Niemegk town hall
The town hall of Niemegk is a monument in Niemegk in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . It is on the list of monuments with the number 09190313.
Niemegk was most likely created by the settlement of Dutch colonists, who also gave the Fläming its name. Presumably the settlers came from the area of Nijmegen and gave the place its name, similar to how the name of Aken (Elbe) is associated with Aachen . The town halls of both cities are similar in a few details: each is a white plastered Renaissance building with tail gables . In addition, both town halls are on the north side of the market on the street that leads past. Here, however, the parallels with the Aken town hall end . Niemegk received town charter in 1228, so that a previous building is very likely, especially since the town was raided several times in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Today's town hall was built in 1570 as a two-storey building with a gable roof , with some molded parts made of sandstone . The tail gable on the south side is structured by cornices and pilasters , just like the gables of the dwelling houses on the east side . In its design (tail gables on two sides, dwarf houses on the third), the Niemegk town hall also resembles the Waage building on the market in Nijmegen. The windows have profiled walls . The asymmetrical arrangement of the portal near the northeast corner is unusual. The round-arched seat niche portal from the Renaissance period now leads into the interior and directly behind it is a presumably leftover piece of the Saxon post-mile column from Niemegk . On the north side of the building there is a walled up arched portal.
The inside of the building has a uniform design and is divided into two floors by a bisecting transverse wall. This creates a flat-roofed hall and two rooms. In the basement there is a square room with cross vaults on a central support, as well as two barrel vaulted rooms. The last renovation took place in 2018 and 2019. The building is also the seat of the Niemegk office , to which three other municipalities belong, and the city information center. To the east opposite are the town church St. Johannis and the house in which Robert Koch worked.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Districts Berlin / GDR and Potsdam. Text volume (= Handbook of German Art Monuments ; 5.1), Berlin 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio, p. 313.
- ^ Gunnar Neubert: Further demolition work in the Niemegk town hall. flaeming365.de, June 6, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Josephine Mühln: craftsmen pretty on the office. Märkische Allgemeine, February 21, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 20.1 ″ E