Town Hall (Kempten)
The town hall of the city of Kempten (Allgäu) is a medieval, listed building that was built in 1474. It replaced a half-timbered house from 1368, which initially served as a granary and from 1382 was at least partially used as a town hall for the city council as well as a courthouse and finance house. Today the city council, the event office as well as the mayor and mayors of Kemptens have their seat in the building. The town hall fountain from the 17th century stands in front of the town hall . The current facade of the town hall dates from the 1930s.
Despite the centuries of coexistence between the Free Imperial City of Kempten and the Prince Abbey of Kempten , which had its own settlement of the same name with city rights outside the gates of the Imperial City, only the Imperial City had a town hall.
location
The town hall rises as the main building on the elongated town hall square, the core of the medieval imperial city and today's old town. The former market square around the main building has been the economic and social center of the imperial city period since the late Middle Ages. This is the name of the elongated area at the west end of Markt-Gasse . The town hall fountain is right in front of the town hall. There are numerous, in the core, Gothic buildings on the square. Newer buildings can be recognized by historical facades. During the renovation of the old town, the northern row of houses up to the splendid Ponikauhaus was largely demolished and replaced by concrete structures such as the new Stern pharmacy .
From the Ponikauhaus further east to today's Hotel Fürstenhof and after a sober house is the Londoner Hof . A few meters further on, the church square of St. Mang's Church opens up , which was surrounded by the Erasmus Chapel's cemetery until the 16th century . On the west side are the city archives, the city management in the old customs office (Kempten) and the Neubronner house . After a few inconspicuous, narrow houses, the town hall square narrows again at the former brewery restaurant Zum Grünen Baum . From Marktgasse, Rathausstrasse, formerly Holzmarkt , above which the Dorn-Schlößle rises with the staircase below , can be reached. Other houses such as the Zorn House are adjacent. The König'schen houses and guild houses such as the Müßiggengelzunfthaus and the weavers' guild house are not far from the Rathausplatz .
Building history
A council is mentioned for the first time in documents in 1273. The current city of Kempten was divided into two parts until the 19th century. The city wall separated the imperial city of Kempten from the prince monastery of Kempten with its own city charter in the west. Many buildings of the monastery were also located on the rare and densely built-up land of the imperial city - this was also partly owned by the monastery. One of them was the former Salzstadel, today's location of the Kempten City Theater . The situation of two neighboring cities called Kempten ended in 1802/1803 with the mediatization of the imperial city after the capture by Bavarian troops and in 1818 with the merger of the former imperial and collegiate city into one city.
14th century: origins and advance developments
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The town hall has its origins in 1368. At this point in time, there was a half-timbered building at the current location of the town hall, which served as a granary. In November of the same year a feudal contract was signed between the imperial city and Prince Abbot Heinrich von Mittelberg .
The first council was formed after Charles IV recognized the imperial city of Kempten in May 1361. As a result, twelve councils were appointed in December. The first mayor of the imperial city was called Heinrich Schultheiss , also known as Heinrich der Spickel .
For a long time the council meetings took place in shops or storerooms. The use of a granary as a town hall is mentioned for the first time in 1382. Since then, the terms granary , not to be confused with the monastery town's granary , and town hall have been used as a synonym in historical documents . It is unclear exactly when the granary passed into the hands of the imperial city.
Due to the feudal contract, there were repeated conflicts with the abbot. After the death of a feudal taker, the imperial city is said not to have appointed a successor. The prince abbot was of the opinion that the granary would revert to him. A court of arbitration, consisting of citizens of Regensburg and Ulm as well as a mayor of Memmingen , came to the decision, which was helpful for the imperial city, that the granary could continue to be used by the imperial city. It was established that the imperial city did not breach any contract.
