Krems Town Hall
The town hall of Krems an der Donau is located on the parish square south of the Krems parish church and the Kremser Landstrasse.
history
The history of the Krems town hall begins with Margarethe von Dachsberg's purchase of a group of houses south of the parish cemetery, which was laid out around the Krems parish church (St. Veitskirche). the 1453 decided to build a new town hall here. However, it took nearly 100 years for this to happen. Inside there is a two-aisled hall, the vault of which rests on columns with Renaissance capitals. The last yoke was later bricked up, creating the mayor's room, the column of which is dated 1549. From here one arrives at a small post-Gothic hall (today a meeting room), which one could call the “council chamber”. The town hall bay window on the south-west corner, against Landstrasse and Kirchengasse, dated 1548, also dates from this construction phase. It is one of the best that was created in Krems during this bourgeois renaissance . The fields bear the coats of arms of the Habsburgs Charles V and Ferdinand I and the city of Krems and are flanked on the outside by two mercenary reliefs; the window frames are richly structured. A lion tamer serves as a supporting figure, who could be interpreted as Hercules . The current baroque facade comes from the renovation in 1782.
swell
- Hans Frühwirth: The twin cities of Krems-Stein: their history from 1848–2000 , cultural office of the city of Krems, ISBN 3-9501219-0-0
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 41 ″ N , 15 ° 35 ′ 57 ″ E