Parchim Town Hall
The Town Hall of Parchim was built in the 14th century and rebuilt 1818th It is located in the old town of Parchim , directly between the old market and the shoe market.
timeline
Parchim Castle was first mentioned in 1170. The city charter was Parchim 1225/26 and from 1238 to 1248 was Parchim residence . In 1240 Parchimer Neustadt was founded on the western bank of the Elde. Both cities (old and new town) merged in 1282. In 1289 part of the old town burned down.
The town hall on the Alter Markt is an elongated two-story, Gothic , rectangular brick building and originally dates from the 14th century. This building served as the town hall, court house, citizens' meeting place and food store. The narrow side was oriented towards the old market. On this non-preserved rectangular gable display wall there were open arcades with six pointed arches on the ground floor and the entrance behind them. The rectangular high-rise north-eastern entrance tower had two floors and a three-sided tower tower. The three sides of the tower tower were divided by eleven vertical pilasters at the corners and between the windows. The adjoining two-storey longitudinal building had a saddle roof that was closed on the southwest side by a wide stepped gable with tracery panels. The building fell into disrepair over time and in the French era it was even used as a stable. From 1808 the house stood empty for a few years and demolition was considered.
In 1818 the building for the Mecklenburg Higher Appeal Court, which had been relocated to Parchim, was fundamentally rebuilt by the architect and court builder Johann Georg Barca . The renovation of Barca changed the internal floor plan and the external appearance profoundly. Some Gothic elements of the ruin were added and supplemented and new classical building elements were added. The arbor on the side of the market square disappeared and the new main entrance was moved to the middle of the long side to the shoe market, in the form of a new portal with four two-storey round half-columns and an ogival gable above, decorated with three bladed spheres . All window openings were greatly enlarged and were given high pointed arches to illuminate the storey between the ground floor and the upper floor. Both gables were now designed as stepped gables. The continuous gable roof in between was flatter than in the previous building.
After the court was moved to Rostock , the building was again Parchim's town hall. On the northeast side was a representative entrance, which was designed as a rectangular arbor. Pointed-arched passageways allowed access from the Old Market, the Shoe Market and the street. The vaulted cellar was a public restaurant until 1889, afterwards it was the storage of a wine shop, for a short time even an air raid shelter and, after renovations in 1978, a sociable lounge.
The town hall was again thoroughly renovated in 1995 as part of general urban renewal according to plans by the architects Lorenzen + Siegmeier. The construction costs amounted to DM 9.5 million. The floor plan structure of the barca building was retained, new insertions are recognizable as modern installations.
literature
- Hartmut Brun , Theodor Müller: Town halls in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock, 2001, ISBN 3-356-00912-5
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg ; Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 1980
- City of Parchim - Building Department (Ed.): Urban renewal 1991-2000 ; Planning and Building in Parchim, Volume 2, 2001
Web links
- City Hall, Parchim in the portal European Route of the Brick Gothic Heritage
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '37.9 " N , 11 ° 50' 52.7" E