15th century: stone house construction
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The council, the judiciary and the grain trade increasingly required more space. According to the oldest documents, the wooden structure was replaced by a larger, massive, simple stone structure in 1474, for which the imperial city took out a loan of £ 3,000 Heller from the Church of St. Mang . The dimensions of this stone building corresponded to today's structure. A special decoration was dispensed with in the new building; the floor still belonged to the pen. Historians assume, however, that the land already belonged to the imperial city before 1525, because in the great purchase of 1525 between the imperial city and the monastery, no town hall or granary was mentioned in the purchase register.
The second floor was shared by two different sized halls with a space in between. The first floor had only one continuous room. On the ground floor there were two rooms with a floor area of around 400 m².
16th century: design measures
The self-confidence and pride of the imperial townspeople increased through the 1488 of Emperor Friedrich III. granted the right to be able to administer oneself through offices and was strengthened by the coin minting permit from 1510 and the introduction of a court coat of arms with a court seal. Due to the negotiating skills of the mayor Gordian Seuter , the city bought itself off from the prince abbot in 1525. This historical event is known as the "Big Buy".
The increased self-confidence in the 16th century can be seen in major construction measures. In the 1860s, the town hall was extensively embellished and improved. After the Council minutes of June 1564 was a trumpet player character (in old documents as a trumpet male ) having a suit of armor on the roof set. Documents from August 1567 describe that the small tower was built on the west gable. The small bell of the St. Michael's Chapel , now mainly known as the Erasmus Chapel, was used in this tower . The first illustration of the city dates from 1569, in which the town hall is shown for the first time in its current form. The woodcut was made by Hanß Abelin and Hanß Rogel .
As a result of a drastic general rise in prices in 1571, the design measures ended, as the available funds had to be used elsewhere. To avoid a famine, the granaries of the town hall were opened and grain bought in.
17th and 18th centuries: crisis years in the Renaissance town hall
In the 17th century there was a structural change in style of the town hall. The pointed towers and staircase-like gables of the Gothic were replaced by Renaissance elements such as the arched tower domes. In 1628 there was one of many plague outbreaks in Kempten . The imperial city of Kempten lost 2735 inhabitants.
Shortly afterwards, during the Thirty Years' War , the imperial city was occupied alternately by imperial and Swedish troops: First, Swedes attacked the monastery of the prince abbot with the aid of the imperial city dwellers. In revenge for this, imperial troops stormed the imperial city in January 1633 and killed a third of the population. As a result of the imperial attack, the men still alive gathered in the town hall to confer for two days. The stove and windows had been damaged in the attacks in the previous cold winter. Due to the fires during the conquests, part of the archive material stored in the town hall was lost.
In 1642 the well in front of the town hall, damaged by the attack, was repaired again.
As a result of the War of the Spanish Succession , a guardhouse was added on the east side on the orders of a French general in 1703, which was replaced by a new building in 1823. The Baroque style customary in the region in the 18th century was dispensed with at the town hall. Numerous patrician houses such as the Ponikauhaus or the St. Mang Church were redesigned in Baroque style.
19th century: Kempten becomes Bavarian
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Napoleon Bonaparte promised the Bavarian elector the Swabian imperial cities. In order to secure this, Max I Joseph's troops occupied the imperial and monastery city of Kempten on August 27, 1802. Through him, the two cities were virtually forcibly united. As a result of the unification, the Imperial City Council was dissolved. The mayor Jakob von Jenisch resigned his office voluntarily. In 1804 the city got a board of directors, which replaced the previous magistrate . The new council consisted of five board members and a mayor.
The increased administrative conditions in the city required more space in the town hall. At that time the city court only had a small courtroom, the arithmetic and servant parlor. Because of the limited space, the necessary building measures for restructuring were decided in February 1808. The city was so in debt that it could not raise the money for the changes it needed. So she took out a loan of 17,000 guilders from the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Several walls were demolished during the renovation. The stone floors were replaced with floorboards. The stairs to the attic and the door and window frames have been renewed. The new stoves required additional chimneys that were pulled across the roof. All the work was completed in the summer of 1810.
