Oberamtshaus (Saarbrücken)

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View of the castle and city of Saarbrücken around 1770

The Oberamtshaus was a historically significant baroque monument from 1762 in the Saarbrücken district of Alt-Saarbrücken .

history

It was built around 1762 under the architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel . It was located in front of the castle wall, in the immediate vicinity of the Old Bridge . Together with the above located on the Castle Rock Castle the Oberamt Home made a significant baroque visual axis of the city, symbolizing the unity of domination (lock) and administration (Oberamt house at the city level) in the absolutist state. The part directly adjacent to the bridge was known as the Palais Günderode, named after Hieronymus Maximilian von Günderode (President of the Chamber from 1730–1777 under Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Saarbrücken ). Here, holding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in June 1770 during his three-day stay in Saarbruecken on. The Palais Günderode was demolished in 1897 to make room for the tram over the old bridge.

After the remaining parts were damaged in the Second World War, restored in a simplified form, the upper office building was completely demolished in the 1960s in the course of the construction of the city ​​motorway (A620) and Franz-Josef-Röder-Straße.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trepesch, Christof, 1967-, Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken. Old collection .: Saarbrücken . 1st edition Sutton, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-89702-105-6 .
  2. ↑ a b Continuity and change in the Saarbrücken cityscape. (PDF) Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Goethe and the tram in old Saarbrücken. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 51.6 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 34.4 ″  E