Town Hall (Jáchymov)
The town hall in Jáchymov ( German Sankt Joachimsthal ) is the seat of the city administration in Jáchymov . The current building is the fourth building used as a town hall in the history of the old mountain town .
history
First town hall in the city
In Berg quarter luciae from 1 October 1520 to 1 January 1521 was in the historic village core, the so-called bread market (now Slovany ) west of a house later St. Anna chapel erected bought (position ⊙ ) that from now on the city council served .
The house was a two-story building with a massive ground floor made of rubble stones. The upper floor and the adjoining gables were designed in half-timbered construction and covered with a half-hip roof. The bracing of the filling areas within the framework construction was carried out using forks. Below the windows in the gable of the residential attic, there was an additional bracing in the form of a low row of St. Andrew's crosses between the cross members. On the ground floor there was a large hall with a richly profiled wooden ceiling, which was later divided by a partition. There was a high vaulted cellar under the hall.
Just a decade later, it was no longer sufficient for the needs of the rapidly developing mountain town, and the administration moved out in 1531. Subsequently, part of the building served, among other things, as an apartment for the city doctor Johann Neff, who worked in Joachimsthal between 1530 and 1540. In 1544 it was rebuilt and from then on served as a residential building.
The old town hall was demolished in 1946 along with neighboring buildings.
Successor buildings at a new location
The old town hall building was no longer sufficient for the needs of the rapidly developing rich mountain town. On the Monday after the exaltation of the cross in 1531, the city administration acquired Count Hieronymus Schlick for 2000 guilders, his "dwelling with associated room, upstairs in the Thaal [...]" to set up a new town hall and set up its new administrative headquarters in the so-called Schlik Palace .
On June 16, 1538 a fire broke out in this part of the city, in which the town hall, mint and 15 other buildings burned down. The construction of the new town hall did not begin until two years later, as disagreements between the city and mining authorities had to be resolved beforehand. It was completed in 1543, and by the first half of 1544 at the latest, all municipal offices were withdrawn. In 1782 the building burned down again. The builders Philipp Heger from Prague and Anton Bernt from Kaaden were commissioned with the reconstruction, which was essentially completed in 1784.
The tower, which was only rebuilt after the fire with a reduced height and an emergency roof, was only rebuilt in 1871 with the original height. During the devastating city fire on March 31, 1873, the building was again destroyed by fire and later rebuilt.
The building underwent the last major structural change to date in 1902, when the main wing was increased by a storey with an ornamental gable on two sides according to plans by the local master builder Anton Hammerschmidt and at the same time the tower was raised by adding a wooden gallery.
On May 3, 1958, the Town Hall ( Radnice in Czech ) was entered in the State Register of Cultural Monuments . From the previous building from 1543, the main portal including the staircases on both sides has been preserved to the present day.
In 1992, the historic core of Jáchymov, which also includes the town hall, was declared an urban monument protection zone, which is a selected part of the “Jáchymov Mining Cultural Landscape” for the proposed candidacy for the UNESCO World Heritage Ore Mountains Mining Region .
literature
- Heribert Sturm : Outline of the historical development of the city and district of St. Joachimsthal . A booklet for local history school lessons. Verlag der Buchhandlung Rudolf Weis, St. Joachimsthal 1932, The old and the new town hall, p. 43-45 .
- Johannes Mathesius : Chronica of the Keyserlichen Freyen mountain town Sanct Joachimsthal / which was previously the ConradsGrün genent . In: Berg-Postilla or Sarepta in it of all mine and metals / what their properties and nature / and how they are useful and well made / good report given / .. Zacharias Beckern, Freyberg 1679 ( digitized ).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 49.2 ″ E