Town Hall (Glückstadt)
The Glückstadt town hall is located in the historic old town of Glückstadt in western Schleswig-Holstein . It stands directly on the market square, which it dominates together with the city church opposite . The town hall of Glückstadt was built at the instigation of the Danish King Christian IV in the city, which was only founded in 1617.
It is a building in the typical forms of the Nordic Renaissance , which was built from brick and structured with sandstone elements. The front is adorned by two tall dwarves with curved gables, the main portal is reached via a flight of stairs. Today's town hall is the successor to a building erected by Willem van Steenwinckel from 1642 to 1643 , which became increasingly unstable and ultimately dilapidated in the centuries that followed due to insufficient foundations. The old town hall was therefore largely demolished in the 19th century and rebuilt in its old form from 1873 to 1874.
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literature
- Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994. ISBN 978-3422030336
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 18.6 " N , 9 ° 25 ′ 25.4" E