford , the city of Hanau received a clock from 1895 from the then demolished old reception building of Dartford train station from a visiting delegation as a gift. Today it hangs in the Neustadt town hall.
literature
- Carolin Krumm, Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen - Stadt Hanau , ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , p. 149.
- Fried Lübbecke : Hanau. City and county. Cologne, 1951, p. 275ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lübbe, pp. 275f.
- ^ Inge Wolf: Christian Ludwig Hermann - Building Director at the Hanauer Hof . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 30 (1988), pp. 445–555 (458ff) - Gerhard Bott : Castles and public buildings in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 : New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, p. 35ff. (here especially p. 61).
- ↑ Lübbe, p. 276.
- ↑ Lübbe, p. 278.
- ↑ Lübbe, p. 277.
Web links
- Neustädter Rathaus at hanau.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 1 ″ E