In 1818 the citizens could elect a magistrate again according to the first Bavarian constitution . The magistrate consisted of a mayor, legal counsel, town clerk, eight civil magistrates and 24 municipal representatives and had its seat in the town hall. A year earlier, the court was moved from the town hall to the residence . Only the city administration remained in the town hall.
After the last major measures to preserve the town hall had passed 60 years ago, the city council decided to restore it in 1870. It was necessary because an elevator gable had been torn down for safety reasons in 1867. A short time after the decision, however, the Franco-Prussian War began and major construction work had to be postponed to more peaceful times. Some work was nevertheless carried out. The town hall chancellery was relocated for 100 guilders.
The largest construction project of the 19th century was carried out by the artist and illustrator Ludwig von Kramer . Due to the good economic situation and the prevailing historicism, the town hall was transformed into massive neo-renaissance forms . A large fresco was created on the east facade . Demolition work on the old facade began in the spring of 1874. The meetings of the council took place in the hall of the former weavers' guild . Reusable items from the demolition, such as iron, brick, wood, and window frames, were auctioned off. In order to find inexpensive craftsmen for the work to be carried out, the city administration announced competitions in newspapers. In the same year the fresco was completed and the tower restored, and the first work took place inside. Work on the remaining facades continued until 1878. A bust was installed in a new niche in the west facade. Instead of the approved 65,386.86 marks, the entire work then cost around 165,000 marks, which meant a price increase of around 150 percent.
As early as 1897, the condition of the town hall was considered untenable. The frescoes began to peel off . Weathering damage was found on various sandstone blocks. In May 1898 the magistrate received a restoration proposal. A complete redesign was not planned, but a concept to repair the structural damage. Ultimately, the Council made the decision to only implement parts of the concept. The entire concept would no longer have been acceptable because of the new high costs. The stepped gable was covered with granite slabs. The bust of the Prince Regent was replaced by a larger one. The frescoes have been painted over with white wall paint.
During the work on the roof, the already one-armed, partly sieve-like trumpet bar was replaced. When the male was removed, a copper plaque was found with the following inscription:
"Anno 1764, June 18th, under the direction S: T: Mr. Johannes Funk building authority administrator, this tower was repaired by Matthäus Wanckmüller, master craftsman, and the helmet bar, together with the knobs and knobs, was re-erected."
A new Justitia also came in 1899 : the old figure was restored, painted gray and given to a Kempten museum. The new figure of justice was made of copper and was previously exhibited in Munich . The old wooden figure was mobile, she could nod her head and lower her arm with the sword; the new one is immobile. Central heating was installed during the same period .
20th century
Gotification
The structural change in the city at the beginning of the 20th century required more space for the administration. The ground floor, which was previously largely rented, was converted in 1902 to accommodate the police, the employment office and the cash desk. In the large hall, the renovators replaced the too small round table with a U-shaped one. In 1906 the grain sale with a long tradition ended on the ground floor. There was the registration office furnishings. During the term of office of Mayor Otto Merkt , a further spatial and organizational division of the rooms was carried out. A new room for the mayor was created in 1920, designed by the architect Andor Ákos , among other things , a new room for the mayor.
The Kempten architect Sepp Zwerch (1907–1985) carried out a Gothic renovation in the town hall from 1934 to 1937. The first thing he did was to intervene in the council chamber. The equipment of the old weavers' guild, temporarily stored since 1912, was used. The era of National Socialism also left its ideological sentiment in the town hall. Alfred Weitnauer tried to create a historical context between the town hall and an Alemannic ducal court and royal court located there. In 1937 it was said on the corridor wall of the stairwell in the town hall from the entrance to the small hall:
This house
was once an Alemannic ducal court,
around 740 a Franconian royal court,
then a kemptian fruit box, in
1368 the town's grain house as a timber structure, since 1382 also a town hall, since 1474 a stone structure.
[...]
Occupied in 1919 by the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council, then by the Swabian District Corps, and in 1933 by the SS .
Franz Weiß painted this wall address .
