Burghausen Town Hall

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Town hall in Burghausen

The town hall in Burghausen , a town in the Altötting district in Upper Bavaria , was built in the 18th century. The town hall at Stadtplatz 112 is a protected architectural monument .

The town hall was created from the amalgamation of three originally separate house plots, in the southern part there is a gender tower in the walls. The west facade was designed uniformly after the merger. The three-storey hipped roof building with mezzanine and central risalit has a curved baroque gable . The core of the Gothic atrium comes from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century, the facade from the 18th century. The building was inhabited by the Mautner family (see also Mautnerschloss ) before it was acquired by the city in 1439.

The current meeting room of the city ​​council on the first floor was originally twice as high and reached down to the ground floor. The gothic vault was exposed from plaster in 1919.

The Burghausen city coat of arms is depicted on the facade and above it the Bavarian coat of arms symbols, diamonds and lions .

literature

  • Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
  • Alois Buchleitner: Burghausen city - castle - history. In: Heimatverein and Stadtarchiv Burghausen (ed.): Burghauser Geschichtsblätter. 5th edition. Volume 33.Burghausen 2001.
  • Friedrich Hacker: Burghausen - home book and guide through town and castle. 3. Edition. Gebr. Geiselberger, Burghausen 1975.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus (Burghausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 28.4 ″  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 59.5 ″  E