Town Hall (Farchant)

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The town hall in Farchant is a former manor house built in 1836 by the merchant M. Kirchmayer. In 1949 the municipality of Farchant bought it for 37,000 DM in order to set up a town hall. The two-storey, Biedermeier hipped roof building is a monument on the basis of the Monument Protection Act of October 1, 1973 , monument no. is D-1-80-116-9.

Farchant Town Hall
Farchant Town Hall

history

In 1680 a wooden house was built by the Farchanter shoemaker in the gardens in the middle of the village, the "common Gehrn". The merchant Martin Kirchmayr (1760–1841), who worked in Berlin and was born in Farchant, then acquired the “tooth house on the Gern, built entirely of wood” in 1796. Kirchmayr, a very successful long-distance merchant, had the old wooden house on Gern demolished in 1836 and a Biedermeier manor house built. Around 1930 the Starnberg bank director Franz Veiltl bought the property.

The municipality of Farchant did not have a town hall until 1891 . If there was any paperwork, the school underprivileged did it. The respective community leader kept important documents and equipment on his farm . In 1891 the first “town hall” was built in Farchant . The house, which cost 7,000 marks, was called “The Chancellery” and was located right next to today's rectory . Even before the Second World War, however, the building proved to be too small, and this lack of space could not be resolved due to the war and the post-war years . At the beginning of 1949 Franz Veiltl offered the manor house for sale. After tough struggles with the authorities, the Farchant community was able to purchase the property in 1950. After extensive renovation and renovation work, the first municipal council meeting took place in the new town hall on March 25, 1952.

Despite the good intentions, the character of the property has changed a lot. Conceived as an island of calm in the village, the house has now been transformed into a public building. The former pavilion and fountain have also disappeared.

See also

literature

  • Josef Brandner: Farchanter Drei-Föhren-Chronik . self-published, Farchant 1979.
  • Michael Petzet : Upper Bavaria . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monuments in Bavaria . tape I.1 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josef Brandner: wooden house - manor house - town hall . In: forcheida - Contributions from the Farchanter Heimatverein . No. 1 . self-published, Farchant 1991, p. 4-8 .

Web links

Commons : Farchant Town Hall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ′ 47.8 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 34.7"  E