Town Hall (Wolfach)
The town hall in Wolfach is a listed historic building.
history
After the early modern school and town hall burned down in 1892, the Wolfach municipal council announced a competition. This should be used to obtain drafts for a new building. Herbert Lender emerged as the winner of the competition. The jury was the Grand Ducal Building Directorate in Karlsruhe. The costs totaled 170,000 M .
description
The building was originally built as a school and town hall in neo-renaissance style according to plans by Herbert Lender, architect and rector of the municipal trade school in Heidelberg in 1893/1894. When it was completed, the mayor's room was on the ground floor, which was also the meeting room of the municipal council. The same goes for the counselor's room, the registry, the waiting room, the city treasury and the city archive. The council chamber goes on two floors and has several side rooms. At the time of construction, the official apartment, consisting of four rooms and a kitchen, was located above it. When the building was completed, the schoolhouse had a market hall on the ground floor after the street, a school hall after the courtyard, and four school halls on the 1st and 2nd floors. The stairs are made of red sandstone . All ground floor rooms were provided with groin vaults. All architectural parts , including the pillars inside the building and the stairs, were made of hard, red sandstone from Alpirsbach . The roofs are covered with glazed, colored interlocking tiles. The facade was lavishly painted with allegorical depictions of time, fear of God, bravery, zeal, justice. Wolf and the Kinzig enriched the painting with astrological symbols and rich ornaments . The historicist ceiling painting in the entrance area of the town hall was preserved.
During the National Socialist era , the historicist facade was painted over with a work by Eduard Trautwein , Die neue Zeit , which was intended as Nazi propaganda . After the Second World War , the painting was changed, so the swastikas and an SA man in the gable of the building were removed or replaced.
literature
- Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings . 2nd year, Stuttgart, Carl Ebner 1895, sheet 90 + 91.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 55.4 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 22 ″ E