Alsfeld town hall

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Historic Town Hall (2019)

The Alsfeld town hall is mainly designed as a half-timbered building and is structurally assigned to the late Gothic in the transition to the Renaissance .

Building description

The historic town hall of the Hessian town of Alsfeld stands free and eaves on the town's market square. The ground floor consists of three stone arcades . The two placed thereon storeys and the three top floors of the steep gabled roof , however, are in a half-timbered Rähmbau executed. The two cantilevered floors rest on lugs . The market-side front and the back of the building is dominated by two centrally disposed over the first and second floor extending Erker , of corbels be worn the stone ground floor and having tapered spiers are crowned. The gable sides also have bay windows.

Inside, the original room division is still preserved on the second floor: a larger room with a central support, originally a “dance floor”, today a conference room. And a smaller room, the “Kleine Stube”, originally a courtroom, now used by the registry office as a wedding hall. A richly carved grand door leads to it. Both rooms have ornamental paintings on the walls and ceilings from 1577 and 1655, which were restored in 1911. A wooden spiral staircase connects the floors.

Stone masonry and carpentry are of high quality. The building is considered to be an " important half-timbered building from the late Gothic-Renaissance transition period ". The town hall is now a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

The building was built between 1512 and 1516. In 1760 the spiers crowning the bay windows were removed. What can be seen today are reconstructions , on the front from 1910/11, on the back from 1967/68.

The Alsfeld town hall was a style defining feature of the region and a model for the town hall in Schotten or the New Palace in Gießen .

Worth knowing

In 2011, Deutsche Post AG issued a 45-cent special stamp designed by Dieter Ziegenfeuter with the Alsfeld town hall as a motif.

The town hall also adorns the logo of the local brewery .

Models of the town hall are available in H0 gauge from the model railway accessories manufacturers Faller and Kibri , and from Kibri also in Z gauge .

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch : Hessen I. Administrative districts Gießen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3
  • Norbert Hansen: 500 years of Alsfeld town hall: 1512 - 2012; Festschrift to commemorate the start of construction on the Alsfeld town hall 500 years ago . Alsfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-927284-52-4
  • Werner Meyer-Barkhausen: The town hall of Alsfeld and the turning point in Hessian half-timbered buildings in the 16th century . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . 69th year (1958), ISSN  0342-3107 , pp. 87-138.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Alsfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Address: Am Markt 1.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.
  4. ^ Erwin Dietz: Listed Buildings . expert, Renningen-Malmsheim 1999, ISBN 3-8169-1546-9 , p. 112.
  5. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.
  6. ↑ Dehio, p. 13.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 17 ″  E