Town hall abbey
The Rathaus Abtei is located in the monastery buildings of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Vitus Gladbach on Mönchengladbacher Abteiberg, in Rathausstrasse 1. Today it is the official seat of the Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach.
history
Construction of the abbey began in 1663 and was finished around 1705. In 1802, after the occupation by French troops, the monastery was secularized and used as a spinning company between 1805 and 1835. In 1835 the city bought the main building and, after the old city hall was torn down, used it as the offices of the city administration. Little by little, all the other buildings of the former abbey were also bought by the city and are still used today for parts of the city administration.
Monument description
The "Rathaus Abtei" is located immediately northwest of the St. Vitus Minster on the western slope of the Abteiberg. It is a two-storey building, with its four wings grouped around a rectangular inner courtyard, made of brick masonry over rubble plinth made of Liedberg sandstone and under a gable roof in old German slate roofing, e.g. Some with very small saddle dormers.
North wing
The oldest component is the seven-axis north wing with the center-axially located drive-through portal in the storefront facing the market.
West wing and south wing
The two-axis component protruding like a risalit on the right-hand side is the gable side of the right-angled west wing, which, like the also right-angled south wing, was built under Abbot Petrus Knor (1703–1725).
patio
Through the baroque passage portal (Drachenfels-Trachyt) you enter the rectangular inner courtyard. On its north side there is an arbor made up of three vaulted yokes flanking the doorway.
East wing
The building structure of the 14-axis east wing facing the inner courtyard is still rudimentary to be assessed as medieval. The cellar vaults of the Ratskeller probably belong to the first half of the 14th century.
The City Hall Abbey, including the surrounding open spaces formed by Rathausplatz and Münsterplatz, and the bastion-like retaining walls with the access stairs to Weiherstrasse and Geropark due to the hillside location, are classified as a listed building.
The sculpture of the legendary Count Balderich, created from shell limestone by Emil Hollweg at the beginning of the 20th century, which stands on the flowing section of the wall between Weiherstrasse and Rathausstrasse and faces the market square, is part of the protected monument.
The object is important for human history, for cities and settlements.
There is a public interest in its preservation and use for scientific, art-historical, building / architectural-historical, urban-historical and urban planning reasons.
The building was entered under no. R 018 on September 24, 1985 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 34 " N , 6 ° 25 ′ 51.7" E