Weitnauer's attempted establishment of theory was refuted by research into urban settlement history since the 1980s. Around 1300 at least one arm of the Iller still flowed at the same place . The river was moved to the eastern side of the Burghalde during a major renovation of the then still small town . The old course of the river was largely drained by backfilling and backfilling. Only then was the area around the town hall developed structurally, so a ducal or royal court could not have stood there. The fact that wooden beams from a river bridge were found on the west side of the town hall supports this theory.
In the years 1937 and 1938, the external design was the focus of the work. The proposal to redesign the facade in a Gothic style came from the State Office for Monument Preservation . It pointed to the “problematic” Wilhelminian style design by Kramer. The increasing motorization also required more rooms for the regulatory police, the motor vehicle department and the registry . In 1938 Franz Weiß painted a fresco with the legend of Heinrich von Kempten on the south facade. The legend was written in an ancient-looking white font and read:
Heinrich Rizner, a knight
called HEINRICH von KEMPTEN
, incurred the emperor's disfavor.
But when his feudal lord, the abbot of Kempten, once called up the
men because wealth and honor were at stake in Italy
, Heinrich obeyed the order and went with an army
to French-speaking Switzerland .
Heinrich was sitting there in the bath tub once when he saw the
emperor being ambushed. The life and limb of the
emperor would have been ruined had it not been for Heinrich, naked as he
was, grabbing shield and sword and
freeing his master in brave heads . Otto the Great showed him great patience and honor.
This is what happened before San Leone in 963
The south balcony has been simplified. On the west facade, the niche of the king's bust was walled up and all ornaments removed. Another small tower was built on the gable. The north facade received a new elevator gable, the roof dormers . The east side received the various coats of arms from white.
post war period
In 1958 the main entrance was moved to the first floor. About the eastern staircase porch and a small porch of visitors reached the entrance hall.
When the localities of Sankt Mang and Sankt Lorenz zu Kempten were incorporated in 1972 , the city council needed more space for the seats, which had risen from 32 to 44, for which statically insignificant wooden pillars were removed and the tables expanded.
No major construction work was carried out on the town hall until 1985. The town hall remained true to Sepp Zwerch's plans with a few changes . The city believed in the mid-1980s that it realized that the town hall no longer met the requirements of a modern city administration. The police moved from the ground floor to their own new building. In 1984 and 1985 the city, together with the still living Sepp Zwerch, created completely new plans with a new floor plan. A spacious reception hall was set up on the ground floor . Archaeologists and construction workers dug about three steps deep into the ground in order to gain room height and to be able to carry out archaeological investigations. The old wooden pillars were underpinned with concrete. Archaeologists uncovered foundations and remains of columns from the 15th century in a hallway and two rooms. They were covered with an accessible pane of glass. During the construction work, the registry office's wedding room came back from the old customs office to the town hall.
Outside, the roof was re-covered and the west tower stabilized. The imperial eagle and the patrician coats of arms on the facades were completely overhauled and the clock on the west side was renewed. The representation "Heinrich der Kempter" was overtaken by Franz Weiß together with the dial of the west facade.
The work was completed in 1987. The cost was around seven million marks . The modernized town hall was officially opened on October 18, 1987 with an open house by the Lord Mayor Josef Höß .
Unrealized plans
remodeling
Between 1823 and 1857 drafts for a regotization were made, with which the facade should be designed uniformly. The pointed towers instead of the onion domes and the crenellated lookouts on the side turrets stand out on the plans. Many windows were to be combined and the eastern tower was to be given a pointed dome again.
Two proposals for the regotisation of the east facade
South facade
North facade
West facade
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Another plan was made by Rudolf Knapp in 1873 and only shows the south facade: The facade is symmetrically structured and has a central risalit over three window axes as well as a balcony on the second floor and a baroque gable. Doors and windows are evenly divided. The plan came about because Knapp did not find Kramer's designs very promising and wanted to offer a counter offer.
expansion
In 1936 Anton Brändle , the NSDAP district leader and later mayor, suggested building a new town hall across from the residence. A local museum was to be housed in the old town hall . The Lord Mayor Otto Merkt rejected this proposal. According to him, the town hall belongs to the old market, there is the center of the city, historical developments are to be retained.
