Town Hall (Möckmühl)
The town hall of Möckmühl , a town in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , is a half-timbered house from the late 16th century.
history
The building was erected on the site of a smaller, older predecessor. The inscription stone on the building names July 8th 1589 as the day construction began and shows, in addition to the Württemberg coat of arms , the coats of arms of Oberamtmann Johannes Reinhard von Berlichingen zu Rossach and the cellar Marx Ruof von Walldorf. The completion of the shell in 1590 is reported by another inscription engraved in the timber-framed beams, in which the master carpenter Michael Berchtenbraiter from Kochersteinsfeld is named. According to the combing invoices received, the interior was completed in 1591, and after the final fine-tuning was completed, the building was completed in 1592.
In addition to serving as an administrative center, the building initially served various other purposes. The wine for the rulers and the city was stored in the cellar, which stretched over half of the area. The basement of the building served as a market hall on market days, and the town's salt shop was also located here. The first floor was designed as a dance floor (ballroom) with a kitchen and, apart from the church, probably also the largest room within the historic town center. The administration rooms were on the first and second floors. In addition, the prison of the Centgericht was in the building and the measurement boards and pillory of the Market Court were on the building. The attic was used for storage purposes, both for the storage of taxes in kind to the Württemberg ruling house and for the safekeeping of the residents' valuables in times of war. In the course of time, especially after the Oberamt Möckmühl was dissolved in 1808, the use of the building and its parts changed. The documents report u. a. of overnight guests, of dining, of the establishment of a hospital (1759), of the use of the dance floor as a classroom for the secondary school, of the accommodation of fire-fighting equipment and of the use of the store as a tobacco shed (1898).
In the second half of the 19th century, the town hall was rebuilt several times to meet the new requirements. Among other things, the detention cell was relocated several times, the syringe magazine redesigned, the stairwell rebuilt, larger windows broken into the framework and new ceilings drawn in. As the administration grew in recent times, it ultimately took up the entire building. After the municipal reform in the 1970s, additional staff were added to the administration of the incorporated suburbs, so that parts of the administration were outsourced to other buildings.
The interventions in the half-timbering as well as the only partial basement of the building led to major structural problems over time, so that the town hall was one of the focal points of the Möckmühl urban redevelopment that began in 1975. The first preliminary plans for the renovation of the town hall were made in 1977 by the Stuttgart architect Walther-Gerd Fleck , but could not be implemented for cost reasons. The renovation plans were only given new impetus by a state press conference held in the town hall on August 15, 1986, at which the narrow and dilapidated town hall moved into the public eye. The city acquired the neighboring former Hirsch Gasthaus as a town hall extension and on November 30, 1988 awarded the Möckmühler architect Franz Seibold the planning contract for the renovation and the structural connection of the two buildings. When the renovation work began in 1990, the area of the town hall that had not had a cellar was underpinned with a cellar and foundations. During the excavation work, remains of Roman vessels were discovered at a depth of just one meter. In the course of the renovation, the roof structure of the former inn as well as the west wall and south gable of the town hall were completely renewed. The colored version of the half-timbered structure was based on the traces of red paint found on the former stag . At the town hall, where no remains of the exterior painting were left, the yellow found inside the building was chosen for the exterior painting. After almost two and a half years of construction, the renovated town hall was officially inaugurated on June 17, 1992.
The total usable area of the town hall complex is around 1300 m², the enclosed space is 5573 m³.
literature
- City administration Möckmühl: The Möckmühl town hall. 1592-1992. City administration Möckmühl, Möckmühl [1992]
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '23.1 " N , 9 ° 21' 38.9" E