Dörrenbach town hall

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Dörrenbach town hall
Magnificent half-timbered building, massive hall ground floor [1] made of ashlar masonry with arched windows.

Magnificent half-timbered building , massive hall ground floor made of ashlar masonry with arched windows .

Data
place Dörrenbach
Architectural style Renaissance
Construction year 1590/91
Coordinates 49 ° 5 '23.3 "  N , 7 ° 57' 39.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '23.3 "  N , 7 ° 57' 39.9"  E

The Dörrenbach town hall is a Renaissance building from 1590/91 in the municipality of Dörrenbach in the southern Weinstrasse district in the Palatinate . It is a listed building.

description

The Dörrenbach town hall is a half-timbered building , free-standing in a small square on the town's main street, where it forms an ensemble with the higher-lying church of St. Martin , which is surrounded by a defensive wall with a defensive tower.

The ground floor, made of ashlar masonry with arched windows and an arched driveway, was formerly an open hall. Its wooden beam ceiling is supported by a girder that rests on a central stone column with an Ionic capital .

The first floor containing the Ratssaal is performed on three sides in truss, wherein the eastern gable side is designed as jewelry side and particularly also under the hipped roof show lying further floors framework. The rear west gable is clad with slate . In the Franconian half-timbered structure, the so-called man figures (two diagonal struts that overlap in the upper part) and decorated St. Andrew's crosses in the row of compartments under the windows appear as design elements . The windows on the first floor are framed separately with carvings as so-called Franconian bay windows . Under one of the windows there is a coat of arms and the baker's guild symbol with the year 1590. Another coat of arms in the masonry on the ground floor shows the same year.

On the north side of the town hall, a covered external staircase leads to the first floor. It ends in an ornate vestibule with a gable roof. Above the door is the inscription: PAX INTRANTIBUS 1590 (“Peace to those entering”).

literature

  • Ruth Schell (drawings), Johann-Martin Deinhard (text): The most beautiful town halls in the Palatinate . Agiro publishing house, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2008, ISBN 978-3-934769-89-2 .

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Dörrenbach  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Southern Wine Route district. Mainz 2020, p. 23 (PDF; 10 MB).