Korneuburg town hall
The Town Hall Korneuburg is a large, irregular, four-wing neo-Gothic building in the center of the main square of the city Korneuburg , which is dominated by the powerful city tower.
The building is under monument protection by decision of the Federal Monuments Office ( list entry ).
Building history
At the place of today's town hall originally stood a Nikolauskirche from around 1170 , which was consecrated in 1193 and probably last served as the town's parish church. In the years 1440 to 1447, instead of the church tower above the apse of the church, the mighty city tower was built, which was to serve as a watchtower against enemies and fire. The triumphal arch of this church can still be seen in the courtyard of the town hall . The tower was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War when Count Puchheim regained the city for Austria.
During the Reformation , the church was adapted as a Lutheran church in the 16th century and later temporarily profaned before it was handed over to the Augustinians in 1625 . After the final desecration under Joseph II in 1786, it was used as a theater room, salt store, fire department depot and finally for business premises.
In 1890, the tower was historicized by Hermann Helmer in the course of a major renovation and was given its current appearance.
In the course of the restructuring of the city, the baroque town hall was demolished and in 1893 the decision to build a new one was made. An architectural competition for the realization of this new building did not find a majority for a winner among the jury, so the city council chose Max Kropf's "Landmark" design , which included the old city tower from 1447 in the new building. The construction costs amounted to 120,000 florins (florins), of which the Sparkasse Korneuburg took over an amount of 75,000 florins as a donation. In return she was given the free use of office rooms on the first floor of the new town hall, which she used until 1929. In 1894 the church was demolished and the new town hall began.
On February 15, 1896, the mayor received the golden key from the architect at the ceremonial opening of the town hall, which was completed in 1895. In addition to the administrative headquarters, the building also houses bars and shops.
Building description
town hall
The building is richly structured by balconies , bay windows and gables and is completed by a roof with glazed roof tiles . There are wrought iron lanterns at the corners .
The three-axis central risalit of the representative southwestern main facade has a balcony with tracery parapet and rich tracery windows . Between the windows there are canopy figures of Franz Joseph I (left) and Duke Albrecht I (right) created by Emanuel Pendl on consoles . Above it are the coats of arms of ten crown lands : Kingdom of Bohemia , Kingdom of Dalmatia , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Archduchy of Austria under the Enns , Archduchy of Austria above Enns , Duchy of Salzburg , Duchy of Styria , Duchy of Carinthia , Duchy of Carniola and Duchy of Bukowina .
The facade of the central risalit ends in a tracery gable marked 1895 . In this are two shield carriers with the city coat of arms under a canopy and the year 1298 , which indicates the rise to the status of an independent sovereign city. The gable field contains a relief of the double eagle of the Austrian Empire .
On the first floor of the risalit a wide pointed arch portal is flanked by an equally wide pointed arch window. Behind it is a vaulted portico.
On both sides of the risalit, the front of the building ends in a two-axis wing with wide arched window and door openings. Above that there are two double rectangular windows with relief reveals on the first floor . The facade of the first floor is completed by a double circumferential cordon cornice , which attaches to the upper and lower edge of the balcony on the central projection. The upper cornice also forms the sill cornice for the windows on the second floor. These are designed as quadruple windows next to the risalit and as double pointed arch windows on the outside axis, each divided by half-columns with leaf capitals .
At the corners on the second floor there are octagonal oriel turrets supported by corner pillars and integrated into the main building on two sides. They each have five pointed arch windows, which are designed in the same way as the double windows on the south-west facade.
On the northwest side of the building complex there is a protruding middle section with a balcony and gable structure. A bust of the builder is attached above the pointed arch portal that provides access to the municipal office. Above it is a balcony resting on four consoles with a tracery parapet to which a rectangular door flanked by two rectangular windows opens. The door and the two windows are closed by tracery in relief with crowning finials . Above it are the coats of arms of important Lower Austrian cities.
Inside the north-west wing there is a vestibule with columns and ribbed vaults , from which a spacious staircase with tracery railings opens up. The stairwell has a rich stucco coat of arms ceiling in tracery forms with bourgeois coats of arms from the 15th and 16th centuries, including those of the city's first mayor, Andreas Ramler (1406), and Niklas Engelgershauser, who made a contribution to the rapid reconstruction of the city after the fire of 1417. Two busts commemorate the mayor Schaumann. There are large tracery windows on the front wall of the stairwell.
The township meeting room has wood paneling and a coffered ceiling on consoles. It is equipped with a large chandelier and a mural, which is labeled M. Lenz 1895 and represents the granting of city rights. An oil painting shows the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph.
The office area in the area of the tower, which was largely renovated in 1894/95, is closed off by a star rib vault, which is likely to date from the middle of the 15th century.
City tower
The simple facade of the 47-meter-high , mighty square building, designated 1447, is structured by corner blocks. On the tower ground floor on the east facade facing the square is a high tracery window in deep, smooth walls . To the left of this is an inscription panel from 1898. Above the tracery window is a small pointed arch window and above this a double pointed arch window with a column in between. At the same height as this double window is a sundial on the south side . On the next floor there are small rectangular windows with smooth soffits and above them there are tower clocks that are marked 1924 , the year of the last major renovation.
The square structure ends with bay windows that are built across the corners of the tower and supported by consoles. The bay windows have small pointed arch windows on the three free-standing sides and hipped roofs with crowning knobs. An octagonal sound floor rises between these oriels , which is closed off by a tent roof with glazed roof tiles and a crowning tower ball with a weather vane . The smooth facade of the sound storey has corner blocks and small pointed arch windows. The main pages show the coat of arms of the Reich, the Babenberg shield , the coat of arms of Lower Austria and the city arms.
In the tower is a bell from 1641 by Hans Schaf and one from 1673, which was cast by Joachim Gross, who owned a foundry in Mödling and a workshop in Vienna.
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Remarks
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↑ The inscription reads:
Eh 'that one counts 1200 years.
All here was a little tower St. Nikolaus
Gen the Hussit one drew wall and ditch
1440 they put me there.
I saw many war people coming to the crowd.
Bohm and Hungarian look up at me.
Turk and Swed, Turk at
each other, and Franzmann twice too.
They came like fire and went like smoke.
In 1890, after all the storms,
I was rebuilt as the town hall tower.
Korneuburg gives honor to the upright.
He who swings and vacillates has no desire.
Anno domini 1898
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Gestalten, the magazine for building, architecture and design”, No. 146 12/2014, published by the Lower Austrian government.
- ↑ The town hall in a folder of the municipality of Korneuburg ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2014
- ^ Dehio Lower Austria - north of the Danube, p. 544
- ^ "Lower Austria - History and Art of the Austrian Heartland" by Walter M. Weiss, Dumont Buchverlag 1997, ISBN 3-7701-3634-9 , p. 212
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 38.4 " N , 16 ° 20 ′ 1.7" E