Eisenstadt town hall
The town hall in Eisenstadt , the capital of the Austrian state of Burgenland , is located in Hauptstrasse 35. The building, which dates back to the 17th century, is a listed building.
architecture
The 27 meter long street front of the two-story building has ashlar plaster up to the windows on the upper floor . The facade gets its rhythmic structure from three bay windows and a large entrance portal, which is framed by diamond ashlar plaster. The two outer round oriels rest on pillars, the middle, box-shaped on three consoles . The middle bay is adorned with a sundial and the city arms of Eisenstadt.
The areas between the windows on the upper floor are filled with images. From the left to the middle bay, they symbolically show the virtues of loyalty, hope, charity, justice, wisdom, strength and temperance as female figures, with the Latin inscription. To the right of the middle bay follow scenes from the Old Testament for judicial wisdom ( Solomon's judgment ), love of home ( Judith and Holofernes ) and the renunciation of dignity in favor of wisdom and knowledge (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ).
The building is completed by a wide parapet , behind which a three-part trench roof is hidden. Overhanging gable parts are concealed by curved decorative gables.
history
The town hall was built around 1650 after Eisenstadt had become a royal free town in 1648 . Some parts of the Renaissance , such as the ceiling in the entrance hall, date from this period. Today's appearance comes from the renovation around 1760.
The wall paintings, also from the Renaissance, were repainted in 1949 by Rudolf Holzinger (1898–1949) according to the old patterns. The interior of the house was rebuilt several times, most recently in 1959. On the occasion of the construction of the purpose-built, modern new town hall building behind the historic one in the years 1999 to 2001, the latter was extensively renovated.
literature
- Gunnar Strunz: Burgenland. Nature and culture between Lake Neusiedl and the Alps. Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89794-221-9 , p. 61.
Web links
- Town hall. In: Eisenstadt Tourismus website. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
- Eisenstadt. In: sonnabend.at. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burgenland - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of September 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 48.2 " N , 16 ° 31 ′ 28.6" E