Town Hall (Marienburg)

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Marienburg Town Hall
Town hall with south gable
City Hall and the Hohen Lauben, lithograph by Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber

The Town Hall of Marienburg , Polish Ratusz w Malborku , was from 1365 to 1380 in the style of brick Gothic at the Stare Miasto in Marienburg in today Pomorskie and in the former German Teutonic Knights of the Teutonic Order built. It is used today as a cultural center.

history

The two-storey late - Gothic brick building on the market square was built in place of an earlier building on a rectangular floor plan and a cellar. The three-axis ornate stepped gables are striking on both sides; the north gable with decoration, the south gable from the 15th century with half-arches. There is an arcade in the vaulted basement . The upper floor received articulated flat pilaster strips , the windows stone crosses in pointed arches . On the gable roof is a roof turret with a lantern and a bell from 1407, which was renewed in 1899 or after the Second World War . The five-axis eaves walls on the sides are topped off by a crenellated crown. The old courtroom was given a dome-like vault resting on ribs.

Before the Second World War , the building ensembles Hohe Lauben and Niederen Lauben joined directly behind the town hall .

Extensive renovations took place between 1457 and 1460, as did in 1901 - after a fire - under Conrad Steinbrecht . The Ratskeller restaurant and the Hindenburg storage warehouse were located in the basement until 1945 . Only a few historical buildings remained in the old town during the war, as the residential buildings were blown up during the fighting in the area of ​​the Ordensburg , where German troops had holed up, and the urban area. In addition to the town hall, only the Gothic town church, the two Gothic town gates Marientor and Töpfertor , as well as the buttermilk tower and parts of the town wall remained.

The renovated building is currently used as a municipal cultural center (Miejski Dom Kultury "Ratusz") . It is a listed building.

literature

  • Bernhard Schmid : The town hall in Marienburg in West Prussia. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 4, No. 11 (August 27, 1902), pp. 81–84.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus (Marienburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 13.4 ″  N , 19 ° 1 ′ 35 ″  E