Town hall Emden

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The town hall of the city of Emden around 1880
The town hall of the city of Emden at the beginning of June 2010

The Emden Rathaus is the town hall of the seaport city of Emden in East Frisia . It was originally built in 1574–1576 by the Antwerp city ​​architect Laurens van Steenwinckel. It was modeled on the city hall in Antwerp. The glass painting workshop of Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt created numerous glass windows in 1912; there are 15 sketches and numerous old photos in the Linnemann archive.

After almost complete destruction by the air raids on Emden in the Second World War, rebuilt in modern forms, some elements of the previous building were taken up. Parts of the ground floor masonry were included. It reopened on September 6, 1962, exactly 18 years after the destruction in which almost the entire old town was destroyed by Allied bombers. In addition to the seat of the city administration, the city library and a permanent exhibition on the city's history were set up here, which became known nationwide as an armory due to the extensive collection of medieval weapons . The holdings of the “Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities e. V. ”were merged with the collection of the city of Emden, the new institution was named Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden . The city administration finally moved into a new building on Frickensteinplatz.

Around 40 years after the reopening, renovations and extensions took place. In autumn 2001 an EU-wide competition for architects took place. 14 architectural offices took part. The Hanoverian architects Roger Ahrens and Gesche Grabenhorst, connected in a joint venture with the Berlin exhibition office Iglhaut und Partner, finally received the order for the redesign of the listed town hall. On September 6, 2005 - the 61st anniversary of the destruction of the city in the bombing war - the East Frisian State Museum opened its doors here again.

Emden's motto is written on the masonry above the entrance at the front: “Concordia res parvae crescunt” (“Small things grow through harmony”).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b landesmuseum-emden.de: The town hall on Delft turns 50 , accessed on July 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Klaus Brandt, Hajo van Lengen , Heinrich Schmidt, Walter Deeters: History of the city of Emden from the beginnings to 1611 (= East Frisia in the protection of the dike , vol. 10). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1994, p. 382 f.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 47 .
  4. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 46 .
  5. ↑ landesmuseum-emden.de: The redesign. The old town hall in a new guise , accessed on July 20, 2017.
  6. ↑ Klaus Brandt, Hajo van Lengen , Heinrich Schmidt, Walter Deeters: History of the city of Emden from the beginnings to 1611 (= East Frisia in the protection of the dike , vol. 10). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1994, p. 467.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  E