Bad Radkersburg town hall

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Town hall with town hall tower

The town hall in the city of Bad Radkersburg shows itself with its tower as a memorial to the wars as a border town. The building is a listed building .

architecture

The town hall on the corner of Langgasse and the main square was built in the 15th to the 17th century and shows a facade design from the 19th century. The octagonal clock tower located in the corner has three late Gothic floors around 1500 with a keel arch stretched between corner services and a cantilevered gallery. The wrought iron lattice of the gallery shows the Styrian panther and the year 1817. It served as a watchtower and defense tower. The late Gothic tower survived the town fire of 1750, the upper tower as a magnificent Renaissance tower was destroyed in the process. The upper late baroque floors above the gallery with the articulated onion helmet were not built until 1806 with the master builder Michael Schmidt. The imperial double-headed eagle sits on the pommel. The exterior of the tower was designed in 1929 with the architect Rudolf Hofer and the sculptor Hans Mauracher and is a reminder of the World War and the struggle for freedom of February 4, 1919. The design shows three text panels, the city arms with warriors' heads and the Rufer , a warrior half-figure made of bronze, which indicates the text panels. Fritz Silberbauer created frescoes in the tower room on the 1st floor in 1928 and symbolically shows the life of the Radkersburg residents after the First World War. In 1957 Fritz Silberbauer created a war memorial room for World War II on the ground floor with mosaics . A book lists the dead and missing in the war. The iron cross with the years 1939 and 1945 above the portal to the tower chamber was designed by the sculptor Josef Schlosser.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Bad Radkersburg, profane buildings, town hall, p. 38.
  • The town hall tower. P. 28. In: Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen, Beatrix Vreča: Bad Radkersburg. City and region. Tourist association Bad Radkersburg and Radkersburg surroundings, Bad Radkersburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01642-2 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 15 ° 59 ′ 11.3 ″  E