Town hall (old town Eisleben)

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The garlic king

The town hall of the old town on the market square of Lutherstadt Eisleben is a protected architectural monument in Saxony-Anhalt . There is also the Neustadt town hall .

history

The town hall of the old town is mentioned for the first time in the Mansfeld Chronicle of Cyriacus Spangenberg for 1408. It was probably built of stone around 1300. After the town fire of 1498, which also destroyed the town hall, a new town hall was founded in 1508 and built between 1509 and 1530 in the late Gothic style with elements of the early Renaissance. A keel arch inside portal on the 1st floor bears the inscription 1516; the spoil of the king's head "Knoblauchskönig", probably from the previous building, can be assigned to the end of the 13th century. In 1531 the roof was covered with copper plates. In 1532 the outside staircase on the north side was completed, but it was damaged after the city fire in 1601 and like the north gable had to be renewed. The small town hall tower on the roof can already be seen on the engraving by Hogenberg in 1582 ; In 1650 Georg Oschätzer apparently carried out a major renovation.

The town hall has a considerable iconographic decoration from the construction period such as a building inscription ( Anno d (o) mi (ni) 1519 this was started gebaw and haws and it was brought forward after cristi gebvrth 1530 ), the city coat of arms, the overall coat of arms of the counts of Mansfeld , a damaged Mauritius figure at the exit under the outside staircase on the north side and a fool's mask (symbol of the fool for the medieval freedom of speech of the council or - rather unlikely, since the attributes owl and mirror are missing - memory of Till Eulenspiegel ) on the southwest corner tower and a representation of the so-called garlic king Hermann von Salm . There is a legendary tradition of the Brothers Grimm about the latter . Contrary to the interpretation of Großler , according to recent findings by Feicke, this is more of a legal symbol. Until 1873, a Justitia also adorned the east gable.

In 1454 the council of the old town Eisleben had acquired the lower jurisdiction as pledge from the Counts of Mansfeld; Blood jurisdiction was also exercised by the council (city judge), but the time of the transfer of the law actually reserved for the counts is unknown (Francke). The court linden tree burned down in 1498, but the name Über der Linde for the later pot market remained for a long time . The judicial district of the council was marked by 24 stones that were regularly peeled off. This right of the council was also in the imperial mortgage deeds for Electoral Saxony, which since 1573 after the permutation recession. von Eisleben administered from its sequestration district, included (so 1613). The pillory on the north side of the town hall , which had lost its legal function at the latest with the transition of Eisleben as canton of the Saale department from Saxony to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1808 and the introduction of the Code Napoléon , was removed shortly after 1852.

In the period that followed, the town hall underwent numerous alterations and renovations, such as 1669–1673, 1683, 1689, 1722, 1862/1864, the major renovation in 1873–1874, where the triangular gable of the porch was demolished and straightened in 1899, 1910/12, 1934 , 1967/68 and 1983. During the construction of a lightning rod in 1905, numerous valuable documents on the city's history, including the Werder Book of 1420, were discovered in the tower button . The town hall was last restored in 1992/95.

A monument to Martin Luther by Rudolf Siemering was erected in front of the town hall in 1883 .

literature

  • Eusebius Christian Francke: Attempt at a historical description of the capital of the Graffschaft Mannsfeld and the world-famous birthplace of Lutheri Eißleben. 1726. (Transcription of the manuscript Eisleben 2002)
  • Hermann Großler , Adolf Brinkmann : The town hall of the old town. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Mansfeld lake district. Halle 1895 (reprinted as: Art Monument Inventories of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 16, Halle 2000, ISBN 3-910147-87-9 , pp. 188–194).
  • Bernd Feicke: The sculpture "Knoblauchskönig" in Eisleben - legendary figure, portrait of a ruler or legal monument? In: Dieter Pötschke (Ed.): Stadtrecht, Roland and Pranger. (= Harz research. Volume 14). Wernigerode / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-77-0 , pp. 267-282.
  • Bernd Feicke: City history and the decoration of historical town halls on the Harz as a symbol of lordly power and urban rights - with special attention to the town hall of the old town of Eisleben. In: Dieter Pötschke (Ed.): "Vryheit do ik ju openbar ..." Rolande and city history. (= Harz research . Volume 23). Berlin / Wernigerode 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-019-1 , pp. 227-277.
  • Thomas Laundry: The shape of the city of Eisleben. Reconstruction of the structural condition from the beginning of the 15th century to the great city fire of 1601. Eisleben 2007, pp. 16–29, 105–111, 112–116.
  • Bernd Feicke: The Counts of Mansfeld as lords of Eisleben. The pledge of the lower courts in 1454 to the city council. In: Harz-Zeitschrift. 61 (2009), pp. 141-154.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Eisleben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ R. Leers (Ed.): Cyriakus Spangenberg. Mansfeld Chronicle. III / 3, added by Mansfeld leaves. 26 (1912), p. 137.
  2. ^ Eusebius Christian Francke: Attempt to provide a historical description of the capital of the Graffschaft Mannsfeld. 1726, chap. XVIII § 7.
  3. ↑ DEHIO Saxony-Anhalt. II (1999), p. 464.
  4. ↑ Hermann Grössler, Friedrich Sommer (ed.): Chronicon Islebiense. Eisleben 1882, p. 10.
  5. ^ Franz Häring: The old town hall. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. Eisleben edition, May 30, 1992, p. 11.
  6. ↑ B. Feicke: City history and the decoration of historical town halls on the Harz as a symbol of the power of the city. 2007, pp. 260f. Fig. 10, p. 267 Fig. 16; B. Feicke: Till Eulenspiegel and Eisleben. In: Journal for local research. 2 (1993), pp. 5-10.
  7. ↑ s. Hermann Großler: Legends of the County of Mansfeld and its immediate surroundings, Eisleben 1880, p. 2.
  8. ^ Hermann Großler: Hermann von Luxemburg, the garlic king. In: Mansfelder Blätter. 5 (1891), pp. 123-152.
  9. ↑ Bernd Feicke: The sculpture "Knoblauchskönig" in Eisleben - legendary figure, portrait of a ruler or legal monument? 2002; Bernd Feicke: City history and the jewelry of historical town halls in the Harz. 2007.
  10. ↑ R. Leers (Ed.): Cyriakus Spangenberg. Mansfeld Chronica. IV / 1, Mansfeld sheets. 31/32 (1918), p. 244.
  11. ↑ Fritz Ebruy: The Eisleber city hall and the gallows. In: Heimatgeschichtliches Archiv. No. 48, Eisleben 1998; Eusebius Christian Francke: An attempt at a historical description of the capital of the Graffschaft Mannsfeld. 1726, chap. I § ​​11, chap. XXIX.
  12. ↑ Hermann Grössler, Friedrich Sommer (ed.): Chronicon Islebiense. 1882, pp. 88-93 (1611); W. Mück: The Mansfeld copper slate mining in its legal historical development. Eisleben 1910, Volume 2, Document 133
  13. ↑ cf. Fig. 3 at B. Feicke: City history and the decoration of historical town halls on the Harz as a symbol of the power of the city. 2007, p. 232.
  14. ↑ F. Häring: The old town hall. 1992.
  15. ↑ C. Rühlemann: Remarkable finds from a roof knob and the tower knob of the town hall in Eisleben. Mansfeld leaves. 24 (1910), pp. 227-239.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 44.4 ″  E