Town hall (Neustadt an der Orla)
The town hall in Neustadt an der Orla , a town in the Saale-Orla district in eastern Thuringia , was built around 1464. The town hall on the market is a protected architectural monument .
history
Around 1464 two parts of the building, the eastern, slightly higher building (up until then already used as a town hall) and the part to the west of it (the so-called town hall chapel) were combined to form a representative town hall. In the eastern part, the previous building, mentioned in 1364 as a “stone house”, has probably risen. The building was largely rebuilt towards the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, decorated with decorations and an oriel. The decorative gable was built around 1505 by Hans Krause, who can also be traced back to the Pößneck town hall . Restoration work took place in 1974/1975 and 1992.
architecture
The rectangular three-storey massive structure consists of a wide and low, stone-faced western part with cross-frame windows and the eastern, higher, plastered part. The door and window frames are artistically crafted. The building is accessible from the market square on the ground floor through a Gothic seating niche portal with animal sculptures (the entrance to the former drinking room). Above this is the large, staggered window of the council chamber. The eastern part has, in addition to the flight of stairs in the western part of the building, a two-storey bay window and a magnificent decorative gable. Frameworks cover the wall surfaces of the bay window , which is crowned with a needle-pointed hood with a gable wreath. On both sides of the eaves of the eastern part there are dormitories with smaller decorative gables. Georg Dehio mentioned the "treatment of the bay window as highly characteristic of the latest Gothic". In terms of size and quality, the town hall in Neustadt is one of the most important late Gothic town halls in Thuringia and is comparable to the town halls in Saalfeld and Pößneck . Inside, the town hall was changed due to its use. On the first floor of the eastern part there is the large council chamber with a wooden beamed ceiling, in the area of the bay there is a ribbed vault with twisted profile bars, figural keystones and tracery arches. The former archive is housed on the second floor.
The pillory in the shape of a stone toad sitting on a loaf of bread hangs over a pointed arched door to the right of the flight of stairs .
literature
- Hans Müller: Thuringia. Landscape, culture and history in the “green heart” of Germany . DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 978-3-7701-3848-7 , pp. 264-265.
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , pp. 883-884.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 10.5 " N , 11 ° 44 ′ 45" E