Town Hall (Cheb)
The town hall in Cheb (German Eger ), a town in the Czech Republic in the Okres Cheb (Eger district), formerly the political center of the Egerland , was renovated in the Baroque style from 1723 to 1727 . The town hall on the market square has been a protected cultural monument since 1988.
Building history
A first town hall of the city of Eger on Johannesplatz is no longer preserved. The relocation to the new market (market place) probably took place during the great city expansion in the 12th century. The building was possibly destroyed by a city fire in 1270. The new building was built in the 14th and 15th centuries in the Gothic style on the parcels of five town houses in two construction phases, the details of which are no longer known. On September 28, 1401, the city council ordered two masses in the town hall chapel for the Holy Trinity and on January 13, 1402 the pastor was obliged by St. Nicholas to serve at the altar in the town hall chapel . In 1459 repairs were carried out (renovation of the roof turrets, replacement of window panes, wall paintings in the porch) on the occasion of the wedding of Georg von Podiebrad , who is today the namesake of the former market square. In 1522 the bell tower received a new bell and in 1537 a large clock was installed. A warming room was created in place of the former dungeon rooms. In 1572 a lightning strike hit the town hall tower and in 1604 the "Sun of Neuhaus", a loot from a feud, was renewed, now in the Cheb Museum . In 1697, two bourgeois houses adjoining to the south were purchased and the draft plan for a monumental new building of the council house in the Baroque style on seven parcels, which has been preserved.
The new building of the town hall in Eger was built from 1723 to 1727 according to designs by the Prague builder Giovanni Battista Alliprandi from Verona in a smaller form and the staircase was impressively designed. In the middle of the ceiling, around the eye of God, the coats of arms of four mayors of the city were presented, surrounded by ribbons and tendrils in stucco, on the outside there were the coats of arms of the countries of Bohemia , Austria , Hungary and the House of Habsburg . The mobile equipment was lost in the 19th century. Most of the furnishings from the Gothic and Renaissance periods were brought to Laxenburg Castle near Vienna.
After 1950 there was a picture gallery of the National Gallery in Prague in the town hall in Eger , which was managed by the art historian and museum director Mira Mladejovska and the painter Bojmir Hutta.
architecture
The three-storey building is dominated by a clock tower. On the right side there is a wide, arched courtyard entrance and on the left side the arched portal , which is framed by pilasters . A wrought-iron gate with a coat of arms closes the entrance.
literature
Lorenz Schreiner (ed.): Monuments in the Egerland. Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia . With the participation of the State Archives in Cheb / Eger under Jaroslav Bohac as well as Viktor Baumgarten, Roland Fischer, Erich Hammer, Ehrenfried John and Heribert Sturm , Amberg in der Oberpfalz 2004, pp. 72–73 (illustration, pp. 74–76)
Web links
- The town hall. Description from the city of Cheb, accessed on February 6, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 26872 / 4-3590 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 44.6 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 16 ″ E