Town Hall (Bürgstadt)

Town hall in Bürgstadt with building inscription above the gate

The town hall in Bürgstadt , a market in the Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg ( Bavaria ), was built between 1590 and 1592. The town hall at Krummgasse 2 is a protected architectural monument .

history

A new town hall had to be built because the old town hall building was dilapidated and too small for the tasks of the council and administration. The builder of the town hall is unknown.

Building inscription

Building inscription above the main gate

The building inscription above the entrance to the town reads: WHEN THE YEAR NINETY, AFTER THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD CHRISTIAN, THE TOWN HALL STARTED TO BUILD. WOLFGANG, ARCHBISHOP AND LORD OF MAINZ, ELECTOR OF THE EMPIRE WITH RIGHT PRESENTLY RULES HIS SUBSTANCE WITH JUSTICE AT THIS TIME. THE DEAR WOLFF EBERHARD VON EHRENBERG WAS AMTMANN AT THE SAME TIME AT MILTENBERG, ALSO KELLER JOHANN HARTMANN WAS OUR TRUE AUTHORITY ALL OVER CENTGRAF, SCHOOLTHEIS, COURT THIS CITY HALL AS IT IS ESTABLISHED. EXPENDED AT COMMON COSTS, HAPPY COMPLETED IN GOD'S NAME. OLD PETER SCHNEIDER WAS BUILDING MASTER AND HIERONYMUS HOFBAUER WITH HIM. A HOT SUMMER WAS VERY EXPENSIVE, GROWING GOOD WINE. GOD WANTS 'THIS HOUSE TOGETHER WITH THE COMMON FOCUS BOTH ITS CHURCH REMAINING TO GIVE PEACE, WELFARE AND JOY HERE IN TIME, THERE THE BLISS. AMEN.

The inscription names the sovereign Wolfgang von Dalberg , elector and archbishop in Mainz, the chief bailiff Wolff Eberhard von Ehrenberg and the cellar Johann Hartmann. The mayor Peter Schneider and the councilor Hieronymus Hofbauer are also mentioned. To the right and left of the building inscription are the coats of arms of the Mainz cathedral chapter and of the archbishop and elector Friedrich Karl Josef von Erthal (1774–1802).

description

Vaulted hall on the ground floor

The Renaissance building was built on the remains of the cellars of three houses that were demolished for the construction of the town hall. Round-arched entrance gates on the local side and on the opposite side of the Main serve as access to the vaulted hall on the ground floor . Here the taxes in kind were delivered on carts . There was a barrel store in the cellar.

The two-storey saddle roof building with three-storey curved gables has a high slate roof with pointed dormer windows and a plastered facade with sandstone frames and edges. The half-stepping polygonal stair tower is covered by a slate dome.

Coats of arms in the meeting room

In the conference room on the first floor, seven coats of arms have been preserved, all of which were made before 1613. The discs with a diameter between 35 and 36 cm are provided with a legend.