Gernrode town hall
The town hall Gernrode is a listed building in the district of Stadt Gernrode belonging to the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located in the center of Gernröder's old town at Marktstrasse 20 and is listed in the local monument register as the town hall .
Architecture and history
The town hall was built in 1914/15 in the historicism style on the site of a previous building from 1664/66.
The first written mention of a town hall in Gernrode comes from the year 1530. The town hall, built in 1664/66, was built in half-timbered construction and has a council chamber for the council, a civic room for the city councilors as well as a council tavern and a council cellar. On the house there was a beam with the inscription Whoever Trusted God built it . The weather vane on the town hall showed the year 1665 and Gernrode's coat of arms.
The foundation stone for the new town hall was laid on May 5, 1914. It was inaugurated on February 27, 1915.
The building, which is based on the building traditions of the region, is covered by a high hip roof. On the roof there is a high ridge with a clock . The roof turret has a Belvedere and a Welsche hood .
The plastered ground floor of the building is a massive construction. The entrance to the house is in a large arched portal. The upper floor and the roof-mounted dwelling were built in half-timbered construction. There are rhombuses as decorations on the framework . The threshold is profiled.
The building equipment inside the house, such as doors and windows, date from the construction period. The same applies to preserved lead glass windows . A ducal relief in the meeting room was made in 1915 by Dr. Baur from Gernrode donated. The court pharmacist Julius Meyer from Ballenstedt , who founded the Adler pharmacy , the Gernroder mill owner Gustav Müller and the Quedlinburger Gustav Sachs each donated a colorful glass window to the conference room. Three windows in the stairwell were financed by the Gernrode factory owner Max Hoffmann.
From June 2, 1946, an exhibition with works by Gernrode artists was shown in the town hall. There were watercolors of Göpfert, pictures of home by Konrad Peitz , wooden sculptures by Wilhelm Kunst and works by the painter Eberhard Frey .
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 265
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , p. 124.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , editor Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, p. 31
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , publisher Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, page 58
- ^ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , publisher Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, p. 59
- ^ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , publisher Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, p. 59
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronik der Stadt Gernrode , publisher Gernroder Kulturverein Andreas Popperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, p. 64
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 27.9 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 27.3 ″ E