Town hall Markgröningen

Town hall Markgröningen
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Data
place	Markgröningen, Marktplatz 1
Architectural style	Late Gothic
Construction year	1441
height	26.4 m
Coordinates	48 ° 54 '18.3 " N , 9 ° 4' 48.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '18.3 " N , 9 ° 4' 48.9" E

The town hall of the town of Markgröningen in the district of Ludwigsburg was built from 1441 as a department store, council and court building of the former Württemberg official town of Grüningen . The size and the high structural quality of the listed half-timbered building reflect the "Second Spring" of the former imperial city in the 15th century.

Building description

Tower markers

Wooden nails and carvings

When " City Hall made of wood, the same will probably not be found", Hans Grüninger , who had been around a lot, highlighted the impressive half-timbered building in the booklet he published in 1527 for Martin Waldseemüller's world maps. Even if this superlative smells of local patriotism for his hometown Grüningen , it had its justification at the time and was confirmed several times in modern specialist literature: “A wonderful and impressive building with a strikingly harmonious design and monumental effect”, which “undoubtedly belongs to the most beautiful half-timbered houses in Germany ”counts.

Presumably on the initiative of Volland's trading house, the wealthiest citizens of Württemberg at the time replaced a previous building located between the vicarage (previously Herrenhof) and Kirchgasse with the largest town hall in the country. The craftsmanship of the commissioned carpenters is legendary and allows the conclusion that it was the same who previously built the old town hall in Esslingen am Neckar and even surpassed it in Grüningen.

The building was designed as a “multi-purpose building”, which not only housed the council and court rooms, offices and a ballroom, but the ground floor and first floor were used for the trade in textiles, salt, bread and meat products. On their guild day during the shepherd run , the building in which their guild drawer is still kept was available to the Württemberg shepherds.

The late medieval building rests on 54, now rock-hard oak pillars. According to a dendrochronological study, the oaks were felled in the winter of 1440/41. The Alemannic framework was executed with impressive precision in the late Gothic style , partly fixed with wooden nails and decorated with carvings. With three full and two attic storeys, the town hall towers over its neighboring buildings and dominates the market square . Adds a distinctive touch of added later and rotated by 45 degrees tower bay window with an astronomical clock with dual dial for hour strike collide at the two rams. A rotating ball between the dials shows the phases of the moon. The bell was cast in 1614. The coat of arms of the Duchy of Württemberg from 1495 and the Grüninger official coat of arms are attached under the tower marker . A sundial has been preserved on the south facade . The width of the building is 15.47 meters, the length between 24.93 and 24.96 meters and the height depending on the ridge point between 26.24 and 26.41 meters. Before the market square was paved, the building was about 20 centimeters higher. The building dimensions were determined by the unknown builder using triangulation .

Old views

Around 1865: With double portal, arched windows on the ground floor and canopy over the balcony
Around 1900 with a wider balcony, fire station, police station and city scales
South facade of the town hall in the 1920s with sundial
West facade in the 1920s with bricked up windows
After the renovation in 1930 with a decentralized main portal and no balcony

Nieffer's construction photo from 1848: on the south facade with sundial, covered external staircase, second portal and basement access, on the east facade with an announcement balcony with canopy, main portal and additional door next to the detention cell

Conversions

Most of the window openings were not glazed until the 19th century. Over time, the growing city administration ousted the traders and temporarily housed the local police and fire brigade on the ground floor instead. The external staircase originally attached to the south facade was replaced by a wide internal staircase in the 19th century. A massive intervention in the building fabric designed by Bauinspector Nieffer in 1848 failed because of the costs. The disruptive factors of a kitchen built in between on the north facade and a canopy over the announcement balcony on the first floor were removed again in the course of the redesign in the 19th century. The double portal with round arches that was added to the east facade was replaced by a simple portal in 1930, true to the original. The balcony above has been removed. In 1963 the fire department store was relocated again and its three gates on the south side were closed with a matching framework.

The “imposing” town hall towers over the surrounding buildings and dominates the market square

The building substance itself appears indestructible. The town hall is protected as a cultural monument according to § 28 DSchG BW and has a significant role in the inclusion of Markgröningen in the Deutsche Fachwerkstrasse .

