Town Hall (Quakenbrück)
The town hall of Quakenbrück is a property built in 1818 in the classical style that takes up half of the development on the northeast side of the market square in the historic old town of Quakenbrück . The six-axle, two-storey Walmdachbau is dominated by a wide dormer - central projection with a triangular pediment. This middle section, in which the high entrance door with an ornamental skylight is located between the ground floor and first floor, is divided vertically by a protruding cornice band at eaves height. The entrance door is optically continued above the band by a baluster with an attached arched window. Via a two-flight flight of stairs with a fine cast iron railing , in which the ornamentation of the door skylight can be found, the visitor reaches the expansive stairwell and the conference room on the first floor. At the last moment, a citizens' initiative was able to prevent the demolition of the high gate for the extraction of building material for the town hall.
Above the portal of the main entrance, the greeting Saluti civitatis sacrum (consecrated to the good of the citizenry) is emblazoned between two gilded corbels . Also gilded is a curved laurel ribbon above the side entrance in Lange Straße, in the central bend of which a medallion with the city coat of arms and the number 1818, the year of construction, hangs as a stucco relief .
The colored exterior of the building was fundamentally changed in the 1990s. Previously, the different plaster colors of the two floors , in light and dark ocher , and the natural sandstone elements emphasized its vertical structure and made it appear compact, but the modern, continuously white design of the surfaces and the contrasting of the bands, frames and corner cuboids in light gray an opposite effect.
To the right and left of the dominant staircase there is a three-armed lantern with decorated candelabra from the Ilsenburg iron foundry. A few meters in front of the flight of steps is the bronze figure of a advancing soldier with a banner stick as a war memorial on a sandstone plinth with the inscription In memory of the rebuilding of the German Empire in 1870/71 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bockstiegel, Böning: 750 years of Quakenbrück.
literature
- Heiko Bockstiegel: Town hall to Quakenbrück. Thoben-Verlag, Quakenbrück 1985, ISBN 3-921176-60-3
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Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 34.2 " N , 7 ° 57 ′ 25.5" E