Town Hall (Budweis)

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Town hall in Budweis
Facade decoration

The town hall in Budweis (Czech České Budějovice ), a town in the Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemia) region in the Czech Republic , was built between 1727 and 1730. The town hall on the southwest corner of the market square has been a protected cultural monument since 1988.

The baroque style building was built according to the plans of the architect Anton Erhard Martinelli . It has three towers and an elaborate facade design.

history

The oldest town hall stood on the opposite side of Rathausgasse, with the connection line from the old town hall via the later Samson fountain to the Gothic St. Nicholas Cathedral forming a long diagonal across the square town square. In 1433 a new town hall was built at the current location, which was largely demolished in 1555 due to the poor building structure and replaced by a new building with arcades by the Italian builder Hans Spatz.

On March 17, 1611, a bloody supper took place in the Budweiser Town Hall. After the failed conquest of Prague by the Passau soldiers under the leadership of Laurentius Ramée , the latter invited his officers to a communion in the town hall. Nine officers were called into the colonel's room one after the other and accused of high treason. Allegedly they made common cause with the Bohemian estates and Count Heinrich Matthias von Thurn during the siege of the Lesser Town in Prague . The executioners who beheaded each of the nine accused waited in an adjoining room. The blood stains are said to have been visible in the town hall in 1659. Ramée had the corpses displayed on Budweiser town square with an attached description of the offense.

In 1641 and 1655 the town hall was damaged by fires. In July 1727, construction of the new town hall began according to plans by the Schwarzenberg master builder Anton Erhard Martinelli with the demolition of the old corner tower. The new town hall was completed in 1730, whereby a significant part of the original walls had been reused. As a result of this thorough renovation, the town hall got its present form and became an important backdrop for the Budweiser town square.

In 1825 a house for the needs of the district court including the required prison cells was built in the rear part of the town hall courtyard. In 1877, the city council bought the neighboring restaurant to the three crowns ( U tři korun ) and incorporated it into the town hall.

literature

Web links

Commons : City Hall (Budweis)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 27916 / 3-636 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b c d radnice (town hall) . In: Scientifically edited online encyclopedia encyklopedie.c-budejovice.cz about Budweis (Czech).
  3. ↑ a b c d Karel Pletzer: České Budějovice. The royal city in South Bohemia. 1991, ISBN 80-7016-032-2 , chapter Das Rathaus (no page numbers ).
  4. ↑ Franz Kurz: The invasion of the war people recruited by Emperor Rudolf II in Passau into Upper Austria and Bohemia (1610–1611). Communicated from his estate and provided with an introduction. By Albin Czerny. III. Part. In: Annual report of the Francisco-Carolinum Museum. Volume 55, Linz 1897, p. 62, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 23.3 ″  E