Although more and more buildings on Rathausplatz were rented, expropriated or bought for the town hall, the city administration still lacked space. This resulted in three designs, including one by Sepp Zwerch. A significant expansion of the town hall was planned, but these plans were never carried out because the State Office for Monument Preservation and the city felt the proposed expansion was too big. The extension would have made the building very bulky, making the old building appear small.
Building description
The elongated building has three floors and has a distinctive stepped gable on the east side. Access to the first floor is also provided by symmetrical stairs placed on the east and west sides. The roof is supported by a Gothic roof structure .
Outdoor area
East facade
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Trumpet men on the onion roof, the clock and Justitia in the east facade
The double-headed eagle on one of the side towers
Staircase in the east
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The central tower with an onion dome, resting on the eastern stepped gable, protrudes in a square manner and is transferred to two storeys by cornices with a dial on three sides and double arched openings in rectangular blind areas. The trumpet man stands on the hood of this tower .
The tower weakens in the tower set up to a niche with the figure of a Justitia , which refers to the former court in the town hall. Below is a golden zodiac sign with two narrow side windows. A little lower on the facade is a painted double-headed eagle , on the left and right sides of which a total of eight patrician coats of arms of the imperial city of Kemptens are depicted. On the sides of the stepped gable are smaller turrets with a pointed roof with a double eagle. Above is a roofed, double-barreled staircase with pointed arch windows from the renovation period of 1937/38, designed in Gothic forms . In the middle of the porch, above an octagonal stone column , you can see a small, accessible trapezoidal bay window with a pointed three-sided roof.
West facade
West facade
Dial
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In the west on the tip of the triangular gable stands a significantly smaller bell tower than the gable rider with an onion dome . A lightning rod indicates the cardinal points on this. Under the tower is a dial made by Franz Weiß for the redesign of the town hall in the 1930s. The center of this is a sun with curved rays.
The porch with roofing from 1568 still has the pointed roof in the middle, from the 1870s, and round openings. This porch was only smoothed during the construction work in the 1930s. Up until that time there was a latticed fountain in a niche at floor level. Today the floor bay at the former well is walled up with the four stone pillars and provided with a small window.
South and north facade
South balcony from 1939
Heinrich von Kempten on the south facade
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On the south facade is a balcony that was simplified in 1939 and next to it a fresco by the knight Heinrich von Kempten . The Kempten painter Franz Weiß painted this motif in 1938 with a short form of the legend next to it. After the Second World War he revised the motif; he painted over the small swastikas in the four corners of the frame and the saga text.
A modern door system in the middle of the north wall forms the main entrance to the town hall foyer.
Indoor
The individual floors can be reached by stairs or an elevator , the technical equipment of which is located in the partial basement of the town hall. The connection for the heat supply from the neighboring administration building is also located there.
Ground floor and 1st floor
The event office has set up its offices on the ground floor. A reception hall is used for official events. During the renovation work in the 1980s, one of the six wooden pillars in the reception hall, also known as the Schrannenhalle, was replaced.
The wedding room on the first floor is in the Biedermeier style. It is furnished with Biedermeier furniture from the old mayor's room, and the walls are decorated to match. In 1934 the new conference room received the remnants of the furnishings from the weavers' guild house. After installing the beamed ceiling in the great hall, from the weavers' guild house, there was enough left over for this. However, this was moved from the former small meeting room.
The city leaders have their offices on the same floor as well as additional offices and a secretariat .
Reception hall, the pillar in the front right is new
Wedding room
Meeting room
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2nd Floor
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The large conference room has a late Gothic wooden ceiling, which was built around 1460 and was built into the largest room of the weavers' guild house until 1912. When expanding by around half of the previous size, a new wooden ceiling was built in the enlarged part, based on the old one. The entrance door to the large conference room was built in 1934 by Franz Xaver Unterseher . Their inlays show the most important people in the city's history.
