Town Hall (Segnitz)
The town hall (address Hans-Kesenbrodstraße 15 , formerly house number 74) of the Lower Franconian municipality of Segnitz is the representative administrative seat and landmark. It is located on Hans-Kesenbrodstraße, at the corner of Rathausstraße and was built by the master builder Hans Keesebrod .
history
The history of the town hall is closely linked to that of the municipality. Segnitz was on one of the avenues of the prince-bishopric of Würzburg and rose in the Middle Ages through trade on the Main. The self-confident residents had established a village court that was allowed to negotiate simple offenses without involving the village rulers. This dish was held in the center of the village on the “under den linden” square. In 1500 a “town hall” was built on the same site as a previous building. The abbot Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen von Kloster Auhausen , who was one of the village lords, donated a town hall “against the linden tree”.
However, the house did not last long and at the end of the 16th century a new building was initiated at the same location. The Segnitzer were able to engage Hans Keesebrod, who lives in the village, as the master builder, and an inscription in the town hall also complements the participation of the carpenter Lorenz Ebel. The town hall was built between 1587 and 1588. In addition to the council meetings, the court days were held in the town hall. In addition, several stands were set up on the ground floor. The community scale was also here.
In the course of the early modern period , the so-called “ Narrenhäusle ” was also housed in the town hall , in which shameful sentences were carried out. Below the building there is still the church or cellar, in which the grape harvest from the local Martinskirche was kept. The cellar probably already existed under the previous building and goes back to the separation of the Segnitz parish from Frickenhausen in 1448.
When Segnitz became Bavarian at the beginning of the 19th century, the administration of the originally margravial village remained in the old town hall. However, in 1890 the old dormers on the building were removed. Until 1902 the local school was temporarily housed in the town hall. The volunteer fire brigade used the building to store their equipment, as did the local community library. Today the community archive is on the ground floor .
In the past centuries, further changes were made to the building. In 1924 the half-timbering , which had previously been concealed under plaster , was exposed. In 1962/63 the building received another extensive renovation. In 1992 the facade was repainted in the Renaissance style. The community erected new dormers in 1997. The historic meeting room was last renovated in 1991. The office was renewed in 2004. The town hall was classified as an architectural monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .
Architecture and interior design
The town hall presents itself as a two-storey saddle roof construction of the late Renaissance . While the ground floor was built solidly, the cantilevered upper floor received ornamental frameworks . The building was given a tail gable on the side facing away from the street. The front side on Hans-Kesenbrod-Straße has four window axes, whereby the design of the individual windows is very different. The building is accessed via a staircase through a round arch portal with a profiled frame.
The structure of the building is also done by a coat of arms attached to the outside. It shows the coat of arms of the Margraves of Ansbach and the symbol of the sable from Giebelstadt zu Darstadt and Messelhausen, who shared control of the village. An angel with outspread arms connects the two coats of arms. The builder Hans Keesebrod added his coat of arms, a winged lion with a sword over a mountain of three, and his initials . The year 1588 refers to the year of construction.
Inside, the town hall still has the room layout from the construction time. The representative council hall was paneled, several carvings in the paneling indicate that the room was used as a classroom. In addition, the historic office and the upper hall of the town hall have been preserved. During the last renovation of the office , an inscription was uncovered. It reads: “God has given three orders, priests, rulers and subjects. If everyone holds their own right, then it will be for people and country. The priests are to pray and teach, the peasants and citizens feed others. The authorities want to protect them all So it goes as it should go. "
See also
literature
- Norbert Bischoff: The Segnitz town hall . In: Yearbook for the district of Kitzingen 2009. In the spell of the Schwanberg . Dettelbach 2009. pp. 369-372.
- Harald Frank: Segnitz in the 16th century: law and order in a Franconian village . Segnitz 1982.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Frank, Harald: Segnitz in the 16th century .
- ^ Bischoff, Norbert: The Segnitzer town hall . P. 371.
- ^ Bischoff, Norbert: The Segnitzer town hall . P. 372.
- ^ Bischoff, Norbert: The Segnitzer town hall . P. 372.
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 16.3 " N , 10 ° 8 ′ 34.1" E