Town hall Grimmen
The town hall of Grimmen was built around 1400. It is located in the city center of Grimmen , directly on the market square in the immediate vicinity of the parish church of St. Marien .
timeline
Grimmen was founded around 1250 with a planned grid-like road network. Around 1287, the city received the town charter of Luebeck . The medieval town hall was built in the 14th century.
The two-storey, stone-faced brick building with a steep gable roof, all in the Hanseatic Gothic style , was erected on a rectangular floor plan . The ground floor was used for market activity and jurisdiction, while citizens 'meetings and councilors' deliberations were held on the upper floor. The floors served as storage and storage rooms for traders and merchants. On the narrow side facing the market there is an open vaulted vestibule - the council and court arbor - with its three pointed arcades . This corridor was walled up from 1744 to 1937; The resulting rooms were initially used as a police station and from 1865 for the night watch. In 1745 a "Schandkette" was attached to the left pillar, long conspicuous at the at the 200 years become citizens pillory were asked. This pillar also marks the intersection of the former trade route from Langen Strasse and Sundische Strasse and thus the route from Demmin through the Greifswalder Tor to the Stralsunder Tor. In some bricks you can see a sword , a scale and the Greek letter tau . They indicate that Luebian law was once spoken here . Above the arcades is a 7-axis pillar gable with eight continuous pillar struts that are covered with pointed helmets. The slender, vertical, plastered double panels are interrupted by eyelash triangles between the pillars . This structure gives the market gable a light and cheerful note; the influence of the architecture from the neighboring Märkische becomes clear here. Immediately behind the top of the gable front is a baroque roof tower, an open lantern with a curved hood. It was built around 1890 after a first tower was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1744. The tower clock was installed five years later. The city coat of arms consists of six bricks in the stepped gable and was made in 1794 by a potter from Grimmen.
This Gothic town hall, along with the Stralsund town hall, is one of the most important preserved examples of brick Gothic town halls.
The interior has changed many times over the years. For example, from 1929 to 1952 the local history museum was located in the building that is now in the Mühlentor . The town hall was fundamentally renovated around 1997 as part of the general urban renewal process , followed by a further renovation in 2008. The town hall tower was overhauled from March to April 2009. For this purpose it was lifted from the roof. Documents from 1885 were found in the tower ball.
literature
- Hartmut Brun , Theodor Müller: Town halls in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock, 2001, ISBN 3-356-00912-5
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg ; Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 1980
Web links
- Homepage of Grimmen with the picture of the town hall
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 46.2 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 36 ″ E