On the left side of the double doors are the mayor Gordian Seuter under a burning coat of arms of the imperial city, Prince Abbot Sebastian von Breitenstein , as "rival" of Gordian Seuter, the church donor Hildegard , Audogar , the founder of the Benedictine monastery, and a Roman above the basilica from Cambodunum shown. On the right, the army commander of the Peasants' War Georg von Waldburg-Zeil , Jörg Knopf von Leubas , Heinrich von Kempten, Magnus von Füssen as Apostle of the Allgäu and at the same time as a fighter against the pests, which are symbolically represented in the form of a lizard below; including the legendary figure Cambo, a celt from the Burghalde . In the top center is the coat of arms of the united city of Kempten.
In the small western meeting room, the late Gothic beamed ceiling was exposed and restored. A wooden plank wall was also discovered and exposed. It bears an inscription and painted ornaments. The inscription reads:
EXCUTE AMANUS AB OMNI MUNERE
PARTES PATIENTER AUDI
BENIGNE RESPONDE
IUSTE IUDICA,
This translates to mean:
Keep your hands away from any kind of courtesy.
Listen to the party patiently.
Answer kindly,
just judgments.
The German inscription is only rudimentary and can be interpreted as follows:
A man's speech is no man's speech
One should hear them all.
In the area in front of the stairs there are paintings by the former mayors August Fischer and Josef Höß. The balcony can be accessed from this front zone.
Roof truss
The Gothic roof structure with three storeys largely corresponds to the original condition, recognizable by the carpenter's mark , which can still be seen on many pieces of wood. Some of the rafters and collar beams were replaced over time. On the east side of the roof, the original structure of the rafter roof was subsequently changed for modifications, the meaning of which is still unknown today. There are no reliable indications from the building fabric for a change in the roof structure, for example for the installation of a chimney. In the north there is a later built-in elevator gable from the 1930s. The old one was demolished in 1867 because it was dilapidated and was probably used to transport grain onto the roof for storage.
The tower in the east is secured by an elaborate construction made of wood and iron bars. The clock tower is located in the lower attic.
archeology
During the construction work from 1985 to 1987 numerous archaeological investigations were carried out. A figurative representation and an ornamental tendril painting with flowers and fruits were discovered in the large conference room. These paintings were restored by Josef Lorch .
Investigations were also carried out when excavating the first floor. Archaeologists found partly glazed ceramic shards, animal bones and metal parts such as a door lock, horseshoes and other riding accessories that could be dated to the Middle Ages.
During excavations on the town hall square, parts of the wooden beams of a bridge from the years 24 to 30 AD were found. The construction of an underground car park below the town hall square was waived because some wooden beams were preserved during the excavations. It was the bridge over the former river course of the Iller. The so-called "Freudental-Iller" flowed there until the beginning of the 14th century. The road led to the Roman country town of Cambodunum, which is in what is now the urban area .
Ornamental paintings in the large boardroom
Figurative representation in the large meeting room
Ceramic shards
Door lock from the Middle Ages
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Representation in art
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The town hall has found its way into the visual arts since the earliest times . The first representations of the town hall can be seen on city views, which were made as woodcuts in the 16th century. The first is by Hanß Abelin and Hanß Rogel from 1569, on which the town hall can be seen in its general shape. Another woodcut from the same period is by Sebastian Münster , which is very similar to that of Abelin and Rogel. An anonymous woodcut from the period after 1567 shows the city flat from the south. Here the town hall can be seen as an oversized structure with a very large onion dome in the east and a pointed west tower. Heinrich Beusch made the oldest painted cityscape in 1599. The town hall has pointed tower ends in this low-detail painting.
