Town Hall (Gundelfingen an der Donau)

Town hall in Gundelfingen

The town hall in Gundelfingen an der Donau , a town in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , was built in 1677/78. The building at Professor-Bamann-Straße 22 is a protected architectural monument .

location

The town hall is located on a square-like extension in the center of the city, on the corner of Hauptstraße and Professor-Bamann-Straße.

history

The current building was erected in 1677/78 on the site of the previous building that was destroyed by fire. The executing masters were the bricklayers Dominikus Haller and Johann Reich and the carpenter Balthasar Baur. In 1853 the building was converted.

architecture

portal

The three-storey building with 5: 8 axes and a gable roof is separated by plaster strips. These consist of a cornice with a plastered imitation of a layer of beams.

The rectangular portal has profiled walls under a blown gable on lateral volute brackets . In the middle of this gable is the city coat of arms in a cartouche (surrounded by the year 1677) and above, also in a cartouche, the coat of arms of Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg .

The rectangular windows are all provided with a narrow plaster border. The two-storey south gable has curved steps. The floors are separated by profiled cornices and there are pedestals with spheres at the corners . On the top of the gable sits a square roof turret with beveled edges, which is crowned by an onion hood with a square, open lantern with a pointed helmet.

On the ground floor and first floor there is a central aisle with a groin vault , on the eastern side the two-flight platform staircase with vaulted runs. The council hall is on the third floor.

literature

• Werner Meyer (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Dillingen on the Danube . In: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen on the Danube . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 333-335.

Web links

Commons : City Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '12.3 "  N , 10 ° 22' 5"  E