City Hall Frankfurt (Oder)
The Frankfurt (Oder) town hall is the administrative building of the independent city of Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg . The building, which was presumably built in the middle of the 13th century, is listed as an architectural monument in the state of Brandenburg's list of monuments.
The town hall now also houses a restaurant and the “Young Art” museum .
Architecture and building history
The construction of the town hall probably began shortly after the city of Frankfurt (Oder) was granted city rights in 1253. The exact course of construction has not been fully clarified. Presumably only the basement and the ground floor were completed at first, after which there was a construction interruption. The construction work on the larger southern part with the department store and the so-called archive extension on the west side was completed around the middle of the 14th century.
Between 1607 and 1609 the town hall was extensively rebuilt under the direction of Thaddäus Paglion . The building was redesigned in Baroque style, and the town hall was reorganized in 1906 and 1911. Between 1911 and 1913, the town hall was expanded to include a four- story brick building with limestone ornamental shapes . This resulted in a three-wing building with an inner courtyard together with the old town hall . The building has a richly decorated portal with two risalits . The structure of the south facade was adapted to that of the south gable and was given the design of a typical Hanseatic town hall building with an arcade and high rectangular windows . The southern part was equipped with an outside staircase .
In 1937 the town hall received the southwest entrance hall. This had access to the town hall cellar. During the Second World War , the town hall in the embattled city was badly damaged and finally burned down. The town hall was restored between 1951 and 1953 and renovated between 1976 and 1978 . Between 1993 and 1994 the original medieval building was restored.
The medieval part of the town hall was laid out in its current form with a stretched rectangular floor plan . Inside the building, the different uses as a town hall and a department store can still be seen. Originally the border between the town hall and the department store was marked on the outside by a dividing gable. The ridge height , which is uniform today , was only created as a result of the restoration after the Second World War. On the narrow sides there are show walls , the Gothic details of which were removed in the 17th century. In addition, the display walls have mannerist plaster crowns applied to the buttresses .
The north and south gable are connected to two storeys arranged Wimpergreihen with Maßwerkzierstreifen between Fialpfeilern equipped. The lower tracery rosettes were each added. The middle rosettes made of molded brick on the north gable are still in their original condition, the upper rosettes are made of Rüdersdorfer limestone . On the pillars there are limestone console heads from the second half of the 14th century. The ground floor used to have pointed arches between strong pillars, these were later changed. Above the central wall pillar is a rectangular tower tower from 1607 with a cantilevered platform with a wrought iron ornamental grille and an octagonal lantern with a copper-covered hood. The tower top was destroyed around 1945 and rebuilt from 1976.
The western side of the building had what are known as scraping. These were first mentioned in 1461 and renewed at the beginning of the 17th century until they were finally demolished in 1864. The archive extension received a volute gable in the 17th century , which was also destroyed during the Second World War and was reconstructed from 1976 onwards.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 329 f .
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- ↑ a b c Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 329 f.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 14.7 ″ E