In the following century copper engravings were made , such as the work by Johann Hain and Fridrich Raidel from 1628. This depicts the town hall with many small details such as windows, dormers and tower shapes. A view of imperial soldiers in front of the gates of the imperial city dates from 1633. The town hall has towers with pointed roofs on this view. One of the most famous engravings is that of Matthäus Merian from 1643, on which the town hall is poor in details. There are dotted windows, the tower in the west and the large tower with the side towers in the east. The view of the city is confusing: Merian drew the city with a view to the north and placed the Allgäu Alps from the south to the north to make the view more interesting. Around 1720, Gabriel Bodenehr (1673-1765) made an engraving that shows the most important buildings without whole rows of houses. Thereupon, among other things, the town hall can be seen. In the design of the surroundings, this stitch is very similar to that of Merian.
Views from the 19th century that capture the view of Rathausplatz. Here the town hall can be seen as the main object. Johann Baptist Dilger made a chalk lithograph in 1830 . The simply drawn work shows the town hall with a wrong tower structure: the onion dome is too round and the tower bell is visible. Dilger dispensed with decorative shapes, such as the little trumpeter man on the roof, and replaced it with a ball. Another lithograph was made by Eberhard Emminger around 1850. The drawing is extraordinarily wide: the square is very large, the buildings are far apart. The town hall is very present there. This effect is supported by very small staffage figures . The gray-engraved pencil drawing attributed to Friedrich Hohlbach is regarded as a sketch for Emminger's lithograph because some architectural details are drawn out separately.
Richard Püttner (1842–1913) created a wood engraving around 1880 that shows the market square from the southeast. The frescoes by Ludwig von Kramer can be seen on the east facade. A colored picture postcard from the period between 1910 and 1920 shows the square from the east from a bird's eye view . There are several of these colored postcards of the town hall from this period. They differ mainly in perspective. Photographs were taken before 1874. The regional photographer Otto von Zabuesing shot the square with the town hall from the typical perspective from the east.
Town hall fountain
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A market place fountain with a fountain column was set up in front of the town hall in 1576. In 1601 the wooden basin was replaced by one made of stone and the wooden fountain column with one made of bronze. The figure of a Roman general can be seen on the upper part of this column, holding two coats of arms in his hands. Underneath are the coats of arms of the two patrician mayors Raimund Dorn and Josef König. The general figure shows the medieval reflection on Roman roots. According to the chronicler Christoph Schwarz, a captain is said to have launched the city of Kempten. As with the Augustus Fountain in Augsburg, it could be a monument erected to the city's founder.
Individual evidence
- ( R ) Hans-Peter Uerpmann , Dorothee Ade-Rademacher, Gerhard Weber, Beate Grentzenberg, Josef Lorch , Peter Zwerch, Wolfgang Haberl: The town hall of Kempten in the course of history. A documentation . Ed .: Lord Mayor of the City of Kempten [= Josef Höß]. 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1987, ISBN 3-88006-128-9 .
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Other documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g Wolfgang Haberl: Kempten - Guide through our city - what is preserved and what is hidden . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1980, ISBN 3-88006-057-6 , p. 44-47 .
- ↑ a b c Alexander Duke of Württemberg, Werner Sienz, Wolfgang Haberl: Monuments in Bavaria. City of Kempten: ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological site monuments . tape VII.85 , ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , pp. 6th f .
- ^ Old town renovation using the example of Kempten in the Allgäu. In: Der Bauberater - Werkblatt des bayer. Landesvereins für Heimatpflege eV, 36th year, issue 1/2, Munich 1971.
- ↑ Original cadastre of the city of Kempten 1826 (measured in 1823)
- ↑ Bernd-Peter Schaul (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII: Swabia . Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 , pp. 77 .
- ↑ Birgit Kata: Curtain up! 400 years of theater in Kempten . 1st edition. Friedberg Likias, Kempten 2007, ISBN 978-3-9807628-8-5 , p. 19th f .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall , Paula Georg, Bruno Bushart: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 573 .