City administration

The town hall is no longer sufficient for the Markgröningen city administration. It still serves as the seat of the mayor and the departments of internal and external services. In addition, the administration and municipal facilities use the neighboring building at Finsteren Gasse 2, the benefice house of the hospital , the lower wine press and parts of the Wimpelinhof for the city archive . In addition, the city maintains an administrative office in the formerly new town hall of Unterriexingen .

literature

The town hall . In: 1200 years of Markgröningen. Festival book for the 1200th anniversary of the first documented mention of the name , ed. from the city of Markgröningen, p. 47ff. Markgröningen 1979.
Gerhard Liebler: The Markgröningen Town Hall . In: Markgröninger buildings and their history, part 2: Urban, stately and town houses in the Upper City . Volume 8 of the series "Durch die Stadtbrille", ed. v. Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation Markgröningen, pp. 9–42. Markgröningen 2004.
Erwin Rohrberg: Alemannic half-timbered houses: The town halls of Esslingen and Markgröningen ... , in: Schwäbische Heimat , Heft 4, 1975.
Petra Schad: Die Rathausmäuse (Illustrated introduction to the city's history for children). Ed .: City of Markgröningen, Markgröningen 2012.

Remarks

↑ An insert ascribed to the publisher and printer Hans Grüninger in Lorenz Fries : Application der Meercharten , sheet 13 verso, Strasbourg 1527 (as a facsimile from Hermann Römer : Markgröningen in the context of Landesgeschichte I. Urgeschichte und Mittelalter , Markgröningen 1933, p. 285).
^ Hugo Hein: Württemberg half-timbered houses . In: Zeitbilder of the Deutsche Zeitung, 1920.
↑ Peter Fendrich: The city and its citizens in the late Middle Ages. On the social structure of the Württemberg district town of Markgröningen in the context of state history. In: Volume 3 of the series "Durch die Stadtbrille", ed. v. Working group on historical research and monument preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1987, pp. 94–119.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerhard Liebler: The Markgröninger Town Hall , in: Markgröninger Buildings and Their History, Part 2: Urban, stately and town houses in the Upper City , Volume 8 of the series “Through the City Glasses”, ed. v. Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 2004, p. 10 ff.
^ Erwin Rohrberg: Alemannic half-timbered houses: The town halls of Esslingen and Markgröningen in: Schwäbische Heimat , Heft 4, 1975.
↑ Published in Theodor Griesinger : Württemberg after his past and present in land and people , Stuttgart 1866, p. 372.
↑ Gerhard Liebler: Das Markgröninger Rathaus , in: Markgröninger Bauwerke and their history, Part 2: Urban, stately and town houses in the Upper City , Volume 8 of the series “Through the City Glasses”, ed. v. Working group on historical research and monument preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 2004, p. 18 ff.

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Markgröningen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

“The imposing town hall of Markgröningen” on www.fachwerkhaus.de
Working group of German half-timbered towns
Building portrait at the Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation Markgröningen (AGD)
Official website of the city

[1] An insert ascribed to the publisher and printer Hans Grüninger in Lorenz Fries : Application der Meercharten , sheet 13 verso, Strasbourg 1527 (as a facsimile from Hermann Römer : Markgröningen in the context of Landesgeschichte I. Urgeschichte und Mittelalter , Markgröningen 1933, p. 285).

[2] Hugo Hein: Württemberg half-timbered houses . In: Zeitbilder of the Deutsche Zeitung, 1920.

[3] Peter Fendrich: The city and its citizens in the late Middle Ages. On the social structure of the Württemberg district town of Markgröningen in the context of state history. In: Volume 3 of the series "Durch die Stadtbrille", ed. v. Working group on historical research and monument preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 1987, pp. 94–119.

[liebler-4] Gerhard Liebler: The Markgröninger Town Hall , in: Markgröninger Buildings and Their History, Part 2: Urban, stately and town houses in the Upper City , Volume 8 of the series “Through the City Glasses”, ed. v. Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 2004, p. 10 ff.

[5] Erwin Rohrberg: Alemannic half-timbered houses: The town halls of Esslingen and Markgröningen in: Schwäbische Heimat , Heft 4, 1975.

[6] Published in Theodor Griesinger : Württemberg after his past and present in land and people , Stuttgart 1866, p. 372.

[7] Gerhard Liebler: Das Markgröninger Rathaus , in: Markgröninger Bauwerke and their history, Part 2: Urban, stately and town houses in the Upper City , Volume 8 of the series “Through the City Glasses”, ed. v. Working group on historical research and monument preservation Markgröningen, Markgröningen 2004, p. 18 ff.