Town Hall (Oppenheim)
The town hall in Oppenheim , a town in Rheinhessen in Rhineland-Palatinate , originally dates from 1621. The Renaissance building consists of two parts, the facades of which are crowned by characteristic stepped gables .
history
The old mint was located at the current location of the Oppenheim town hall, but after 1436 it was only used as an exchange office. In 1621 the town hall was built at this point after an older town hall building burned down elsewhere. However, on May 31, 1689, the town hall (like the entire town and Landskron Castle ) was destroyed by French troops under Ezéchiel de Mélac during the Palatinate War of Succession .
It took twenty years until 1709 the eastern part of the building (right in the picture above) was rebuilt. The western part of the town hall was not added again until 1879, when the eastern part of the building was also rebuilt. The town hall is now a listed building and is still the seat of the city administration and the mayor of Oppenheim.
architecture
The town hall of Oppenheim is kept in the Renaissance style. The building consists of two parts, each of which has three upper floors in addition to the basement. The facades are crowned by stepped gables , with the two gable tops each bearing an eagle with spread wings. In addition, the gables on all four corners of the building are decorated with turrets.
On the eastern side of the town hall, a so-called Oppenheim cubit made of stone is set into the wall, which is 62 centimeters long and used to be used as a unit of measurement in markets . The building is often compared to the Haus zum Römer in Frankfurt am Main , which, however, has three parts.
See also
Web links
- The town hall of Oppenheim on Regionalgeschichte.net
- The town hall of Oppenheim in the directory of cultural monuments in the Mainz-Bingen district (PDF; 1.6 MB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '10.7 " N , 8 ° 21' 17.4" E