- ^ A b Wolfgang Haberl: Allgäu, Ausserfern, Kleinwalsertal, Bregenzerwald. Lexicon of the Euregio via salina. Verlag Tobias Dannheimer, Kempten, 2002, ISBN 3-88881-038-8 , pp. 184f.
- ↑ Birgit Kata: The Erasmus Chapel showroom in Kempten (Allgäu) . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2011, ISBN 978-3-89870-706-0 , p. 17 .
- ↑ Mention of the period of life of Ludwig von Kramer (accessed on November 1, 2011)
- ^ A b Max Förderreuther , Martin Kellenberger: Kemptener Heimatbuch . Josef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet, Kempten 1932, p. 81 .
- ↑ a b Allgäuer Alterthums-Verein (ed.), Adolf Horchler : From our folder. Town hall in Kempten. In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund, 12th year, 1899, p. 68.
- ↑ Birgit Kata: Curtain up! 400 years of theater in Kempten . 1st edition. Friedberg Likias, Kempten 2007, ISBN 978-3-9807628-8-5 , p. 130 .
- ^ Martin Kellenberger: City of Kempten. Book of memory . Kempten 1937, DNB 574269975 , p. 105 f .
- ↑ a b c Martin Kellenberger: The town hall in Kempten . Kempten November 1934, p. 14-19 .
- ↑ Birgit Kata: The Erasmus Chapel showroom in Kempten (Allgäu). 1st edition. 2011, ISBN 978-3-89870-706-0 , pp. 19-21.
- ↑ msw-architekten.de: Buildings and Projects (accessed on April 17, 2012)
- ↑ a b c d Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 36f.
- ↑ Anna Köhl, Ralf Lienert: Creative Minds. Streets and their namesake in Kempten . Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten (Allgäu) 2007, ISBN 978-3-88881-056-5 , p. 78 .
- ^ Franz-Rasso Böck : Cast in bronze. On the history of the Kempten town hall fountain . Ed .: Thomas Weiß. 1st edition. Agrar-Verlag, Kempten 1993, ISBN 3-924809-15-1 , p. 68 .
- ↑ a b c Alexander Duke of Württemberg, Werner Sienz, Wolfgang Haberl: Monuments in Bavaria. City of Kempten: ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological site monuments . tape VII.85 , ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , pp. X, XVIf., 3 .
- ^ Anton Götz, Schlachthof der Stadt Kempten (ed.): The butchers and the slaughterhouse in Kempten in the Allgäu. 1958, DNB 451593332 , p. 6 f., 109, 111, 113.
- ^ Franz-Rasso Böck : Cast in bronze. On the history of the Kempten town hall fountain . Ed .: Thomas Weiß. 1st edition. Agrar-Verlag, Kempten 1993, ISBN 3-924809-15-1 , p. 102-105 .
- ^ A b Franz-Rasso Böck : Cast in bronze. On the history of the Kempten town hall fountain . Ed .: Thomas Weiß. 1st edition. Agrar-Verlag, Kempten 1993, ISBN 3-924809-15-1 , p. 105 ff .
- ^ Max Förderreuther , Martin Kellenberger: Kemptener Heimatbuch . Josef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet, Kempten 1932, p. 91 .
- ↑ Birgit Kata et al. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and releasing 752-1802. Likias, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-9807628-6-6 , pp. 168-171. (Allgäu research on archeology and history, 1)
literature
- Hans-Peter Uerpmann , Dorothee Ade-Rademacher, Gerhard Weber, Beate Grentzenberg, Josef Lorch, Peter Zwerch, Wolfgang Haberl: The town hall of Kempten in the course of history. A documentation . Ed .: Lord Mayor of the City of Kempten [= Josef Höß]. 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1987, ISBN 3-88006-128-9 .
- Martin Kellenberger: The town hall in Kempten . Kempten November 1934, DNB 363990879 (non-neutral, National Socialist work).
Web links
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-63-000-187 (Town Hall)
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 0.8 ″ E
