Angermünde Town Hall

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Town hall in Angermünde

The Angermünde Town Hall is a listed building and the seat of the Angermünde city ​​administration in the Uckermark district in the state of Brandenburg .

Building history

The first documentary mention of a town hall in the town dates back to 1292. Remnants of the foundation suggest that a Gothic building already existed at that time . Another reference to a town hall is an invoice for work on the building from 1560. In 1608 this building received a clock. During the Thirty Years War it was badly damaged and the basement rooms were dismantled. In 1698 and 1699 the townspeople erected a new half-timbered building on these remains . In addition to rooms for the administration, there was also a wine bar, a detention cell and a guard room of a garrison in the building at that time. In 1711 and 1712, the city expanded the original five-axis building by adding two more axes . The city fires in 1705 and 1731 hardly caused any damage to the town hall. In 1826 it was given the classicist facade that still existed in the 21st century . The city wanted to take into account its growing importance as a district town. Two years later, the half-timbered structure was reinforced with masonry. In 1906 the city fathers set up two lanterns in the entrance area. Heinrich Müller, chairman of the city council, donated the city coat of arms over the entrance at this time. The two side wings were added in 1923 and 1924. An extensive renovation was carried out between 1992 and 1999 for around 7.5 million DM. 2.4 million DM came from the urban monument protection program.

architecture

The building was built in the Baroque style and has a rectangular floor plan with seven axes and two storeys . It is provided with light-colored plaster , of which the seven lattice windows on each floor stand out with a white drapery on the front . The upper floor is optically separated from the ground floor by a cornice . Above it is a hipped roof covered with reddish tiles , which is crowned by a tower in the middle. This is rectangular, also lightly plastered and provided with a sound arcade on each side . A clock and a tower hood are located above. Access to the town hall is via a double-winged portal, which is framed by two pilaster strips . Above the door is the city coat of arms, which goes back to a design by the Angermünder sculptor Albert August Manthe from 1906.

Angermünde market fountain

Market fountain by Christian Uhlig

In front of the building is a multi-part work of art by Christian Uhlig . In the course of the redesign of the market in 1994, he won the Marktbrunnen Angermünde competition and set up his work on the market square in 1999. It consists of a total of six individual objects, four of which are small sculptures at the main entrances to the market square and lead to two large objects in the middle. The two central elements form the Kahn , a fountain basin with a water feature, which is intended to remind of the water-rich surroundings of the city. The second element is the figures consisting of a male and a female sculpture, which are turned away from each other but placed together. The unusual clothing is intended to remind of the humor and creativity of the Angermünder citizens. At the southern entrance there is a cat that counts the mice it has killed and is supposed to allude to the activities in the town hall. On the northwest corner there are several fish on a table - a symbol of the old trading activity. The northeast corner is designed with a chair on which there are vegetables and a tool box as a symbol of the old arable citizenship and craftsmanship in Angermünde. A note on the box tells the viewer that the journeyman is in the Schweitzer Hof , an old inn that was the go-to place for craftsmen in the 18th century.

Pillory donkey and fountain

Right in front of the town hall is a wooden replica of a pillory in the form of a house urchin . It comes from the Uckermark wood artist Karl Rätsch . In 1713 the magistrate had a pillory erected on which fraudsters and forgers had to sit as punishment. The pillory donkey was last used on April 7, 1851. To the southwest of the sculpture is a fountain, which was probably created as a wooden box fountain when the city was founded. It is recorded in a well register from 1728 and was used for a specified number of houses for the extraction of extinguishing water in the event of a fire. In the 19th century a wall was built. After Angermünde was connected to a central water supply, construction workers filled the well. It was discovered again in 1991 in the course of the renovation of the market square, dug up and serves as a reserve for the market fountain. It is around nine meters deep with an inner diameter of 1.5 meters. The water level averages 7.2 meters.

Web links

Commons : Angermünde Town Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Information board for Angermünde Town Hall , Heimatverein 1999, attached to the right wing of the building, inspection in September 2015
  • Tourismusverein Angermünde eV (Ed.): Angermünde Marktbrunnen , flyer, no date


Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 15.3 ″  E