Heinrichs town hall (Suhl)

Heinrichs town hall (Suhl)

The former town hall of Heinrichs , today it serves as a local museum and adult education center , is in Meininger Straße 89 von Heinrichs , a district of Suhl in southern Thuringia .

description

The massive , plastered ground floor , decorated with corner stones , was built in 1551 according to the inscription . The gable-facing building was given two upper floors of visible half-timbering in 1657 . The half-timbering on the gable side has curved St. Andrew's crosses , that of the eaves side has struts and transoms . The Ratskeller is located on the ground floor and the hall for the city ​​council has been restored on the first floor . The second floor was originally the dance floor , which was converted into apartments in 1922 .

philately

The building was featured on postage stamps twice in the 20th century . In the 1978 postage stamp from the GDR Deutsche Post , a special stamp was issued as part of the half-timbered buildings in the GDR series with a face value of 10 Pfennig . In 1994 the Deutsche Bundespost issued a definitive stamp with the motif as part of the Sights series with a face value of 5.50 Deutsche Mark .

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  GDR postage stamp from 1978

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  Definitive from 1994

See also

• Henneberger timber frame
• List of cultural monuments in Suhl

literature

• Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 1206.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Heinrichs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Volkshochschule Karl Mundt

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 22.6 ″  E