Town hall Pößneck
The Pößneck town hall is a late Gothic building on the market in the town of Pößneck in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia . It is one of the most important late-Gothic town halls in the region and serves as the seat of the town administration, the town archive and as a registry office. From 1998 to 2014 the town hall also housed the Pößneck City Museum.
history
The town, which became prosperous in the 15th century through the flourishing tanners and draperies, first strengthened its town fortifications at this time and then planned a representative new building for the town hall. The town hall Pößneck was rebuilt in the years 1478-1488 by a master Conradt after the previous building had been demolished. The south gable was built in the years 1490/1491, the north gable was not erected until 1499 under master Hans Krause. In the years 1530/1531 the outside staircase was added by Nicol Bischoff. In the years 1897–1899, a renovation was carried out by the building officer Karl Rommel from Saalfeld, who mainly restored the interior, and in 1969 an exterior renovation.
architecture
The three-storey, massive structure was built over an approximately square floor plan as Traufenhaus the marketplace indicate strongly rising terrain, showing two of molded bricks built gable . The north gable is more richly structured with horizontal tracery bands alternating with rows of small arched windows or fields, while the south gable is provided with a simpler screen structure. The fields of the north gable were originally painted with depictions of saints. The front of the market is characterized by the double-barreled, vaulted outside staircase with semicircular arched gables , which is already a reference to the Renaissance , and is lavishly decorated with late Gothic tracery . The façades, which were formerly structured by cross-frame windows, were changed significantly during the renovation in 1899. The slate-covered gable roof is accentuated with a needle-pointed, hexagonal roof turret, a roofed bell and a roofed balcony on the first floor. In the lower right corner of the roof on the market side there is a clock bay with a moon phase display.
Originally, the two basement floors and the first floor were vaulted, of which remnants are still preserved. In addition, the interior was greatly changed by the neo-Gothic renovation. Regardless of this, the Pößneck town hall is still one of the most representative town halls of the late Middle Ages in Thuringia and is comparable to the town halls in Saalfeld and Neustadt / Orla .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Thuringia. 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 968.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the town hall Pößneck on thueringer-wald.de. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 37.9 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 38.3" E